Show I Where European n Fortunes F Melt in n a Night fight I I Record for Heavy Winnings s and at Cards Cuds is Hold by hy the Vienna Jockey Club Where Was Recently Won in an n Evening by Nickolaus Von tho the Rich Pich and Hungarian irian Sport of ot Sports a Special Correspondence Aug Au L Thoughtful VIENNA persons In Hungary are lire much concerned over O r the terrible amount of oC gambling which is going on everywhere where through throughout out the monarchy monArch Scarcely a II week passes ru e without some sensational story Doming to light of or high hl h card playing In the Jockey Joke Club In Vienna or ar the not less le famous sister sl Institution t p National Casino In Budapest These Thele gambling scandals moreover are lire not confined to the two capitals for from small mall provincial towns and remote remolo country countr districts come como frequent tales of high play Nor NorIs or orIs oris Is the gambling to be found among Amon the Ih and wealthy wealth classes only on The relatively poor Mao also have hae their gamble often otten In horse harn racing but most ml t frequently In the lotteries which are to be j 11 played la ed everywhere and are under tinder the auspices of ot the Im tom Imperial pedal royal roal government Naturally however the gambling stories current in society and which often get gel Into the newspapers ne too con concern concern cern elM the upper clues classes entirely For Jor Forthe Jorth Forthe the th Hungarian aristocrat arl Is a born gambler and the Austrian nobles noble are not far tar behind b Few Fen Fe of ot them th In either r halt half of ot the empire take tak any an real In Interest Inv terest terES In or the serious affair attain of or life They Ther prefer Teter fo t o occupy themselves them themselves selves with lIh the th opera and theater anti and racing and card playing and their talk lalk Is b of ot billet ballet dancers horses horse hor e and card cardi And so o the dissipate their patrimony mortgage their estates and nd seem only to be br happy when hen they are head heed over oer em urs In debt TILE THE LAST OF 01 THE TUK LIST The last name to be added to the thelong thelong long and imposing Met list lI t of ot nobles and millionaires who ho have hue made ducks and drakes of If their Inheritance Is III that of ot Baron Huron Hermann Once the young joung oun mats mall In Inthe Inthe Inthe the monarchy with a patrimony of or seven Been or eight million dollars his In iii Income Inome come ome U is now le Ie less s II than a tenth of or what ht It once was war a His IUs vast ut estates In Ho Do hernia Hungary and Loner Jower Austria and tile his extensive hue houie property In Vienna Ienna are all said laId to be heavily h ell II en encumbered encumbered cumbered with mortgages lIt fa ra famous fanous ruing ruIn stable has haa been bun sold Old to Baron Haron Rothschild for tor some sixty thou thousand thousand sand dollars doll au but this does not Include the stud In which are some Fame exceed exceedingly exceedIngly InI valuable brood mares marei and horses horse The baron has hili certainly gone Jone the pace Ice and the crash nuh Is III n a big bl one even Hen for Vienna Ienna where berc heavy gambling losses o e are lire no great novelty For the family Is II tremendously rich In tart fart the wealthiest Jewish hou house In Autria Altri outside of at the Roth Both The baron succeeded to great estates at lit and runn and Chodan In Hungary at It Nieder In Lower Jofer Austria and vast properties at lit and ane Kl KI Cis Santo In Hungary Besides all these the he inherited several big houses In any nn on one of at which would rep up represent represent resent runt a early Income sufficient to support a clus family Then he had art treasures of no mean value I and Ind a II picture gallery alle rich In examples u of at old aid Dutch nd Ild Italian an as well as Austrian matters estimated to be cu easily easIly ily II worth orth Many Ian of ot these have already alread been disposed of or Baron Hermann was waa u only a second ton son but he ram come Into the bulk of at his hili fathers estate as lIS his elder eider brother was WaR cut rut off oft with lIh a comparatively small fortune for tor fortune tune for haying having married an all actress lit In 1 the he hope of ot breaking Into the most ex exclusive ex elusive drafts circles of ot Austrian A society th the I baron embarked upon a most glint gant career He lit entertained lavishly maintained a costly astir racing stable and lind at the Vienna Jockey JO kt club lost large sums rum of It money mone at cards to his arts aril companions HP UP won on the tho Aus Austrian rUn trian Derby twice and always backed baek 2 his horses hors s heavily After nil he hl can ran have hae had very er satisfaction from It II For Jor the Austrian aristocracy Is 16 the most mo t exclusive In trw the world and looks look down dOl with the utmost scorn loom upon all Interlopers however wealthy Ha It h they may ma be and especially e when hn they the chance to be Jews Jef The no nobles nobles bles blell would win the barons money mone but hut they the ask uk him to meet their women folk tolk ills His HI marriage also prove proe prosela I a very tery er costly affair To please his hll wife Hr a von on Draskovic he h abandon abandoned ed rd the faith of his hili forefathers and be became became came lime a Roman Catholic And for tor this under a special clau clause e In his hlll fathers will he lied had to forfeit a sum Fum of at a mil million million lion guldens which was