The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-23

one about the table puts $5 in a pool and they make their 5guesses. Then some one counts the straws. The one who comes nearest the correct number takes the pool. s--4.... >s s Y,
 Some one pulls out a bill to pay a check '-''' 'A-.*...
 Call it odd for a fiver!" is the cry.
 Take you!n returns the man with the bill. They look carefully at the number in the upper right hand corner of the bill. If it is even the one who offered to bet takes out his roll and hands over $5 bill; if the number is even | the other man surrenders the bill
 So goes the time between races and dinner, and the chorus is stil Sara , toga's favorite:
 Bet you!" Match you!" Bet" l l"Match!"
 After dinner, when the lights flash up and the orchestras begin their tunes one really sees that "the lid" does not exist in Saratoga. The big hotels are framed in gambling houses, running wide open, some with silent "barkers" outside their doors to direct the ur- wise. There is almost any game one likes and there should be no trouble finding place which will set the right sort of limit Indeed, there are one or two houses which are reported to have no roofs, which means that one can bet as much as one likes on the turn of a card or theroll of the wheel.
 The gambling palace of this Ameri- can edition of Monte Carlo is Can- fields, and there most Of the heavy playing may be found. The biggest and most beautiful room in the estab- lishment is the restaurant to which women and children are admitted. Eleven o'clock is the hour when the lrestaurant begins to fill with well dressed visitors. No questions are ask ed the men who enter if they wear evening clothes and look as if they had money to spend. If you are not dressed up the man at the door must know you, or you are debarred,
 The ''ball room," as the gambling de- partnent of the palace is known, is finished in whit, heavily carpeted in red and brilliantly lighted from many concealed electric bulbs and others which gleam from gilded chandeliers The tables are against the wall, six or seven of them being for roulette and 1.-two or three for faro. One can play a mo limit game at Canfeld's, but not in this room, as glass signs hung about the wall tell the players.
 On a single number, which pays 35 5- Icolors, or on odd or even, which pay even money, $S50 may be played. Ii Ione's money does not burn rapidly enough on the basis one had better ask for a private room or "sky parlor, iwhere there is no limit. .. ,l Women can come to the entrance ot this room and look in on the play, bu only men are permitted about the tables. Two or three hundred car lplay comfortably at time, but there never are that many. Most of the players are serious and dignified abou Iit They place their money on tn
 table with care and decision, and the, await the issue calmly.
 Saratogans are telling just now of youth of IS who went to the place witt his uncle, who is well-known sport. The boy had never seen roulett wheel. The part were dining in tn restaurant when the uncle too out hundred dollar bill and said to the boy GO in and try your luck"
 In ten minutes the boy was bac , with a long face.
 What did you win??" asked the un l Icle. ..... ... .... ..s