Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-01-24
NOME CARLO PROVES FAILURE

1t looks now as ii the opening OF the
much tou ed Maryland Monte Carlo
at Chesapeake Beach, with it's faro
banks, roulette wheels, outlaw racing
and general saiurnalis, with everything
wide open. would be iDdefioitely posi-
poDed.
The promoters OF the scheme to
trsr Storm one corner Of Maryland into
a gambling hell have met with q snse,
and tDet wonderful elastic charter
which was to permit ell sorts OF opera
tions, lawful or uplawfol, does not
seem to be suot brilliant Investment.
A mint Of money has been spent o,
Chesapeake Beach, but it looks now az
II the bsckers OF that utopian scheme
had called halt. 1t is whispered that
internal dissenlions have srisen and
the aid OF the courts has been invoked.
Yester day application was made to the
Circuit Court for Calvert county for the
sppoiutment OF a receiver for the Ches-
aueoke Beach Improvement Company.
The bill alleges that the company csD-
not meet lis demands and Is insolvent.
Attachments have also been filed 10
the Circuit Court against the improve
ment company's buildings for $48. .0O0.
This puts q quietus on the outlaw
winter racing which has been beralded
with such a flourish OF trumpets. /.
YVES announced that the race meeting
would bsgin directly after the close at
Benpipgs. When that time came
pos ponement TO December ID was
given out, then another 10 January !,
aud now the meeting is declared of for
the winter.
A nile track was laid out and much
money spent In its construction, which
will o for oaught. The coil on which
the track Is built is full Of quickssnds
md roislly uufi, fer race cVurse. Do
warm day horses would break
through and run the risk OF broken
legs. Last week mule was swallowed
up in one OF those places of the trsck
Friday night drainage trench gave
way and the whole head OF the stretch
was carried away.
The failure o. the race meeting will
Drove bitter hardship to the needy
horsemen who have been attracted 10
Chesap peake Beach by the elitteriDg an.
noun cements of the company. Small
owners from as far west as st. Louis
and as far north az Canada have ship
ped their borses In the faith that
meeting would be given. These mer,
With their retaiDers ard horses, are
now stranded at the beach, and So most
of them are poor men, they are 10 finsn'
cial straits. II is estimated that some
thing like $50 men and 100 horses are
now at the trsck.
The prospects for food and shelter for
msu and beast are very precsrious.
Most f the owners are 10 hook for feed,
aud the company has issued attach.
nents against their stock and property,
20 thst hey will lose everything they
have Those who have been able to
paw have been bled numerically. Oats
have been charged for at 30 cents q
oushel, and hay at $26 ton. aud of in-
| (, rlor quality at that. There are no
proper accommodations for the men,
and food is hard to get.
The few horsemen who have been
able O get away are bitter In their de-
uunclalions Of the Chesapeake Beach
people. UGder the charter the COM
pany has a kind OF kingdom OF its
| own, in which the authorities exercise
| rule as autocratic as that OF the Cz,r
| II is claimed that every trivial offense
| f the borsemen is visited with ridicu-
lousy heavy fine, and that the aulhori-
lies are doing land office business pc
| nalizinp these unfOrtunatee
The magnificent clubhouse which was
to hold the gsmbling outfit has been
built but II remains unfurDished, and ss
We. sbe splendid visions of the American
Mv6te Carlo have failed to material z.
Baltimore Herald.