divert diverted ed td to various JI Jewish IRh h charities And I then a few fe years ea ra afterward he hI was w LI as di dl divorced and that cost eMt him another halt half million dollars Even Ern hh his rent roll stand tand such wild MId expenditures Ix so be bf h M gnu to borrow and RM It was wall the begin beginning beginning ning of or the tile end His IIII total debts are at mere than ban Jt and the estates estate are lire difficult to realize IS AN AX OLD STORY It IR is the o oM 4 story of the third gen generation en cration dissipating dl what the previous two to had accumulated The family ami far tunes were founded by b lIaro Baran h JIM Her Hermanns er I manns mann grandfather Jonas ter who w ho bought up parts arts of ot the site of the old fortifications where Ianna magnificent now no stands The old man built houses house I and sold them al at big profits profit and his hili son II Morita who became the first baron was wu also n a shrewd man of business bu and added lidded largely largI to his hI patrimony Resides nl ldes what he bequeathed 1 to Hermann the late baron left about among amoD his ht other children and to charities Another prominent figure In the Aus Au Austro tro gambling world but of oC ofa oCa ofa a very Ir different kind Is III Nikolaus von OR Of ot noble Hungarian family he h hu has s all the gambling Instincts of ot hit his dUll class but 1 ut unlike most of at his friend he generally comes come out a II winner r Quite recently he If 1 credited with having won wen On 1600 I M kronen In bac bat baccarat baccarat carat at It the Vienna lenn Jockey dub He lie play d In all 3 9 gun games fib unfortunate pate nate na opponents nt were also alfo salons of o an dent Hungarian families one a Count Ete th other ether a Count Fe When this story torr got ot Into the th Vienna papers the tbt Jock club were greatly Rr tI annoyed and the secretary sent out an absolute h dental denial In to which It was 11 Mid said that baccarat ba playing was not nol per permitted In the club Hut nUl nobody took tho ho denial seriously Tho The club Is s little else cite he than a card rard playing institution When King Kin Edward Eduard was u hero here two WO j years ears trA ago a o he went every eer night to the club no matter how late halo he may ma have hao been kept at functions and spent an hour or two at ridge bridge b Another equally Quail well known knon Hun garian noble and member of ot the rath Count Nicholas Banff was wu also recently prominent In a card cam scandal It was n It as at the capital of ot Transylvania and the be game ame took place in the Cafe a I New York there The count and another Hungarian magnate mag magnate nate sat rat down dOln at 10 one night to play pia baccarat with Ith an Armenian i merchant Banffy Bantry friend had enough of ot It In an hour and having lest lort all 1111 his hili ready read money mone very er prudently stopped topped But the count kept on until 4 t In the morning by b which time the wily 11 Armenian had won some ome tJ kronen IMMO The count had some trouble In raising the till money to pay his hili losses loHer e Ills clouds ram came N to M hI his aid and th till the Armenian received 1 kronen 1100 in ash an estate worth illo 41 00 kronen Ut tOM and ami a PM pension lon for tor life of or UIN 1001 kronen kronn IWO 11 a month IOSSI AT MUNICH From Munich Hire also IFO rom come fr frequent sto ste to Ties of or h heR heavy avy loss los s at It the gaming U ta UW a atrio W bI trio on the j pert art rt of ot rt Moors Ik punt era tn The latest coed card dal from the iM capital U is I one olio NIt of ot tb the worst ont on 0 record and It Is MM aid to 10 involve noI on onto oat royal prince two 10 dukes duke about twenty counts and many man tester lesser I members of ot the nobility The scene of ot th the tumbling which led up u to this sandal Fean Is I a fasts fash fashionable n resort f rt at Munich on en exactly the lines of ot the Vienna Jockey club sight Night after night gambling proceeds then th n to tn ton toa n a extent and nd ai as In the Aims Aus Austrian luau trian capital enormous sums are w wen wenand n nand and lost loft lo t dully dally between the hours boUtS of oC midnight and ard 6 In fe the morning Their henry heur kisses loE at title this club have hare ruined many promising young officers ea of oC the Bavarian array army 11 as at well wen aa at num hum numerous erous Ua young noWes n and members of f the civil chit service Some of or these there un unwilling unwilling willing to far faro the disgrace a nf of not hOt pay payIng 1 paylag lag Ing In debts incurred at the tit card ran resort rf resorted l tt 1 to all an torts sorts of frauds to secure Ie sufficient funds to enable them IN to con can continue their membership In the tta etch club Others took their own lives tn to rapt the C II r tit of f their The most distinguished of or tb the the suicides is III Count Max fu Pr sing who bet WM wea faced with gamMIng gambling debts exceeding Ills 00 The royal prince hn haled In the tM latest Munich l I Is Jo Joseph Joeph Joseph seph eph of or Uarta whose whore Fe name ame wa wea forged to teory notes naiM h b iti s vei it el l officers who f thus the obtained large IRr sums s nf of money by b thud fraud Other harassed l members resort resorted to t systematic card I In order enter Id er to dare fl Inexpert need players player I One Ofte young infantry has hu been arrest d In connection lion tion with the u tat but the exact tl I charge against him hint has hu not Mt yet be been n made public R n U I |