The age-herald., 1901-09-05
CaNheld Sevey0I zhOmsoNds Rschey
 Since Me Hsgh- P2tzy 0t Sayatoga

1 house has lost to the heavy players right 1 through the season. The two exceptions
 are Baltimore lawyer and a New York
 wine merchant. The latter lost $1sOOO,
 which is the heaviest loss sustained by
 any individual player during the season. The Baltimore lawyer is a character.
 He Is between 60 and 70 years of age, with | fine, strong, smooth-shaven face, wfiich | has plenty of color. He told some of hIs l friends when he got here that he came for an eight days lark. and he lost no l time in making a beginning
 | He finally got around to the club and
 began to play roulette. For the first few
 nights his stakes were only moderately
 high. He seemed to be feeling his way
 After playing moderately for three or four
 nights he began to plunge. The night of
 his first plunge he got up from the table
 5000 winner. A night or two afterwards
 he went around to. the club again, again found seat at the roulette table. and
 sat there until he had lost s15,OOO. | The biggest winner at Canheld's place was New York man, who fills a large place In the financial world. He played with chips which cost him 5000 a stack
 or s10O apiece He played, perhaps, half dozen times during the summer, and quit winer by $25,OOO.
 Few of the professional gamblers play at Saratoga clubs. There is a bit too | much style there for most of them They prefer as rule the Chicago clubs, where evening clothes are seen more rarely and
 where player may play in his shirt sleeves on hot night. Three or four of them, however, who dress for dinner ev- cry night whether they are in Saratoga or elsewhere, play at Canfields. The most prominent of the professionals who have played there this summer are Kirk Gum of Chicago, and Butch" Thompson and Dave" Johnson of New York They have confined their operations entirely to
 faro. Gum took away s15.00O of Canfelds money and Thompson and Johnson about $10,ooo each. Johnson lost about s6O,0oO on the races.
 The winners to whom reference has been made here make up only small
 part of Canield's patrons The thousands of smaller players have matched their luck against the luck and percentage Of the house and have lost. From them Can field has made his winnings and his profits.
 -<<<<<<<<>-~<--~-~-~ have received more orders for peach trees than they can flu this season. All along the Western and Atlantic Railway and the lately acquired Chattanooga di- vision of the Central, hundreds of thou. sands of trees are being planted No doubt in other parts of the peach belt peach orchards are being established. The Elberta is of course the favorite, but attention is being given to other varie- ties.
 In north Georgia the impression seems to prevail that peaches have proven a failure in south Georgia, and that there- fore the field is left entirely to north Georgia. Is not this wrong impression? We think 1t is It is true there was failure of the peach crop In south Geor- gia this year, but the conditions which caused it may not prevail next year. It is certain that as fine peaches were grown in south Georgia last year as in the northern part of the state, and the yield was large. The impression that there Is no profit in growing peaches in south Georgia must be an erroneous one
 There was a partial failure in the crop In north Georgia this year, and because there was extraordinarily good prices ob- tained for the fruit. In fact, the prices were so good that it is probable that more money was brought into the state. and that the net profits of the growers were greater, than if the yield had been as large as 1t was thought in the early part of the season it would be. The grow- CTS made a great deal of money and that Is the reason for the craze for planting peach trees.
 Georgia Is already a great peach grow ing state in that respect. Only small part of the lands suitable for the grow ing of peaches has yet been planted with trees There is danger of course of over- production, but that danger is not very near, because the peach market is grow ing rapidly. Still, peach growers must not expect to get as good prices every year as those which were obtained this year. There will be good and bad years for the peach growers, just as there are good and bad years for the cotton growers, but from the indications at present peach growing In Georgia is going to be a great and profitable business-vastly greater than it is at present.