The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-08-23

was known q representative OF the
gamblers was working. He came from
the west. this detective, and was the
son Of a mine owner, with plenty OF
money His breeziness aroused sus-
picion and he was followed by those
whom he was out to get, and 1t was
not long before the westerner was
robbed of his disguise.
Nothing was said about the matter
until the affair was ten years old and
the breezy westerner was good
humored lieutenant. Then he told
how he came here to get the invitation
1t was back in the fall Of 1891 that
the place was first opened. Big Bill
Kennedy, Frank Farrell, Gottfried
Walbaum and others we're its founders.
They bought the house from DR..
Robinson and paid him well for 1t, be-
cause 1t was the only property in the
block with the Waldorf Astoria that
could be bought.
At the start the place was not so
well furnished. This was found to be
detrimental. and the following summer
Stanford White was employed to fit up
the place. He removed the interior
and then rebuilt it as he would fine
home or some exclusive club.
One of the owners said not very long
ago that the rebuilding and furnish
ing Of the house cost 100000. Mr..
White was not limited as to what he
was to spend and the result was that
he went to various corners of the
" orld for the things which he thought
would fit in with the scheme of decor
alton which he had planned. For in
stance, the bronze door at the rear
end of the entrance hall was found In
Italy, and its history shows that in
1893 it was swinging from the en-
frances to the wine cellar of the Doges
palace in Venice. The price paid fol
the door varies in reports from $4,000
to $4,000.
/ To Auction Costly Fittings.
The door at the entrance Is OF
wrought iron weighing several hun
bred pounds, and it too has history
The large reception room at the front
of the street floor is Of gold and the
floor is covered with red velvet carpet
Back of this Is the foyer hall. On one
side is the famous stairway which took
ten Venetians two years to complete
On the other side Is what looks like 8
large oak box. BY pressing button 9
door slides back and one finds within
a small electric elevator to the gam
bling rooms on the upper floors.
On the second floor front is the large
roulette wheel room. 1t is arched, witt
the ceiling covered with paintings. Or
this floor is a bath with marble re-
clning slab and other apparatus which
is said to have cost the owners $4,000
a sum sufficient to buy cosy home
in the suburbs in those days.
All these things are now to be SOLD
at an auction sale. which will be hello
in the next few weeks They will
be sodAfor any price that they viii
bring. Gottfried Walbaum, former
owner Of the Gutenberg race tract
and interested in other race courses
in this part of the country, is the
sole owner of the Thirty-third stree
property. He is 70 years old and ii
through with gambling.
The development Of the automobile
change in the sporting pastimes o
wealthy men and the unsavory odo
given gambling by the Rosenthal cas-
are responsible for the fall Of thu
House with the Bronze Door," which
in the good old bad days of New Yorl
was nothing short of an institution
In the night life of this city for mel
of wealth.
The old house is to be dismantled
the facade removed and nothing lief
standing but the two side walls, Thu
reasoa for this is that Walbaum doe
not. want to continue losing $1,000 {
month, so he has leased the propert!
to Morris B. Horowitz of Gel Broad
! way, wholesale dealer in ribbons ant
6OOuS lHC iatNSA VIII pa.
81, 900 a year to Mr. Walbaum To-
the use of the building for the mex
i've years with an increased renta
during the following FIVE years.
Mr.. Wafbaum will spend $4,000 t.
remove the splendor which cost hin
and his former partners III the Monte
Carlo establishment fortune. TIL,
face of the new building is to be o.
glass and Harvard brick and in every
respect it will be modern business
building. Nothing will remain that will
recall the history Of the old five story
building which Is now known from
here to Hongkong and back again.
NOTICE OF SEALED BIDS FOR
THE PAVING OF PORTIONS OF
CERTAIN STREETS AND Al.
lEYS IN THE CITY OF WAL.