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Cracked Ice

gray-haired man, sporting what in
this same circle would have been
termed coat of indoor tan, cracked
the ice. He poked into an inside pocket
and brought forth wallet. From it he
drew q $50 bill and walked to the
small window on the left, placing a bet
on Arravan. The ice broken, others
followed, for the betting on each race
must be accomplished in half hour.
But some there were who shook their
heads in negatlon. The odds were dis
appointing; their horse was scratched;
the weather conditions at Saratoga
counselled action--or perhaps they
were just blutfng
Why not? Here was q spot to kill
an afternoon with no expense attached
TO the fascinating ceremonies OF all
games Of chance; a retreat where chairs
were provided for the defunct as we'll
ss the going gambler; place where
breezy intrigue and gossip foated on
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Through the Air

For one thing the airplane will
be veXatious. There is no port of
entry for an airplane. The other
day in New Jersey one landed on
top of department store. AS
suming this airplane carried from
Canada goods that had not been de-
clared, what could the Collector do
about it? He is not an aviator. At
best he would have to wait until the
goods appeared upon the market,
when it would be his duty to try to
set up proof of illegal delivery.
1t will therefore be necessary in
the near future to establish some
airplane control in. so far as
TRANSPORTER traffic is concerned.
1t may be necessary to add
chase planes to the machinery of
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office shall be to sustain the refusal
except under conditions specified
in our bulletin"
It is commonly reported that
there have been some rather strik-
ing smuggling cases of late, but the
Collector is chary about discussing
them.
Il place my evidence in the
hands of the United States Attorney,
and there my offices end he said
Yet the story that war workers
have transgressed the law Of customs
is rife-and since the great ma
jority of travellers have been war
workers it is tolerably certain that
whatever smuggling has been tried
will not leave them blameless,
though the Collector refuses to YER
fly it and to be quoted at all.
Duties have picked up marvel
lousy. On August II there was
collected at the New York port ST.
235, 861.66, which is the largest
days business since August l, 1914.
This is significant as showing what
may be expected later.
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completely from the floor Of the ROOM
once sitting in an easy chair once
kneeling on his chair and once stand
ing up. On each occasion | had full
opportunity OF watching the occur
renee as it was taking place. There
are at least a hundred recorded in
stances of Mr.. Homes rising from the
ground, in the presence of as many
separate persons, and I have heard
from the lips of the three witnesses
to the most striking occurrence of this
kind-the Earl of Dunraven, Lord Lind
say and Captain c. Wynne-their own
most minute accounts of what took
place. To reject the recorded evidence
on this subject is to reject all human
testimony whatever, for no fact in
sacred or profane history is supported
by stronger array of proofs
1.-The accumulated testimony estab-
fishing Mr.. Homes levitations is over
whelming. 1t is greatly to be desired
that some person whose evidence would
be accepted as conclusive by the scien-
tlfc world-if, indeed, there lives
person whose testimony in favor Of
such phenomena would be unequvocally
taken-would seriously and patiently
examine these alleged facts. Most of
the eyewltnesses to these Invitations
are now living Cat that time), and
would doubtless be willing to give their
evidence. But in a few years such
direct evidence will be difficult, if not
impossible to be obtained
"Other phenomena recorded by Sir
William Crookes regarding the medium
ship of Home are still more wonderful
For instance, on number of occasions
Home took live Goals from the fire, held
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Florence Cook full-form materializa-
tions, which were seen and photo
graphed by Sir William CrooAes and
proved by him to be Independent be-
ings, separate from the body of the
medium. Sir William thus cnumerates
the phenomena witnessed by himself:
The movement of heavy objects
without contact; raps; the alteration
of weight OF bodies; movements of
heavy substances at distance from
the medium; levitations of tables and
chairs, without contact; the deviation
Of human beings; luminous appear
ances Qights) the appearance of
hands; direct writing; phantom forms
and faces; various phenomena indi-
eating intelligence other than that of
the medium.
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them in his bare hands and blew on
them until the flames licked between
his fingers, and the coal could be seen
burning with fierce heat in his hands
On several occasions Home asked one
of his sltters TO touch the coal to as
sure himself it was hot; he did so,
with the result that large blister was
at once raised on the hand.
"On other occasions, however, Home
would apparently communicate his pre-
the sitters. He would say, Now touch
the coal!' and they would be enabled
to do so with the same impunity as
Home himself. These phenomena-in-
credible as they may appear-were
vouched for by many witnesses, includ-
ing Sir William himself, and seem to be
among the best attested of Homes
phenomena. The only analogy We have
is the so-called fire walking ceremony
performed in India, Japan, the Fiji
Islands, etc.-if We leave out of con-
sideration the historic case of Shad-
rach, Meshach and Abednego.
"Doubtless the most striking tests
undertaken by Sir William Crookes,
however, were those made with the
medium Florence Cook. These mani
festations took place in Sir Williams
own home-usually in his laboratory
and were of the order Of full form
naturalization. Florence Cook, the
medium, would enter the cabinet, and
