Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-05
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Canfeld's Gambling Place
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A MAN OF e MYSTERY
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NEW WORKERS AFFLICTED BY
MALARIA EPIDEMIC.
Due in Large Part to Excavations in
Connection With Many
Improvements.
A MAN OF MYSTERY
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

NEW 1ORh, April 4, lSU<~
They are still talking over here of the
alleged loss Of $125, 600 at roulette in Can
| fields place by a lad bearing a name that
figures at the summit Of the list in the
American WHO'S Who?" lucre book-the
same lad Of that clan. by the way, who, to
employ westernism, jumped the reserva-
ton and made war medicine at the Madi-
son Square Garden horse show last autumn
thereby narrowly escaping Incarceration in
a tenderloin station cell. The boy denies
that he lost the money at Canfleld's or any
other HELL and some Of his friends. to
shield him. are claiming that it was alto
gether another youth who made the sensa-
tional losing-out plunge. The incident, at
any rate served to bring more or less
bother upon Canfield's, which had never
known trouble before no matter how taut
the anti-gambling cords were stretched, and
last week, upon the publication of the story
Of the vealy millionaires heavy losing at
the wheel the establishment was actually
closed for the first time since the Inaugural
ton Of play there, '>'.s..
"Canfield's Place is the most sumptuous
gambling establishment in the western
hemisphere. In the entire world it is per-
haps only excelled by the chance-taking
palace at Monte Carlo. Canfield's is damned
right alongside of the most famous restau-
rant in the United States, and it Is from
among the diners at the restaurant that Can
fields gains its greatest number of money
venturers. The approved and elect may
reach the gambling establishment from the
restaurant by means Of an exceedingly pri-
vate and skillfully contrived maze.
Effect Of Dinner on Gamblers.
Those who know say that 1t is after din
ing that men addicted to playing for high
stakes best like to try their luck. The very
cream of non professional gamblers pa
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respect as exclusive hell as the London
institution which had the play Of Charles
James Fox and his registering contempora-
ries In the day when men were heroes to
their Wallets, and when 1t was regarded as
the correct enough thing for the man Of
fashion" to ruin himself on the turn of
card or the roll of the dice. Could such
thing as full list Of the patrons of Can
fields be published the number of great
business enterprises that would thereupon
be set a-rocking upon their foundations
would be appalling.
However. the man with merely a great
name and a great fortune to back it up
does not necessarily possess the entree at
Canfield's, as quite number OF such indi-
VidualS have ascertained Candidates for
enrolment on the Garfield list of clients
must possess still other: rqualifcations-the
habit of keeping the tongue between the
teeth for example! A young English duke
who came to the United States last year to
marry an American heiress Intellectually
fields. Canfields didn't want him, consid-
ering him more or less of "bounder," and
he never saw the inside Of the place. A
millionaire of the sensat ional type, not I'M
connected with the steel Industry, presumed
upon his Garfield passport to attempt to
walk In there one night while clad In a
! business suit. He was politely requested to
don his evening clothing or seek some 9TH
er establishment wherein to satiate his ap-
petite for play.
Canheld's Strong Pull.
Canfield's possesses vexing element OF
mystery, in that even those most "on the
inside seem utterly at loss to account
for the magic pull which has permitted
the establishment to go on doing business
even at those rare periods when every
other gambling institution Of whatever sort
In New York has been closed tighter than
drum. 1t Is even said that Garfield 8
didn't put the shutters up last week on &C
count OF the talk created by the heavy rou-
lette losing of the youthful millionaire but
because the establishment is about to I'M
dergo Its annual redecoration At critical
junctures when the most strengthen
trenched gambling plants in New York
have been compelled to suspend operations
gone right on without break In it's noctur-
nal routine. Just how this has come about
Is perhaps the most battling Of mysteries
which the curIous-minded of New York es-
Held isn't a politician in any sense Of the
word. He was never known to affiliate with
any OF the top-sawyers Of Tammany-was
never, in truth, seen in the company of any
| OF them. Yet during the last Tammany
regime, when the hue and cry after the
gamblers was so great and insistent that
there was general closing up Of the
''he1ls' at various times when the situation
became too hot to handle" Canf1eld's was
always in full blast. If such term may be
| applied to an establishment wherein the
game Is conducted with such simple quiet
elegance.
The LAY low slogan was sounded to the
gamblers when the present administration
| look up the reins, and the nothing DOING
| UP was so authoritatively circulated that
| every famous or Infamous gambling estab-
| iishment in New York shut down for a
| while-except Canfield's. Never a night
was lost at Canfield's. All OF the princi-
pals OF the present reform administration
| strenuously deny the imputation, when It
| Is made. that they ever set foot in Cam
| fields or that they ever much as clap
| ped an eye on Garfield himself in their
| lives and yet Canfleld's was no more
alarmed over the induction of the present
set OF officials than If the entire municipal
campaign hadn't been based upon the
promise that the gambling houses would
| be routed.
Proprietor Is Traveller.
Richard Garfield spends most Of his win
tiers abroad. He recently broke the bank
| at Monte Carlo a couple Of times. His sum-
| mers he spends at Saratoga, where he has
| Club" that yields him revenue greater
than that OF most prfnefpalities He IL
| considered the absolute dictator Of affairs
| at Saratoga, and yet he's has never been
known to project his personality into any
| affair wherein his own interests were very
| heavily staked. OF all mpch-written-about
| characters in the United States, Garfield is
| perhaps the least generally known indi-
| vtdual. even among tbs FOUNDERS who
might naturally be- expected to know him.
| He very rarely SO, much as puts his foot
| within any Of his gambling establishments
! when the games are on and very few Of
| the patrons Of his "helig' know him by
sight He is q graduate Of Harvard. q
| family man Of careful habits, q great con-
noisseur and collector Of paintings-and an
| abiding puzzle 'ge -
Prediction, Of an. oculist.
An oculist of distinction now energies
with the prediction that TITS only a matter
| Of another generation or 10 when tho de-
scendants Of the present race Of New
| Workers. will be unable to see out Of their
| eyes. These descendants, It seems, will be
possessed Of eyes. all right. but the eyes
| will be of no use in that they Will be sight
| less. Why? Because the present genera
| ton Of New Workers. are running their eyes
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