Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-11
BY THE ASSOCIATED rREss

dullOIllleS nave dSalh cdpltLldteu -
what they term the ineradicable gam
! ing instinct of the average person.
| After continued and vain attempts
to put an end to promiscuous betting
] on horse races, which involves sum
yearly estimated at between Sl50 000,-
900 and 5000, coo 900, they have decided
to license bookmaking in an effort to
secure for the state a percentage of
this sum- A measure to this end, al
ready reported by cable, has been
adopted by the Federal Council, and
| is now awaiting the action OF the
Beiehstag. 1t is hoped to have ii be-
| come effective in time for the Baden
Baden races next August.
Heretofore the only form of betting
sanctioned by law has been by means
of the pari-mutuel machine. This,
however, was available only to per
sons able to visit the racetracks, The
result is that q vast army of book
makers, estimated at 5000. ply their
business in defiance of the law. In
addition every barbershop and thou
sands of cafes and similar resorts
harbor their handbook men.
Competent authorities estimate the
number of business places where
wagers can be laid on horse races at
over 200, 900. Prosecutions for book
making increased from 1, 800 in 1906 to
5000 in 1872. For the most part they
resulted in trivial fines or short jail
sentences, and the business went
ahead just the same. The bettor too,
is outside the law, and has no remedy
against dishonest handbook men or
bookmakers who refuse to settle win
ming wagers.
The number of licensed bookmakers
is not fixed in the new measure, but
it is understood that the government
contemplates licenses for about fifty,
scattered throughout the empire, each
of which will be entitled to establish
branch offices to meet the demand.
Notwithstanding rigorous provisions
against Illicit betting. Furnishing both
bookmaker and bettor tthe latter with
fines up to $3.50, experts believe that
illicit books will continue TO flourish,
not only because the wage-earners,
clerks and small salaried men who to-
day furnish the bulk of the hand
book custom cannot afford the mini
mum stake of $12 but because the
heavy taxation of the licensed book
makers will enable the handbook men
to offer far better odds.
Since six per cent. of every bet
entered win go to the government as
an initial tax, and winning bets Will
be mulcted with an additional tax
of from six per cent, on bets at odds
of two to one or less, uD to twenty
! per cent. on the long shot of twenty
/ to one or better, tho man who plays a
! heavily odds on favorite. say
at seven to five, may risk possible
fine rather than the certain loss of
nearly half of his seanty winnings.
! To hackers of hundred to one out
/ siders the prospective surrender of
/ some $25 of a $500 win will be equally
| deterrent.
| TOXIC, April u.-Youthful chat
| whistle Sportsmcn are eagerly follow
| ing the movements of a young Japan
csc named Okubo, who has just start
| ed on bicycle trip around the world.
! strapped to his wheel. Okubo carries
| q precious bag Of sand. which he
| shoVeled from the grounds of the pal
ace OF his Emperor, His intention is
to sprinkle a little sand whenever he
reaches japanese colony or comes
to a place whore q number of Japan
| csc live. My idea" he explained be-
/ fore starting. us to remind japanese
/ abroad OF their native country OF the
glorious Mikado empire"
japanese doctors are discussing the
unusual. # not unprecedented, case
/ of child meeting death from the
| beak of rooster. y four year-old
/ girl was walking to a playground
near her fathers house in Toxic, when
she was attacked by a rooster. who
| pecked at her viciously. The girl ran.
stumbled and fell, hitting stone.
Before the onlookers could interfere
| the rooster had again peclled the rh Ia
IN the forehead. The child wa picked
up dead.
A lively competition has been going
on between Japanese steamship COM
panies, which hope 10 yet a govern
ment subsidy for g Steamship line
through the Panama Canal to the
eastern coast of the United states.
with terminus at Boston. At present
/ 1t looks as If the Nipnon Vusan
/ kaisha would be elected. aud that the
COMPANY will be accorded subsidy
| of $l,G00,ooe. The other competitors
We're the Togo Kisen HGisha and tie
Osaka Shoser Kaisha. The Toyc
| kisen will continue its service to san
| Francisco, but IL is probable that the
Nippon Yusen viii discontinue It's SER
| vice to Seattle. and turn 1t over to the
Osaka company, which is building
extra steamers 10 be used ON the
northern route, which il win hence
| forth monopoliZe.
! PARIS, April 1.-The cabinet has
asked parliament to vote the equiYa e.
lent of $4,000 to entertain the kings
of ENGLAND and Denmark when they
visit Paris for couple of DAYS this
month. Three-quarters OF this sum
is to be spent by the foreign office m
! decorations, Nominations, presents to
the sovereigns. receptions, official dim
ners and special trains. The per-
Torrance al the opera will take
$4,000; the carriage hire SO, 500; the
tips TO servants, $3.50; the military re-
view, sii.ooQ. and the eAtra expenses