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Show NERVY CHINESE GAMBLERS Games of Chance Come Natural to the Wily Celestial and He Knows No Limit. I 1" Demises a Philadelphia trim I- lug man who has boon stopping with ftlends In Indiana) olla dining the Inst three. di)n ,, his way east rtoni tho raillie coast wns ln a talkative mood the other evening while enjoying u uo I clgoi About six men out nf every tin" he said have the gamullntr Instinct I know this tn lie a fact, though no doubt It Is a deplorable one Of course. It Is the duts of the municipal authorities tu keep public gaming houses down as miuh as iHisidble, but It fcems to initial in-itial lndianuiHills Is wouderfulls fico from the gambling clement, when computed com-puted with other titles of equal sUe I have come light through from him rrnnrlMn a tits thut Is Just twice as luigens Indiana! oils hut which hns ten limes ns mans gambling itsnita It Is haul to live In Sail Francisco mid ic friilu from making a bet now and then I Vinson the eoist for fom mouths nnd nlthough I am not bs nnuie u gnmblei I lonfess thut I linked a fi w elollais on lh" runs nt Oiklimd during tin lnt week of the senho l nn I lost oni Ilvoiy bodS bets out there on the coast and the cits otllcliils hive n haul time or It Ki cling the gambling within disenable limits Ihev vo been gettlni after tho i hliiesc gamesters nf lite, and Its i calls funns tu sec how the Celestials outwit them 'It's Just ns natural for a Chinaman tn gamble ns it Is fur a Dutchman to drink bier Much ns the Mongolians fear tho American laws. It Is utterls Impossible Im-possible for the police of ban rranilsco to break up the games In Chlnatnwn Of ccurse, thi re are tho-e who was the blue-coated oiMccir of the law nre nut nltogether enthusiastic In their efforts to put nn end to thu gambling hells of Chinatown, It being hinted that the changed now anl If the sightseer In Hnn I rHlieisiu wishes to tnki In i on-ulne on-ulne l hlnese betting g line he Is oblige 1 lu bribe a native guide with nt le ist it couple of dollnis nml give eveij nssur-ame nssur-ame that lie Is not u spv Thete an u iiiimlier uf snletlis nr tongs," In Chinatown Chi-natown whose headquarters are known fill mid widens gambling hells and set when tin bind of inldtug poMmum manages tu lueak into the in tin llttlu Sillow men who riiqmnt Iho pi ices nre Invarlabls found chittirlng Imincentls In their Impossible nTiive tongue admit business nrfnlis tin latest news from the motherland the health of the I'm-leror-about eversthlng In fact, but gambling And theie Is nut a ink of c inls or a stai k of reds In sight, cither 1 he c hlef of l'olke of Nin I'miu Ism declare de-clare "-that the Chinese gimbling rooms nre almost u thing of the past U least one of the newspapers credits him with thnt statement If he roally said It he Is ellli. r not telling the truth or else he Is not as well acquainted with Cliln.itouii as he should be The other nlMit n small tarty of u paid u wise Ilttle Cliluauiuii to show us nlMiut through the seeiet ginning idaies of the Intuiiling Oilenlnl town wlileh stiinds In the Mrs eeniii of iho big Ameiliun cits The little Mongolian en-glneerel en-glneerel the trip without ans illtllcults, anl wu foreign devils wire lermlltel In wliniss a number of fun-tun games In fill operation. In ul of the Miming hells tho Micno pri seiitf.il was ptetty much the same. Tin low celling room, lighted by kerosene lamps, with hen' an J tin io a Chinese lantern, wns tilled Willi excited chattering Chinamen, lushing tosccuu good i laics about the gaming tnhle There weie usually ten I las cis In eaeh game and nn fist us one of Hum dropped out n new plnsir was ulwtisn leads to take his pluo. In tho tenter of the tnhle lay a pll" of mimes gold and sliver, no paper, for paper mones Is still a inrc nrlitle on the Tactile Ta-ctile co ist Iho dealer nut ut ono end nf the lung table nnd deult out the cards In wonderfully mill rnshlon his long sellow Hum i working with 1'iide-icuskl-llke ib xterlts Ihe stntll nt the everlasting burning punk sticks which sou ennt for the life of sou get away from In Chinatown. Illled the room with ii n almost stilling u lor nnd madi nil of us American visitors loiiB for tho frcsli uh outside. ' Talk nliout join chll I-llke. nliu 1 undemonstrative un-demonstrative Chinese' lou shonl I soe th" Mongolians at their favorite game of fan-tnn A morn excited nervous, loud-chntterlng crowd nf living thtnrs hns never been gntherel together outside out-side nf n cage of mnnkess. And when the dculci pointed a sort of wand nt tho winnei nf tho inint If sou huppened to bo a foreign devil sou couldn't henr Souiself think to save sour soul Such a racket! Huch a confusion nf sounds surels could not bo heard anywhere else lu the world ' The king of nil tho Chlnntown gamblers gam-blers In Chan Chung gambler nnd philosopher phil-osopher He controls most of tho big gaming tildes nnd Is worth ncurly a million dollars Vo Is 45 scars of nge, burls, broad-shouldered and weighs nearly 200 pounds You can sco him uny dis on the streets of Chlnntown, wearing wear-ing a aack suit of ncvy blue coikscrcw worsted, with white shirt turn-down tollai, leads-mado tie, while mans shoes and a wig of co irso black hair, his queue belli,? stored awns In the crown of his grns redorn hat. lou would sweat that ho Is an Americanized C hlumn in lf lliero tver wns one Hut how dlffeicnt he nppcirs ut night In his gambling hell, for then he Is trarfformei Into a Mongolian throUL.li mil through, with a great pigtail Hi it almost reaches to Ihe Door and n beautiful blouse nf pale bluo silk over luoso dark pnnta-lonns pnnta-lonns I bum him tlm other evening In hit olllee at tho Pole Hok Iloey club In bt. Louis nlley, and hud a little i hat with him His iittlco Is nut a prepossessing lilac e. 'Ihere Is burets room enough In it for two people to sit down but It Is lighted with electricity and contains iitlu r evidences of the wealth of Its owner -for Instance, several bottles of champagne standing In a row on u llttlo table Kiom tho llttlo finger of -Illg Chungs' left hand u magnificent diamond dia-mond sparkled He told me that It was worth tlOO-dnubtlcss the tiuth. The millionaire did not hesltnto to fas that ho had mnde nearly all of his money bs operating gambling dens and lotleiles In fan rrunclsco's Chinatown Ho Bpcnks good HnMlsh nnd I had no illfllciilts In undcistnnillng him lie de-dated de-dated that he cured nothing for money himself and that he wns nnxluuS to tnfike lots nf It onls for the great rood that ho could nccompllsh Willi It when lu retui mil tn China lie Inn nils to sail for his until, in mi in a seat or tun mid i XI eels lontlind a meeting nf Inline III u c him si tint Is lo lu e illod ror tin union un-ion of effii ting innus le foinis lu Clilnii ! I. mt that b libit hi savs ami lie night to know Chung Is no Ignoramus whatever else hols lie inn disc um mis subject and nut losi nut Hi kllnns the htMoii of Atiicilm iniiili holier Hi in must Aim Diana do Mid h sava that h bus mid th. hlstiulcs of I'iuiicc. I.iigliin.l ilennmis and Hussla I make iniiili mimes gambling I do something big with ms mimes smiu das he toll me In cither winds Chung Ins got kiimethliu, up Ills shove HiHidniss knows his sbeve Is rooms enough for n pntly big sehem, IndlauupollH Journal |