apparently go into a state OF deep
trance. The room being in complete
darkness, a white robed spirit form,
claiming the name of Katie King,
would emerge from the cabinet and be
seen by the sitters-aa times carrying
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could i'll afford fare to Saratoga or
who had fallen on evil days-there is
about them that stoicism that is met
wherever the profession gathers, and
which, withal, is the most remarkable
thing about the gambler. Those who
hold winning tickets edge toward the
pay window and those who don't finger
souvenirs. There is a hiatus, broken
by the voice Of the croupier:
Here ware. The dogs only pay
twenty to one and III give y thirty"
The amber bones" or the "gallop-
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grew there, is rich golden au-
lone evening timed Katie's pulse.
1t beat steadily at IS, while Miss
Cooks pulse a little time after was
going at its usual rate Of 90 On ap-
plying my ear to Katie's chest | could
hear a heart beating rhythmically in
side, and pulsating even more steadily
than did Miss Cooks heart when she
allowed me to try a similar expert
ment after the seance Tested in the
same way, Katie's lungs were found
to be sounder than the mediums, for
al the time | tried my experiment Miss
Cook was under medical treatment for
a severe cough
"Sir William Crookes also took a
number of fashlight photographs of
Ratie-one showing her standing be-
side him and one showing Miss Cook,
entranced, in the cabinet, with Katie,
the materialized spirit, beside her.
These phenomena, incredible as they
may appear, were nevertheless seen
and testified to by large number of
responsible people ard were observed
BY Crookes himself for many weeks
consecutively and tested in every way
possible. These phenomena are among
the most extraordinary IN the whole
history OF spiritualism-th most in
credible and the best attested. What
are we to think Of them? That is the
question which has been asked for the
past half century and which still re-
mains unanswered. They are the most
startling manifestations which Sir
William Crookes reported, and will re-
main forever associated with his
name"
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trust, especially in Hoboken, but this
is in West New York.
There behind the pleasant masqucr-
ado Of post prohibition barroom is
situated the roomy pavilion, once dedi-
Gated to the giddy New Jersey tango,
but now converted into far more
profitable poolroom. Losing ones way,
it becomes advisable to consult West
New York policeman. lie knows the
place, though he may look the other
way when he passes
The New Jersey gambling trust is an
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exclusive, autocratic combination. Once
upon time the Broadway operators
thought they could invade New Jersey
and bask in the shade of protection
and percentage But after "Beansy"
Rosenfeld was pinched and others of
his kind were sent down the river"
the New Jersey gambling trust sue
cecded in establishing the vital point
that New Jersey soil WAS for New Jer-
seyites; New Jersey ''protection' for
It's very own, and let the devil take the
Broadway gambler. Somehow, Broad
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ing dominoes," If you will, leap ont
over the green dice table and the stud
dealer tits his hat lower over his eyes
and resumes play. The crowd before
the shee. writer is dissipated by the
dual attraction and melts away unos-
of odds on the forthcoming race, which
is the third.
Three hundred gamblers like peas
in pod, and where do they come from
Most of them from New York; the
rest from New Jersey. While the New
Jersey gambling trust will not permit
Manhattan operators to it's protective
perquisites, it welcomes the Broadway
player. The Broadway player 10 never
a squealer and he is legion. While,
to be sure, it is the less flush person
from the big street that sinks to the
level OF the Jersey poolroom, the money
he brings he will spend, and he brings
it often
1t was 10 be observed that the ma
jority of the 300 potential players were
men of about or beyond middle age. In
most of the faces there was an mex
pressible predatory something to be
found from the paddock 70 the pool
room-the look that is part of the hunt
er and part Of We hunted. In dress
tfere was just the foridity and in COM
plexion she pastiness that distinguish
the indoor gambler from the Wall Street
clerk. These were mainly derelicts
shot up on the rocks by the immutabls
percentage against the gambler, strug-
Cling here in third-rate tide to get
back into the swim.
1t is the eternal hope of recouping
past losses that always is deep-seated
with the gambler. In justice to the
West New York poolroom it may be
said that the chance Of overcoming the
invisible percentage without which
there could be no professional gam
bling is as possible in a New Jersey
pooroom as it is at a New York race
track-for it is impossible.
1t is the expression that comes to
the faces of those who combat the
parasitical kitty" and benefit not one
whit by cumulative, unsuccessful ex-
perience which was to be observed
in the motley gathering or in
the other New Jersey poolrooms that
cater to the riffraf left in the ~ke
Of beribboned and picturesque running
races.
Black-coated walters stood by ready
to serve drinks to the customers The
afternoon the writer visited West New
York the liquid business was SLIM
AS bystander remarked, there is "con-
siderable blindness and sudden death
in the average Bookkeeping highball,"
and if the gambler has to take q
chance he prefers to run it against
the ponies. Here and there customers
blew the foam off New Jersey beer
and mbibed with relish, for sawdust
floors are warm in Jersey and in mid
August.
While telephone bets are not per-
| MISSILE in New York, they are &C.
cepted in West New York, and through
out New Jersey the wire clientele il
large and growing.
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HO7Q,
Continued from page sir)

