| Show BIG POOLROOMS OF NEW YORK L They were Never Navar More Thin Than at tile the TO OLO E Holh Irea Inu and are arf In oro Largo Laro N New York Aug cores com was 11 never a better thane for tor newspaper or other reform era en who whose specialty I Is the suppression ot of gambling and pool setting to lo their gifts than is II pr presented In tbs goodly city ot of He New York at the present prent time For both lamb gamblers anti and pool sellers Ira flourishing to a greater ter d degree and aad doing business more openly In Nw New Turk Tork just ut now than at aD any other time durin during the memory of than maIL The dUll die cUlt In th the wa way of doln doing anything to restrict their operations lies In the In Indifference difference of the public and nd tb the p press The public hu has bigger things than the closing ot of poolrooms poolroom and nd gambling joints to I think about these days daT Jut just Juta justas a as there are bigger blaer things for tor the news newspapers papers to print ne news bout about And u as Ion long u the people nor bor the news newa newspapers papers will give ve to reform In these the police authorities Will certainly decline to interest IAtt them themselves selves Iv WIDE OPEN POOLROOMS Nearly an all the poolrooms In both Manhattan and Brooklyn Were shut but tight last lut year yar wheat the Must commit committee till tee bade fair to amount to something said 1114 a professional gambler today Out But tb they all ope opened lied up again aID II as soon lOOn a as the Inability to results became becam apparent and today the situation s II quite satisfactory to the tra everywhere in ID New Task On Manhattan I land island alone there are re more than 50 10 that shelter belter pool sell I lag IDI establishments while Brook Brooklyn hu has more than IiO such places place They are for tor forthe tb the most mOlt part situated over saloons and andare are generally arranged so 10 that you must p pus through at least leut three street door a hall door and an Inner door opening Into the poolroom Itself A spotter potter is II at al each ot of these doors to keep out undesirable patrons and to give Ilvo warning to the gang tit In ruse cue or of trouble No trouble le II not tro from the police In an any circumstances Far from It ft taut but tn in the lace tace ot of a callous p pesos and anda Dd a callous public the Parkhurst society lOCI I is still tun keeping clo close tab on pool ool through Its chief detective agent and n nhi hi his helpers helpert and I s thought likely lot at any moment to step In and make mak all sorts of complications There I Is no lIy Ity that anything lastingly serious could be brought braucht about b by a I Parkhurst raid but bul such auch raids raid cost coat theo the poolroom keep p pere ere era Involved a lot or of money besides loss ot of time Moreover raids raid tend to muse the people temporarily ot at last Iut POOL SELLING AS AI AN INDUSTRY It 11 takes about a dosen doen men alto to mar Stu a well ell regulated pool poolroom room and these include besides the spotters or doormen telegraph operators ors ora outside men whose bOle It I Ito is isto to circulate among mon the patrone and so eo licit bets bell bookkeepers etc It ii Ie against tb the rules of the huu house for any n em to place any or of his bit own money mone They are re paid well for tor their thell services In ot of tb the risks rIt they Iber take and Dd to Insure them from squealing All these thue are aN controlled by a rill ring of 12 or 16 men who hive v their headquarters to In a ver very bu buNneSs Ilk like suit of nt offices on th the Bowery Bowel These are connected with evel every poolroom In tb the city b by telegraph h and telephone anti and at the close or of every business da day the headquarters quan tile tele graph and telephone operators ahl kept kepI on the hustle receiving reports or orthe the buln business done dolle In each room since Iee morning Theo report are re all kept straight by br bya brI I a corps corpe ot of bookkeepers who at elated Urn time In turn report the earnings of each fath poolroom together with the total ot of all 11 to the magnates tel These Tbt reports report must mut often be extremely judging from the tact fact that on tile the day ay of the recent Brooklyn handicap one poolroom atone found liMit itself about out to the good But Dut It is I not ii 1 ways way thu thus Sometime of course they h have lessee lonee to report The mn men at t headquarters do 40 all 11 tb the hiring and nd It ItI itIs I Is always understood that tbt the ring will take are of oC any ny In ca cabe case he be Is II caught ca ht In a raid or otherwise dr rived ot of bl his liberty It is II rather hard to nay AS just ut ho how many names there are aN aNon on tb the pa pay rolls of the ring It If a as m my Informant avers there are re Qt at lent a dosen dOlen men awn 1 to eer every poolroom and there are about aboul in III Man Manhattan halt hattan and DeI Brooklyn the total totI I is over 1 OO not counting thou at head lIr trI ten which must lurel surely brinK bring It Il lip up l la to toa a hundred more mort et at least The weekly kl uta salary must mUll amount to thousands POOLROOMS FOR WOMEN Some time Ume ago alO a number or of p pool poolrooms l rooms for tor women were raided and It was thin then announced that uh ouch would be tolerated in III tUlU future under no circumstances whatever jU This has not ben been made goad th there being at east PUI three for tor women In a athe at atthe the present pret time One On la i located In the midst MIdI or of the shopping It en entrance entrance trance being cov covered b by what t is III ostensibly a It Its customers are mostly well to d women the or of the III lit wo 0 me meis are In poor circum circumstances stances financially II as a rule rul None lone of tile the place no now running u Ia likely to he be shut down don simply se they an all py y I the price which It s IA said Ua the raided establishments did not nol |
