The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-05
AMERICANS ARE EASY.
HOW THE GILDED YOUTHS GO AGAINST CROOKED PARIsLAN

Games-They Are Looked Upon as Lee
 gitimate Prey by the French Experts =
 The Club What Worked Q st. Louis
 Chap.
 I When the present government of France was busy passing the law of association, which resulted in suppress ing such a number of religious orders, no one dreamed that one of its effects would be to save big wads of money for a whole class of Americans this sum- mer. Yet such is the fact. The count less actors, politicians, giIded youth and golden gray Cor baldl heads who flock
 in the gay capital this season can no ] longer lose their money, as they were wont to do, in its proprietary clubs or
 'tripots.'
 Last week Monsieur Lepine, prefect lof police, enforcing the new law in it's
 lesser details, called up the authorities
 of all such mot elosed' clubs before
 him and enformed them that hence- forth: ~ i First-No profit-making gambling lclub (paying dividends to it's stockhold- Ter or stockholders may keep on doing
 business. N
 Second--Clubs run in good faith for q 5-+ @ F5 t
 the pleasure of their actual members
 only may run baccarat or any other
 game and eke out their resources with
 the kitty, . but the club revenues must
 be in large part from dues paid as such
 by members, and each member must Ipay his dues.
 Third Such membership must be real and depend on formal presentation,
 posting, balloting and continuation at
 formal meetings of the members.
 All this will work a great change in
 the sporting life of the boulevard. One j club significantly called "The Anglais' l tor English went immediately out oi
 business. Others are recognizing. Still
 others are in much perplexity. As. fol d the change it is working in the summer !. fortunes of a large class of Americans l it will be wholly beneficial. < One of the richest young men of St
 Louis-yery young and viry rich--was
 rather proud for a few days of his mem
 bership in the Club of the =, D and X how dear the adventures cost him be,
 fore he got out of it is typical. His
 speaking of it as the club misled us .l We thought he must mean the Auto
 mobile club, the only correct, proper
 club accessible to foreigners in general j No Parisian mentions his connection .twith proprietary ''tripot' ''--he would
 as soon tell he had a season ticket tc 2 the Moulin Rouge.
 He had been taken to the place as 2
 sightseer. He had idly wished to try his luck with a gold piece and had beer . told that as a guest he might not. Then as his French friend suggested it, ht filled up blank. Two days later he :. received notice telling that he wa: < elected to full membership.
 1 Being idle, he looked in one day ant noted with pride that his name figured on the vestibule book, and that the gor geous fiunkey knew him. He lunchet at "the club a few times, paying z BlOT5 d ItlGdlS WuTiu Ap0 4OT 9f. took to sauntering through it's spaciou. halls, watching ecarte ia kind of "drav euchre1) when the clubs great game O baccarat was not in swing. He evel
 learned to put his gold piece down; bu !, he never thought to have his name in scribed on the blackboard for place a the green table, and never dreamed 0
 taking a bank. One thing trouble, 1, him. He had not his club card yet, ant l his introducer warned him not to 2 5 and ask it from the secretary. "The members cards are numberel t for taxation, If you have one issued t : you you will have to pay dues. And n : one pays dues. ; s-
 When the young American declare himself willing to pay dues they gibei : at him. You will be laughed at as : itenderfoot!" they said. Therefore, h | was all the more surprised one day t : get a notice to come and pay up. : T suppose you have not played a . much as members regularly do,'' his in 5 troduced told him. <.. .,. l, What shall I do?"
 Either play at baccarat now an
 then, or else resign" he was told. 'tBu = you must not pay those dues. The sec } retary himself would think you simple P and each member would distrust you a v a troubler Q fthe status quo" f Of course he ought to have resigned 1 but here ones vanity gets caught. H !, would show them that he could take i. bank. S# He took a bank, bidding it up to 5
 louis-ffty times four dollars. Tn
 iclub croupier shuffled the cards, ha - them cut by half a dozen members e spread his chips out, and the youn | American, advised by an old hand, be h gan to deal < a s%
 lx In baccarat the whole crowd bet n against the banker. He Ewes ther three cards and takes three. for him v self. and those that add up nearest min !. win the amount staked on the table }, 2 Thus when the banker is in luck h 1 7 may make a small fortune in a quarte - Eof an hour-or lose the whole of hi y bank roll
 "Eight!" called the man to his Ief C who represented that side of the lon Il table. s .e &, s',fs.
 e "Seven!'' called the holder of tn l. cards for the right. l. His own point was three!
 Again he dealt the cards.
 "Seven!"
 < "Ninei''