The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-06-01
NEW PEGS FOR MONTE CARLO.
VIII VI AN More Money for the Bank
ana Wore Suicides Than ever
Dpf,r.

There has been no breaking the
bank at Monte Carlo" this season.
The bank has got nearly all the mon
ey in sight, and the Casinos profits
this season will amount to 100000
francs more than in any previous
year
The famous gambling place of the
world has for the first time since
the Casino was opened in 1857 pass
ed through a season without a play
er making sensational winning. In
fact the biggest winning of the year
was SIS. 900, which is regarded as
/ small potatoes among the big play
ers.
When | was at the Monte Carlo
early in the season all the big play
ers were deep in the game, expect
ing to win fabulous sums as the win
ter advances says a writer in New
York World. All the famous old
timers were there-Etokes of Hong
Kong, Harry McCalmont of England,
Douglas Biard of Scotland, jerks,
the American, the most famous
bacarrat player in the world;
Young Armstrong of Pennsylvania,
who won 10000 francs last sea-
son; Ben Farchild and the rest of
them.
A big Russian syndicate sent
crack player down from st. Peters
burg with 100000 francs and pri-
vate secretary to keep an account
of his winnings. He, too, fell vic
tim of the banks big run of luck,
and when l saw him last his capital
had dwindled down to 1000 francs.
The chief source of profit to the
Casino has been from the thousands
of small punters rather than from
the big players, and later on | am
going to tell of the trick played on
the public, for there is reason for
the banks big run of luck.
Americans have been much in evil
dence at Monte Carlo this season,
among them being Bradley Martin,
Reginal Vanderbilt, Anthony Drexel,
Louis Webb Morgan, Elisha Dyer,
Lispenard Stewart, Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
ry Lehr, Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer
Schiff, Mrs. julie Bache, Mrs. Livings-
ton, Thomas Foote Jr., Mr.. and Mrs
W. Kurt, Mrs. W. P Elliott, Mrs F.
S. Sanford, Mrs. Llewellyn. Miss
Brown and Miss Tellman of Buffalo,
Oliver Byrne, Mrs. Washburne of
Boston and a host of others equally
we'll known.
| The fact that the bank has been
making all the winnings this season
has caused more suicides than usual.
There have been at least hundred
,of these unfortunates, the most SEN
sational being that of Julius Kardos,
a young Hungarian artist from Buda-
pest. He shot himself at roulette
table in the Casino in full view of a
crowd of gamblers. He had lost all
him money at the tables and the
Casino management offered him 5000
If he would leave the place. This he
refused to do, and borrowed $500
from a Hungarian nobleman. With
this he decided to try his luck for
the last time at roulette. Seated be-
tween two women, one the daughter
of well-known American doctor,
and the other a French woman, he
lost coup after coup. When the last
gold piece went he drew revolver
and shot himself. The American wo-
man jumped up with Mortified cry,
and the French woman across whose
lap his body had fallen, tainted away.
An hour later the roulette game was
going on as usual.
And how do they play roulette at
Monte Carlo. and what is the secret
pf the Casinos big success this sea-
son? Roulette on its face is a fair
game Between two long 'tableauX,'
or tables. is the roulette wheel--a
horizontally revolving, hollow invert-
ed cone, with thirty-seven compart
ments around the outer edge. An
ivory ball is sent whirling in
groove around the wheel. One of
the compartments is numbered 0. The
Others are numbered from l to SO.
The ball, after certain revolutions,
drops into one of these compartments
If it drops into 0 the wheel takes
all the stakes that have been de-
posted upon the various numbers.
II it drops into compartment No. 10,
for instance, the player who has
staked any given sum on No. 10 re-
ceives from the bank thirty-six times
this amount and the stakes of all
the other players are confiscated by
the bank.
In previous years a good many
fortunes have been won by reason
of the unexplicable sequence in
which certain numbers invariably
turn up The habitue of Monte Carlo
knows well that after the ball has
fallen on zero one or other of two
numbers will usually gain, either 81
or 8. In consequence he stakes a gold
louis en- plein on 81, with couple
of louis on the first dozen, and,
strangely enough, one or other of
the numbers will win about six
times out often. Again, if 80 comes
up, one of the numbers from 81 to
SO is almost certain to follow Why
this should be no one has ever been
able to discover The numbers are
distributed over the wheel in so I'M
even manner that fraud on the
part of the croupier who launches
the ball is rendered absolutely inn
possible; in addition 10 which it
must be remembered thaS the wheel
always travels in a direction oppo-
site the ball. Yet, even with these
precautions, there are certain num-
bers on the wheel which are almost
invariably followed by others, and
it seems as though in such instances
fate has set herself largely against
the bank and in favor of the player.
In previous years / have watched
these numbers come up with surpris-
ing regularity, while the profess
SIGNALS" have staked their hundred