The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-06

familiar to Saratogans. There are
! none Of the Swell traps or fancy auto
mobiles seen at the Eastern resorts,
and most of the visi ors are perfectly
satisfied with the unpretentious style
of the LOCAL livery.
| national reputation in West Baden just
| now
DO you have many noted persons
among your regular patrons?" / inquir-
! ed of a we'll posted resident.
tOh, yes" was the reply, ""Tony'
| Pastor usually comes here, and Joe
UIlnnan and Honest John Kelly and
and lots of others"
A little orchestra of four or five
| pieces grinds out I'm the Good Old
Summer Time" and other classics at in
| tervals during the day on side piazza,
While few women sit about reading
and chatting and scrutinizingj the pass
ersby: In the course of the afternoon
| everybody passes along this particular
section Of the piazza, because it leads
to the club house-the general rem
AS one, enters in the afternoon one
| side of the main clubroom Suggests the
| appearance Of a conventional brokers
office in New York. There are clerks
at work behind a railing and back of
| them stretches an immense blackboard
covered with writing and figures. Rows
| of chairs face this for the customers.
| Instead Of lists of stocks and the prices
| quoted on change the nathes of horses
are given, h their jockeys, weights
| and the odds offered by the bookma-
kers on the tracks at Brighton Beach,
st. Louis and Hawthorne lin other
words the place is a poolrooh1. There
are two clocks on the waf1Gote show.
| ing Eastern and the other local time
| for the benefit Of the bet 1g contin-
gent.
On a long table back dfathe chairs
are large volumes into which the
dope" is, pasted, enabling persons to
get at the records of the horses with
| little trouble. AS the news begins to
| come in by wire it is read off to an
attentive audience. The posi- ions of
the horses during the race come in a
| few moments before the announcement
Of the winner
Women Bet on the Races.
Men predominant in the clubroom,
| but there. is always fair scattering
of women, some of whom occasionally
| step UP to. a window to buy ticket
with the same show of excitement that
similar transaction would involve at
| a racetrack. AS usual elsewhere, there
| is general hobnobbing about form and
weather conditions and the state of the
| track and great misgivingsttat the last
moment because other animals seem to
| have a chance.
/ have noticed during the last few
days that the women who patronize the
poolroon1 seem to average better in
results than do the men. Why this
| should be cannot venture to explain.
The women do not seem TO care much
! for the dope" and many of them pro-
coed without any reference to the adj
vice of the newspaper tipsters. Intui-
| ton is, perhaps, better than anything
| else in laying wager. Q str
| A woman's good luck goes: the rounds
| quickly IN the hotels. If Mrs. Smith,
Of Kankakee, has made SIS in the aft
ernoon the story goes from mouth to
mouth, and she receives g. shower of
congratulations, and Mrs. Zones, of
Kalamazoo, and Miss Brown, of Osh-
kosh, inquire anxiously how abe knew
which horse would win, and If she will
| give them tips for the morrow.
When the men win there isfless ex-
citement, and unless their wives are
present nobody Is liable tot knew-pos-
sibly not even the wives
| Across the room from the racing
| cards is line of gambling tables-two
for roulette and one each for faro.
Klondike, bookmakers' wheel and red
! and black. l have not yet seen faro
dealt, possibly because the percentage