Show Electrical G O lad J mJngGJ Is the latest fad in the West said a tourist who 1 Gambling by electricity Gamblng In this progressive a 5e I am not easily i recently returned from a Western trip progcssleac l recenty this latest application of that silent and invisible i applcation r surprised but when I came upon latcst visible force to u game of chance I had to pinch myself to see if I I was awake It Is not I at all surprising that electricity But coming down to rockbottom facts al 3urprislng I found after a little reflection i should he used In conducting a game of chance afer 1tte refecton that my surprise was that It had not become a common thing Instead of pre xr renting the aspect of something extraordinary 1 In this day Indeed electricity Is used for everything from curing dyspepsia the time is not far distant and to propelling an airship or a submarine boat lmo 7 perhaps when electric bank cashiers or baseball umpires will be sold at moderate R A few nights I visited ate cost or found at bargain in secondhand stores ago ted San Antonio the metropolis oC Texas where the inclinations of the people arc paramount to law and the ordinary restrictions rest but lightly on the citizen t citi-zen The people of that town enjoy more liberty than any people I have ever a encountered A catholicity of sentiment pervades every sphere and what would be an unusual thing In other cities does not even excite comment except from 1 strangers I walked into a big gamblinghouse and was almost speechless for a moment mo-ment on seeing a number of women seated at u keno table But I was soon told that it was a very common thing I was in this place that the game of keno Is played by electricity Two or three hundred people can play at the same time by means of the apparatus The players arc seated at two long tables on cither side At the end of the hal Is a large rack which is connected by electric wires with a buttonboard or keyboard As the dealer turns the cards the operator touches this or that button or key and a number falls in the rack corresponding correspond-ing to each key or button pressed and to the cards as they are turned from th5 deck The numbers are clearly visible to each player at the two long tables The advantage afforded is that any number of people can play at tho game at the same time I am told that the system has proved highly satisfactory When the Anna Held company was in San Antonio the girls almost broke the hank playing keno I Is a question In my mind now as to how far 0 reach it Is I to playing poker or shooting craps by electricity New Orleans TimesDemocrat |