The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-14
.HON GAMBLERS
HOLD SWAY
At the Famous Old Summer
Resort of Saratoga,
BETS ON EVERYTHING
Even the Natives are EnguIfed
in the Mad Game of Chance.
BETS ON EVERYTHING


make their riches serve their pleasures
are on their way abroad, or to country
houses, or to Hot Springs. One thousand
persons left here on one train, so Of
them women wit :. 900 pieces of baggage
AS this was the liveliest season Saratoga
has had, so this special train, departing
Immediately after the race that marked
the end OF the plunging season. was the
largest ever sent out. Therein is a clue
TO what the rehabilitation OF Saratoga"
really means. It means that it has be
come the Monte Carlo OF the United
States. favored by extraordinary legisla-
ton, a place unique for which the state
constitution has been violated, Jaws set
aside. manners and morals blotted out.
The kind OF life that has been lived here
for the past month is the kind Of that
developed in England between the Res
toration and the Revolution. Our modern
Restoration is more raw than that OF 1860
and more crude lacking grace, but alto
gether this cid mineral spa, with its dig
nified history and ante-bellum tone. has
been changed into a close American varia-
ton of the Tunbridge Wells OF the reign
OF Charles IL, when the leaders of the
mode the wealthy merchants. the gen
try and the "frail and jilting beauties"
brought 10 it all the luxuries and vices
OF London Constraint was banished IA
miliarity came on short acquaintance,
deep play and intriguing eating. drink
ing, we're the staple amusements; from
craps TO faro, roulette, ponies, and stocks
there was nothing you could not lay a
wager on in Saratoga. Great splendid
agencies of Wall street brokerage houses
were established in the best situations
the curative waters were sighted except
as pickmeups after champagne, cafes
wine stores, and shops with the choicest
tobscoos increased in number and opul-
ence; and the small old knick-knack and
souvenir shops looked wonderingly
across the street at radiant new displays
Of Broadway and Fifth Avenue jewelers.
You did not need a marriage certificate,
the natives colloquially observe, 70
register at some of the finest hotels: and
Ladies Entrance In gilt letters as large
as those which indicated the wayt 10
Gentlemen Entrance" was blazoned on
the most public place of the houses where
games OF chance We're set.
II should not be concluded that what
went on here was typical of American so
ciety, or even such OF it as arrogstes that
term to itself. Ssratoga's new summer
community differs from that of Newport
as that of Newport differs from the saw
ing element which feels the meaning of
noblessc oblige and is compelled by its
possessions to return for them some SO
cial service. Mere mention of a few of
the names would indicate the mixed ma
ture OF the group. Sport makes odd fell
lowships and so does the chase after
amusements that money Will buy. Only
around the wheel where the marble spins
or the rings where bets are laid on the
form" OF horses. or the tables spread
in the ante-rooms of sporting clubs" was
there an appearance of equality of state
or privilege As lot they were people
not built for the monkey dinner til
effete german. and the frivolities that suf-
flee elsewhere. The men were men who
had done things in real life politics. in
sursnce. stocks. railroads. though not all
OF them by a method most exemplary.
Mr.. Gates as a fnancier. Mr.. Carroll as
statesman, are not perhaps entirely good
models: nor is the fact that Mr.. Whitney
ould rather win the Derby than be Pres
ident a truly helpful ambition 10 set be
fore primary schools. But they are more
virile than those others whom Mr. Wat
terson charscterizes as "the simpering
Johnnies and the tough girls" They
come together as the people come to-
Eether at AK. Paris. Nice. and. in the
ordered by the common pursuit OF spice
for safety or excitement FITS for minds
moulded in prosaic businesses.
on racing this year. Nr Whitney's re-
corded winnings were s4225. though his
sons stables. in which Herman Duryea is
interested won Nsooa John W. Schorr
came next with $3.50: Z. R Hitchcock
third. with SIS $50; c. R. Ellison. fourth
with $3.50: L. V Bell fifth with Si47s0:
and James r. and Foxhan Keene next.
with 80 230 What they lost on private
betting is untold. John W Gates is said
to have won several hundred thousands
OF dollars. but there is no way Of telling
He IS known 70 have lost many 5000
wsgers. how he made these good and
bettered them Is guessvork. Il is also
reported that one OF the sporting colony
won sSp1 010 OF the season. faro. racing
and roulette. That, however. IS large
amount OF money. and the gambling pro-
prietors say that the statement is false.
n the FIRST two weeks Canheld's Saratoga
Club and Joily's Manhattan Club did lose
to the men who came and laid heavy
sums on cards OF the wheel. bat in the
last two weeks they Won Garfield would
Ike to be sole proprietor Of the Saratoga
club. but the stockholders. silent New
Workers. Will not sell out TO him
Gambling first and then coquetry-what
pair Of pleasures for hsrd-headed men
Of this time and country. Mind. no names
are named. What are called wall Street
u.er. and also merchants Who A. home
are steady going enough 70 suit anyone
were most conspicuous az each Every
body plunged as d recreation for The
merit or gambling which P7,rltanssr1 aid (
low IL England previous 70 that Restors- /
ton before alluded To- then harred from
this rev land has revived. and Saratoga /
hasn't View York. too e7,touized th> +
facts OF t. There were bets On everv- 1
thing none going 50 FAR as krowr. - /
the point described 81 Monsieur Beau !
oaire.' the honor = a womsn-Anericsu T
d not talk much about wonenfoik-hut 7.
rather az 20 whether Quay could end the I
coal strike. Or Cden settle Roosevelt With 4
sreech OF Trusts ~ whether The steward /
actually could show that he knew what I
vent into Manhattan cocktail. Or /
vhethe- the selected cahmsn could get - /
The course IN time fo- Ire frst race. 81