The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-10
SOME DAILY TALKS
ON DIVERS
TOPICS
Something About Gambling at
West Enthusiastically
of Moose.

chicago are pouring into French Lick
and West Baden to rest up and recov-
err from the effects of the wild and
wcolly municipal campaign which has
just closed in the Windy CITY," said
NJ. Stanchfield.the clothier. who re-
turned recently from short stay at
West Baden. to an Evening Times rep
resentative today.
They always do this. Anyone who
knows anything about Chicago poll
tics knows that to go through a CAM
paisn in that city means that the cam
paigner needs some kind of treatment
and rest afterwards. 1t is a strenu-
GUS game.
When bunch of Chicago people
are at the resorts there is something
doing all the time. Most of the gam
bling at the casinos OF the two resorts
is done by Chicago people. because
more people go there from Chicago
than from any other one place. The
gamblers from Chicago appear to
know every game on the boards. and
the fact that they can find anything
they want in the way OF gambling al
French Lick and West Baden proves
an attraction not to be resisted. And
they play high stakes too. 1t is not
unusual to see some Chicago man
place several hundred dollars in a
single play on the roulette wheel.
Sometimes they win and sometimes
they go broke. 1t is all matter OF
luck, of course. with the odds favoring
the house.
The Chicago sports who gamble
there are not all men. Women flock
to the resorts and go against the
games like veterans. The women wear
their best clothes when they plays and
it is common sight to see bunch of
fine-looking women in evening dress
bucking the tiger. A good many play
the ponies. but most of them like rou-
lette best. They take to it as young
kitten takes to milk. 1t seems to come
perfectly natural for them to gamble.
Browns is the place most frequent
ed by women and they crowd about
the five roulette wheels there so
thickly that a man can hardly get into
the game unless he is rude enough to
push and shove his way through.
Along with the women are the men in
their dress suits. You see men OF all
professionsand of all walks of life.
Most OF them are OF the upper class,
however. for poor people, are not fire.
quenters of French Lick and West
Baden, and when they are there. they
generally need all their money to pay
their bills. and dc not care to risk 1t
on the green CLOTH
The reason so few moose are seen
in captivity in the parks and circuses
of the country is not because they are
naturally too wild to be domesticated,
but because they usually do not live
long in captivity" said ]. c. Peterson
OF ST. Paul at the Dacotah today. My
father was for many years a settler in
northern Minnesota. and at different
times in his experience he had three
moose on his homestead. which recog-
nized him as their master.
'All of the animals were captured
when they were very young, and in
each instance it took them only a few
days to become apparently attached
to father and his small farm. For two
Or three weeks he would keep them
fenced in. and then would allow them
to roam around at will. They would
be gone for two or three hours, or per-
haps half day, at a time. BY allow
ing them the run of the premises this
way. they met practically the same
conditions as if they were wild in the
forest, and therefore were always in
good health, but the moment any OF
them were shipped to the city, a
change was noticeable.
Two of the animals were sold to
city park associations at different
times, and in each instance the moose
finally died. They seemed willing
enough to remain in the parks, but
conditions were not such as they were
used to, and from the first it was to
be seen that they were falling in
health A moose can stand all sorts OF
hardships in the woods, but when he
is in captivity, lack of exercise, or
lack of proper food, or lack OF some
thing else, puts him on the down
grade, and, as rule, he passes IN
his checks in a few weeks, or few
months at the outside.
Zone of the animals my father
owned was handsome bull, and he
was trained to harness. The animal
could pull good-sized load, and trav-
ell through the woods with sleigh be-
hind him at a very lively clip. This
third moose was one day shot by a
hunter, near the house. So all three
animals met with an untimely fate,
which goes to prove, I suppose, that
man should not monkey with the plans
of nature"