Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-26
No "System" Beats the Game.

No recognized system has been known
for any length of time to beat the game,
and every systematic method of play must
depend upon increased stakes to retrieve
past losses. The fashion of roulette play
ing is too well known to bear any repeti-
tion here. The little sections with their
numbers from one to thirty-six-O being
the thirty-seventh-are old stories to the
gambler. The other game which is the
piece de resistance is keno-one of the most
fascinating games extant to the ignorant
gambler, and because of its very simple
ity is always popular. The player rarely APP
preciates the enormous percentage against
him. 1t is played by dealing numbered
balls from a wheel and covering with but
tons or chips the correspond ng numbers on
cards The numbers on the cards are
ranged in rows of five, and the player who
first has row covered wins.
The ark has not accommodations for the
crowds that are anxious to lose their
money ard the hull of the old Columbia,
which used to be ferryboat. is going to
be used to enlarge the gaming quarters. 1t
is said to be the purpose of the proprietors
of the ark to build the barge on the hull of
the old Columbia, which VIII give them an
opportunity to put some new games and a
more extensive restaurant annex on the
bosom of the Potomac.
1t is yet possible tnaC washington may
have within easy access floating Monte
Carlo 1t was just within such modest
environs that the Prince of Monaco and his
associates started the world-famed Monte
Carlo One does not have to go back
great many years when the little town of
Monaco was almost as modest in its make
UP as the Heath ark. II was not until NJ
Blanc found that the Germans would not
longer stand for his games and after he
had an interview with the poverty-stricken
prince that Monte Carlo began to look up.
In fact there are tourists there who only
this summer were shown the little stairway
which formerly was the only entrance to
the town,
Expenditures Reach Millions.
Last year the expenditures at Monte
Carlo were approximately $5.0O0,O00, and
the shareholders divided 900. The
prince, of course, got the major part of this
sum and some more to boot. 1t was only
few years ago when NJ Blanc presented the
prince with one million francs with which
to build cathedral. The prince. who is
fnancier-in fact. a general of frenzied
finance not easily mated-put the money
ont at interest, built the cathedral and still
has the principal in It's entirety to his bal
ance in bank.
lust now the management of Monte Carlo
is considering the ACCESSIBILITY of adopting
a system under which ten francs will be
charged every uay ioi SeHtieIHeH anu HVc
francs for ladies' as an admission to the
Casino. This will increase the revenues Of
Monte Carlo about threefold. it is said.
Along the lines that the Heaths are pro-
seeding, it may not be very long before they
will be issuing cards of admission. Only a
few months ago they started a modest
game of keno with few struggling play
ers Now they have great big barge,
electric lighting plant model buffet lunch
con. saloon, etc., have purchased the steel
hull of a ferryboat and are rapidly pre-
pairing to extend their business.
IT is vet possible that they may make
enough. out of their enterprise to found
cathedral, for the authorities say they can
do nothing.