The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-17
THE GAME OF CRAPS.
1t Had Its Origin in This Country
 Through an Aristocrat.

Through an Aristocrat.
 The game of craps. says The Lexington Sky.) Herald was given an airing in the Circuit Court one day recently when a half years in the penitentiary for kill ing Henry Nelson in a quarrel which arose ever game of craps. Both are negroes. The popular idea usually asso- ciates the game with negroes and it is usually nowadays confined to the negro element, yet there are respectable white men who are devotees of the game in Lexin ston.
 The Inter-Ocean, and was played in New Orleans century ago, when that aristocrat of aristocrats, Bernard MariS- ny. introduced 1t to Louisiana society. Then it became at once the popular so- ciety game of the day
 The Marignys were the oldest. richest and most arstocratic Creole families of Louisiana. They were sent by the French New Orleans, securing grant on a plan tation inn edtately adjoining the new city. They were Knights of St. Louis, Marquises in France, and alone among to the honor of burial in the cathedral of St. Louis, where marble slabs set forth their many honors and dignities.
 One of the family rose to distinction, the war in Vendee The Louisiana branch. settled near there in 1899, pre- ferred to remain in New Orleans, where ; the family became. in consequence of the advance in the value of their property immensely wealthy.
 Bernard Marigny had travelled in France just before the revolution, and somewhere in that country-he forgot to craps. although it was possibly not
 When he returned to America he brought it with him and it at once be come the fashionable game. When many of the French nobility sought refuge 1T America, among friends and relatives Bernard Marigny kept open house for them at his splendid place, Fontainebleau across Lake Ponchartrafn from New Or leans and near Vaudeville, a town he laid out and named. for the family name is Vaudeville de Marigny.
 Among those he entertained were Louis Philippe, the future King of the French and the kings are not always ungrateful or forgetful Is proved by the fact that when he was placed on the French throne he sent for his friends son, Man years in France as the comrade and schoolmate of Louis Phillippes eldest son, whose untimely death contributed so largely to the fall of the Orleanist line. bleau today, although the neighboring town of Vaudeville is prospering. but stories of the splendor and extravaganza of the life thereof still survive through out the neighboring country.
 Bernard Marigny was a gambler born and his large fortune allowed him to in- dulge himself Tn the matter of playing New Orleans was then one of the most prosperous cities in the country, and whenever Marigny needed money he had only to cut off a slice of his plantation and divide 1t into town lots.
 He was a man of considerable humor anything but a hypocrite. and made no effort to conceal his gambling tendencies When he lost a hundred thousand or So at the game of bagatele, just then in favor, he ran a street through the cor nar of his plantation. sold the lots to pay his gambling debts. and as a me- mento of his misfortune named the street Bagatelle.
 Craps made another large hole in his fortune, and accordingly another slice of the plantation came of. and a new street was laid out named Craps; and so on,