Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-02-03
FhlRsFARO PLAYERS.
They Comb The Tigers Hair
In Carson and Reno.

When the Kathryn Kidder combina.
ton was in this city they engaged Liv-
ipgston's faro and roulette outfit at the
criterion, and bucked the tiger all one
afternoon.
The ladies of the combination are
omewhat sportive in their tendencies
md like nothing better than to steal
way from their theatrical engage.
nents and invade the jungle OF the
.iger for little sport.
Il know lfaro) bank where the
wild thyme grows" is the way they
put it when they are passing the word
dong the line that they have located
a place to play. They are ia the habit
of sending the old reliable Bottom
the Weaver to find the places where
The sport can be persued. While in
this city he located it at Senator Liv-
iDgstOn's Criterion and the merry
maidens arranged to take the place in.
They had several Invitations TO
mingle with Carson 4 D and dine with
the first families, but they had arrang-
ed to do the tiger stunt" and 50 they
pleaded sick headaches, 2" 'Shakes-
pearean study and the ike and can
celed summerally all social engage
ments.
The ladies Of the company had long
desired to be initiated into the myster-
les of faro and roulette. and in order to
learn the games they hied themselves
20 Senator Livingston's and put in an
afternoon there.
Titinia. Hermina, Hippolyta and
Helena opened the roulette game, with
Titiana leading the whirl with large
wad of green backs, and they were not
, the sort of money that Armand throws
at Camelle, but the real stuff. The
play was fast and furious all the after
noon and gang of old time players
collected and watched the fairies and
COLLINS try their luck. 1t was a very
interesting game and the ladies
were SO oblivious to surroundings that
they were in sort OF trance, SO K
speak.
Wien they woke up about S4Ot
short-the first thing their eyes rested
on was the proprietor of the Criterion
Mr.. Livingston, and they took such /,
fancy to him that, rumor has it, tina
they invited him to go along with thu
com animation and play Bottom sh
Weaver.
In Reno they took possession OF tn
Wine House and the proprietor move'
all his gambling layouts upstairs t
accommodate his guests. Here the NAL
mem bcrs of the troup caught the in
lection and tackled the faro layout
Bottom coppered the Queen for
twenty and the Tom Shout. the
dropped a weeks salary whipsawin
the Jack. Peter Ounce, the carpeI
ter" got aboard the ace to his sorro'
and s.Robin Goodfellow'' was paupe
after the first deal.
But what the men lost went into tn
Golfers of the ladies' "Titania'' h
the layout right and left and wher
ever the dealer rahed in one of her be-
she doubled up with him and went til
limit. Her companions we're equal
D gamey and they charged all along tt
= line that afternoon, until they mad
the dealer turn down the box. The
cleaned the place out of the last cope
ana then went down the street an
tackled Dolph Shane's Arcade.
n WAS quite delighted with such custom
/ ers and made everything agreea BILE.
l. about two hours he was quite sick
J. them. They were hitting the gan
= some very hard ticks. and some of tl
=, bets pulled down by ''Hermina,' al
the Queen of the AmaZons.' cause
If the dealer TO have decidedly tire
r. feeling.
e Dolph had to reduce the limit to sa
his eXchequer.
He says that Shakespearean coLet
is all very we'll in theatre but
thinks some Law should be passed Or
ID tecting home faro games from wande
u ing theatrical troups. He thinks tt
whole gang we're card sharps d
~ guised as Shakespearean comedia
- and is kicking because none of the
had the decenoy tu Civ. him a pass
the show after cleaning out his ia
- game.
In the language OF the play. ''Tt
\ sport well carried out shall be chrO
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