be registered equally on both sides
of the fulcrum.
"Mr. Home was asked to place his
fingers in the water in the metal bowl
without touching anything, and re-
quested to Will the emission from his
fingers of the psychic force in order
to register a depression of the oppo-
site end Of the board near the spring
balance He did so, his hands and feet
being carefully guarded Gall these eX-
periments being in good light) A pull
of about 5000 grains was registered!
In number of subsequent expert
ments even stronger pressures were
measured, which results were perma-
making graphic tracing Of the various
depressons and oscillations of the
board The manifestation of some kind
of psychic force thus seemed to be
established.
"These, however, were but the sim
pie, initial experiments undertaken by
Sir William Crookcs, which proved to
him the reality of psychic phenomenal
His subsequent researches were most
striking, including such manifestations
as the deviation, or floating in space,
of the mediums body; the elongation
of his body; the movements of objects
without contact; playing upon musical
instruments without any human hand
being near him; the handling of red
hot Goals without injury to the me-
dium and finally with the medium
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
q I WAS Adam Smith who, in the
4 eighteenth century, wrote that

IL eIluSSlei is person WuO
though no doubt highly blam-
able for violating the laws of his
country is frequently incapable of
violating those of natural Justice,
and would have been in every re-
spect an excellent citizen had not
the laws of his country made that a
crime when nature never meant it
to be So
Smuggling in England in that day
was SO generally practised as to be-
come a kind of national falling"
Human nature hasn't changed
since.
In those days wine, spirits, to-
bacco and bullion were the articles
most struggled. To-day jewels,
laces and furs are the arch tempt
ers, and thus it may be said that
while the current generation has re-
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way gamblers are never successfully
transplanted, unless 1t be, perhaps, to
Long Island.
Here they are!"
SO shouting, the sheet writer
emerges from the bookmaking booth
carrying small slip of paper upon
which is scrubbed the winner OF the
second race at Saratoga. The dice
game is again muffed and stuss comes
to an automatic halt. Three hundred
pairs Of feet scufhe over the sawdust-
sprinkled floor and pause before the
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The Odds

