The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-29
NO SARATOGA GAMING HOUSES
OPEN THIS SEASON. BUSINESS
MEMS ASSOCIATION SAYS.

Canned ana Wescott, welsh & Jolly Made
Expensive Alterations. Expecttng 10
Opeo-Too Much american Monte
Carlo" Talk. says Police Commissiener.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, April is.-Up In
this part Of New York State The SUN IL
regarded as the finest thing In the way
Of q prophet that ever happened. Just
about q year ago now It devoted about q
page to the Saratoga situation and toid
about the only true story that has ever
been printed regarding gambling at this
famous resort.
In that article The Sun showed how the
number OF gambling places had been ne
duced by the application OF what is known
pretty well over the country by this time
as the Saratoga system from NIFTY TO
six, and II also stated that by the ap-
plication of this same system OF controlling
a vice the number would be gradually
reduced from year 70 year until not one wae
left in this beautiful village nesting among
the foothills Of the Adirondacks.
Late last fall THE SUN printed another
interesting article about Saratoga, In the
course Of which II was stated that during
the summer OF 1908 there would be . still
further restriction Of the sporting pro-
clivities OF tho sporting gentlemen who
spend few months In the village for their
health and their profit, and that II there
were any gambling resorts In the town
they would be conducted In a much more
unobtrisive way than ever before.
There was furnished here to-day a veri-
fication Of every one OF THE Suns state
ments. 1t was learned, on authority. that
may not be questioned. that, to all intents
and purposes there will be no house gamb-
ling In Saratoga during the coming sum
mer. This decision was arrived At several
weeks ago, and II may do no harm to state
that the situation-to-be. was decided upon
by the Business Mems Association. OF which
Cassius b. Thomas, a wholesale and retail
coal dealer and a director In the Citizens
National Bank, Ia the president; and OF
which Senator Edgar T. Brackett, William
W. Worden. Republican State Committee
man from the Saratoga district, chairman
OF the Republican County Committee. are
When last summer was over and the
soldiers Of fortune had fitted to other
fields. Mr.. Bracket one day remarked
1T Is not for me 70 regulate the affair:
on record as saying now. that II the ma
jority Of the representative citizens OF Sara
toga want even as much gambling as we
have had here during the past two or three
years. all right.
But as for me. want II understood
from now henceforth, that ! am opposed
TO all kinds Of poolroom gambling and that
] believe this town would be very much
better OF II there was not gambling house
open from one limit Of the corporation TO
the other.
THE primary source OF Sarstoga's great
meas as q res ort In her mineral springs.
The town was famous long before gambler
thought Of coming here, and we can do
without them In the future, as We DID before
they came. II the extinction OF poolrooms
in this town means the extinction OF all
gambling, then put me down for suppress
ing every gambling. house In town.
When some Of the soldiers OF fortune
learned Of Senator Brackets stand they
smiled and said that they guessed the
Senator would cool Oh during the winter.
In fact no longer ago than last December,
1t was UNDERWOOD both in Saratoga and
in New York. that an arrangement had been
that be 70 the ehoct that the poolroom
opposite the racetrack should not DO opened.
but that the six gambling houses, inciud-
ing Canheld's Saratoga Club, should Do
allowed TO run without let or hindranoe
Garfield made contracts for the eniarging
Of the rest aurant OF his club and WeScott
Welsh a jolly began to alter and heautify
the Manhattan Club. The alterations at
both places will he completed about the
middle Of May at total cost on many
-
understanding that the houses sbould BE-
allowed to open that the proprietors OF
the Saratoga and Manhattan clubs made
their contracts and underwent the eI-
pense TO which they have gone.
INQUIRY was made to-day as to what was
the source OF the gamblers understanding
that they would be allowed TO do business
| here this summer. So far a. could
| be learned, nobody entitled to speak for
Saratoga permitted any such understanding t ID ns
| been the understanding In December 1t
does not hold good in April, and II e now
| definitely known that Saratoga, 30 far as
gambling il concerned, will be closed
| town this summer. Police Commissioner
Lewis was asked this afternoon II even
| Canfed's place would be not allowed 10
run. The Commissioner replied.
Il shall play no favorites. II Mr.. Can
| field comes to Saratoga and violates the
| law, he will be treated as any other law
breaker And what Ia true OF him IL true
Of anybody else. There has been alto
gether too much talk about Saratoga being
the American Monte Carlo. II II In neces-
sary. to convince the public that this is
not a resort for the sporting men OF all