The sun., 1904-12-06
poOIROOM MNEWSBYTELEPHONE
MORSE INSTRUMENTS TICKING 1T
arr OVER POSTAL WIRES.
THE Ing enIous scheme by Which the Rooms
Now Get Racing Results and the Tele-
graph Company. with No Direct Con.
nection with Lawbreakers, Helps.

THE Ing enlOus Scnelhe Oy Wtuch tho Roohib
Now Get Racing Results and the Tele-
graph Company. With No Direct Con.
nection with Lawbreakers, Helps.
Ever since Il, directors Of the Western
Union Telegra n Company decreed last
summer that the leasing Of wires to pool
rooms must stop, poolroom keepers have
had to get their news from the tracks by
a roundabout route, the turnings and
twistings OF which are seldom discussed,
even in the inner circles. This winter,
however. the poolrooms, east. west, north
and south, will get their racing reports
nv about as direct routes as possible, in
mart, at least through the agencies OF
the Postal Telegraph Company.
BY the arrangements which have been
made the company will have no direct
business relations with the poolroom
ksepers but all the same the racing reports
from most of the winter tracks will pass
over Postal wires before they get to the
poolrooms.
The scheme of news transmission is
ingenious. From now until early in April
there will be racing on six tracks In the
South and West. Just now there is racing
at the Oakland course in San Francisco,
at Ascot Park in Los Angeles, and at New
Orleans When the Oakland meeting is
over the meeting at 1ngeside, near there,
will begin Between January and April
there will be two meetings at Hot Springs,
Ark, one at the Oakla IN track and tine
other at Essex Park, At all but two Of these
meetings the Posta Telegraph Company
will pay highly IN ,ortant part in dis
semnating the news, but, so it was said
Yesterday, with never a direct connection
with poolroom or racetrack.
OF the three tracks at which meetings
are now being run off, the Postal takes care
Of the news at two, the Oakland track and
the track at New Orleans. The Western
Union has its wires to Los Angeles track,
but any racing reports for the use Of pool
rooms must be filed there like all other
commercial messages. The New Orleans
Union company some time after the close
Of its meeting last season.
One John Paine who was telegraph
operator years ago and who now runs two
poorooms at Covington, KY, just across
IRON Gin cinnati, heard about the break
between the Crescent City Jockey Club
and the Western Union and at once got
into communication with President Bush
of the New Orleans association. Paine
tod Bush that he'd like to bid for the
COltldJl lHt NSsttIn SthoH ptopo hdh'
"What'h you do with it after you get it2'
Bush asked. Have you telegraph conf
pany concealed about you anywhere"
Never mind about tnat,' Paine replied.
If you'll give mo the exclusive privi-
lege of the racing news at your track for
of the deal"
-whatll you give for it?" Bush in
quired.
-Four hundred dollars a day was the
reported reply.
sary papers were drawy.
Paine had had for. Some time an Office
in Cincinnati. There were some persons
who said that the 6ffice was a sort Of centre
for the receipts ~and distribution OF racing
news to Paine's own followers and to a
few others to whom he said he sold his own
reporit.
from Bush, il WIS announced that the sole
distribution of news from the New Orleans
track this winter would be the Cumberland
Telephone Company, local telephone
corporation.
Some persons, who may have been pool
room proprietors, wondered how racing
reports were going to be telephoned from
New Orleans all over the country. They
didn't know, perhaps, that, il rugged at
either end with telegraph instead OF tele-
phone apparatus, telephone wires will carry
messages that are licked OF quite as well
as those which are talked on.
When the New Orleans meeting opened,
land Telephone Company had plenty OF
telegraph operators at the track. There
was sort of general understanding that
many of the operators had been employed,
ZIP to few days before, by the Postal
people. The wires Of the telephone com
p NY it was said yesterday, ran from the
track TO point in the air a short distance
outside. where they made connection with
the Postal wires, which carried the reports
to Paine's Office in Cincinnati, where one
couldn't bet on horserace any more than
he could at Methodist prayer meeting.
Rut from Paine's Office the racing news
was transmitted by telephone to nearby
poolrooms, or sent over Postal wires to
other offices OF Paines in different parts
OF the country and disseminated from
there by telephone. 1t is said that Paine's
New York headquarters is in West Forty
second street. not million miles from
No. l2i, where the Hon. Peter De Lacy,
according to the directory, runs brokers'
Office.
1t was said yesterday that the Paine tele-
arrangement at the Oakland track and will
one have at lngl eside and also at the Hot
Springs track when it opens. The under
standing among the poolroom men Is that
the Western Union company will have the
other Hot Springs track. A Sun reporter
asked the source Of this information how
the New York poolrooms, for instance,
were getting the betting, entries names Of
Jockeys and reports OF the races at the
los Angeles track, where there are only
Western Union wires.
Don't ask me-" was the answer go
ASK the Western Union people. We're
getting what we wantAal right; and we're
getting It by telegraph right into the rooms.
we couldn't well do business any other
way guess though, that those wires
We're We're originally intended for talking wires.
Where they get married to the telegraph
wires don't know. and maybe the Western
lhlon folks don't know but there's splice
somewhere, all right"
AT the Office OF Vioe-President Bradley
OF the Postal Telegraph Company, in the
commercial Cable building il was said
Yesterday that he was out Of town, some-
where in the West, and it was not known
when he would return. He had been,
" was said, as far west as California