There had been pushing back Of
chairs and a scuff1ing of feet when
the sheet writer assembled the chair
Play at the dice table was imperilled
and the stuss game came to tempo
rary halt Three hundred gamblers
most of them from Broadway stood
gazing with inscrutable eyes as the
odds were hung up: Wise Man, to /;
Captain Hodge, 5, SIS and TO;
Savatelle, 80, 10 and 4, etc.
The stuss dealer relaxed and lit a
cigarette, fitting back on his chair,
while the keeper of dice-the one eyed
croupier-lowered his voice with an
effort as the sheet writer silently laid
down the odds. Let there be no lese
majestic! Dice are all right, and stuss
too, SO long as they do not Interfere
with the sport Of kings and the real
business of the day. There is caste in
gambling and dice are a sub-stratum
even in poolroom.
Three hundred tishy-eyed gamblers
gazed inscrutably at the odds. Here
NtAN tHcLG Olc W Ills ilttSn-
Dor or consulted newspaper sporting
sheet. But mostly they spoke naught
and looked.
"All donel Place your bets, gentle
men," declared the manager OF The pool
room, indicating with a nod the "book"
in the corner where bets were taken
and bets were paid. The book was
and is--a small wooden coop built at
one end of the long hall, with tiny
windows through which money is
passed.
Positively no checks cashed."
''No bets less than So"
ado not ask for credit"
Make bets here"
Small placards conveying the fore
going information and printed with all
the decision and flourish that inhere in
red ink are tackled along the booking
stand that he who runs may read. 1t
is aphoristic that gambling on credit
IS not gambling; that checks are gam
ing boomerangs.
"All DONE" the manager repeated
Significantly.
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On Long Island

The cheap poolroom gambler of New
Jersey with his dollar shots at dice
and his modest fling at stuss never may
be confused with his big and prosper
GUS brother-in-instinct who plays on
Long Island. Long Island is now the
focal point for the big-time flush
he attains his objective. He may be
in on the know" or he may be u suck
er from Albany, steered from a Broad
way hotel by glib comeon operating
In a Manhattan hotel
There are i've big gambling joints on
Long Island. All but one Of them ad-
join waysde roadhouses. Each Of
them is impossible of access unless the
prospective player is properly spoken
for, and IN no case may the gambler
participate unless he buys $500 worth
of credit
Il succeeded in getting a man into
one of these houses" said District At
torney Charles R. Weeks, of Nassau
County, who has been raiding alleged
gambling joints and disorderly houses
on Long Island. He had $3.50 for
expenses. When he tried to play he
was told that nothing less than $500
would entitle him to sit in. Faro IS
the big game. Roulette wheels are
too difficult to dispose of in case of
raids"
Dollars change hands as rapidly ON
Long Island as dimes in New Jersey.
Parties arrive by automobile and in
evening clothes. There is the atmos-
phere of ease and luxury which is the
hallmark Of Manhattan; very differ
ent from the sawdust-covered floors
and the messy cuspidors of the New
Jersey poolroom.
Poolroom gambling is essentially q
daylight affair, but faro, chemin de fer
and poker for high stakes thrive best
by night. Each of these games NAV
be played quietly, and that is one rea-
son why New YORK 5 big-time gamblers
obtained foothold on Long Island.
1t eventually defeated its purpose, for
the singular stiffness that made these
houses hard. by jazzing inns as silent
as temple in a far desert awakened
the suspicion of Nassau County's Dis
trlct Attorney, and a raid On one Of
them disclosed the notorious Shaurh-
nessey's.
Other raids are promised on Lon-
Island; have, indeed, been accom-
plished. Protection has been bought
as the District Attorney and the CAM
palgning Nassau County Association
+ well know, but its benefit will be
ephemeral. Driven from Broadway
and New Jersey to Long Island, the
Manhattan gambler has found that Mas.
sau County doesn't want him and hs
is ready t. migrate again.
Yet never will the gambler be entire
ly discouraged. In spite of the police
and growing vigilance he has with him
that quirk of human nature which will
prompt it ever to go on "buckine tn.
tiger whether il be in plush and
brussels inferior on Long Island or
raw, sawdust-covered door in Jersey.
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amblers! oh, They've a Paradise in Jersey!

