The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-09
TO KEEP HIGGINS ON Lid JOB.
ALBANY SITUATION 70 BE PUT
UP TO THE GOVERNOR.

In Closing Up ON Genefauy
SARATOGA, Aug. Snow that Gov. Hig-
gins, assisted by Joseph Ullman. has
stopped Saratoga gambling. the Governor
will be called upon to put the lid down in
Albany and keep It down. That was tho
programme mapped out at the raoetraok
this afternoon. and It was discussed at
come length at the United States Hotel
this evening. II the programme lie carried
out the Governors attention will be called
to the notoriously open violation OF the
law against gambling In the State Capital
and he will be asked TO send the sa me kind
Of a letter to the Sheriff Of Albany county
a. he did to Sheriff K~avanaugh Of Saratoga
county.
This contemplated action should not be
regarded In any sense as Saratoga spleen
vented on Albany. As a matter Of fact
Saratoga, In a local sense, has nothing
to do with it. A pretty solid citizen Of
New York, who has largo property interests
here, as he has large banking interests in
New York, and is q member Of the Saratoga
Association for the Improvement OF the
Breed Of Horses, and, therefore, Is inter-
eeted In all that makes for a prosperous
Saratoga sea son, was informed yesterday,
90 the story runs, that Gov. Higgins had no
intention Of taking a hand in the Saratoga
situation until he was informed that the
Saratoga authorities, on the insistence
Of the Saratoga clergymen, were going to
make Saratoga much nearer O closed town
this summer than II has been before In
years. ..
When the Governor heard that, the
story goes, he made up his mind to make
whatever political capital he could by
getting the credit Of closing up the Monte
Carlo Of America It Is said that the
Governors secretary pointed out that the
closing Of Saratoga would be advertised
from one md Of the State to the other,
and Mr.. Higgins, being q shrewd man,
knows the value Of advertising. Incideu-
tally 1t may or may not have occurred to
the Governor that by stepping In before
the Saratoga authorities had been in action
only long enough to raid one gambling
house, be would steal some Of Senator
Brackets thunder.
The story was repeated by q New Yorker
to some others who are interested in the
summer welfare OF Saratoga, and 1t was de-
cided practically to find out just how much
OF a lid closer the Governor is, whether he Is
a reformer for politics sake or a reformer
for reforms sake, by putting up the Albany
situation to him. II the plan is carried out
Mr.. Higgins will hardly have retur ned to
the State capital before he will be able to
say to the Sheriff Of Albany county, as he
said to the Sheriff Of Saratoga county:
MY attention has been called to the fact
that the law against gambling is being sys-
tematioally violated In Albany county, and
80 on and 90 forth.
OF course, II the Governor has any inten-
ton at present to put gambling out Of bust
ness In the State capital. he doesn't need to
have his attention called to the condition Of
affairs there any more strongly than it was
called In the New York newspapers this
morning. There Ii strong suspicion here
that he did not wait for more than newspaper
notice to get into action regarding Saratoga.
As everybody who knows anything
about Albany knows, the white House.
and Senate" have been notorious for
years. not only for the table games operated
there. but for the poolroom attach
ments. It has been described as the strong
est over and under game in the United
States. Patrick Francis Sheedy once said
Of 1t that it was better than running a
boarding house in the summer and a board
ing school In the winter, without taking
out time to clean house,
At any rate. whatever the strength Of
the Albany game, II the plan revealed to-
night Is carried out Gov. Higgins will have
the Job Of sitting on another lid before
another week Is over. 1t was pointed
out that the Governor ought to get a great
deal Of satisfaction out Of such a job,
because be will be near enough to the scene
of action to see that the machinery" in
the Albany mills is carefully taken down
and laid away. 1t was pointed out that
nothing pleases a real reformer more than
to see a real reform Job we'll done.
The case Of Joe Ullman, Billy Mackin and
Maxy Blumenthal. whose Bridge Whist
Club was raided on Monday night, will
come up before Police Magistrate Delanty
tomorrow morning at 0 O'Clock. II the
usual procedure In such cases is followed
the accused will waive examination to
await the action OF the ssratoga county
tober. Meanwhile 1t is assumed that the
$500 bail In each case will be continued.
Saratoga county justice on occasion
moves with somewhat tho same rapidity
as Jersey Justice. Inasmuch as the Ullman
wSsn the place vas rslded, there Wouid
seem to be no doubt as to the sufiioienoy Of
the evidence. Becaus Ullman actually
deied the Saratoga authorities, 1t Is sur
missed that, In the event of a conviction,
the gamblers will get a chance to see the
limit in the way OF a sentence.
Ullman, 1t was learned to-day, has Jerome
and Parkhurst beaten twenty three blocks
as a lid fastener. Years ago, as one of his
~biographers reeled of his history this after
noon, Ullman butted into the gambling
situation In Minneapolis, advertised himself
and his business like q patent medicine man
and in a short time Minneapolis was wiped
of the GAMBLERS map. A little later he
found his way to Chicago. and those who
ought to know are saying here tonight that
the Ullman methods were largely RESPONSE
bic for Chicago becoming q closed town to
gamblers. ,.
The same thing followed his advent In
Long Branch and now with the able assist
anoe OF Gov. Higgins he has the lid down
60 tight here hat II. couldn't be pried up
with q Jimmy. Such a record OF r,form
In -four States would sweep jerome into the
White House was the way Ullman's biog-
rapher ended the tale. He added one
statement whose accuracy might be tested
by Police Commissioner Bingham. Tho
statement was to the effect that Ulman
Is the exceedingly. prosperous part pro-
prietor OF a hourishlng gambling house In
New street and two others on opposite
sides OF West Forty-third atreet hetWean