Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08

won-and lusted Immediately for more. And
then. as usual. they began losing. Day
after day, night after night, instead Of bill
ing and cooling, they wasted the sunny
hours over the gambling tables. feverishly
trying to win back what they had lost.
And then of a sudden the end came. All
their resources had been swallowed up.
Their jewelry, the brides trousseau and
bits of finery had all been pawned or sold
and the money swept into the voracious
NAV of the Casino. Their hotel bill at Cas-
tellemare was large. The glimpse of the
black future was too much for their youth
full experience and so they decided that
death alone could solve their problem.
Their story was that of Harold Clarke of
San Francisco-it is the story of hundreds
and thousands of others. Clarke. as read
ers may remember, shot himself in his
hotel in Paris after he had returned from a
trip to Monte Carlo. At the gambling
tables he had lost all. He came of a
wealthy family and was student at
Columbia College in New York. Disgrace
Swallowed him and so he chose death
One of the most pitiful of the thousands
of cases was that Of another bridal couple
Germans. For the honeymoon they also
went to the Riviera. The bridegroom made
it partly a business trip, for he was author
lied to visit various continental cities and
collect bills for his firm. He was on his
way home when Monte Carlo was reached.
The man had $4,000 in his possession-the
collections. Fearing that he might be
tempted to play some of it, he handed the
whole sum- as we'll as his own money, to
his wife and visited the Casino alone with
but a So bill. This he quickly lost, but he
spent the remainder of the Afternoon and
evening enjoying the beauties OF the Casino
ami attending the concert and fine theater
When he returned to his hotei that night
he found his wife gone. She had left soon
after he did. The man at once informed
m nOlicp the
Monte Carlo authorities and the bride was
traced She had gone to the gambling
rooms and tried her luck. 1t had been
bad and she was soon plunging large sums
In order to regain her losses. In a few
hours the entire sum intrusted to her by
her husband was lost. The bride wa!kei
out. of the place. closely followed by the
ant-suicida guardians. But before they
could reach her she had jumped over the
terrace to death 200 feet below.
Another bridal couple from France ar
rived In the middle of the most fragrant
of the seasons. The groom went to the
tables and soon gambling mad. He
lost every cent he could beg. borrow OIL
steal from his bride. One day he was miss
ing The police found his body for her
The bride of a month was a widow and
ponnless. She was orphan and her
husband had received her dot in hard
cash. In weeks time that poor widow
was forced to make her living as demi-
mondaine on the very spot where she be-
gan her woman's life happily.
1t was not alone the heavy list of ruined
gamblers seeking tha solace of death OF
which Monte Carlo is responsible. 1t is re-
sponsible for more deaths and for more
misery than any other single institution
of any kind in the world. Yet its greatest
curse is the ruination of thousands OF
homes and families far away from it's gid
cd halls The undeserved wretchedness
tie untold anguish, the fearful privation OF
women and children living in other lands
who belong to the man who is ruined car
never be estima ted
The profits of the casino are immense
Last year they were 600, an increase
of $4,000 over the previous year. Seventy
per cent was paid to the shareholders. And