Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-09-18
GAMBLING ABOVE
CHICAGO SALOON
Eight Thousand Participants is
In Pool For Betting on
Baseball
THE new MEXICO MOUNTAINS
Peaks $4,000 Feet and More
High Easily Climbed and
Little Known.


Chicago, Sept. 1S.-The investiga-
tion of gambling in Chicago and the
connection of the police with it has
disclosed new variety of baseball
fan-a young man who is not root.
er for any special club or league and
is not interested in the results of the
game. All he wants to know is how
many runs will be made by the team
he has drawn from blind" pool The
gas was found by newspaper report
eI in operation above a saloon in the
stock yards district. In one week
there were eight thousand particip-
ants in the pool, each putting in fifty
cents. The ticket having the name of
the teanr-combinatiDn which makes
the most runs in the week is the win
ner of the first prize; the second larg-
est prize goes to the team making the
smallest number. The purchaser of
a ticket has no choice of the team
that carries his money. That is de-
cided by lot. There are twenty-five
other prizes than the first two. Each
ticket has six clubs, one for each
week day, selected from the National
and American Leagues. With sixteen
combinations is limitless. Rain, post
ronements and double headers are
part of the uncertainty. They are not
taken into consideration in making
the ticket. The promoters take ten
per. cent of the pool for their serv.
ices. The highest amount won was
$500. Most of the patrons are com.
raratively young men, and they flock
to the room each afternoon to watch
the "score" to see how their chances
are running, not to see which club
wins the game.
Grand Opera Getting Voices.
Ambitious students at the Chicago
music schools are finding out now
whether their voices are of grand
opera calibre, Director N. B. Emanuel
working every day to select a chorus
for the Chicago Grand Opera company
which opens its second season Noven-
ber 90 Director Emanuel is trying to
surpass his record of last year Of get.
ting the prettiest grand opera churus.
He is optimistic. He says that the
girls who are studying at the Chicago
schools, representing nearly every
state in the Union, are "all pretty and
many sof them have excellent voices"
Tfe smiles mysteriously when asked il
he has discovered "a find" in the per.
son of a young girl from the country,
whose appearance at her first tryout
caused little litter among her more
fashionably dressed sisters. isn't she
pretty he replied evasively. "Yo1
know l have an eye for pretty girls"
Emanuel is doing the preliminary
work pending the arrival in November
Of Andreas Dippel. The first opera
will be Samson and Delilah,' followed
by several German works, including
die Walkure," "Lohengrin," and
Tristan and Isolde" Among the new
operas will be Victor Herbert's "Na-
toma,' the two new operas of Wolf
Ferrari, "The Secret of Suzanne" and
"The Jewels of Madonna" and the
spectacular French opera, "Quo Va.
dis"
Factory Inspections.
An evidence of the new attitude Of
employers to employees is the recep.
ton given by some of the largest en-
ployers in Illinois of the new cam
paign of State Factory Inspector Ed
gar T. Davies for cleanliness as q sci.
entific safeguard against occupational
diseases. The employers are cooper
ating willingly for both humanitarian
reasons and from motives of self-inter.
est, the experiences of several in the
last few years showing that increased
working efficiency is secured by clean
and comfortable and attractive work
| ing conditions. Government stats.
tics" says Mr.. Davies, show that al.
most as many men are infected with
occupational diseases as with tubercu.
losis. The death rate among work
men in Illinois has Aecreased 300 per
cent since this safety movement has
got under way, within the last ten
years 1t will decrease still more. The
movement has only started" Mr.. Da-
vies has issued orders to number Of
large employers requiring them to pro.
vide lavatories, with hot and cold wa
ter, clean towels; soap, nail brushes,
shower baths, dressing rooms with in
dividual lockers, and further that the
sweeping and cleaning of factories
shall be done outside the regular work.
ing hours. Three Chicago corpora
tions have expended, or are expending,
nearly half million dollars to pro-
vide more comfortable working condi-
tions. They are the stockyards com.
pany, $25s,000; the Pullman company.
$165,000 and the illinois Central rail-
road. $4,000.
! Alpine Climbing. y
| Those residents of Chicago who
have taste for Alpine climbing have
found another way to crafty that
taste without crossing the ocean, Ia
the new territory that is being opened
up in the Canadian Rockies by the
Grand Trunk Pacific railway. They
have the added pleasure OF exploring
practically unknown mountain fast
nesses that are within weeks travel
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