Show I I I I I I I I I I I i I I BROLASKI EXPOSE OF iAMES A lES Washington on Dec 14 With a sup portIng casto cast of reformers ra galore both men and women Brolaski ot of Monrovia Cal Ca who ed to bo be boI a race track k W waa the I stat star feature o of d a hearIng to a before the senate Judiciary 1 committee In InI I I Southport of tOe thc Burkett biB to pro prohibit hibit the tran of r co track I betting oetting odds oddo oel telegraph or tle tele lines He told tolo how the hc publIc Is mulcted b by bookmakers 8 at race rack by br pool and by Jr handbook makers 3 rr fr In niost candid antI and ta gave details of oC tile the gamblers me life and showed time the poor chance of r returns for mone Invest invested rl which Is given glyen to time the gambling public He of tho rs o of a L cnn can track that flint wa as tM the I basis of oC gambling in n tIle the United States and rat put lUt out o of bust husi bustness ness at the the department or of state through negotiation with the Mexican govern government mont Is seeking to have 1110 track tn in which he hn has no Interest dealt with In like manner Has Wide Experience IntroducIng himself as having been beena a gambler poolroom proprIetor book bookmaker bookmaker maker ace tracks and a hand hanel haole maker saId he hc had worked In hIt his lIne lIno In SL Louis Chi Chicago cago Fort Worth Robey Rober Atlanta Charleston S O New Orleans San Sail Francisco Oakland Los LoB Angeles Angelos La Latonia Latonia tonia Louisville and track and had had 2 21 years experience lie roughly estimated d that there ire arc now In tho th States between sixty and seventy that hat lifty or of these al In New York cit city He calculated lint there thore were ero In operatIon nearly I iO handbooks which he declared are the incentive that make the unsophisticated gamble on the horses hosea He gave at length IC cle clet t tails of employed b by race racetrack track bookmakers pool room opera tori and handbook makers He sal said that In Iii New York eit there wen weri at least handbook and poolroom pla play players ers and that the evil was as growing dall daily I Take Money or of the Poor I The play that Is by the head hooks books and said Bro Brolaski laski Is usually from irom a C class of PlC that can ill III afford to lose lese arid and their I bets average from froni fifty cents up The Tho ThoI I man of family will take a chance and andI I loso his rent rent mone money the clerk will willI t I take a chance and lose his board mono mon I oy cy the girl wiH ill take talce a chance and ancl i use money thaL he expend on onI n I herself It is for fol more mon money I ey and the gambling fever feer that be comei inoculated Into thir lr system and It Is growinG all the time condemned the tho ticker ser serIce Io Ice o of the Western Union Telegraph company or sub ased lines as a great eyll that should be lopped rt 11 Is service S giving in the results and the prices as the they ho he said Pointing out the 11 peor cor chance given the fora for a of an any his wager the witness saId that In a ai poolroom the lse against the would 25 to per perI percent cent and lna Ina the per ent ge wan waH from lIve to 15 pet pAl cent No Ch to Beat G Game A player much the worst of It to start 1 Brolaski said antI and there possible chance to lo boat beat the tho game Common sense will tell you jOU that thal from five per pent up will oat eat UJ an any mans capital if taken out sIx times a ho Theme Thore is s one means said Mr lr loj this evil ovil out ant 0 Of business effectually and that Is by bythe bythe the Unit United d States enact enacting ing it a law prohibiting the tim transmission of anti race track thou over telegraph or telephone wires either In cipher and hr by having those laws enforced after neter they arc passed also alao prohibiting the use or 01 the mails to t newspapers that pu pub publish lish ish race track or results lie Ho said he could to the commIttee cases with which lie he had nce where men had become rs and thieves on ac account account count of time the and handbook evIls Ho FIe of the grim gam gamblers war now lit progress in Chicago caused b by poolroom books anti hand handbook book factions Probably 5 d dynamite bombs have been thrown at gambling houses In the fight between those two factions he said Must Stop Poolrooms RO Rev O 0 It Miller of New Ne York see sec of time Reform Bureau said that thal race mace tracks hild been put out or of business In Now New York YOlk under time the splendid leadership of Go Ga hut but that all of his efforts and those of the reform elements would come to naught unless transmIssion of mallon used by br poolrooms and hand hooks bools were ere stopped Senator Clark chairman of the Judi Judiciary clary ciary committee asked that an aigu argument mont ment be submitted on the subject of ito constitutionality or Of legislation a ad advocated Ho He said most people wore were agreed as to the thc moral sl side e of the matter and that there thero could be no question of the right of oC to stop the transmissIon of racing news through the malls but there thore might hu hua b ba a question of regulating the lines to th t extent A number of women from roam New York Ne ew Jersey Pennsylvania and the City of interested In tern perance and nud move moe meats ments spoke briefly |