Show I I Celestial Gamblers PHILADELPHIA March 21 Lieutenant Walton of the Sixth Police District with a squad of twentyfour officers last night raided six of the Chinese gambling places and succeeded in capturing 233 Chinamen together with a large quantity of gambling paraphrenelia opium smoking outfits and other fixtures All the places raided are in the neighborhood of Ninth and Race streets and the vicinity is the rendezvous of almost al-most the entire Chinese population on Sunday Sun-day The fact of gambling having been carried on so openly and the noise raised by such a largo congregation of Celestials has been the source of frequent complaint to the authorities and upon these warrants were sworn out and placed in the hands of the Sixth District officers with the result above stated In one house alone on Race street a twostory structure ninetyseven people were captured and in others various numbers from sixty down The prisoners were given a hearing later in the night when the proprietors were held to bail on charges of keeping gambling houses and the inmates held to keep the peace |