Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-19
LeanderRiCh0rdS0n'S Letter

Special Correspondence.
a FEW YORK March l4.-Persons
Unfamiliar with the situation are
Nlistenlng for the explosion that IL
bound TO come sooner or later In
the Green Room club, a social organlza-
ton made up largely OF theatrical man
ayers and agents, Two or three times
there have been stories of heavy galnb-
ling In this club, partly among men
who can't afford to indulge In expensive
luxures. Some Of these men
have had the good luck to
win at critical moments when,
II the game had gone against them,
they could by no possibility have paid
their losses. One Of them, IN a recent
game OF stud poker where there was
no limit, was paying az high as $1,000,
to draw cards, when as a fact ne didn't
have $50 to HIS name. Yet the man
ager who lost all the money at that
particular sessi0n-and II was a very
large sum--settled his losses although
he must have known that some OF the
others In the game couldn't nave paid II
he had been the winner. There was a
good deal OF scandal in and out OF the
club following this incident, but II
doesn't seem TO have been productive
OF any permanent good, since the Green
Room now runs Il regular stud game
with a 5000 limit, The finish OF this
sort OF thing Is of course inevitable,
Gambling transactions of this magni-
tude are for mllllonaires and not for
persons who are compelled TO earn their
lvings. IL was this very club and this
very game that caused Il, Burke Scott
TO become a defauter and run away in
order TO avoid losing his liberty. II Is
entirely easy TO foresee similar hap
penings I'm the future unless the COVER
nors Of the Green Room club place u
firm and relentless taboo upon gam
ing for high stakes
A rumor Is current In New York, In
apparently authoritative circles, 10 the
effect that Joseph Letter, whose sensa-
tlonal wheat corner few years ago Is
still wildly remembered, IS To marry
Miss Amber Lawlord fascinating
member Of the company supporting
Wilton Lackaye IN THE Pit" at the
Lyric Theater one of Mr.. Letters an
te-nuptial gifts to the young lady was
n handsome private residence Just
across the road from the Waldorf-As-
tOrtR. At the time OF this presentation,
Mr.. Letters bosom friend, John w.
Gates, fired by the generosity Of his
younger townsman, remarked that he
would make q bunch Of money In Wall
street for his BRIDE to-be, In order that
she might support her household upon
becoming scale, Two or three days
later. according TO report, Miss Law
lords telephone rang brlskly and Mr.
Gates, at the other end OF the line, an
nounced that the sum of $4,000 had
been passed to her credit as the result
of a stock transaction In her behalf
The actress and friend repaired to
the banking house Of which Mr., Gates
Is the moving power and drew the
cash, transferring II 20 another deposit
tory. II was all so beautiful and easy
that Miss Lawlord was moved few
days later TO call up Mr.. Gates and
ask him for further tips-a process
which was repeated two or three times
until the Chicago plunger became afh-
icted with n severe attack Of the NAL.
ady technically known as cold feet
still Miss Lawlord will not suffer for
the necessities Of life, inasmuch as her
prospective bridegroom has enough
money left to keep the wolf from the
door
The circus Is coming with the end
Of the present week. and Mr.. "Tody'
Hamilton In a mad revel Of adjectlves
Is making the fact known IN advance
Announcing as one OF the features OF
the show reproduction OF the Indian
Durbar, Mr., Hamilton coyly remarks
that II will be "just az It took place I'm
Delhi, India, before the viceroy and
ylcerene, with fahulously rich oriental
costumes, dazzling material, bewilder-
Ing features and glorious and transcen-
dentally beautiful concomtants Of men.
women, children, animals, floats, lnsIg-
MIA, regalia and paraphernnla." As a
phrase 1uggler Mr.. Hamilton Is entire.
~ Without competitors, But II must