The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-06
From the New York Sun.

T toii tHe NeW I Ork Sun.
 N TIE biggest poker game in this NY country is running in this city
 now. The reputed founder of the game is westerner, who has cut wide swath in Wall street and at the race tracks. He is a great poker player and otten takes shy at roulette and faro. Poker Is his game, however. and he end the Waldorf crowd" that surround him enjoy draw better than any other gare.
 The westerner and his friends used to have some pretty stiff sessons at the Waldorf-Astoria. It became known that these occasional parties were udgaty in- teresting and that large sums of money often changed hands. When this high play caused so much talk that it found its way into print, Proprietor Boldt is said to have requested that the games take place somewher else than in his hotel.
 Big poker games in the hotel ceased then. Canfeld's was open at that time and most of the Waldorf crowd went there when they wanted to gamble If they didn't want to play the wheel or ANtC et CoiiANib . they COuiu play DOkeT at any of a half dozen places devoted solely to that game.
 The nearest poker club to the Waldorf was the Petroleum Club. For several years that club occupied building at 40 West Thirty-third street This building has been torn down. The club moved up to Forty-hfth street, where 1t is now a neighbor of Honest John Kelly's. With this club gone the Waldorf crowd had no place near the hotel to play their favorite game. They mourned this fact. and the westerner said it ought to be remedied. He told his friend to wait awhile and see If something wouldn't turn up.
 Ten days ago the Waldorf crowd got tip that new club of poker players only was about to open in Thirty-second street, a few steps from Fifth avenue. They were told that there was to be no limit to the play but that only the right people would be welcome. The club opened q week ago last night and the stories of the big games are already making the professional gamblers jealous
 The club is incorporated and the men who frequent it have no fear of the police There is no place of it's kind open in this city at present that is better furnished The club occupies five story brown stone house, the best looking one on the block. The main entrance and the win dows have no iron bars to keen out in- truders. At night the house is brilliantly lighted, so much that it attracts atten- ton from the street There are fine lace curtains on the windows, but no heavy black shades. as most gambling houses have. The interior of the club is finished in white and gold and the servants wear livery.
 A Sun reporter inquired at the club last night for the man who is reputed to have originated the idea. The reporter was shown to a sitting room and gray haired man wearing a smoking jacket told him the westerner had not yet arrived at the club.
 Maybe he is not in town" said the gray haired man. If he is he will be over with a party of gentlemen who are coming from the Waldorf tonight"
 A poker game is the hardest kind of game for the police to get evidence against. By the time they got into the house all evidence of a game might dis appear Even if the police caught the gamesters redhanded they would be una ble to prove that chips represented mon ey. That is the reason the patrons of this new club don't anticipate any trouble from midnight raiders
 '.oh, wouldn't 1 like to be running that