The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-06-06
monte carlo BANKS HAVE
HAD A PROSPEROUS YEAR
None of Them Have Been Broken and the Profits Have
Greatly Exceeded Those of Any Other Season Big
Players Increasing in Their Attempts to Win


the bank at Monte Carlo this
season. The bank" has got nearly
all the money in sight, and the
Casinos profits this season will
amount to 100000 francs more
than in any previous year.
The famous gambling palace OF
the world has for the first time
since the Casino was opened In
1877 passed through a season with
out a player making a sensational
winning. In fact, the biggest win
ming OF the year was $2S,OOO,
which is regarded as "small po-
tatoes" among the big players.
When was at Monte Carlo
early In the ssnson all the big play
ers were deep in the game expect
ing to win fabulous sums as the
winter advanced. All the famous
oid-timers were there-Stokes, OF
HorIy Kong; Harry McCalmont of
england; Douglas Baird of Scot
.and; jerks, the Amerian, the most
famous bacarrat player in the world
young Armstrong Of Pennsylvania
who won 8O0,0 eco francs last season
Ben Falrchlld and the rest of them,
A big Russian syndicate sent a
crack player down from st. Pet
ersburg with 250, 600 francs and a
private secretary to keep an ac-
count of his winnings. He, too. fell
victim to the banks big run of
luck and when saw him last his
capital had dwindled to 10000
francs.
The chief source OF profit to the
Casino has been from the thous-
ands OF small punters rather than
from the big players and later on
j am going to tell OF the trick
ployed on the public. for there Is a
reason for the banks big run OF
luck v-
Americans have been much in
evidence at Monte Carlo this sea-
son. among them the Bradley
Martins. Reginald Vanderbilt, An
thony Drexel Louis Webb Morgan,
Elisha Dyer. Lispenard Stewart,
Mr., and Mrs. Harry Lehr. Mr.. and
Mrs. Mortimer Schiff and host
OF others we'll known.
The fact that the bank had been
making all OF the winnings this
season has caused more suicides
than usual. There have been half
hundred OF these unfortunates,
the most sensational being that OF
julius Kardos, young Hungar-
Ian artist from Budapest He shot
Casino In full view OF crowd OF
gamblers. He had lost all his
money at the tables and the Casino
management offered him 5000 IL he
would leave the place. This he re-
fused to do and borrowed $40O
this he decided to try his luck for
the last time at roulette. Seated be-
tween two women, one the daugh-
ter OF a well-known American doc
tor, and the other French wo-
man, he lost coup after coup. When
the last gold piece went he drew
q revolver and shot himself. The
American woman jumped up with
a Mortified cry, and the French
woman, across whose lap his bod,
had fallen, tainted away. An houl
later the roulette game was goint
on as usual.
And how do they play roulette
at Monte Carlo and what is the sec
ret of the Casinos big success
this season?, Roulette on Its fac
is a fair game. Between two lonl
''tableaus" or tables Is the roulett
wheel--a horizontally revolving
hollow invented cone, with thirty
seven compartments around tn
outer edge, An ivory ball is sen
whirling In "a groove around tn
wheel One OF the compartments 4
numbered 0. The others are nun
bered from 1 to SO. The ball, al
ter certain revolutions, deep int
one of these compartments. Ii
drops into 0. the wheel takes a
the staloes that have been deposite
upon the various numbers II II dror
into compartment No 10. for instar
the player who has staked any giN
en- sum on 90 10 receives from tn
bank thirty-six times thds hmoun
and the stakes OF all the other play
ers are conflscated by the bank.
In previous years good mar
fortunes have been won by reaso
OF the inexplicable sequence
which certain numbers invariab
turn up. The habit of Monte Car
knows we'll that after the ball h
fallen on zero one or two nmmbe
will usually gain, either q or
In consequence, he stakes a go
louis on plein ON 27, with coup
of louis ON the first dozen. al
strangely enough, one or the 9th
OF the numbers will win about 8