Show NEVER GAMBLES SUNDAY 5 I The peace and quiet of an American Sunday is over Saratoga At less than sixty minutes after midnight this morn ing the whirl of the roulette wheels ran out to stillness Faro banks were closed and the rattle of dice was hushed Tho nations day of rest had dawned and the business of the town the frivols of fashion and the gaming thereof stopped aa suddenly as If all the currents of pleasure had been shut off by the pressing press-ing somewhere of an electric button It Is orth while recording these facts because they bring about a condition of affairs which distinguishes Saratoga from every resort In the world where gambling on a more or less large scale Is tolerated In the Casino at Monte Carlo at Ostcnd at BadenBaden and at Homburg the Sunday gaming Is about the heaviest of the week In New York Chicago San Francisco Now Orleans and other large American clUe the coming of Sunday Interferes not a bit with the business ot the gamblers In Saratoga however now and always al-ways not a wheel Is turned and not a card Is dealt In a public gambling house for the twentyfour hours between the I midnights o Saturday and Sunday The I townfolks have always Insisted that the i stranger within tneir gates should observe ob-serve the first day of the week to the extent of refraining from the sports of the secular days John lorrlssey understood the spirit of the people of the town In which he built and operated his famous club and respcctec their wishes And the gamblers gam-blers will tell you that altogether apart from the moral side of the question this policy of a closed Sunday Is a good business bus-iness policy They will tell you that It pays In more ways than one and they cite the fate o the gamblers of Long Branch in proof of their contention conten-tion To be sure the gambling as conducted con-ducted at Saratoga can hardly be compared com-pared with that at the cltybythcsea before Justice J Franklin discovered himself and the Long Branch gamblers a second time and put them out of bus mess So It happens that Saratoga may be mad and bad and glad for six days In the week but she Is very very good on Sunday Sartoga X Y Special to the Philadelphia Inquirer |