Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-16
SOCIAL LEADERS CAN'T RESIST
THE LURE OF THE TIGER.
NEW YORkS FAST SET
Any Game of Chance Seems Sufficient
to Get the Interest and Dollars OF
the Fair Sex-A New Development
in the MetropoIis-Race Tracks
Popular.

York are infected with the gambling
crlze as never in any previous period
of flush times, says David Graham
Phillips in Golfers Weekly. Those
opposed to gambling-thrifty shop
keepers, owners of tenements, fats and
renting residences, and the like
make their conscienee-evading bets
by buying stocks outright and selling
them when the market advances-or
drops dangerously. Racing has been
Refrigerated by the rich, and book
makers are multiplying book
makers roll" found in a raided
gambling house few weeks ago con-
tanned $4,000 in paper money.
Gambling houses, of which there are
always a few, are now numerous; and
two-one for the fashionable rich, the
other for the merely rieh-are Trimal-
chan palaces in costly gaudiness. Re
Gently the manager of the fashionable
place, when asked how much money
they kept on hand for the daily busi-
ness, drew out a pocketbook and
showed five ten-thousand-dollar bills
and" said he, there's $4,000 more
in the safe and at the tables upstairs
Pool rooms are seen by all the po-
lice every few blocks in the business
district. Their clerks and messengers
and of late many women-wives of re-
tail shopkeepers ana of the better
paid clerks-play races far and near.
And the race tracks themselves were
never so prosperous or so fashionable.
Next summer there will be one more
the most ambitious of all. At these
tracks every racing day there is
literally crowd that plunges heavily;
and part of 1t is women@not as for
merly the race track elements women
only, but women of the conservative
classes, sending their bets from grand
stand to booklets shed by one of the
dozen busy ladies' messengers. Hun
dreds of the men stake large sums,
scores stake thousands, there is
score or more who frequently make
such winnings and losings, as $4,000
on single race.
Policy shops and policy writer's in
fest the tenement districts, robbing
laborers and artisans, and their wives
and children, of quarters, dimes,
nicltels and pennies through alleged
lottery drawings that are in reality
cunning assignments of small prizes
where they boom the fraud. II Is es-
timated that the income from the
policy has now amounted to $4,000 a
day. Think how many gamblers that
means, even If the average bet is so
high as twenty-five cents!
Then there are the women of more
or less social pretensions. The Wall
street woman is no new phenomenon
in New York Blu, she was as a rule
sexless looking creature, skin tough,
and sallow. toilet careless and dowdy,
she sat about the ladies department
OF the uptown branches of bucket
shops, making her bets and winning
as full of tricks as fox was she, but
winning or losing with sclf-control;
not fascinating to behold, or in any
way measurable factor in public
morals. The new Wall street woman
is not of kin to the old, does not sug
gest her except as all human beings
suggest each other through the pos.
session of universal traits. She
comes in carriage or cab 10 the
ladies department" os those broker.
age firms that have the courage Ia
take the extra risks of feminine
trade; she spends an hour or SC
there, her eye on the tape, her hand
ON her smelling salts: having won or
lost all she cares or dares to risk
that day, she goes on her way.
At Saratoga in summer, at Palm
Beach in winter, and at Aiken also
the more or less public gamhlins
table the private club or the private
room in the gambling house, is not
only permitted but fashionable.
Stock gambling, of course, as yet
attracts fewer of these fashionable
women with the gambling fad. Ii
calls for study, for long and tedious
education; and women of fashion
have too many drafts upon their time
already. There are some who intrust
money TO men friends to bet for them
but that is not gambling for the
woman. The gambling is altogether
for the trusted man who would hardly
be SO ungallant and even cruel--not tc
say impudent, for that would sount
cynieal--as to let confiding and help
less woman of fashion, doing tht
gambling herself, using her own iudg
ment reinforced or confused by tips
gathered at random, stalking her owl
income or her fathers or husbandi
allowance 70 her. is as yet a rarity
But she is an interesting rarity, as sh'
lies abed with her telephone at her in
delent elbow and with smiles o
frowns, in great crisises in the street
tears, upon her petulant face, THINK:
to the telephone. she CANDLES 3. he
ease, in the seclusion of her home. o
her bedroom. And apparently she ].
the heralding swallow of the oncomins
flock. There are still few husband:
with tales of how scantily they art
fed because my wife came croppel
on steel last month and dropped he