The evening world. Newspaper, April 10, 1908, Page 20

EE ARS RE EN ERE Fore sen ily Magazine, Friday, April 10; lord, Pevliamea Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Cempany, Nos. 6&8 te @ rk Row, New York Jo ANGUS SITAW, See-Trene,, $01 Weet 119th Street, Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Mat! Matter. the Continent ame onal and ries in the Internati Postal Union. ‘For Engl: bscription Lae i All Cou vening World f 8 $3.50 One Year.. 80 One Year One Month. t One Month VOLUME 48. NO, 17,084 The Evening World Da WHY IS GAMBLING? et on | stocks when they know that the prospect of winning in the } is nil and that the losers are always more numerous than the winners? The same men own the mace tracks year after year, and many of the same faces are seen on the bookmakers’ stools, but the multi- tude of bettors is constantly chang- ing. The same brokers have offices on Wall, Broad and New streets and WExchange Place, but their customers change. t Everybody knows that gamblers of all kinds make a living at the gexpense of the men who gamble with them. Otherwise bookmakers $would have to find some honest employment and brokers’ offices would Me closed. Unless the stream of new money continued professional feambling would stop. Gambling is the risking or wagering of money on a chance or un- tainty. To make a bet that the sun will rise to-morrow is not gam- pine, To bet that it will rain is gambling. To constitute gambling gthere must always be an uncertainty beyond the control of either party jand each must have a chance both to win and to lose. Where dice are loaded, or cards marked, or a roulette wheel electri- cally equipped, or a jockey fixed, or a horse doped, or a stock deal Stacked by high financiers, it is not gambling but swindling. Unless the element of chance enters there can be no gambling. The taking of the public’s money without giving the public a chance to win is plain theft—the getting of money on false pretenses. Simple as {s the definition of gambling, the explanation of why so i many people gamble is difficult, Few people gamble to make money. The sordid gambler sits not on the public side of the table, but rums the game. He counts on the mathematical percentages in his favor. HAT is gambling and why is it?| What is its fascination or interest?| Why do men of sense and intelli- yrses, cards, dice or ng mun Switched. By Mauri | 1LOvE To SAVE RAI ROADS ce Ketten. Why Should Gov. Hughes Stop B The man who bets on horse races simply to make money gets a Job working for a bookmaker and blossoms out into a bookmaker him-| self. The cold-blooded, avaricious Wall street man starts in a broker’s| +itice as Harriman did, not as a customer. The most likely explanation of the Popularity of gambljng {s the rexcitement of ft, the mental effects; not the belief that tt Wei ‘Dut the uncertainty of tts results, | To most men life at best is dull. The routine work {s monoto- mous. Family life, except for Its ordinary annoyances, is tranquil. Excite-| ament is sought as a break in the evenness of things, Unlike the man who Tived to be 110 years old by never doing anything else, most men Wip into vices occasionally because ft is tiresome always to be good sand while the good may die happy : ae ithey have few eventful reflections. The proprietor of a Fifth ave- wnue hotel selected one of his best » waiters to look after his family. He vasked the waiter the total of his wages and tips and put him on a ySalary $5 a month higher. After a few weeks the waiter asked to be returned to his old job. He said his salary paid him better, but that there was no interest or e It was too monoto ement, ing on the same people every and knowing just what his would be. He knew he was mak more money, but he had no ulative in- terest in his work. This spirit is the best explanation the wrtter can give as to why gambling fs. Letters ftom the People Is New York Dixcourt mata ‘ c cambling and dle “Knocking Down" Pa Maren 29. Department By Roy L. McCardell. oy fe all this talk in the papers about recing bills?" asked Mrs. Jarr. ‘‘Ian't {t terrible stuff that nobody understands or js interested in that is printed !n the papers?" “A lot of people are very much Interested in those mac- ing Dilla,” sedd Mr. Sarr. “Governor Hughes doesn’t want anybody to have any fun, tan't that {t? asked Mrs. Jarr. “I don’t know why ho wants to stop horse racing; a lot of people got pleasure out| of !t. Now, there is Mrs, Kittingly; she is engaged to a Wall street man who !s very fond of racing. He has @ fast horse and drives up with Mrs, Kittingly to the Speedway y bright Sunday and reces with other horses. He is y rinie and {ll-bred, but Mrs. Kittingly sa; he is a perfect gentleman so far as not being stingy, and once he tried to run away, and Mrs. Kittingly aid she was afraid every minute she'd be killet or that her hat would be blown off and be ruined It cost her $50, and she was almost hysterical, but after he calmed down it was all right, although she was afraid it would come away every minute, ani her cu! with it.” “Are you talking of Mrs. Kittingly's hat, her gentleman friend, his fest trotter, or the racing bills?’ asked Mr. Jarr, somewhat testily. co I was talking about them all," said Mrs. Jerr, “And you needn't ead off either! Don’t I make myself clear? Would you rather be talking to somehody else whose conversation pleased you more, say, Gus, the snloonkeeper, or your other barroom friends?" geaid Mr. Jarr. “If you'd only read what was {n the papers wt! je care, that is if you'd read something else besides the divorce cases, the Prince Chap’s chase of the coy Mme. Anna, or the dry- Love In Darktown fav © Me Camoeea ALL BE THAR- MISS MONTRESSOR AH LIKES SASSIETY, PUSTOH CHOLMONDELN,* AUS GON’ TER GIVE ER FEW 08 MAH SELECK FRIENS-AN Uy) {AHLL TEACH YOU TO FLIRT WIF MH COMPANY /N MAH PRESENTS ~ You BASE RECEIVER | He The Courtship of Cholmondeley Jones yr «x and Beau! etting on the Races While Pinochle and Saloons Fiourish tor Married Men? S00ds advertisements, you would know that Governor Hughes isn't trying to stop racing—he {= trying to stop betting on the races. There are no races on in that sense of the texm’— is go!" interrupted Mrs. Jarr. “Mrs, Kittingly says they race terribly.” “Well, there's no bookmaking or betting,” sald Mr. Jarr. ‘Let people het on the men playing pinochle “I'm sure it doesn't interest me," said Mrs, Jarr raees {f they want to. What the Governor should stop != and losing all their money.” . “You needn't worry. I spend very little money “After I support an expensive family there's not “You talk like you regretted the fact,” said Mrs about {t let ua move to a cheaper flat, stop buy the table, and then perhaps you would have money enough to sport on “One reason why the racing bills did not pass.” sald Mr, Ignoring these last remarks, “‘was because the women were not sufficiently aroused to the evils ot race track gambling. They do not know all the money that thelr husbands lose at the track, in pool-rooms and with handbook men.” “They know what 1s wasted by thelr husbands in saloons,” sald Mrs, Jarr “hecause they can ace the effects of It “Yes, and that !s why the prohibition movement has been go successful,” sald Mr. Jarr. “When the women reallze the evils of race track gambling they will raise such « protest that betting on the races will be a thing of the past.” It doesn't interest me,” said Mrs, Jarr indifferently, ‘only I'm glad to hear there is something you don't do that you shouldn't | "1 guess not,” aald Mr. Jarr sturdily. ‘I'm some kinds of « fool, ponies get none of my money!" Then he went downtown and declared that, thank goodness, there was still some personal Iiberty left and that men were not to be made moral by law. But | after he and Curker, the head clerk, had lost ten dollars on the sure thing in the | fourth race at Bennings, he was heard to declare that those grafters at Albany must have made a bunch of money by opposing the Will of The People! By F. G. Long NOW WOULD’ YOU Look AT DAT DISGRATEF UL MHN-DAT wrercn { * sald Mr. Jarr. “If vou fee es for the chil but the tiful Araminta Montressor. x HES A MAKIN’ G00 Go, EYES AT MAH 01S AM /IAH FAREWELL (LEAVE DE THRASH: FOREBBER! AWS GOIN? Hod OB DIS SION ais Jarr, | 1908. , AS TOLD By Senator Chauncey M. Depew The historic “Amen Corner” has passed with the equally historie Fifth Avenue Hotel. The “Corner” was the scene of more political moves than any other spot in America, Here statesmen were made and unmade, epoch- making deals put through and the future of State and nation shaped, The “Amen Corner” is a thing of the past, But its story concerns and interests all New Yorkers. That s s here told by one of the “Amen” chiefs, Chauncey M. Depew. No. I—harly listory of the ‘*Corner,"? WO red plush sof arranged as to command a view of both the corridor and the main staircase of the Fifth Avenue Hotel these formed the ‘Amen Corner.” Politicians who were looking for patronage, newspaper men who want- ed to interview some celebrity—these (and others who wished to be certain of seeing any one who might enter from the corridor or come down from the floors above) years ago chose that corner as a viewpoint. Great men used to sit there, in early times, to talk with those who had been waiting in the “Corner” for them. Those seats have held Grant, Lincoln, Sherman, Sheridan, Conk- ling, Blaine, McClellan and a hun- OPT, DEF dred other men whose names are known the world over. Afterward the “Corner” grew to have another significance that I will come to later—and that gave !t its name. The ‘Amen Corner” idea dates back far earlier than the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Jt began when Thurlow Weed came from Albany ok up his residence in New York. Weed was boss of the Whig, and then of the Republican, party in New York for thirty ars. He made the old Astor House his headquarters, Daniel Webster always sto; i there, too, when he was in town, and a sult of rooms was reserved for his use all year. From room 11 of the Astor House Thurlow Weed distributed the entire political patronage of New York State. Such patronage was