Evening star., 1902-03-08

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DIN and was about to leave the principal
| lty He missed the only express train car
rying third-class passengers. and had to
e 6s made hs To pus IN ne
lingering single fve-franc piece SD. des-
| tined to buy food on the homeward trip.
At last he put the single piece on black.
| won. let 1t stay. won again, took back one
piece prudently, shifted the other three to
red and won again. He had So. Playing
~ at a time on the dozens he worked 1t up
| to s74. Then he began "sauaring" single
numbers-which pays S5 for l or for 1.
as may be. Before he left that afternoon
he had $3.50. The story adds that he got
home with it-and then found the other 81
silver piece he had prudently slowed away
at the end OF his third coup"
Have Their Rights Here.
Ladies' revel in the big possibilities OF
| roulette. Eugene Higgins. whose fine
| steam yacht Varuna is now waiting in
these waters to follow the evolutions OF
Santos-Dumont Tin company with the
Prince of Monaco's Princess Alice. James
Gordon Benefits Lysistrata and another.
I think the Queen Nab. recently hired by
Lord Frederic Johnson). came up from
Nice with a party one day last week and
made an hours visit to the casino. The
three ladies in the party decided in favor
Of roulette, and one Of them. Lady X,
began the favorite exercise of stalking
ten-franc gold piece on single number.
take in the adjacent numbers on the lay
out. Three times in half an hour she
| brought off her 670-franc coup" losing
fifty francs apiece on the others. Then, ex-
claiming audibly that she had never played
a maximum" and that this seemed pro-
pitious moment to enjoy the sensation she
began placing twenty-eight louis-d or
($112) at a clip on the "transversale" 4. .,
(Which pays eleven for one, when 1t pays
at all.
By this time crowd was interested.
Maximum playing is naturally the rareSt
kind; and it is the general impression that
the casino authorities never enjoy 1t. The
maximum is the greatest single stake al
lowed on any of the various chances, fixed
for the banks protection by mathematical
calculation based fundamentally on the
average amount of money passing over the
| tables on any one day during the season.
On the even chances, like red or black, the
maximum is 5000 francs G1,20O: and it
will be found, on examination that all the
other maXimums. when staked and won,
produce about this sum: for example, the
"transversale 4, 5, g." which pays eleven
for one. The maximum stake on it being
$112. eleven times this stake produces
s1,232.
Knows Thing or Two.
I looked at Mr. Higgins. The millionaire
American yachtsman dsdained to play, but
he stood behind the ladies, serviceable. at
tentive and animated. obviously unaffected
by all this plunging The same reasoning
applies here with Mr.. Schwabs unlucky
winnings; 1t is all comparative; what is
gambling for the average tourist is for the
very rich man the merest trifling. Four
times the lady Staked and lost, the big
stakes eating up her former winnings with
deplorable rapidity. The crowd enjoyed It,
really. Already she mad gone into her
satchel for more money when the croupier
called. in his even, monotonous tone, Five
red, manque and uneven!'' The next turn
No. 6 won and two turns after No. 8 again!
Each times the delighted lady pulled in
$1.232. The croupier paying her in 1000
franc and 500 franc bank notes. the big
bunch of them fiuttered in her hands as she
1aughingly arose and departed with the
others 1t seemed the easiest way in the
world to make little fortune Like gold
miners who fall over each other to stake
out claims as near as possible to a rich
strike so did the misguided multitude now
fall upon the numbers 4, 5 and g. to play
them every way the layout would permit 1t
and in vain!
Does Not Suit Yankees.
state the case because it is unusual, the
very we,,.lny Americans and English win
terng between Nice and Monte Carlo sell
dom playing at the casino 1 have never
seen Mr. Eugene Higgins play nor his
friend, Mr.. Clarence Dinsmore. Albert
Lambert of st. Louis who with his beau
tiful young wife, has been staying at Nice
for the last two months, boasts that he has
never staked dollar at the casino. An
other well-knOwn American who could not
be persuaded to meet the tiger even on the
almost equal terms of Monte Carlo Is Rob-
ert Cook, best known as Captain Bob
Cook" who for so long time coached the
Yale crew to victory. Mr. Cook. who is
stopping off at Monte Carlo on his way to
Italy, has become quite friend of Santos
DumOnt, to whom he suggested the use of
a megaphone for giving directions at the
critical moment when he is about to land.
For want of some such means for making
himself understood by those on the ground
Santos came near injuring his airship again
on an occasion when he sought to land on
the built-up shore of tne bay without the
aid Of steam launch to hold him back
This landing is still the airship's greatest
difficulty.
"some spacious kind Of landing stages
will have to be arranged" says Mr.. Cook,
before any airship or flying machines can
be considered practical"
I asked him what he thought of Mr..
Deutsch's proposition to make a French
Henley" at Meulan. on the Seine. about
twenty-iv miles from Paris.
lowing to the difference in the social
conditions of France and England. think
the plan impossible to realize he an
swered. THE English include physical
force in their ideal of good blood and high
breeding, while the French are content
with their lineage without the force. You
must have both to make a Henley"
Cause and Effect.
Here. especially among the Americans.
1t is Just the opposite from the home pro-
cedure. where winning and losing money
on chances Is rather mans dissipation.
Excepting tourists. to whom all is new,
our men along the Riviera rather avoid
the Monte Carlo casino. Doing so, they
feel that they can permit this new excite
ment to the ladies. In the smart set it is
undoubtedly the ladies who play. For ex-
ample, the Comtesse de Sers, granddaugh-
ter of the first Commodore Vanderbilt
from whose house at Nice Chauncey De-
pew was recently married. would not
dream of going in for baccarat at Paris. |
Yet last night she sat unafrad in the look
out croupiers high chair at the middle of |
the second hall Of the casino. handing her
stakes each time to the obliging employe |
to place for her upon her chosen chances. |
She was not winning. At the same roulette |
table sat young and pretty English lady, |
obviously of the best fashion. From the |
crown of her clean golden hair to the tips |
of her varnshed slippers she was all new, |
spick and span, as if done with a scrub |
bing brush. She carried a very large |
purse = almost a satchel of gold mesh, |
from which she took out 5GO-franc bank |
notes three times, to be changed for gold. |
A weakly blond. apparently her brother, |
stood behind her working on a different |
set of chances. She was squandering her |
gold betting on two rows of three numbers |
each. called skies which pay for 1. |