The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-07


in Holland. 1t was granted.
The Dutch themselves care little
about betting, especially on races; and
even racing itself has little hold upon
them the number Of horse races DUR
ing year being comparatively few. It
is not remarkable, therefore, that these
new betting offices were looked at as
kance by the Dutch, and even NOW, az
ter they have been transacting affairs
for thirteen years, the natives know
| little of the business that goes on.
Altogether there are some twelve
firms in Middelburg and Flushing. One
man has ninety people employed in his
office, but this business is not con-
| fined to horse racing. One of the first
betting agents to start work in Hol-
land now employs from thirty to forty
people purely for racing bets, and he
has his own printing offices, which in
the season are glutted with work.
The staff commences work at about
nine o'clock in the morning, and often
continues until after ten at night, the
reason for this being the arrival Of the
| e vening mail at about p. m. This
mail contains the thousands Of letters
and papers arriving at Flushing by the
day boat for the betting men, and
these letters are usually answered SO as
to catch the evening mail.
The number of letters received by one
firm alone before a big race amounts
| to thousands a week For some time
previous to a race like the Cesarewiteh
a thousand and more letters arrive
daily, all containing larger or smaller
amonta of money.
The busiest days in the year are in
the spring., the Sunday before the Lin
colnshire Handicap, and in the autumn
the Tuesday before the Cesarewitch.
Thousands of commissions for double
and treble events are exected at the
( time Of these races in connection with
the Grand National in the spring and
the Cambridgeshire and the Duke Of
York stakes in the autumn.
The amount Of money received is nat
urally secret between the managers
Of the offices and the proprietors, but In
busy times it is certain that the amount
is not less than five hundred pounds,
. anu OILtll itSGb " OllG I1lOu6dllN POu44Ah
and more in single day. The average
nmber of letters received per week gen
orally reaches from two thousand to
twenty-five hundred, During a year
the commissions received by the big
firms amount approximately to from
two hundred and fifty thousand pounds
to three hundred and fifty thousand
pounds.
One company when starting actually
received royal approval in Holland, and
their business is protected by law. At
the time this royal approval was al
lowed there appeared articles in the
Dutch press Directing to its being Civ
en-, but the objection did not appear to
carry any weight with the authorities.
Firms that receive bets, or organize
CANDLES other than those connected
with the turf, have been known to re-
ceiye altogether as many as thirty
thousand letteres in a sng.e day
practically all from England. The
Saturday evening mail especially over
whelms the post office with letters, and
all hands are requisitioned to sort them
out The sums of money received by
these agencies, however, are not so
striking as the number Of letters.
From a shilling to five shillings is the
usual amount sent, while purely betting
letters sent to other offices often con-
tain one hundred pounds or more at a
time.
Enormous sums are spent by betting
agencies on advertising their schemes