The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-24
FLOATING POOLROOM MISSING.
CENTS WHO BOUGHT 500 ~ TICK-
ETSTOLDTOC CONE BACKTO-DAY.

the Fishing BankSl" ven the NeWs-
boys-Several Plain Clothes Men SPOT
tins Faces IN the Crowd At the Battery.
No floating poolroom showed up at the
Battery yesterday noon for trip outside
Jurisdiction. Five hundred men who had
bought tickets for the trip at 81 each ex-
pressed disappointment.
The young man with the abbreviated Hight
box coat, checkered trousers, enameiled
shoes, sparkling shirt stud and low crowned
derby bat was there rubbing elbows with
the rum nosed veteran Of twenty seasons,
whose coat was frayed and whose trousers
we're baggy at the knees. Many we're
poolroom touts. and not few we're former
proprietors OF racetrack banks In this town
Who had gone down and out in the reform
wave
Most Of the e1cursionists appeared to have
plenty Of ready money. They had been
piling IL up for the opening Of the Eastern
season. As one Of them put 1t, You
wouldn't think from the general appearance
Of the bunch that they had enough In their
jeans 10 pay their fare, but II II came to-a
showdown they'd make Wall Street look
sick II was the opening day at Ben
ninEs; the weather was fne; there was q
promise that they would be able 10 plunge
TO the limit unmolested by the law.
This was along about II o'clock. At that
time men who said they represented Win
ter & Dow the firm, unknown 70 the d.
rpctory, who are described as managers
Of the excursion, were walking about among
the gamblers assuring them that the steam
boat Mount Desert which had been char
tered for the trip, would be at the pier at
70 o'clock sharp and that everything would
he very much TO the merry A repre-
sentative from a wireless telegraph com
pany also was on hand with assurances OF
the perfection Of the service.
In and out among the gamblers stalked
Sergt Dondregan Of the Church street
station. a six footer in uniform.
Three or four plain clothes men from the
Central ONCE in Mulberry street also were
at the pier looking the crowd over. They
saw several familiar faces. They had
bought tickets for the excursion and were
going along
When - o'clock came and there was no
siEn OF the Mount Desert the crowd began
TO Rrumble. They wanted 70 know, as a
good many others have wanted TO know,
who was really running the picnic and
where the managers could be found. Ihey
might be all right, but winter a DOW
had q rather indefinite sound about II.
They wanted somebody to show them.
And, anyway. where was the man who had
collected the dollars?
Things have come to a pretty pass,
said one grumbler, when respectable
racetrack player has got TO SIT on batteTy
bench looking at the sad sea waves ana
gamble in his mind as 70 whether he Is
Going 10 be able 70 get bet down OF not"
For that matter, though, there was an
opportunity 20 turn few honest dollars
eyen A. the Battery Park, for when things
began to look hopeless after u o'clock
odds Of 2 TO 1 were offered that the Mount
Desert wouldn't show up. Some who
couldn't hold OF any longer snapped up
these offers. The odds had gone az high
as 5 20 !, when rosy checked young man
who refused 10 tell his name, mounted
fenoe rail and announced that the trip was
'sll Cd for the day.
Gents, said he. we regret the cir
oumstance exceedingly. II pains us. But
the tickets will be good tomorrow. The
Mount Desert will leave at this pier at II
O'Clock. That is certain, and, depend on
Il, gents everything will be rosy
He supplemented his statement later by
saying that there had been misunder-
said, discovered late yesterday afternoon
that he would have to get deep sea per,
nit This had been granted by the local
board Of steamboat inspectors, but when
the owner got around TO telephone the
captain OF the boat, which was tied up at
PORT Richmond, Staten Island. it was too
late The owner thought the Mount
Desert bad sufficient coal in her bunkere
for the trip, but az Il turned out she had
only enough 20 get as far "a Communipaw
for fresh load, and that was what had put
the picnic" on the bum for the day.
Were left between Jerome and the deep
~. commented one Of the gamblers.
As the players left Battery Park the
newsboyp. who had been wise all along,
but wouldn't say a word as long as there
was q chance that they might be taken on
the trip. began 10 cheer up.
Suckers, deep sea suckers, fresh from
the fishing banks, they yelled.
The boat IL said 20 have permit for
900 passengers. The license Ia 70 90 to
The fishing hanks.
Her owner saws that the ship was not
chartered 70 he used with his knowledge
a. a floating poolroom. and that under the
circumstances he doubts II he will allow
her to take out any passengers. He is
having the question looked up from legal
standpoint. he says, and II he has the power
10 keep them on no poolroom men or their
clients will get aboard
scANDAIIzED TIIOTs.
The New York Sandy Hook Pilots Asso-
citation which has rooms AZ n State street.
is for the most part composed OF sturdy
devout men. who neither look upon the
UnIFet NItu lINg run lAbl NNh'As VI ApBN
sheets SO il YVES somewhat OF a shock
70 the association whom = voice asked over
the telephone yesterday morning what
odds was going 10 be given on the Bennings
horses The member who answered the
phone told the voice there must be some
mistake, the association never gave odds
on ANYTHING OF bet at all The voice wanted
10 know N this wasn't Beebe's ofhce-
Beebe. the man whose boat was going out
on the deep sea a. floating poolroom
The man who answered the telephone told
the owner OF the voice rather ourtly that
Mr. Beebe belonged 20 the association, but
that the associations rooms wasn't his
place Of business. He informed the voice
further that 80 far as he knew Mr. Beebe
had nothing 30 do with the business end Of
the proposed excursion.
Later In the day another man called up
and another voice announced that he had
lust sent down $40 with a messenger. $40
10 be PLAYED on Buttons each way. He
also was disillusionized and the $40 never
got 10 the associations rooms. BY this
time the members Of the association we're
pretty hot.
SUICIDE OVER OSLER.