The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-11
r ogIDA HAS A MONTE CARLO.
LAST WINTER AT PALM
HUI pEACHs GAMBLING CLUB.

atom TO t-Other Swell
Opr Ling Resorts on the East
coast of Florida.
From the New York Sun.
Reach. Fla, April up and
This wonderfully popular east
Gov throughout the season just near
- re close gambling houses have
ms ,sbed. Their proprietors are al
D D preparing to leave for the North,
&c. &c. pockets filled with the coin that
have taken from the unwary.
W. w.. winter at this fast-growing Mon
cor1o If America has been more
.e+able than any of those which pre-
20 if for these quick-witted knights
u the green cloth. A business of
'sr.s Years growth along the tropical
sast coast has been wonderfully sue
.assful: that is, successful from the
.tondpoint of it's promoters.
Come men and some women who
u,o IN Palm Beach and played for
-.orav in its gambling house, and who
.-,ad thus to recoup their expenses at
.hs high-priced resort, might tell a
Sirerent story. There is a pawnbroker
~,.odv at West Palm Beach, a small
own of recent growth just across Lake
worth from the white and towering
rs of the Royal Poinciana, and in
n ne possession is much jewelry. 1t costs
.r1 a. TO go from, here to New York,
Tcluding your Pullman berth and
meals and full many a New Yorker
hos found a visit to that West Palm
psach pa.wnbroker a comfort after an
evening at hard play.
AZ a matter of fact, such a thing is
otter all hardly a necessity. No North
prner will ever become stranded at
paim Beach. There are mysterious
WAYS and means by which he VIII at
last he able to reach home again. 1t
y the intention of this Florida gam
5ling center that no scandal, no posi-
Elities of suicide or some of it's en-
harrassing substitutes shall attach
themselves to the place.
For this is, all of it, gambling de
,nye The children are barred out by
acknowledgement limit, the suspicious
nersons are not admitted to the portals
Of the gambling house. The poverty
stricken never see the light of day in
Palm Beach.
To the wealthy patrons of this resort
the Beach Club opens its doors. A
clerk of either of the two great hotels
nav stand sponsor for the man or wo-
man who wishes to seek riches on the
wheel. and that it all the introduction
one needs to the place.
After that it is good spirits, an abil-
ity to advance money and lose it with
good grace and a farewell smile, for
this is always the gaming table of po-
lite society, that counts, that sets the
wheel clicking and the money rafting
long after the orchestras have ceased
playing in the cocoanut grove and the
old men and women and children in the
hotels have tumbled off to bed.
The Beach Club is poked UP under
the shed of the north end of the Royal
Poinciana, probably the largest hotel
Of the kind in the world. 1t stands
we'll back from the lake and is nearly
hidden by third glen of palms.
The outside of the building is SOM
bre and unassuming, the inside is ra-
diant with fine furnishings, all select
ed in unvarying good taste. The Beach
Club is almost palatial. Long Branch
in its palmiest days never had such
place as this Dick Canfield's house
at Saratoga is not a circumstance to
t.
The lower part Of the house serves
as the gambling rooms. Here are play
cd roulette and the English game of
hazards but very much more roulette
than hazard. Occasionally in the hight
Of the season, there is play at bacca-
rat
There are no other card games than
this. The average visitor at Palm
Beach can gain enough excitement and
be burned quite enough by the three
games,
Upstairs is the cafe, furnished in the
same good taste as the gambling
rooms. The service in this restaurant
is fully as excellent as one might care
to find on upper Broadway. And this
Is a market which abounds in fruits
and fish, while milk and cream and
Deef are worth their weight in gold.
lhere are net a dozen COWS within a
hundred miles of Palm Beach.
We don't give them a chance to
KICK up here" said the Palm Beach
chef. Things are pretty nearly right
mere, but they have to pay for them.
think that if you were to take Del
monlco's bill of fare and add 10 per
cent to the price of every dish there
you would about strike our charges"
Inc supper is a small part of the
'nlng to the gamblers who struggle in
ID noon, Increase in the late after
neon and swarm in droves into the
pace in the evening, After milder
treasures of the day are past, the lit
Ne Try at bridge, the eighteen holes of
soLI' the arm racking ping-pong, and
.ne dinner are forgotten things; then
"i re- Beach club is the proper caper.
Inc last smart set of this resort go
Gle ana all to the gaming table. Even
ing dress is a necessity. The women,
their gowns off at the shoulders. reach
n,CIs white arms across the green ia
pes and buy their ammunition. The
Cnatter ceases and the room is very
gulet as the wheel revolves with its
nerve tickling rattle.
men it stops and each eager person
Ltounu about that table knows his or
L heI late, The man that sweeps s., 1000
as way appears as stolid and indiffer-
~ ~ as his neighbor who has lost half
o IaC sum. This is the gaming of so
Tlety and stolid Indifference is alone
ule proper thing
many New Workers of prominence
SalHer about that table. Wall street
n DtUAers touch elbows with men who
&c, go south of Twenty third street,
20 I've on a coupon cutting expedition
w. 81 thelr banks. The head of a great
nsSt7 OF railways sits at play, looks
bbeIpleXed and scratches his head when
he he loses. The attendants say that
trick - "a Oiu AoiiiiAS
b,o'e@l to him a young woman,
s s-o,Ge leader of Brooklyn society, who
niaii each winter at Palm Beach,
ms ms, roulette with the air of one whom
sstbactlce has taught to become perfect.
o SIe mas lost $1,000 in a single night
t% r,'iut the culver of lip or even the
.IuIy Ieminine sigh IT lie r.i1rnornd