Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-08

The bank plays Is roulette tables
tho maximum bet at each being 500
francs. Each table is stacked nigh witt
10000 francs. and when any pile is ex.
hausted an employee slips quietly
through a leathcr-embossed door ano
within five minutes brings in another
$4,000 francs. You can't break the
bank. You can only stop it for i've
minutes, while 4 new layout of money
is provided. Ii matters not if you be
Schwab, q Prince William of Germany
| OF 4 Vanderbilt.
| -Four tables are devoted to trente-
| ct-quarante. Twenty francs is the
smallest bet allowed at these and the
maximum is 1000 francs. Only gold is
used. Stacked upon each of the four
tanlcs is CU.010 francs, and the piles
are replenished when necessary as
described in connection with rouge-et-
rnir.
| Handsome women congregate in the
| Casino. women whose company can be
had at supper through simple invita-
| ton and such as would not dine with
You for less than 1908 francs.
! by the way, a clergyman was sent
10 Monte Carlo to study the game. to
! find out who were ruined by it, to in
| vcstigate and enumerate the suicides
Of a season. He stayed three days and
! the bank had to give him 300 francs to
get home with He had studied every
thing.
Watch that man and woman stand
ing by a gaming table and that re
| spectacle old gentleman, By and by
the elderly man flares up and shouts
that money belonging to him has been
! claimed by the two, his neighbors. The
| chef croupier wishes to know the cause
, Of the disturbance. The old gentleman
mas no witnesses: the pair, male and
female. have three witnesses. The chef
croupier knows the younger man and
the woman are adventures. and
swindlers. but he gives the cash to both
parties-that is twice pays the bet-for
the bank wishes no scandals that can
be avoided
When loser commits suicide he or
she is buried at Monte Carlo at the
dead of night.
What terrible influence the
gambling possesses is evidenced in this
little story: A French officer, newly
married, arrived in the city with his
young wife in the early evening and
ate supper at a hotel. After supper he
told his wife that it was necessary for
him to go to the French fort, which
was not far away, to greet his brother
officers Of the army. Before he left his
apartment the bride said: Papa you
have 10000 francs in your inside pocket.
which may get lost if you visit the
Casino with your comrades. You had
better leave it with me-
Ten O'Clock came and the French
officer was not back at the hotel. His
bride put on her street attire and went
out to search for him. OF course. she
went to the Casino, and there she saw
ladies richly dressed and flashing with
jewels apparently winning vast sums in
gold. The young wife, caught by the
spirit of the scene, took out her roll of
l0.ocU francs and began to gamble
Within 20 minutes she had lost all.
She was frantic.
opposite stood a gentleman of SEEM
ing responsibility, but in fact an aged
roue, who whispered to her: Give me
your company for half an hour and |
will give You back the money you have
lost and more with it. Unwittingly, as
II in dream, the bride of but a few
hours went out of the Casino with him
who ostensibly intended to assist her
They stood under an electric light, and
as they tarried there for an instant the
young lieutenant appeared upon the
scene.
"Transfixed, immovable as a pillar of
stone, the French officer gazed for
moment into the faces before him.
Then he shot to death the roue, his
bride and himself. The entire incident
was complete in five minutes.
In the suburbs of Monte Carlo reside
many individuals who are seeking the
renewal of their health. Among this
number was certain woman who had
consumDtive husband and just money
enough on deposit to live comfortably
through single winter. The thought
flashed into her brain that she, too,
would take a trip to the Casino. The
first night she lost what gold she had
with her. The next day she went to
her banker and drew more money, and
lost that, and on the following day her
last dollar had gone forever. Her body
was found in the bushes, dead from
arsenic poison.
Lieutenant Won Hohenhau. who had
won the Iron Cross in the Franco Ger
man war. arrived in Monte Carlo. lost
$4,000 francs and shot himself in the
Casino, scattering his brains over the
table at which he had been PLAYING
Half an hour later that same table was
In operation as if nothing unusual had
occurred.
Just to show the arbtrariness of the
bank, which is judge and jury, there is
the case Of Baron Won Hoist a rich
merchant of Homburg, who In a single
night lost 10000 francs. The next morn
ing he wished to enter the Casino with
out card of admission, but was re-
fused permission. The Baron became
boisterous. He was arrested, and with
out trial. was confined five days in iaiI
When he was released he went to the
board of directors and declared that he
was rich enough to buy a man-of-war.
and promised everything, but he was
not allowed to enter"
Magnificent Dolls.