Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-03-09

man. who was removed from the dis
trict attorneyship by President Roose-
welt. is slated TO be III .riered first.
WASHINGTON. d. c., March G.
II is understood here that Chief Jus
tice Fuller Is to retire from the Su-
preme court bench within a year, on
account of ill-health. 1t is said that
the president will nominate William
H. Taft, now governor of the Philip
pines. as his successor.
CHICAGO, Ill. March 6.--Numerous
shortages in every line because of the
gambling mania have startled business
men who are compelled to intrust
their funds to keeping of employees
whom they consider responsible. EN-
/ bezzlements have been frequent. Pr1-
vate detective agencies have traced
J trusted employees throughout the
country in an effort to capture them
when deficits have been discovered
] Surety companies have protested
against the prevalence of gambling
among clerks whose bonds they fur
nish.
! In scores of instances where the
companies have made good the loss OF
I the shortages never We're made pub
! lie because of the families of the
4 Young men whose amounts were found
| to be short
Nor has the gambling stopped with
the young men. 1t has entered the
/ homes of the rich and poor alike.
| Wealthy parents have learned that
their sons have lost large sums in
4 horse racing or gambling of other
kinds. Families have been deprived
of the necessaries of life because OF
the weakness of the parents-some-
/ times in the husband, sometimes in
the wife.
The charitable societies have felt
the effects of the debasing mania in
the demands that are made upon
them for assistance. Usually it is as
cribed to some other reason, but an
officer of the Salvation Army who is
close to the people and who knows
their needs and the causes of their
poverty is responsible for the state
ment that in many instances the appli-
cations to the agencies may be traced
to the frailty of one of the parents
when tempted by the desire to take a
! NubIl cut " liil'S w ohihp''AS+
The youth of the city are infected
hy the craze in some form. They in
vest their small savings in all sorts
of gambling from the cents for pol
icy ticket paid by a newsboy or boot
black to the 81 ticket on the races
put UP by clerk employed on small
salary Everywhere there is the same
desire to get rich quick So great
has become the risk in giving bonds
for the young men that the surety com
panies have no hesitancy in sounding
warning against the gambling evil.
They have found it difficult to keep
watch upon the young men whose po'
sitions are secured by bonds furnish
ed through the guaranty companies.
"It used to be possible" said Secre'
tary John r. Pruyn of the Guaranty
Company of North America. for us
to have some knowledge of the move
ments of the young men whose bonds
NC IufuISn. unuer tue nvw SYSTEM
We cannot commissioner or solici
tor can enter a banking house and
take money from a clerk right under
the eye of the cashier or other officers
Of t"e institution without their being
aware of the object of his visit In
this way we are unable to tell any.
thing about the affairs of the young
men until a shortage is discovered"
AS rule the risks guarantee com
panies run are greater and the num-
her of losses are more frequent We
have been unable to form a satisfac-
tory estimate OF the actual number OF
shortages due to gambling. but they
are undoubtedly numerous"
Pere l.. Wickes, special agent for
the Fidelity and Deposit company of
; Maryland was more specific in refer.
ence to the losses due to the gambling
craze.
The risks young men will take for
the sake of satisfying their desire to
gamble are more noticeable" he said
We have found that the handbook
system has affected us materially 1t
is easy to place a bet, and when the
men come to the clerk or employe, in
! whatever capacity he may be serving,
| he thinks only of the possibility of
| winning a large sum, for a small in
Nestment He does not stop to think
! that the other fellows are not in the
! business for their health and that the
chances of his making anything are
! so slim that they hardly are to be con
/ sidered
! In our business the number of
! defalcatiOns has increased. One fre-
| quently reads of shortage that must
! be made good by guaranty company,
( but for every one that gets into the
| papers or falls under the public eye
J there are twelve OF which the public
: hears nothing 1t was bad enough
when men who wished to bet were
compelled TO go to the race tracks.
but now, when anyone who desires to
risk his money can step into an Office
on his way to lunch or have someone
telephone his bet to the bookmaker,
the possibilities Of young men getting
/ into debt through gambling have in
creased materially"
Another representative of a bonding
company said that his company had
found ii necessary to make formal
protest to certain employers in the
city against the gambling that young
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