The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-01
Swell Gambling in New York
patrons stand Absolutely No Chance Against the iut-
oIcity OF Tricks Practised to Get Their Money.

IA tho world could exist and nay sree-or.
90 per cent Of It's winnings from eertsin
patrons, the house s.anlipr M ~ thc
iosses. rhis In itself shows Ma. the own.
u Ene mouse NSurc that they have more
thar 50 per cent IN their favor =, hI,,tn
WIN IN honestly dealt faro the percent.
re Is only about per cent 10 favor Of mo
mouse and between and per cent on
is said the brace faro dealers In Can.
uelu get 30 per cent OF whatever thev
win ron the players who are pltted
uFo.uet tnen. u by any accident win
Mns Is made Garfield stands all Of n.
lhese brace dealers never work In the
iarge general room OF Candeld's They
g gea. N none one Of the small rooms on an upper
want TO gamble without any limit and In
privacy. ""N ~
1t was in one Of these small rooms that
keginald Vanderbilt and HIS friends made
tnelr Famous play late ono night Lawrence
Waterbury and Payne whitney are said To-
nave been In the party which numbered
more than half a dozen.
One man IN that party lost that night q
sum o shade under $4,000. This loss has
been credited TO young Vanderbilt but rs
a mater t, OF fact his loss was but tribe
pid thls crowd Of young men get
man who has been in one Of Canheld's
small rooms with n crowd Of rich young
men, In telling Of the experience, said;
THE whole crowd had been drinking
earlier in the night Nobody was drunk,
but there wasn't man In the party who
was his normal self We played roulette.
Some took 5000 stacks OF chips at a time
Not one Of US counted our chips. They
may have been $40, $50 or $50 short When
one made a big winning on a number he
ItHufy f, ,hg
10 him. He took the stacks without cues
ton Ibc@c stacks could easily huNe been
NlVp cor more short When 70 came TO set
Hing mp those who had lost heavily had
only a hazy idea Of what they owed II
500, 5000 or $500 we're added 70 their bills
the total was paid without question. None
OF US watched the ball carefully 10 see
whore Z landed after each roll. We trusted
the roller ana never questioned the win
ming number that he called, out 1t may
have been the correct one aud It may not.
We simply relied upon his honesty"
This shows how easy Il IS to swindle play
ers IN a gambling house. Crooked paiauhcr
MALTA Is not necessary unless the player Is
scrupulously careful and has an eye trained
60 watch every move in the game.
But crooked parnphernalia is used and
MI jerome alleges there Is not a large
gambling house in the city which has not q
couple Of brace faro dealers and crooked
/ boxes. lie has collection u crooked boxes
In his Office. Most Of them are simply
lifted With lever In the lower left haEt
corner on the inner side. Pressure on Till
( lever wtdens the slot, which 10 supposed
to admit the passage Of only one card, *
that two cards can be slipped out at th'
( same time.
There Is one box whose mystery has neve
been fully solved. II has two inner Flat
forms Instead Of one The apcSCjre un ttt
! iop rs a sixteenth Of an inch wider at th'
: lower end than the upper This reveals m,
marking in the margin Of the card aut
shows the dealer the following card aftc
the top one has been moved slightly 9'hh
ffe tod fa.s NHsfs ian
ing the slot. The second platform Is be
into the box after they have been sqrrepti
/ Keeping cases will not have their sus
piCions aroused.
! There Is comparatively small need OF
/ crooked roulette wheels the opportunities
| for swndlng being so many without thci
use, as shown In the statement OF tae youn.
man quoted above. But there are crooked
| wheels
One wheel was captured in raid SOM
time ago In Brotherton's place on IVES
! Forty-seCond street. which was lifted Will
q thin rubber pipe, which connected with
| rubber ball set In the floor Jnder the fee
Of the dealer BY pressing, upon the Lal
| the pipe to cause the wheel TO evolve
| trihe more If the dealer saw that the marlj
| was going to fall into a section OF nunlher
! that were heavily played.
! Another doctorcd wheel Is fitted with
! tiny electric wire. II the ball Is about &
| fall into q heavily played number the cur
| rent Is turned ON and the ball jumps aloni
| u few Inches into another compartment.
| II Garfield depended upon ordinary PLAY
and players 10 is claimed that the eT
pcnses Of his establishment would NOR,
| than ent mp the profits His place an'
! others OF the same style, Ike that AT No
IS West 1h,rty-third street must have
what is called sucker money, that is, tn,
play Of a rich man, who wants the llmi
taken on so that large sums can b
| wagered.
| A player of this kind is always accommo
dated with private room and special deal
ers These, II is alleged are invariably
bruce dealers. single rich haul Of suck
err money pays expenses for six or MIN
| months.
Aside from protection money TO polio