The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-04
AMERIcAN MONTE CARLO OPEN
Palatial Gambling Houses Conducted by Biggest Men in Fraternity
 Ready for Game.

Palatial Gambling Houses Conducted
 Ready for Game.
 Hot Springs, Ark Correspondent to Chi
 cago Chronicle.
 Natives in this valley Of vapors are preparing for the most eventful season in the history of the American Monte Carlo. It will begin this year two months earlier than usual. On Decem- ber the roulette wheels will be whiri- ing merrily in all of the fashionable gambling houses or 'clubs'' as they are dubbed here, and faro, rouge ct noir. trente ct quarante or any of the ickle games of chance so popular at the Eu- ropean resorts may be enjoyed by the rich and poor alike who flock during the winter in search of health, happiness or fortune.
 The temples of fortune are ready for opening. Several minor members of the gambling fraternity have already opened house, but the Southern Club will really be the first of the so-called ''big Runs'' to throw open their paiatiai pariors for speculators in any branch of the Amer ican gambling game. The Southern Club will begin business on Thanksgiving Day under the management of LeoMayer, the well known Eastern bookmaker, who looks after the clubs interest while Dan Stuart, Charley Dugan and others inter- ested remain in the background.
 Pool Rooms Doing Business. Four pool rooms are already doing bus mess and there Is a possibility of seven layers displaying oIds on racing results at tracks that will operate during the winter. Odds will be displayed on the meetings at Los Angeles, San Francisco and New Orleans. but when racing com mences at the proposed new track near here there s already on foot a amove- ment among the pool room proprietors to display nothing but overnight and morning odds on local races. Billy Cole man. one of the youngest but shrewdest bookmakers in the business. will be asso- ciated with Mayer in the Southern Club. wn~tever attitude is shown the new Hot Springs Jockey Club by out-of-town people one thing is certain-the natives are shoulder to shoulder in the effort to make the winter meeting a success. Ly- man T. Hay, president of the club. Is also manager of the Arlington Hotel. MT Hay comes from a family that is well known all over Kentucky. He graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute then located near Frankfort. and in his class were such prominent sport loving men as W. W. Kavanaugh. now presi- dent of the Southern Base Ball League, and Alfred Vaughan. great base ball
 
 snug fortune. President Hay has the confidence of the people in the new ven- ture, and with the assistance of Judge Murphy and other local enthusiasts look for success.
 Pool rooms operating at present are the Illinois Club, Turf Exchange, New York Club and Kentucky Club. Bob Furth, a Little Rock sporting man who has amassed small fortune in recent fa nr0nrfaf0P nf tha TlItunfu Cl,rh which was formerly managed by Barney Weller for James O'Leary. Billy shan non is again in charge of the Kentucky l | L.ub and evidence is offered this year, as last season. that he will corner the play from the petticoat plungers. ShannOn's pool room is so arranged that women can enter by private entrance with or with. , out escort and view the same big black board from upstairs that the members of the sterner sex gaze on from below. The balcony is arranged so that the feminin- ity can see without being seen. MoQuette | carpets, handsome furnishings and rou- lette wheels are convenient for the miss | es and matrons who are numbered among the worshippers of Dame For ! tune
 et-Rich-Quick Men Interested. From a source altogether reliable it is learned that E. J. Arnold and J. J. Ryan, two of the most prominent of the recent "get-rich-quick" men, are each after To- cations for pool rooms. Tn antcipa Llon of a rush of business 1t is said that 4.yan has in sight a place of busin, s that will be second to none in natural | advantages. It is located near the East man Hotel and Ryan is supposed to be a. ger the big betters' business. A local | friend of Arnold's is authority for the | statement that Arnold Is at present in St. Louis armed with ample capital to operate several pool rooms if necessary. The presence of Arnold and Ryan in the field will give the city more pool rooms than on any previous occasion and will be a source of profit to the city. The city fathers place a tax of $3.6OO on each pool room with open doors and strict watch is kept on any person at- tempting to run a hand book. No pool room is allowed to draw in" for less time than a year. The money for the years license must be forthcoming on Thanksgiving Day. and there are no fa- vorites playeu Chambers & Walker, proprietors of the Turf Exchange. which was the scene of a disastrous e-plosion, intend throwing open their doors all year round again despite repor to the con- trarY.