The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-02-25
Says Cinnamon Are Big Gamblers and
Honest.

Writing about American gambling and
gamblers in the March American Maga
zine Hugh 8. Fullerton comments, as
follows, on Chinese gamblers:
There exists in the United States a
class of gamblers OF which little is
known. who never are muekraked and sell
dom arrested, and as straight and rs
game gamblers as the old school OF the
fraternity in America ever was. ! refer
to the Chinese. American gamblers who
nave dealt for or played against the
Chinese will testify that they are blood
brothers of the game. Almost every
Chinaman is a gambler in the true sense
of the term. and gambling fits his phil
osophy better than il does ours. Be-
sides. they are honest 1>=et Harte to
the contrary-aud in the west, where
the Chinaman is known, his marker IS
as good as cash almost anywhere.
II remember once when Chun. our
cook. rafl of fran the ranch one pay
day and | was detailed to go into Silver
CITY and drag him home by the queue,
or else assume the duties of cook myself.
Chm was getting twenty dollars a
month and he had three months pay
when he set out on foot for Silver. |
found him with more than 81 400 in
checks in front of him. One cannot win
an argument from a Chinaman with
81, 400. I had to wait two days before he
was broke. happy, and ready TO go back
for three more months.
I'm almost every western gambling
house the Chinamsa is welcome and re-
garded as dangerous player who, with
run of luck, is likely to sweep the
house clean. ] have seen laundryman
| in Fresno bet one thousand dollars on
the turn OF a card and lose without
moving an eyelash. They play poker
wonderfully well, and Internationally.
There may be cheats among them, but
me gamblers who deal for them testify
that they are about the most honorable
OF gamblers.
"Chinamen are big gamblers every
where. In California. according to fig
ures compiled by the labor commission
few years ago. il was estimated that
more than half of the total earnings of
AN the Chinese in the state pass through
the hands of gamblers. The police do
not interfere much with Chinese gam
bling. chiefly because they are hopelessly
baked in striving to match wits with
the Oriental There is one tong in Chi
cago which hires two OF the old-sehool
faro dealers TO deal for them. and they
are prosperous. I recall one time when
the Chicago police were extremely active
ia suppressing gambling and were raid
ing places in all directions. As the
Chinese pay little protection money nat
lurallv efforts were concentrated upon
their places. So l strolled down to see
what was happening.
"My friend Moi Sing was grinning at
the top of the stairs leading to his base
ment resort Moi is born gambler
and possessed of sense of humor so
deep that | suspect his chiefest Joy is
derived from seeing Ratchet stick in
the head of rival. / shook hands and
INQUIRED if the police were bothering his
place. Moi grinned and pointed to a
sign eight feet high, wired TO the base
inent railing so that it stood out into
the sidewalk. I studied the hieroglyph-
les that read;
Gambling house downstairs.
81 get permit, City hall. for side
walk sign he said. and grinned again."