The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-11-02
WHEN MONTE CARLO PAYS
1t Subsidies Papers, Pensions Some
Losers and Sends Others Home.

Losers ana Sends Others Home.
1T may not be generally known
in this country that the Monte Car
10 Casino Company gives yearly
subsidies to certain European news
papers. belleve,' says a writer
in the National Magazine, that a
leading Partisan daily takes SIS
600 a year for doing nothing more
than devoting a few lines of it's
space every morning to the state of
the weather in Monaco.
All the decent papers published
along the railway from Paris to
Lyons, Marseilles and on to Nice
ana Mentone are on the Casinos
PAPER pension list. They are paid
sans c. mouey varying from $500
to $4,000 per annum to keep Monte
Carlo scandal out of their col
umns and to correct reports of IL
regularlties which might appear in
the British and American press.
In addition to this the Casino
has another pension list. 1t is
said that men and women who alb.
solutely ruin themselves at the
Casino are allowed small sums for
the rest of their lives The pen
sions vary from five francs to forty
francs, according to the amounts
lost at the tables.
"A Schman who lost about ST.
100000 at roulette is said to re-
ceive 81 a day. This gentleman re-
sides to-day in tiny villa at Nice.
Every year the Casino company
pays out another $4,000 in these
pensions.
Then there is the fund requir-
ed in order to get rid of those who
have an
the gaming room. This is not
precisely an act of benevolence.
People without money are not want
ed around the place, especially if
they have lost what they had at the
Casino. Consequently the granting
OF this 'viatique' is frequent. The
broken gambler who presents him
self at a small office in the CEN
trail saloon of the Casino is. if he
Is found to be bona fide loser,
handed the price of a second class
railway ticket to his home, wheth-
er his home be in London, New
York, or Jerusalem, and enough ex-
ira money for his meals on the
"An Englishman is usually given
from $40 to SEQ. Each broken
gambler who receives the viatique
signs receipt for the money hand
ed to him, surrenders his card of
admission to the Casino and is
told that he will not be allowed
again to enter the gambling rooms
until he has paid back the loan.
Every year the company assists
losers in this way to the extent of
nearly 100000.
That the company is occasional
ly victimized is not surprising. One
story Is told Of a daily frequenter Of
the rooms who mysteriously disap-
peared. A search was made for
MIN, with the result that his cloth
es were found on the shore, togeth-
er with letter explaining that the
tables had ruined him and driven
him to suicide.
The clothes and the note were
found by visitor to Monte Carlo,
who reported the matter to the Cas-
mo authorities and threatened to
made the facts public unless a
large sum OF money was paid to
MIN. The money was finally paid.
A month or so later the man who
was supposed to be dead opened a.
care at Nice with his share Of the
hush money handed over to his
confederate.
You cannot walk into the Cas-
'IO thS way you drop INTO muse
um. Before you are allowed to en-
ter the gambling room you must
give one of the officials outside the
doors your name and address and
In return he hands you a card of
admission available either for a
day or a week or a month.
outside the Casino are several de-
tectiyes of various nationalities
who run their eyes over each
stranger to Monte Carlo and watch
for undesirables and sharps. Great
Britain's representative is general
iy an exinspector of the Metropoli-
tan police force.
Certain restrictions in the mat
Ter OF dress are imposed by the
Casino Company. Unwary ones who
innocentiy attempt to enter the
knickerbocker suit are politely but
firmly refused admission. 1t Is
said that Miss Ellen Terry, the ac-
tress, was once refused admission
to the Casino because she was not
sufficiently smart in her attire and
1T is matter of common knowledge
that the late Lord Salisbury was
turned aWaV for similar raoan,, %