The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-05

that all PariSianS desire to see sup pressed by the police-a coldly operated mill for grinding money out of parents lamentations and wives tears. There are as many elderly men as young, grave, well dressed men, with white boards and moustaches, often decorat- ed. Outside the bacearat hall they chat of stocks, politics, sport and the thea | ter. The scene differs scarcely from that ! in the most legitimate and exclusive Paris clubs. There, too. gambling is the magnet that holds the whole mem- bership together. The smarter the club 1 the more unrestrained is the baccarat, and the Cercle de la Rue Royale and that of the Union Artistique have long rivalled by their reckless play the most | notorious "tripots" of the boulevard: | A clubman in Paris means a gambler; and it is hard to find any social life l outside the baccarat hall of a chic club or in the proprietary establishment where one often meets it's members. Indeed, so deep is the passion rooted that when this young Americans | "club" began to enjoy the reputation of "le plus forte partie de Paris '-the i biggest game in Paris-men of high po- sition and unstained honor day by day forsook their own exclusive clubs \ for it. ''.'. J ,,. | Yet the suspicion fingers always that some subtle crookedness is liable to be sprung on the unprotected banker, in particular when he is young and mex perienced or foreigner. Think of the temptation of it! The, banker is one. When he loses all the other players win. Fifty members are delighted, while only one mourns. Naturally they will swear 1 that all was quite correct. < l. We even know how the thing is done. Studious experts have discovered conl- 1 binations of the baccarat pack that will
 make the banker lose throughout his
 whole deal. New packs, thus arranged, can even be bought, if you know where to ask for them. True, the croupier I must shuffle them, but that need not disturb the great mass. Even when two or three club members give the
 pack some extra shuffling, how do you
 know that they are not in the combina-
 ton?
 The bankers one protection in such leases is when he cuts the cards him l self. He may, by accident, vut them just where the series will run in his ia l yor.
 Then note what happens. Suddenly the players will grow superstitious, find I that they have engagements to see a man or have rheumatism in the back. Of course, all of them are not in the l combination but a subtle sympathy
 seems to inform the old strangers that \ it will be a bad deal
 1 On the other hand, suppose the inno- cent American or other banker cuts the
 cards where they want them. Imlnledi- lately Wads of money are produced by |players sitting nearest to him at his fright and left. So seated, they have a
 right to call "Banco!'' and bet the
 banks limit, or at least bet heaviest if
 they are willing to leave other players
 against the bank win a little. These
 men are playing continuation, money. I Regularly they are cautious. They give
 all the players against the bank a
 chance. And note how the wireless tel
 egraph works. Every player planks his money down. t 3 "Eight!'' calls the man on the poor banKerS right. sfS
 "Seven." calls the left. while the
 bankers point is three or two or one.
 How is. it that our Americans con
 tinue playing against such a game!
 The answer is found in that one word
 confidence. They have won sometimes
 The combination is not always oper-
 ating Often, from the very nature ot 1 things, the cut or the shuffie will dis.
 turb the arranged order#of the cards
 And note the mass of habitual players the Parisians, are not of the s'combina.
 tion." Though good guessers, often,
 times they make mistakes, and the cas.
 sion of the play leads every one on
 Then, for night, the tenderfoot bank.
 CT may make good winning. Again he may play in the crowd and vii against some other tenderfoot wht
 takes bank.-New York Press,