| Show SALT LAKE GAMBLERS Hook and Crook of the Trade Dealers and Customers TIN HORNS MUST QUIT THE TOWN I Fink Cos and Morgan Cos Policy shops Expected CrashThe Skin Games I How Harry limes Got Enough Etc Etc Salt Lake is overrun with gamblers Gamblers of all degrees from the sleek cleanshaved stylishly dressed diamond studded proprietor dowu to tho dead broke and dead beat tinhorn who hangs around a faro table on the lookout for a aleeper Gamblers of the square draw poker game when there is any such down to the impecunious black policyplayer who will steal a nicklo to blow it in against 41144 41 The public know from THE HERALDS frequent references to the business that gambling in Salt Lake has been riding a high horse for these many many months At last the skin games have got t be so open notorious and flagrant that the class which claim to be of a higher order havo appealed to the police to protect them The percentage rackets owing to their accommodating accom-modating themselves to tho circumstances of the very poor have been getting in all the floating money and the occasional sucker on whom only they are now obliged to rely for big winnings doesnt furnish fodder enough to keep the business going The sKin game bosses with their steerers and outside influences were quietly notified noti-fied last week that their time had come and the click of the hog box is no longer heard in tho precincts where erstwhile the gentle stranger was led in like an ox to the slaughter and robbed of everything in his jeans So too of those who have been running studhorse poker chuckaluck craps haphazard and other socalled games of chance where the victim has no chance at all THE HERALD future time describe I H1ULD may at a the dens where these tigers have lured and I devoured their prey Some of these arc tumbledown forlornlooking places with apparently now a sign of life about them Focal ELEVEN TORTTFOUR The edict has not gone forth for the suppression sup-pression of the lottery policy business This has for some time teen exclusively conducted by two concerns One dignifies itself with the name of the Salt Lake City Gift Enterprise asssociation capital 5100000 determined at 67 Commercial street up stairs at 1 a m 3 and 7 p m daily C F Punk So Co managers The other is the Utah Land and Mineral association asso-ciation capital 100000 determined at 7 Commercial street up stairs at 12 m 5 and 0 p m daily Whilst there is scarcely one newspaper patron who has not read about policy lottery which is symbolized by the mysterious mys-terious combination of the figures 41144 there is not one in ten thousand unles a player at the game who understands it There are no published rules governing i and it is all a matter of tradition so to sneak The tickets are seventyeight in number 1 to 7S inclusive These tickets are written or printed rolled up and placed in metallic tubes supposed to be exactly alike and put inside of a glass wheel the purpose being to shake them up like shuffling a pack of cards so that when one is taken out It will be wholly 1 matter of chance what number it contains Twelve of these 78 are drawn out at random one alter another and these twelve numbers and their position as drawn from the wheel determine tho prizes for they are placed in a row and their stations numbered from 1 to 12 as for instance first number is 29 second number is 5 and so on for tho whole twelve The player chooses one or more numbers cash according to his fancy and his AS PLAYED IK SALT LAKE 1 number is a day number and pays 5 forl 2 numbers is a saddle and pays 3d for 2 Station numbers pay 5 fort 3 numbers is a gig and pays 200 for 1 4 numbers is a horse and pays 100 for 1 Capital saddles pay 400 for 1 tOo on 4 number row pays S5CO per gig lc on 5 number row pays I2LO per gig lOc on 0 number row pays 100 per gig 30o on 7 number row pays S2no per gig 55c sn 8 number row pays 52 C per gig 85c on 9 number row pays l per nip li0 on lu number row pays 42 Ou per gig The writers are the agents of the policy company who take the bets and money of the players and return them their winnings i they make any To each company com-pany there are about ten of these who get 20 per cent of their bookings and who have their regular policy shops where business is conducted pretty opently whilst sub writers or flyers work on the streets visiting workshops saloons and other places When all the books of tho players ore turned into tho company at tho policy headquarters the lucky numbers are struck writers off upon lists and distributed by the The profits of the game when played fair are enormous The chance of winning win-ning on a single number is about 1 to 1S2 and combinations of course though offering offer-ing big percentages wbjp successful are proportionately hazardous But the game unless closely watched can take advantages beyond this in the manipulation of the wheel and the drawn numbers It is not charged that the Salt Lake writers i resort to this The percentages 20 percent I per-cent of the sales may be put down as averaging aver-aging 20 per week to each writer or 2000 for the whole Irom which it will bo seen that a big inroad is made into the earning I of the patrons of these establishments I PLATERS SUPERSTITIOUS Like all amblers the devotees of policy pol-icy particularly the colored ones in whose breasts thero is an everlasting