The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-22

would be sufficient to lift 70 of the gamblers off their feet
 During these two months the players
 risked a sum roughly equal to a quar- | ter of years national revenue: so
 that to feed the gamblers appetite at Monte Carlo alone requires more gold
 than to run the machinery of the Brit 1 ish Empire in times of peace.
 But. of course, money is not always changing hands at Monte Carlo at this
 appalling rate of over twelve guineas 1 for every tick of the clock, night and
 day. This only happens during the
 height of the season, when the tables
 are crowded by rich and fashionable | gamblers, whose play is as reckless as | it is unscientific. This is the bank $
 harvest time, and during the remainder of the year, when the system player has | his innings, the flow of gold into the
 banks exchequer is comparatively triv-
 ial and often ceases altogether. Some of the eccentricities of roulette and rente-et-quarante are so remarkable as almost to appear incredible. On one day at roulette the number 33 made ap- pearance seven times in succession, an event against which the betting is 95,- 900 millions to one. In trente-et- quarante on one occasion there was 8 series of seventeen blacks in succession, and thirteen times coulcur-occur- rences aginst which the odds are al- most incalculable.
 Although the chronicles of Monte Carlo are full of disastrous losses and tragedies, the tables have certainly brought sudden fortunes to some play CTS, During three hours play Rus sian count won G15000, although before he was twenty four hours older he lost two- thirds of it.
 During the same season a shrewd Yorkshireman had a remarkable spen of good fortune He had made up his mind to limit his losses to G5 but his margin was never reached, From the beginning Fortune smiled on him in of fortnight's play his f5 had grown to a12.O00, which he very wisely de- cided to take home with him at once.
 A story is told of Frenchman who had lost his last franc at the tables and in utter despair was on the point of committing suicide. Fortunately a friend who knew of his losses sought him and lent him 100 francs to have final fling" with By one of those strange caprices of Fortune which pass understanding she was now as kind to him as she had been cruel before; and at the end of a week, after four days play, he had won nearly 50,000 francs. Of the banks profits, roughly 40 per cent goes to the maintenance of the Casino and of the Prince and Princi- pality of Monaco. The Prince takes e50000 year for himself and E20,000 for his army, police, law courts, and expenses of government; a9O0O goes, strangely enough, in grants to bishops, clergy, convents and schools; R6,000 to charities, and s11,OoO in prizes for car nivals, regattas, pigeon shooting, etc.
 The salaries of the directors, inspec- tors, croupiers and staff of the Casino absorb eSO,o0O a year; terraces and gardens, R9,000; subventions to the press, e24,O0O; theaters and orchestra. e5O,000 and grants to private agents and pensioners, .e1O,0 GOO. But after these and other deductions there is comfortable balance of over half a mill lion year available for dividends Tit-Bits