The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-27

from the hand of the best of the mod ern painters. Scattered through the other rooms of the club are paintings
 that evidence the fact that MT. Can field is a connolsseur of other forms of art than ot separating the Venturesome from their bundles of money.
 Adjoining the gaming room to the west Is the mems cafe with a buffet for their accommodation. Three arched doorways connect the cafe with the gam ing room. To the north of the latter is the womens restaurant and there Is no more magnificent apartment of the kind in the world. It Is nearly 100 feet long , and half as wide. There are sixty tables with accommodations for nearly threo hundred persons. The decorations of the room are in white and gold. Great crys- tai chandeliers flood the apartment with soft light, while nesting in the frescos are tiny tinted electric bulbs. The ser and silver cutlery, and represents q for tune. The linen and other appointments l, are of the richest quality, the attendance competent.
 In the evening the dining room fur nishes show as brilliant as can be seen anywhere In the world. A great many fashionable people who do not yen ture Into the gaming room dine and sup there-the Whitneys, the Mackays, the Belmonts appear to enjoy not only the menu presented for their entertainment but the democracy of their surroundings.
 Richard Garfield looks the soul of benevolence To see the calm classic face of "his reverence" as Whistler used to call him, when he strolls with a few chosen friends about the paths of his Italian garden where marble statues and gleamng fountains shine through the shrubbery, a stranger would pro- nounce him great public benefactor- and so he is, the villagers of Sartoga say. There are those who nightly assemble at Canfields hospitable boards who discuss on the quet-never, of course, in hearing of their well-bred host-the question of whether or not the curly Richard is not taking rather risky chances in running his place this season. If things go as they may go, and Sartago Is purged against it's own wish, 1t may be necessary to find q scapegoat. and what better one could be found than Garfield? To con yict Garfield would satisfy outside senti- ment, and other gamblers here would not be loath to see him offered up if some one had to be sacrificed.
 The biggest play has not been in Can fields place. but at the bridge Whist Club-for every gambling house Is called club. Joe ullman and his partner, Maclsin, who have the reputation among professionals of being Square" gam blers, have fitted up q place almost as fine as Mir. canfelds. though on n smaller scale. The big players who yearn for mo limit" game go there, or to the Manhattan. which has the handsomest gambling room probably in the world
 The play at these two house. has been very great Bridge whist has quite a vogue at Ullman & Mackin's. The game is played by some of the experts at sl0 point. and one New York merchant who sat in with Davy Johnson and Alex Shields the other night got rid of A,5OO in three hours play.
 The gaming houses keep no regular hours. There is some activity in the morning. before the races little In the afternoon between o'clock and dinner. but the lid really comes off after midnight when the lake crowds come back after a good dinner. Then all of the placos--Can- fields, and the other establishments of the first rnnlo: those of the second. where the "pkers" (small players) frequent, and the lowest and cheapest, where the negro walters sduander the tips they col lect in the daytlme-are busy