The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-16
Gotham Gossip
(By Herbert Corey.


Down at police headquarters they
estimate that about 200 young men
are now making a comfortable living
out OF the toy roulette game. They
used to be regular gamblers. But
every now and then this town closes
up like an indignant clam. The last
time it closed these individuals were
pinched out of their pobs at the wheel
and the poker table. So they have
set up shop for themselves.
Each man." explains police head
quarters. has a toy roulette wheel
in his inside pocket. This is so small
that 1t can be spun upon the hand,
and so handy that it can be put to-
gether. operated. disjointed again, and
put away in the vest inside of Ave
a roulette game can be
piayed on the street corner. in a hail
way, behind the elevator-anywhere
that a plain clothes man doesn't see
II the stranger to the city has a
preference for any particular game
that game will be furnished him. The
police estimate that the 200 young
men must make approximately $2.0 0
a day just to a the barest running
expenses. So that the amount Of
York annually on this and other
games may be dimly estimated.
But don't think that the man from
keokuk Is always a boob. and that
the happy resident Of New York is
invariably a bright. cat-eyed young
NOR who can see a swindle in the
dark" said Deputy Police Commits
sioner Dougherty. THE percentage
of fools to the thousand Of population
runs as high here as anywhere in thu.
world. Swindlers always play for the
mar from out Of town. He can't STAY
to prosecute. He must go home and
square himself with his wife"
While the North Atlantic SQUADRON
was playing that war game in Long
isiadn Sound the other day some one
talked to a great Wall street banker.
Suppose that fleet out there were
really hostile" was the question.
.wnat would you do-not with your
tangible, totable property?"
Put it in the bank vaults" said
the banker, land then go away as far
and fast as possible"
Because it is the belief of experts
on safe deposit matters that there are
three or four vaults in town which are
actually impregnable to attack. These
hasn't a can-opener big enough to
ieaze them. One vault in particular
has walls and a roof four or five feet
thick. made Of especially
steel. 1t can't be hammered or cut or
burned through. If enough explosive
We're used to tear open this vaults
wall, the skyscrapper above would be
tumbled in ruins. And the human
risk is as we'll guarded against, too.
There are three or four doors which
must be penetrated before the three
billion dollar kernel of the mt is
found. And each of these doors
carries two combinations, each of
which is in the possession of a differ
ent man. So that a total of six r
eight men must be corrupted-and all
at the same time-before any really
carried through.
The mother who has one baby usu-
alyy regards herself as a fairly busy
The nurses who are in charge
Of h baby-saving work under the
department of health in New York
city are each held responsible for
$50 babies-and each must know
every in1nitesimal detail of each
at the first glance to tell whether
little Giulio has improved or dropped
back in the rae for life since her
last visit won't do. She is shifted to
some other position. Too many ba-
bies' lives may be risked because she
isn't gated by nature to do a miracle.
Last year $4,000 babies were treat
ed, either by district nurses or at the
milk stations. Hard work begins for
corps with the first Of July. and
lasts throughout the warm weather.
AS a result Of this W.. which in
cludes not only the distribution Of
pure milk for the babes and their
mothers. but the instruction Of the
mothers in caring for their babies and
keeping their homes clean, the death
rate Of New York babies has dropped
steadily from 1853 in the thousand in