Gambling halls in Netc JERSEY
are running aide open. The Nesv
Jersey police haze taken action
against the Ne1o York gamblers
,cho hare tried to locate across
the riucr, bat it is alleged "pro-
lection" is giuen home talent.
Coincjdent 10Th District Attor-
neg Slconn's statement that Ne,o
York City has been freed from,
professional gamblers Long ISL
ana has become centre for those
'cdo meet about the gaming table.
Successful raids haze been made
By District Attorney Charles r.
Weeks, Of Nassau COUNTY. who
says he acill d''iue the NetU York
gamblers from Long Island.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
By Louis Lee Arms

So 4 ND .*rs up
n There she goesl
4 "A "Steppin' out on Z
ninei
9TH Big Nine!
There's an eight n tn eight-ninel
Make the nine and buy the wine!
Watch tn field.
The field.
"Our tracks always fast,
There's five n tn fve-nine!
Hi!
I'VE DoN'T,"
The one-eyed gamekeeper ceased fir
ing, so to speak, raked in the dice dex-
terously with a small tan crook and
passed them on to the next shooter.
The nimble fingers Of two bare throat
ed, perspiring bankers skipped rapidly
over the board, lifting silver dollars IF
the pay line and dropping here and
there silver coin to those who had
wagered that the thrower wouldn't
The next shooter inadvertently fun
bed the dice
Get m up! Get 'em up!" walled the
gamekeeper. 1--WE only got four hours
to shoot and the boss says we's losing
two of EN- now. Get 'em up!"
The shooter grasped the dice more
surely, spared for elbow room in the
smelly press about the green cloth
covered gaming table and tossed
natural.
THE boy is good" howled the game
keeper. PAY the line!"
Thus the afternoon wore on. At one
side Of the long hall or summer pa
vIlion was stuss table, less popular
than the hexagonal and historic
bones" but doing nicely.
Cant make a cent Watching" said
The stuss dealer aFably. 1t was his
opinion that there were too many
sightseers.
Across the hall one of the dignitaries
o. the layout stood on wooden chair,
lis coat peeled off and his shirt sleeves
rolled up. With a crayon he rapidly
wrote the odds for the next race at
Saratoga. A little matter Of several
hundred miles stood between him and
The Spa but that had nothing to do
with the odds on the second race.
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smoke-laden air, where the cries of
the croupier mingled with the rattle
of gambling paraphernala and the
musical clink of silver dollars. This
was obviously easier than work, and
now and then something comes in the
way of the hanger-on.
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plicate Mr.. Newton's official life and
develop added ingenuity on the part
of the Custom House forces to COM
bat the wilos and trickery of the
smuCglcr.
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on conversation With them. Naturally,
the question at once COMES into the
mind: Was fraud possible in this
case? Was a confederate employed,
or could the medium herself have
played the part Of the materialized
snir;t1
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At Our Door

This particular poolroom lies but
thirty minutes from Times Square, in
New Jersey. There are many others
operated by the New Jersey gambling
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Stoics All

Whatever blasted hope is written in
to that cryptic sheet, or whatever the
measure of promise fulfilled, no word
of mouth escapes from the three hun
dred tishy-eyed gamblers Riff raft of
the profession though they be-who
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sheet writer in shirt sleeves, who again
ascends his das to chalk up the WIN
ners.
Wise Man first. Gleipner second,
Captain Hodge third"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-19

Nashville, Tenn. June ls.-tSpe- eiaI.)-Wounded and gassed In the battle at Chateau Thierry ana winner of three medals and eleven citations for bravery, Howard Moore, P, of Mobile, could not explain Wednesday why he had helped to appropriate an automo- hile along with two other soldiers, Raymond Luskey. ID. and Frank Berry Williams, both of Birming- ham. Moore helped take the taxi- cab driven by Clarence ROgerus local tazicab driver, Monday noon. After handcuffing Rogers to . tree, the three soldiers sped eff in the machine and were caught at Hantsville.
 Detectives returned to Nashville wtth the men early Wednesday morning. Luskey said he en. Gaxed the chauffeur at the union ltation. When the machine went past Lafayette street Williams and Moore entered the ear. Accord ing to the men's story, they told the chauffeur they wanted to find party by the name of ~Oave King." When seven miles cut on tAe Murfreesbero pike the men ferced Rogers from the machine and handcuffed him. chaining him to . tree.
 When within . few miles of Uunteville Moore said . maehlne ptoppea them and . nan told theW oeputies at Huntsville were await ins their arxivaI h the city. They