The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-29
JEROME AFTER THB GAMBLERS
70 ASK TEE CITY FOR SlOO, 900
FOR A NEW CRUSADE.

Houses Opened % Usual when the 0heeps
head Races Ended and He Hes Been
keeping Tabs On Them Out OF HIS Own
Pocket-Canflesdps sucoesssr On LIST
District Attorney Jerome announced
yesterday that he 10 about to ask tho Board
Of Estimate for contingent fund Of ol0o, 00(
to be used In getting after the gamblers
He has no money left out Of the contingent
fund Of $4,000 awarded to him this year
upon his request for $4,000.
Mr.. Jerome said that he knew many
gambling houses arc running quietly. The
proprietors. he said, are men who have
been running gambling houses in New
York for many years. Some Of them have
simply changed locations. None Of them
10 Of the class known a Western gamblers.
4 have been receiving weekly reports
"but have no money left to get after them,
I have been paying out Of my own pocket
the expenses Of the investigators who 70
port to me. hope to get it back some day,
I shall ask the Board Of Estimate for )100, 900
and l need 1t all. II I'd have got the Us 900
I asked for last year instead Of the $50 900
that was awarded could be doing some
thing now. Twill have to wait until January
for the next appropriation.
submitted to Mr.. Jerome is known - the
Gilsey Club. 1t Ia In West Thirty first
street. IL run by Stony and Harry Mel
vile and is In five story brownstone front
house which is one Of tho handsomest In
the block. In the basement IL q barber shop.
A dressmaking establishment occupies the
parlor floor and the hallway leads to the
gambling rooms on the second floor. A
small steel door at the head Of the stairs
gives admission to the gambling parlors.
layout and a game Of red and black.
This club closed ON Friday for few
days. It was told to close" Who told
it, has not been disclosed. During Capt.
O'Connor's tenure Of Office In the Tender
loin the place was open. 1t Is known to
professionals as 3shoe string house.
Twenty chips sell for 81.
At the District Attorneys Office It was
said yesterday that the local gambling
season opened as usual this year with the
last day Of racing at Sheepshead Bay.
John kelly's Forty-frst street place opened
then with faro, roulette and pools, with
track and downtown connections for matt
nee performances. Kelly shut down, how
ever, on Sept. 2S-in accordance with
colt L Jolly opened in West Forty-fourth
street early in September with roulette
and faro They shut down on Sept. 70
and are closed now.
Sol Lchtenstein's Victoria Club, at Is West
Thirty-second street, has been closed for six
months. A few bookmakers fix prices
there every night and have q quiet game
among themselves. The West Thirty;
third street house which Frank Farrell
says he does not own has not been open
for some time It is said that 1t will open
on Oct. IL. according to present expecta-
tions.
John Days Twenty-ninth street house
has been open of and on to professionals
and big play. .Kenny's' Forty-tbird
street house and Pug Leyy's place in
Fort y,,fourth street closed last Saturday
The biggest and best patronized game
in New York has been run at l43 West
Forty-third street by Davy johnson and
Sam Emery in conjunction. The place
is known as -Johnsons" and inherited
the Garfield patronage. This place has
done more business during the last few
It IS usually lighted So that i can be seen
from the street. The place closed on Satur-
day night for an indefinite time.
Capt Burfeind is the new Tenderloin
captain, Capt. Handy is in West Forty
seventh street.
Up to Saturday many places were open;
to-day most Of them are closed The
District Attorney does not believe, he
says, that a gambling combination" is
in existence now. Information concerning
gambling in the Tenderloin reaches the
District Attorneys Office before 1t is six
hours old. the District Attorneys ennis
saries say.