Show WOMEN I GROWn NEW YORK Many Clubs in Heart of Gotham Gotham Goth Goth- am Run on Same Principle Principle Prin Prin- ciple As Men OUTSIDERS ALWAYS LOSE Fashionable Surroundings En Entice Entice Entice En- En tice Many of Fair Se Sex X to Newest t Craze t Nea w York 9 Investigators for or this news service sel have disclosed cd the lie fact during the past two weeks that hat an nn appalling number of New ew York women are arc confirmed gamblers The cil city Is hI honeycombed with poker polier games run 1 by y women and the evil furnishes fur fur- to a huge ring ling of or a arich arich arich rich an and pa le Industry The growth and power of the ellma evil ll ma may be he gathered b by the character of or orthe the lie players These are not 1 by y any means confined to the tho sporty port women wo wo- wo men men the the women of the thc race track and her type but Ul Involve o women of oC social quality women of or the home homo wives and ind matrons matron whoso whose domestic happiness happi ness uess Is Imperilled and whose homes are threatened 1 by y their nightly pation The Thc l he games ate are generally played in inthe the ho most attractive e surroundings and and with a due ue regal regard for 01 social form orm The Thc women corne come to them In full Cull evening regalia Hun Hundreds r ds of or dollars are JostIn lost Jost lostIn In fu these car card battles every afternoon an and night Girl Lo Lost Loa t Only S OO In one play a young woman a stranger in the city told ono one of or the in investigating In- In committee that she had lost five times paying paying- out as much as at one ono sitting Each stack of chips purchased purchase in ht this game cost a n thousand dollars and table stakes are arc the thc limit Otter Other games have ha high or 01 low limits lim lim- its accor according to the J financial standing standing stand stan ing of oC the tho players Bank Dank accounts have ha dwindled perceptibly I since the craze e for fol poker fastened Its talons upon New ew York women When It Is thought how the utmost caution is used b by the proprietresses of all women's gambling games It I Ia li Is a astonishing how man many women the reporters re reporters re- re porters found oun who I knew of oC dozens OT-ens OT of games ames and wino who on every occasion possible possible pos pos- sible 11 le visited them without regard to tho the fact that man many of or them arc me clever enough to know that they are giving their monc money awa away Rarely are outsiders known to win Invariably the house Is ls u u. 1 big 1 winner at the tho end of ot the game and If It It lasts long enough there is little mone money left lert for for- an any player to carr carry awa away Nearly always the kitty is so su large c that It quickly I eats up the mone money which has been paid pal for tor checks at the 1 beginning of or tic the s ante ame Cappers Have Xo No o Trouble lc In the hotel section section of the city particularly particularly par par- puppets are aro They watch for wealthy women ate arc in the elt city for a few days mho Tho capper l' l makes mal the thc acquaintance oC or tho the women The Thc rest is eus easy He can eRn show Mho her hem an easy game ameo and andas as most women believe c their luck and Intuition will mal make o them win v each time lime the they are aie casH easily inveigled to enter enter enter en en- ter either a called so-called open game amo 01 or a private one A player mutt must be Introduced Introduce all and well ell vouched for e especially if she be bea a New York woman Thero There has 1 been een I so much trouble of oC late Into that the women women wo wo- men who run games gaines especially specially tho those e who pay no police protection have ha been mn made e unusually wary ary |