Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-20
TIE BsBE DAILY REVIEW BsBEE 1907

a while a steamer slips out of the harboT at dead of night Its cargo Is secured at the secret morgue. At sea the bodies are thrown overheard duly weighted. without toll of bell or muttered prayer
 There are countless graves of un- known dead in the Monte Carlo cem- etery. But these are only those whose death has become known to the public.
 The Casino authorities have a spe- cial bureau whose duties are to re- Here Here i55TsoIf5 ruined sst the tables. The ruined gambler can get from this bureau enough money to take him to his home or to some spot far away from Monaco. Few know of this, per haps, or there would not be so many deaths.
 The dead broke'' gambler is taken through many inner chambers and before stern-faced men to whom he has to tell his history in detail. He is also confronted with the different croupiers, who testify as to whether he really lost as much as he mag claim. Then the wretched man has to sign a document banishing him self forever from Monaco His name and particulars are written in the "black book" his photograph is taken and given to the doorkeepers and other officials to study. and then the man Is taken to the railway station ticket bought. few dollars given him. and an official escorts him as far as the frontier. Should he re- turn, it would not avail him. The police would turn him back again into France.
 As much as S250O has Teen paid to big loser so that he could settle up his hotel bill and take himself and his family home. Should such money be paid back the Casino might again welcome the man. The sums usually paid range from S25 to $20O, and an average of 1000 people a year apply 1 for this relief
 | Among the tragedies at Monte | Carlo many have been Of interest ID America There have been score or more Americans who have com mitted suicide In the case the other day of the American girl bride, 10th [ she and her husband enticed on their honeymoon to the paradise of the | Riviera, could not resist the rsmpta- ! tion to play dollar or two at the ! tables. They won-and idsted imme- diately for more. And then as Usual | they began losing. Day after day
 night after night, instell of billing
 and cooing, they wasted the sunny hours over the gambling tables, fever.
 ishly trying to win back wiai they
 had lost. And then of a sudden the
 end came. All of their resources hal been swallowed up. Thair iewalry, the brides trousseau and bits of fin cry had all been pawned or sold and the money swept into the vorscious maw of the CasIio. Thclr hotel EIii at Castellemare was large. The much for their youthful experience. and so they decided that death alone : could solve their problem.
 1 Their story was that of Harold Clarke of San Francisco-it is the story of hundreds and thousands of others. Clarke. as readers may re- member, 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 a student at Columbia College in New York Dis
 grace shadowed him. and so he chose death.
 One of the most pitiful of the thou.
 sands of cases was hat of another bridal couple-Germans For the | honeymoon they, also, went to the Riviera. The bridegroom made Il
 partly a business trip. for he was authorized to visit various continental cities and collect bills for his firm He was on his way home when Home Carlo was reached. The rlan baC 1 S40.000 in his possession-th's collec- tions. Fearing that he might be
 tempted to play some of it, he handed | the whole sum. as well as his Cwn money to his wife and visited the Ca sino alone, with but a s5 bill. This he quickly lost, but he spent the re i mainder of the afternoon and even [ ing enjoying the beauties of the Ca. | sino and attending the concert and ! fine theater. When he returned to
 his hotel that night he found his wife gone. She had left soon after he did 1 The man at once informed the Nice ] police. They, in turn, told the Monte Carlo authorities and the bride was hGaced She had gone to fha gam ! bling rooms and tried her luck. f
 had been bad, and she was soon plunging large sums in order to re gain her losses. In few hours the
 entire sum entrusted to her by hel
 hurband was lost The bride walkat out of the place, closely followed by
 the antfsuicide guardians. But be
 fore they could reach her she had
 jumped over the terrace to death 20t feet below.
 It is not alone the heavy list O
 ruined gamblers seeking the soiace o
 death. and for which MonteCarlo fl
 lresponsibr. It Is responsible foI
 more deaths and for more miser. ;, than any other single institution O
 any kind in the world Yet it's great est curse Is the riIination of thou : sands of homes and families far ava! ! from it's gilded halls. The unde served wretchsdness, the untold an ggish, the fearful privation of womei and children, living in other lands who belong to the man wfso is ruined