The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-14
INCREASE CASINO TOLD
One Proprietor, Who Began
Life as O%ishWasher, Now
Reported To Have an In.
come of Four Hundred Thou<
sand Dollars a Year-House
Painter Enriched

L ans ApIh As-LtS dtlZlH5 gam
bling in France has Increased SO
enormously that the government has
decided it ought to get a greater
share Of the profile. Under an acf
passed in 1907 the State has been
getting Is per cent of the gross re+
ceipts. A Parliamentary Commission
has brought in u recommendations
that from the gross incomes of gam-
bling casinos the State S'tould have
three per cent on incomes less than
81, 900 up to forty-five per cent on if~
comes exceeding 1000. 900, accord
ing to a graduated scale.
One hundred and thirty-three
casinos were authorized by the Minis.
try of the Interior last season to have
baccarat, the mechanical horses.
whist, bridge, bezique, ecarte and
piquet. The official figures before the
commission show that the casinos in
France at summer resorts and springs
took in about $40, 600, 600 profit dur
ing a single season.
Enghien. hich is within seven ana
one half miles from Paris, had about
one-fifth of the whole, or $1,000, O06-
One hundred and fifty trains a day.
run from Paris during the short holi~~
day season, and the opponents OF
gambling affirm that hundreds-Oe
young men and women from Paris
become bankrupt at the tables every
season. THE municipal casino az
Nice, owned by the city. took in
$1,000, 600 and paid nearly all the ex-
penses Of the local administration. H
second casino at Nice under a license
o1 the Minister Of the Interior won
for its proprietors $427, 900. There
Oere a number OF little resorts which
were run at a loss.
Public gambling revenues, accords
mo To tho official fp1roc havo in
creased about four fold since 1907
These figures do not include 4,60o
clubs in France where gambling ia
allowed and for which the State also
takes a percentage Of the profits, nor
the Pari-mutuel machines at race
courses which last season took bets
of about $50, 900 900.
Som Of the newspapers in re-
preaching the cabinet for trying to
take more tainted" money relate thai
one Of the wealthiest proprietoTs OF
casinos in France began as a dish
washer in a restaurant, and that his
income is now $4O0, 900 a year besides
I that from his a~ccumulations which
amount to $4,000, 900. Another pro-
prietor who was a house painter is
reputed to have a fortune of So
900, 900.
g Switzerland "A Money Power.
r The little Helvetian republic is fast
II bCNoihlIS OI1S VI the great money
powers of the world. 1t is M
that twenty Swiss banks have capital
d amounting to considerably more thar.
the banking capitals of the national
l. and State banks in New York city.
- Andre +. Sayons, one of the FrencI
students of finance who have inyesti.
gated causes for the rise Of the Swiss
d financial power, declares that it is du,
largely to a steady migration o!
le french capital which has been goinr
on for years and which recentiy ha.
IL been prompted particularly by new
taxes in France. Another reason i.
d that Switzerland is a Neutral TERRITORY
among european powers and it
le bankers are frequently the negotia
re tors of enormous loans, the bulk q
st the capital being drawn from France
j. \ Live Police Chief.
Inc new Project of Police. Celest. !
in t1ehnloh, has completed his first yea
IN office with a record widely com
mended in Paris. He has forced hio,
in police officials who formerly SAL !,
sc state IN their Offices to 90 out an.
n personally supervise the training o
o. policemen on duty in the streets
pt which has worked to the improve
no rnent Of the entire force.
he ny many simple devices lie has ais
al reviewed the congestion OF traffic O.
ne the principal boulevards. and he /
now working in behalf of the rari
horses, notorious the world oFer A
40 1der-fed and otherwise abused
nd special committee mas been appointe
A with full executive powers. not on
IN the streets buNto inspect sta lie,
building Yards and other place. Z -.
horses are used.
With rev regulations e~overrIua IL
treatment OF horse. the prefcc. rope
TO make the row ~frSoueat c~orGDt.iri
OIL cruelty among II rare 81 c.tri4