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Show t ii e "stout "at leisure. Effect of C losed C lub Houses Dealers acrl Rouders Burglar Captured. Sportdom these autumn nights present an air of grotesque desolation. The. flood of light that usually suffuses thn matted jungles of the tigress has dwindled, down to a compound of daylight and darkness, dark-ness, the flicker of a blinking candle now and then bursting through the half drawn curtains of a deserted club to taunt and gibt its dismantled devotees. The effect of Judge Zane's peremptory chargo to th grand jury on gambling is to be seen in variety of w ays. It 'has thrown about 200 dealers, proprietors and other employees of the rlub rooms upon their oars, while it would be difficult to approximate the num-number num-number of parasites who deriva precarious existence from the t. bles that have suddenly had their tithings cut off, their grub money, tips for cigars, clean shaves and laundry unexpecb.' ediy stopped. . . The fraternity itself can pilot Itaelf over the squaU-j-it is the "gentry,'" the tin-bora and vampie that must suffer. The former have beery provident enough to put aside . "plant." Sit is this last myped M i.,, which thZTt'M' Z-tW-' ' " and a cleaning upth?eatens lswarr- t rif. . "" a very few hours. - "Go in McGinty !" cries the fraternity. "I am w id yees." The outlook for these nondescripts ia dismal. The proprietors and dealers say they will now keep the. door under lock-and. ' key until the merchants, whose revenues they prophecy must sustain a severe blow- in the. loss of a class of clients "who pay lha owner's price" for everything they fancy, have been heard from. How soon they will be heard from is a tough problem. The gamblers gam-blers claim for themselves that through the instrumentality of the faro layout, roulette and kindred devices at icast'$."X) a day ia kept in circulation among the restaurants. the gin mills, gents furnishing houses, livery stables, etc. This docs not include, says tho committee on ways and means, the actual cost of operating the table over which the gilded sovereign presides, w hich is about 810 a day. "What's your wages?" was asked of a dealer who puffed a choice cigar as he paced like a nervous silhouette in the shadow of an electric globe during the night. "Seven dollars a shift." j "Ought to save something on that. Married Mar-ried man?" "Naw, can't afford it keeps me ructlin' to look ont for myself." 'And your expenses?" "Well, w hen a man's just livin it costi him $3 a day for board and room, then there's the tailor, the shoe shiner, tips for the rounder, the flunky, cigars, a cocktail now and then and, well incidentals. How r.re you going to save anything out of $7 a, day V" "How'll you cover these now?" "Call on the sinking fund." and reaching . for it the dealer chirruped an old love tun; and led the way to the bar. Everybody joined in the rounder as well as the rich man. There is a limit to the sinking fund Tiow. . ever, the "cases" will soon appear and the rounder and the policeman will then begia the game of hide-an-seek. Captured a Burglar. Special Officer" - t -rns and Officer Curran scored a cl ipturc at an early hour this morning in tne baggage of a burglar bur-glar w.ho was '-caught in the act," and taken down to headquarters where Billy Hiitou registered him as James Burns. "Jimmy," w ho is a fellow of decidedly genteel gen-teel appearance, had taken to the highway' and finding himself at the rear of the Union saloon plunged through the transom and then upon the till. Special Officer Stearns who covers that beat was shortly on the trail and to make things merry and thrilling disc harged his Fix-shooter. Officer Curtail answered the signal and was about to force the entrance when the marauder op:ued the door and surrendered. He was relieved of a. gun and started below. At headquarters another gun was found upon him and $2.'J0 in small pieces. "There wa more than that in the till,' said the proprietors, and dragging the prisoner pris-oner out for another search, $J.0O more was found in the collar of his coat. The revolvers revolv-ers belonged to the keepers and bartenders, and up goes Jamesy, old boy, for grand larceny. |