The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-12

ny SEnlIe Wnlcn spread over the race 0I the imitation of Uncle Sam. How long has Phil Daly's been closed?"
 T was in the fatal raid which ended its career.' was the answer. "So l ought to know. It was exactly one ytar tonight to the minute" and as he spoke he pointed to the clock at the ather end of the corridor. Its hands were outstretched. It was 1925 o'clock.
 Tt was on July B, 1902" said the man with the dreamy eyes. The raid was led by the sheriff of Monmouth county, g. lot of other county officers and seven New York detectives. AL | though there were six gambling houses I going at full blast that memorable night they only bothered Phil Daly's. ''
 The smile on the face of Uncle Sam's parody grew more melancholy as the speaker added:
 Here's the reason. As I said. the combination of a light -brained boy and a No. 13 spot started all the trouble. The lad was the son of prominent railroad president He had been in the custom of going to the Branch every Saturday night, with several college friends, and try his luck at Phil Da- Tvs. was there myself one night when this young fellow came in, and sitting down at a roulette wheel he | asked for five thousand dollars worth and finally Iheard him turn to his com | panions and say:
 T have dropped one hundred thou sand dollars in this place in the last 1 four weeks. Now am going to risk | one thousand dollars in bunch on the No. 13 spot, and if lose I'll quit the game for the rest of my life. He searched his clothes, but could rake out l only two hundred dollars. You can give me an l. Q. U. for the other eight hundred dollars, said the dealer. We | don't do that very often but we know you are all right. The boy took the loan and lost, As the son could not make good, the I. o. U. was sent to the father. The father had heard that Jus tice Fort of Newark was contemplating closing up the Branch clubs, and he wrote the justice and told him about his son. The justice singled out Daly's 4OLsElitC ldl1s cio Sc1i0y il " WctS llAC only one he bothered that fatal night And was the place run wide open be- fore the raid, just as I was telling you they run them out west where I come from?" asked the drummer, as he lit fresh cigar
 As wide open as the sea beach, was the reply. Ten minutes before Justice
  in the Branch could have walked into. Phil Daly's and watched the play at the six roulette tables, the two faro ta- bles and the one grand hazard table, which all were in full operation. re- member seeing, for example, at one faro table. a high municipal official of New York city. who is now being boomed for mayor by some of his more ardent ad- mixers, sit cheek by jowl with the head of one of the oldest banking houses in Wall street. Only one chair away was the leading comedian of a Broadway theater. The banker had been losing heavily; but although his losses had run up well into the thousands, they were only drops in the bucket compared with his regular expenses of keeping city house, a country house and steam yacht. The politician had won seven times his annual salary when he staked all his winnings on queen. The banker placed fifty thousand dol- lars on a king, and the Broadway CO., median, with the remark that his wages represented the box receipts of his first weeks performance. also put twelve thousand dollars on the king.
 Quite a family" said the politician, as he glanced at the. king and queen.
 'The dealer removed the top card, which was an ace, and which, as you queen and the third king. I never saw such a play in my life before, and never expect to again. We'll, the deal- CT, of course, took the thirty-fve thou sand dollar bet on the queen, because all bets on the second card belong to the house, and lie paid the banker and the comedian. The city official was just getting up from his chair with the re- mark that he was through with the game, when the comedian took him by the buttonhole and said:
 You were just saying 1t was quite family. Accidents will happen in the best of families, you know
 The smile on the face of the straight backed old man was still lingering. when the drummer asked:
 How long has this Phil Daly club. been in existence, anyway?'
 Tt was built way back in the severn ties by John Hoey, " said the stout indi- vidual Later Chamberlain made it famous for the wealthy men who fre-4 auented it's tables About twenty-five years ago Phil Daily came down from Philadelphia, bought the property and named it the Pennsylvania club. It. was the pioneer gambling house on this part of the seashore. Some of the big. gest games in history were played there The other clubs came in after ward. have heard tell how three Wall street firms had to go into bank ruptcy as the result of one nights play there. One of our best known restau- rateurs in upper Broadway started in business with the money he won one Sunday evening at faro in this club. house Many suicide, too, has been caused by it's roulette wheels. When there was, racing in Monmouth county the proprietor of the place had often to turn players away. He built those long wings which extend back from Ocean avenue, and still he did not have