Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-31
SATURDAY. AUGUST 81. 1907.
NOTED GAMBLER GOES BROKE.

Richard Garfield. or MS he Is better
known. Dick" Garfield. probably the
most famous gambler In America Is
said 10 he broke. II was only few
years ago that he was rcputed to he
worth millions, Int II Is said on OK
cellent authority that he now needs
every cont he can scrapc together.
In the parlanco of Canficlds world
things have not been breaking right"
for some time past. Jerome got after
him and after long ana desperate
struggle which cost the gambler
small fortune. the New York district
attorney succeeded In closing the
famous gambling place In the Tender.
loin. His Saratoga club house. tho
most beautiful in the world, has also
been n losing venture since the lid
was Theoretically sealed on the great
summon resort. ana then finally his
Wall street brokers have failed, caus.
Ing Garfield 10 lose nearly q half OF
n million. Some idea of the dire
straits In which Garfield has been
placed can be gained by his offer TO
sell his Saratoga place. which cost
100000. for almost any old price.
Canrleld's alleged financial down
(. fail will attract more attention than
IL 1t had occurred to any ordinary
gambler. and in fact, II II had hcfal-
len nine-tenths of the people of this
country. While he made his living by
gambling. he was not like n gambler
in the commonly accepted sense of tho
word. Canficld is the posses
sor of an extremely retiring dis
position. but is one of the most c,tl
tured ana charming man that Il per
son could desire TO meet His parent
ago is of the best stock and his cdu.
cation was not completed til after he
had received degrees from Harvard
and German university. What Can
field intended to be, he never reveal.
ed TO his most intimates. According
to his own story. which is extremely
brief rs he tells II. 1t was all an acci.
dent that he became the proprietor
of gambling establishment. He con.
Quoted all the places he owned on
the highest possible plane. He broke
the laws, rs they are broken on Wall
street every week day. but he never
violated n moral law. Dick" Can
field Is the very soul OF honor. He
never In his whole life asked n single
man to wager one cent in any place
conducted by him: he never allowed
minor in his gambling rooms and
in Saratoga and Newport he never
permitted resident OF those places
to enter his club houses. A man who
let against his games had to be in
troduced and Mr.. Garfield had to be
assured that the better could afford
to lose what he was betting, II lost
he did.
Gambling was the means through
which Garfield added to the comfort
able fortune which he inherited. II
was his vocation. but his soul was in
art. AS a judge OF art works Canfiell
has no peer in the world When ].
Pierpont Morgan and other buyers of
noted pictures are in doubt MS to
whether they are getting the genuine
article or not. 1t is Garfield they
consult, He has also been buyer
himself and today has one of the best
collections OF the brush creations Of
the foreign and American artists. A
deserving young artist always found
a patron in Garfield and there are
today in both hemispheres artists to-
day who are famous who probably
would not have reached the top rung
Il It had not peen for the assistance