The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-18
EVERY MAN A SUCKER.
So Regarded by the Brace Game Pro-
prietors of jackson City.
Washington Correspondence in Chi
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Jackson City, the huddle of gam
bling shacks at the other end of that
long bridge spanning the Potomac
across which a good many of the
Union troops retreated to Washington
after the first Bull Run, was virtual
ly obliterated by an incendiary fire
the other night. This effacement of
Jackson City will give a good many
government employees q better clutch
on their jobs, at least until the place
is rebuilt
There is no telling how many fine
places in the department service have
been lost in the last quarter of a CEN
tury because, this wretched gambling
settlement was so near the capital.
Government employees fond of gam
bling would romp over to jackson City
on the semi-monthiy payday nights
and lose their wages at brace faro,
phony mustang, arranged roulette
cut-aDd-dried craps. circus keno and
other sure-thing-yOu-lose games. They
would inevitably drop into the hands
OF the O-per-cent-a-mOnth curbstone
money lenders who infest Washington.
and when they got in over their heads
would be compelled TO resign
Some OF the government employees
who have IN past years got into deep
water through their gambling at Jack
son City have not been mere clerks.
but officials of prominence. A dis
bursting clerk of q department who
was recently arrested for being thou
sands Of dollars short in his govern
ment accounts has all but owned I'D
that Jackson City, in combination with
St. Asaph, the pool room little dis
lance away from the gambling set
Element got the bulk of the hlched
money
Jackson City was founded during the
administration of President Andrew
Jackson The projectors of the settle
ment calculated upon building a city
upon the south bank of the Potomac.
and the scheme looked so promising
at the time that Mr.. jackson was
pleased to preside at the formal found
ing of the placeNathd TO make a speech
in which he predicted that the town
named after him had a great future.
But Jackson City never went ahead.
The gamblers got hold of it very ear
~ IN its career. In those remote days
the games We're on the level. Then
Jackson City gradually sank to the
low level it has occupied for the last
two decades. Sharps and tinhorners
got possession, brace methods were
adopted. and Jackson City became an
eyesore-
IN the Gays Nnen the games were
conducted on the square the banks
over there were put out OF business
by high rollers quite q number OF
times. About a quarter OF a century
ago a man who afterward became a
senator from the Pacific coast state
and gained great fame as the owner
of celebrated running horses. closed
the whole town out in the course OF
three nights play. He passed from
bank TO bank bucking the tiger. and
when he got through the blinds on all
the establishments went up while the
proprietors hustled for new bank rolls.
Less than fifteen years ago a sen
atOr from state beyond the Nissis-
Sippi. who afterward became famous
as much for his celebrated faro
PIanges as for his fine oratory. drove
over 10 Jackson City one night in a
baTouche after a pretty good dinner at
Weckler's- He went alone and took
$2.e00 along with him.
An the Jackson City games were
then exclusively on the brace or
phony order. 1t is probable that the
senator knew this, bat he probably
calculated that the people in charge
would recognize him and give him a
chance TO divert himself with a little
square bank.