The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-22
NEW YORK TOPICS.
DRIFTS AND UNDERsURRENTs OF
THE METROPOLIS.

How Book of Wall Street stories
Affected the BrOkers-Unknovvn
Tunnels Around Manhatta n-Mar-
cOnis Success Means His Early
Marriage to New York Girl.
Wall Street News and Views.
New York, Dec. 21.-As the inevitable
corollary to the recent turmoil in the
police department, the gambling fra
ternity has come in for a severe shak-
King, should have been arrested and
his professional apparatus confiscated
is one of the sharpest shocks suffered
by the gamblers in many a day. Adams
has been generally regarded as unas-
sailable, such have been his connec-
tons with the Powers that Rule" But
apparently he has been caught with
the goods on him. this time, to quote
Deputy Commissioner ,DeVeIy, whese
brother-in-law was one of the victims
of the raid, and it. is difficult to see
how he and his confederates are going
to escape Sing Sing, for the new anti
policy law is exceedingly stringent and
very wide in its scope.
AL Adams is rare and curious type
of gambler. He is petty and mean;
as petty and mean as the wretched
swindling game by the control of which
he has become a millionaire from the
pennies of the very poor There is no
other man in New York who Is at once
80 Wen known by name and so little
known by personality. All his work
is done under cover. He never APP
pears in any of his policy joints, but
handles the business through two
agents whom he has so bound to him.
self that they dare not be other than
honest with him. His relations with
the police and the politicians who con-
troll the police are well-defined. 1t is
understood that he is to have the sole
and undisputed privilege of running
policw shops in the city. Formerly he
had also the general gambling house
privileges in certain parts of the city,
but these have been taken from him.
That is why, when his store-house was
raided, large collection of roulette,
faro, I<londyke and other gaming out
fits were found. There was nothing
DOING in that line and they were laid
away to await a favorable season
Adams is man of bout go years. He
dresses very hndsomely, though quiet
ly, and looks like a prosperous profess
+ sional man; but when he opens his
mouth this illusion is dispelled, for his
speech is that of an uneducated and
| illiterate person. He is not of the
sporting" type; seldom appears in
public places, does not often attend
prizefights, the race track or other
festivities dear to the heart of the
sport" His one passion seems 70
| be the accumulation of real estate. All
! the profits of his policy shops go into
New York city property. He owns
many fine apartment houses whose
eminently respectable tenants would
be surprised if they know that their
landlord was the noted policy king:
Adams is married and has family or
daughters to whom he is said to be
deeply attached. His one protest when
he has appeared unfavorably in the
public prints has been that 1t would
injure their prospects.
shortly after the ANTHOLOGY Socie-
, tvs roundup of the Adams gang the
police undertook a raid on a gambler
of very different character. The
(Theodore) Aliens name is as widely
notorious as that of Al Adams. Per-
sonally he is known to thousand
persons where Adams is known to ten.
He does not stand in with the police;
he defies them. Time after time his
pool rooms have been raided, but he
has always opened up again with un-
diminished cheerfulneSs. Everybody
knows that he is the proprietor of the
places. In ordinary conversation he
readily admits it, but to prove this is
an entirely different matter. Here 1t
is that the authorities are always BAR
fed. The willy 1.-THE" is frequently ar
rested but never caught. He always
contrives to be somewhere else when
the raiders arrive or to elude their
vigilance and escape. In a sense he
is popular; that is, he has the tolerant
admiration of the average New York.
err who likes a gambler to be square
and above board in his dealings, even
though those dealings be illegal That
he should be well-liked is strange in a
way, for he has not an intimate or a
friend in the world. He wants none.
Like the apostle, he has said-though
not in his haste-that all men are
liars. This is his creed. In his sew
enty- odd years of life he has found
nothing in his fellowmen to make him
believe them worthy of confidence or
liking One man there was whom he re-
spected perhaps even loved. / saw him
shed tears over the body of Billy KEEL
ly, the reformed gambler, who died
working as a Stun missionary. AS AL
len left the little Water street mission
chapel where the funeral services were
held he said, 'There was the only man
in New York that I'd trust to walk a
block on the street with me-" 1t Is
fact that he is always alone. 1t
has been his tendency for many years
to shun his fellows and since he killed
a man in a fracas eight years ago this
habit of distrustful solitude has grown
upon him. Allen is a little, weakened
man of considerable muscular agility,
despite his age. He needed this on the
occasion Of the recent raid, as 1t APP
peared, when the police finally broke
down the doors, that he had airily slid
dow ma rope from third story window
and quietly walked away
That was a significant defense put
forward by Mr.. Theodore Sutro in the
suit brought against her by a soma
topathist" for payment of services rem
dered. A somatopathist, II appears
from the definition give by this partic-
! ular specimen, is a practitioner who
corrects physical irregularities or dis
eases by manipulation and desensitiz-
| alton of the patient Or" Ward ma
nipulated and desensitized Mrs. Sutro
10 the extent OF 100000, but failed to
| get the money Mrs. Sutro's de-
Tense to the suit was that "she had
agreed in full exchange for his serv-
Ices to her she would introduce him to
| her many friends and acquaintance
and induce them TO patronize him"
| This Is what Is known to many trades
men. to their grief in most cases. as
"society grating" II is practiced
almost entirely by women. The women
are, or are supposed to be. persons OF
influence I'm society as Mrs. Sutro is In a
certain set. They will go TO a dealer
| in some commodity and suggest that
N he will keen them supplied they