The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-15
SWELL GAMBLING
 IN NEW YORK
Rich Patrons Stand Absolutely No Chance Against the Multipi- city of Tricks PraCticed
 to Get Their Money.
New York World.

New York World.
 Without excepting a single place there is not a gambling house in the city of New York wI4ere croC4,e1 gaIiies are not dealt"
 This from William Travers Jerome who has devoted the best part of the past two years of his life to studying. investi- gatlng and combating the gambling in- dustry, will furnish food for reflection to the hundred thousand men living Tn and around the city who have seen their good money pass into the handsome drawers of faro and roulette tables.
 This statement that not single gannp- ling house exists in the city of New York where the player can rely upon an honest deal means much when these facts are rememoered:
 First-That New York city Is the great est gambling center in the world. Monte Carlo and other European resorts not excepted.
 second-That Individual sums have been lost In more than one of the New York places that exceed by six and eight times the bank rolls that could be won at Monte Carlo or Ostend.
 Third-That the expenses of maintain ing the ten largest gambling houses in this city, irrespective of losses they may suffer, aggregates 5000 a night, or s3O,- 900 a week, or $1,560,000 a year. That stupendous sum must be taken in before the proprietors have any profits. The proprietor of each one of these places Is enormously right.
 These ten places are supported by men of social position. of wealth. Poor men or men of moderate means are not want cd as patrons. The man who goes in one of them willing to lose $20. $50 or $40 for the chance of winning much larger sum is not sought after by any of these ten places. The man who pays his losses with a check Is wanted. That man does not limit himself to the amount of ready cash he may have about him. He gives full swing to his gambling fe- yer, keeps only an approximate account of his losses, and only realizes what he has done when the polite manager names the total sum he owes the house. Famous stories are tod of poker games on the Mississippi steamboats in the old days, and of immense poker games in Washington. Books have been written of losses and winnings at Monte Carlo. But as a matter of plain fact at no time and at no place have such stupendous sums been risked as in the principal uOuSeS III tuls City' 1HSSe dtS. Richard Canfield's in East Forty fourth Street.
 William T. Burbridge's in West Thir- | ty-third Street. John Kelly's in West Forty-first Street. John Dalys in West Hwenty-fourth Street
 Sol. Llchenstein's in West Thirty first | Street.
 Tim Kenney's in. west Thirty-eighth | Street.
 Lou Dudlum's in West Fortieth Street. | Shang Draper's in West Twenty eighth | Street.
 Lou Bett's in West Thirty-fourth Street. There are scores of other places, some
 of them where play Is high, but the above named ten are those which are rich men | of the city frequent-careful, shrewd bus
 mess men, who have heaped up large l fortunes by their sagacity and superiority | over oi.er business men. Yet these same | men who would not expend $100 in their | regular business without knowing abso- lutely and In detail everything about where the money Is going, the cause of the expenditure, and who would not have dealings with another business man un- less assured of his integrity, have passed tens of thousand over the green cloth in night without ever suspecting they were swindled. They relied simply on the fairy land fiction that certain big pro- fessional gamblers are honest.
 Who are the big losers in the gamb- ling houses of New York?
 First comes Jonn w. Gates, the shrewd- est business man probably in the coun- try, the man who made August Belmont look like a small boy in the science cf finance, and had J. Pierpont Morgan and other pillars of Wall Street worried to death. He lost $l1O.OO9 In one sitting in Canields. Did MT. Gates get a square. fair deal?
 District Attorney Jerome thinks not. Gates plays faro. Garfield has the two cleverest brace faro dealers in the world in his house, MT. Jerome says; men who are so adept that they can fool shrewd professional gamblers; men who do not work for $lO or $2O a night, out demand and receive a percentage of the victim losses.
 This percentage Is not known, but the