The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-20
In NEW YORK.


without excepting a single place
there IS not a gambling house in the
city Of New York where crooked games
are not dealt"
This from William Travers Jerome
who has devoted the best part OF the
past two years Of his life to studying,
investiga ting and combating the gam
bling Industry viii furnish food 1oF re-
Election to the hundred thousand men
living in and around the city VINO
have seen their good money pass me
the handsome drawers Of faro ana rou-
mis- statement that not single
rambling house exists in the CITY OF
View York where the player can rely
upon an honest deal means nauen y men
these facts are remembered
Ffret-That New York city ts the
greatest gambling center IN the world,
Monte Carlo and other european re-
sorts not excepted
seccnd-That individual sums have
been lost in more than one OF the New
York places that exceed by SIX and
eight times the bank rolls that could
be won at Monte Carlo or OsJend
Third-That the expenses Of main
tafnInz the ten largest gambling houses
A. +rfs cffv irrespective of losses they
NAV suffer. aggregates $4,000 night
or $40 a0e a week. or $3.50 coo q year
That stupendous sum must be taken IN
before the rroprietors have any profits
places IS enormously rich
These TEN places are supported by
mon Of social position, Of wealth POOR
men or men OF moderate means are
nor wanted as patrons The man VINO
goes in one Of them willing to lose SO
gao or $40 for the chance of winning
much larger sum is not sought after by
anv OF these ten places The man VINO
rarz his losses with a check IS wanted
That man does not limit himself 70 tii7
NAV g.
about him. He gives fun swing 70 ms
gambling fever keeps only an approx
innate account OF his losses, and only
realizes what he has done when the
polite manager names the total sum ne
owes the house
games on the Mississippi steamboats, III
~ 1lf DAYS and of immense poker
games in Washington Books nave oeeA
written of losses a nd winnings at Monte
Carlo But as matter Of plain fact at
no time and az no place have suen SUI
reudous sums been rlsked as IN the
principal houses in this city These
are
william T. Buroridges IN " est mr.
John Kely's in west Forty-hrst
street
sol Lioheuztein's in west Thirty-hrst
Tim Kenney's in West Thirty-eighth
street.
Shang Diapers in West twenty
Lou Belts in West Thirty-fourth
street
There are scores of other places, some
OF them where play IS high. but rne
above named ten are those which the
rich men Of the city freq tlll.
shrewd business men, VINO have heapeo
uu large fortunes by their sagactE ana
suusriOrity over other business men eL
these same men who would not expend
500 fin their regular business without
knowing absolutely and IN detail every
thing about where the money ls gong
the cause Of the expenditure and VINO
would not have dealings with another
business man unless assured OF MS IN
tee~ftv have passed tens or thousands
over the green cloth In a night without
ever suspecting they were swlndLed-
They relied simply on the fairy land
fiction shat certain big professional
garnb lers are honest
Who are the big losers in the ganb =
ling houses Of New York;
First comes John ". Gates. the
shreudest business man probably IN the
country the man who made August
Belmont look like a small boy in the
science OF finance and had J. Flerpont
Morgan and other pillars of Wall street
worried to death He lost $4,000 in one
sitting in Candeld's- Did Mr.. Gates get
a SQUARE. fair deal1
District Attorney Jerome thinks not
Gates plays faro. Garfield has the tive
cleverest brace faro dealers in the world
in his house. Mr.. jerome says, men who
are so adeut that they can fool shreWd
professional gamblers, men who do not
work for 80 or $50 night. but demand
and receive percentage OF the victim S
losses
This percentage is not known. but the
regular percentage which a steerer re-
CeiVas is S. per cent OF what the victim
he brings into a house loses. The h0us-
is content with 45 per cent.
This percentage in itself shows what
chance the player has. Every gamblins
house In the city FROM CandeId's down
employs steerers. Thew headquarters IL
at Broadway and Forty third street II
3 game were honestly run no Eambllng
house In the world could exist and paw
steerers S. per cent. OF its winnings from
certain PATRONS. the house standing ali
OF the losses This in itself shows that
the owners OF the house figure that they
have more than IS per cent in thea
favor to begin with In honestly dealt
Iaro the percentage is only about Der
cent in favor ~ the house and between
and per cent On roulette
Tt is said the brace faro dealers ia
Canneid's get 80 Der cent Of whatever
they win from the players who are
pitted against them. II ny accident a
winning IS made Canheld stands all oil
d. These brace dealers never work in
lAe large general room OF CanfaIdfs
They deal in one Of the small rooms on
an upper floor reserved for private par.
tiss-men who want to gamble without
any limit and in privacy
Tt was i'm one of these small rooms
that Reginald Vanderbilt and his friends
made their famous play late one night
Lawrence Waterbury and Payne Whit
ney are said TO have been in the party
which numbered more than half a doz-
en-
One man in that party lost that night
sum shade under $4,000 This loss
has been credited to young Vanderbilt
but as matter of fact his loss was
but a tride over ST 900.
Dld this crowd Of young men get a
square deal2
A man who has been in one of Can
fields small rooms with crowd of rich