The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14
GAMBLERS AND GAMBLING.
A PaIatiaI Room-Trom the Glitter
to the Gutter.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
The entrance hall has a screen of
Roman-Ionic scagliola columns with
gilt capitals. and a cupola of gliding
and stained glass The library has
Sienna columns and ante of the Ionic
order. from the Temple of Minerva
Polias; the staircase is paneed with
scagliola and enriched with Corinthian
columns. The grand drawing room is
In the style of Louis Quatorze; azure
ground, with elaborate cove; ceiling
enrichments bronze gilt: doorway
paintings a Ia Vatican; and paneling,
masks terminals. heavy gilt. The
whole is New Pandemonium The
drawing rooms, or real He'll, consist of
four chambers. the first an anteroom
opening to a saloon embellished to a
de gree which battles description:
thence to a small curiously formed cab
met, or boudoir, which opens to the
supper room. All these rooms are pam
eied in the most gorgeous manner
spaces being left to be filled up with
mirrors, silk or gold enrichments: the
ceilings being as superb as the walls.
Whenever any secret maneuver is to
be carried on, there are smaller and
more retired places whose walls will
tell no tales.
Ou may HOI ItCOBIllZe Lne foregoing
description of gambling den 1t is
said that the decoration alone cost
over $475000. The cuisine is of the
highest class. In the safe the proprie-
tor places every evening be-
fore play begins $150,0O0 in
new Treasury notes, crisp fives,
tens, twenties, ffties and hun
dreds. He expects to cash many
checks, and is not over particular about
signature or Endorsement. Another IA
tai lure! I would save young men not
able to gamble for high stakes by pre-
venting the cashing of checks in gam
bling houses. Having lost his spot
cash, let the fool go home and think it
over. If he cannot get a check cashed
he is unlikely to go in debt, rob his
employer or blow his brains out.
America has had and now has some
famous gambler Some who win or
lose enormous sums dislike the term
gambler" but you cannot make a silk
purse out of a sow's ear. Gates, Drake
& Co. do not call themselves gamblers.
Pat Sheedy, Lucien Appleby, Davy
Johnson, Leo Meyers, Ptttsburg Phil,
David Gideon, the Days, Andy Platt,
Riley Grammar and others of that gem
eral class of professional racetrack
specula tors and habitues of the mai
son de jeu," stand by their own char
acters. But we have no such men as
Lord Rivers, king Allen" The Gold
en- Bali and Scrope Davies. Lord
Rivers, known as LIE wellington des
Joueurs," thought nothing of losing
S115,000 at a sitting.
Sooner or later the gambler lands in
the gutter, after a career of glitter.
Viscount Allen, an effeminate dandy
who fought like young lion in Spain.
lounged about, lost his all, was dubbed
King Allen" grew fat and withdrew
to Dublin, where he slept in an open
square behind a large brass plate with
"Viscount Allen" upon it. This brought
him food and clothes, for everybody
was willing to assist a viscount Scrope
Davies one night won the whole for
tune of an aspiring lad who had come
of age the week before, and who was
so FRUSTRATED by his loss that Scrope
gave back the money on the young
mans promising on his honor never
to play again. Finally Scrope went to
the dogs. His last appeal for help was
to this young man, and the grateful
heir refused to lend him cent. Gold
en- Ball Hughes" Jared better for aft
er he fell from his high pinnacle into
the mud and played pitch and toss for
pennies, some lands he had purchased
in France in the days Of his prosperity
suddenly assumed a profitable aspect,