Show BURBIDGE BARS BABY ROULETTE t Acting Chief Orders New Gamb Gam Gambling ling hog Device Out o r of Saloons LITTLE MACHINE BIG PROFITS 4 TOE FOB FOB SEPAR SEPARATING SEP POOI FOOL boi PROM oi COIN COI 4 Acting Chief BurbIdge took the in initiative inItiative against gambling yesterday and ordered miniature roulette wheels taken i out of or the te saloons and cigar stands of I the city The baby roulette is a new I thing to Salt Lake as a gambling device It I is patterned after the large roulette wheel used in gambling houses but instead of the numbers number running from 1 to 36 with 0 wih and 00 as on a rou lette lete wheel they range from 1 to 46 omitting ten numbers and paying thir thirty ty t for tor one on the numbers number while a rou tte wheel pays for one The entre entire layout is in a harmless harlesS looking box about eighteen inches square the wheel being in the box with the corresponding numbers number and colors lithographed on the lid ld It I is convert conven arranged so that tat In case of in invasion InVasion by the police the box can be closed quickly and put out of sight The new machines have been a great gat source of revenue to the te saloon owners around town as they are ae freely frely pat patronized patronized patronized Men len 1 who have been drinking often ofen play them in a reckless fashion The percentage p In favor of the house ho se is greater geater even than from a roulette wheel and in ifs i one saloon saloon It was w eat esti estimated mated that the wheel made often ofen 20 and an d even as a high as a 30 an hour for the owner In this particular place one man is 15 paid to do nothing else but run the wheel The original idea was s to operate it i as a a slot machine paying In Incheck checks check good for drinks drInk and cigars and andin andIn in one or two instances this has been the ruler rule rule but In the fhe majority of cases cass cassit it has been money for money and your own money back perhaps |