simply enor- mous, even in those early days. 1 the city continued to grow northward so rapidly that the Astor ich had once been in the centre of the business and residence dis- , Was now far downtown, Other hotels sprang up further north. Among these was e Fifth Avenue. Almost as soon as it was opened | this became for some reason a favorite stopping place ror public men as well as for visitors to the city. It speedily took the Astor House's place as a Republic: lying place. who swayed the Republican party !n New York for twelve Fifth Avenue Hotel as his headquarters; and, as this fact pr great men of his party gathered there 4 ur and President Cornell, of the State Committee, made the he Republican headquarters {n New York City. Hither flocked all 1 ty business, axes to grind, favors to ask, news to gather. ple would await thelr chance for a word with the person or had come there to see. Perhaps such a man was out, or g In order to catch first glimpse of him the applicants would seat themselves in the “Amen Corner.” Thence they commanded a double view, and could at once pick their man out of the passing crowd as he entered the corridor or came down- | stairs, i tatesmen going to or from the committee rooms, the bosses coming fn or going out—any or all of these would be seen from the “Amen Corner” by the waiting newspaper man or people who sought political favors. | Celebrities took to sitting there also while waiting for some appoint- ment or for men they wished to see. Thus it was that, during and after the war, Grant, Sherman and Shert- dan were often to be seen there. Many whose names are part of our nation’s | history have sat on those two plush sofas. Conkling ruled with an fron hand. He gave his orders and saw to It that they were obeyed. He consulted with no one. In fact, he repelled all jadvice. It made him indignant to have suggestions offered as to any of his | proposed plans of action. But in 1884 a new state of affairs set {n. Platt came Into power. ign of the “Easy Boss” began. And with it the “Amen aracter and took on Its later really picturesque phase. ting perlod of its career was at hand—the pe s its name. VY years, chose The ner” changed e second and od to which {t T The second tustaliment of “The be publish Story of the Smen Corner’ will Nixola Greeley-Smnith ON TOPICS OF THE DAY (0) 10) {0} {0} © @ (9) S About Engagements. : YOUNG man tn St. Louls has ju A against the solit he girl to whom re he had gtven h decided to wed It 1s selom instituted sult dito recover ut she had se to the In in thesg matters, Cupid a for injured oF forsaken ladies, but the average man rarely confounds love and law. Therefore, tf n lady pledge of the troth she out means either But he has always the consolation at any price—even that of a $1,000 solitaire. Engagements are so extraordinarily popular with young women that T feel 1 I say that fn ultimat The Prince de Sagan in one of brigand wishes to retain the shining as violated, he is absolutely witte escape is cheap y will have become dre] interviews he haw hel our shores sald the oth hen people get to my nee engagements. They simply get married This is sensible and true. After a certain age and wisdom have been at- ained men and women 1 e that t months or a year before the marnia ybservation want wherein all th: ssed by the most casual of t a ) understanding ‘between a man and a woman that at a cere are to be married, are, of course, but the broadcast publication of ) should really be of interest to but two families, has no point and purpose, an engagement Is fre to know wh: obsolete. given since he req age they don't » announcement of an engagement six is simply the eins of placing themselves 8 and emot may be aintanees, Engagements, in an the better, To the frequent urging of young the length of an engagement should be one can e reply of Presi Lincoln, who when asked to state how long ould be, made answe “Just long enouxh to reach the ground!" sement should be Just long enough to reach the marriage ceremony, ner it reaches it the better for all concerned. Reflections of a Bachelor Girl. By Helen Rowland. MAN always considers himself mighty clever when he can glide throug. the shallows of love making without foundering on the rocks «f matri:nony. ‘The kiss which the average man bestows upon his wife is no moré inspiring than a pat on the head Choosing @ husband 1s ike picking out the combination on a lottery th¥ate ur frat guess ig apt to be as good as your last. Because a man has more money than brains, 4t 1s no sign he's wealthy. ‘A girl who has a brother has a great advantage over one who hasn't; sy ots a working knowledge of men without having to go through the mrtdmonial iquisition in order to acquire it, re 1s notiing so easy for a man as forgetting; he scarcely tikes time te row a shoveiful of dirt on the grave of a dead love before he is oh pursuing © yew one. $ To « man love Is It is easy for a m rich and pretty widow. y a side dish; to a woman it’s the whole Samet. ere n to love his neighbor as himself, when Bis neighbos Seg. nme a oe « ¥. x