burning love for the sport are superstitions 41144 is i nigger row and is played for cvorythin in Bight on or about emancipation day Stealing row 101045 is one of the con monest played that is to say these are favorite numbers Blood row is 10854 and Is i played on the occasion of a fight or murder The 162S35 row or cop row celebrates some event connected with a policeman Whenever an article is sold at a junk shop to play policy it has its special row in one of tno four stations Policy is essentially a smallante game and it is a great promoter of the business of the pawnbroker thops where the omail players pawn their clothes furniture and everything they can get hold of The limit in Salt Lake Is 250 Its great day is Saturday Satur-day for obvious reasons not wholly disconnected dis-connected with the fact that then is when laborers pet their pay for their weeks work Of course policys best customer are among those who can least afford to lose and whose passion for gamin like the sots for drink is kept up in the face of the most overwhelming testimony of its disastrous effects THE DOG BOX This is a contrivance known to all sure thing gamblers being one and the chiefest of the appurtenances of the game of faro It is nothing more nor less than a mechanical mechani-cal device through which by the use of a concealed spring the dealer takes out either one or two cards as be chooses and therefore there-fore makes tho card lose to the bettor when it would otherwise win The cards are trimmed and sandpapered for the purpose A snide establishment has a complement of cappers looking up grays around the hotels and public resorts who steer the greeDY into the den which is generally upstairs stairs over a saloon Arrived at this place a social drink is taken when the bartender is asked in a whisner if anything is going on above to which he indifferently replies I he supposes so The capper and tho victim make a start whereupon tbo barkeeper bar-keeper touches an electric bell coinmuni ating with the faro room Instantly the bank opens unoccupied steerers set in and by the time the new comers reach the table the game is in pro grass at a great rate The sucker looks on 0 while sees the bank is out of luck calls for a stack of blues drops into a seat and ho leaves the institution without with-out a car ticket There is at least one es ablishment on Main street which has been in new hands during tho last three months and the gambling annex discontinued where the disused annunciator is in plain sight The hogbox is by no means the only contrivance for running a skin game a chapter on which may be written at anther an-ther tine from the material in hand WHERE WILL IT END The precipitation of the new gambling raid which has just begun in this city and which has been conduoted with great secrecy crecy is thought to result from the police I having got on to a certain scheme or h L u vuuiesiue exposure mat was neany reauy to be launched There will be considerate curiosity to see how far it is intended to cro II the crusade to appease the wrath to come At present as stated in the begin ning of this article it has the appearance of confining gambling to tho low percentage percent-age games leaving draw poker or club games roulette and square faro to pursue pur-sue tho even tenor of their way Naturally Natur-ally Tao HERALD is not willing to lose its coign of vantage by parading a lot of names and places before the public in the present interesting phase of affairs but I will await developments I WHAT A GAMBLER SAYS A sporting man known to be well posted was seen by a HERALD reporter Ho thinks the fraternity have boon very ill used from time to time As is well known they are not usually squealers but belong to he kind that can sit up take their medicine and look pleasant We do not protend to use his language in sneamng of these mat tars In substance ho said it was woil known the gamblers had been freely bled for the support of the municipal government 1 govern-ment the police department usurping the I functions of the citycouncil and adopting I a system of high license of their own extending tending to card games and the gay man sions of pleasure But it was not the business busi-ness of the sports to regulate the social evil or the wagering habit and they had submitted to the bleeding method of conducting con-ducting municipal affairs without kicking The proprietors of tho games had put out heir good money on fines not alone for themselves but for each employee about their houses it always being understood un-derstood that for a season afterwards they were to bo unmolested and their customers whose fines they had also paid were to be permitted to come and go at will These were men oj the best class in their lice i of uusincss Luuru was narry nines wno came hero with a lot of money from Cheyenne CheY-enne as decent and honest a man as ever was a true friend and with all the instincts in-stincts and principles of a gentleman Harry had been persecuted out of town whilst a lot of blind pigs who pay no license cense of any sort whose business is often ill concealed behind a cigar store Indian are allowed to conduct crooked establishments establish-ments under the very noses of the police It shame was a dd outrage and I blistering A good deal of this sort of talk can be heard by a good listener i ho wants to hear it |
