PASSING OF “CANFIELD” Interesting Personality of the “Biggest Gambler in the World”—Man Who Pro vided Palaces and Luxur ies for Devotees of the Goddess of Chance—Like Others of Prominence, He Had His Day, and It Is Over. New York.—Soldiers and statesmen of international fame this country has produced in numbers; artists, invent ors, lawyers, athletes and—let it not be overlooked!—golf players have sprung from this country into world wide fame with gratifying frequency. But of that class in distinction we have produced only one gambler, Richard A. Canfield. He is passing. Last week the “For Sale” sign was nailed upon his Saratoga place, and the owner has announced that he has "turned his last card." Bearing in - mind that the Monte Carlo gambling establishment is con ducted by a stock company, it is per missible to say that for the past dozen years Richard A. Canfield has been the biggest gambler in the world, says the New York Times. It was inevitable that romance should have mixed many of the colors in which Canfield has been painted: he has been pictured as a scholar of more than ordinary intellectual abil ity ; as a judge of art who would be a t valuable aid to a Paris Salon hanging committee: as a conversationalist of brilliant parts; as John Oakhurst and a Jack Hamlin, dear to readers of Bret Harte. Well, he is not all of these, but he is something of each. Canfield's Early Career. Fiction has also been busy with Canfield in the matter of his early career. It may be said that he never did for study for the church, the law, or medicine; nor did he begin a prom ising career in banking. As a matter of fact, he was a young man when, in 1879, he opened a gambling house in Providence. This he seems to have conducted with much skill in escaping publicity for half a dozen years. But in July, 1885, Canfield was arrested in Providence and charged with being a common gambler. Possibly a loser at his game experienced a change of heart as to the wickedness of playing for gain (and losing) and complained to the authorities. Canfield pleaded guilty to the charge.' He has always asserted that he entered the plea on an agreement that he would be sen tenced only to pay a fine. But he was sentenced to, and served, six months' imprisonment in the Cranston jail. After that Canfield came to New York, and within a short time the ven turesome began to hear of a safe, quiet place where undivided surpluses could be invested at roulette or poker. A suave and responsible man was in charge; he preferred to play at a rea sonable limit, but could be persuad ed to raise the limit, or, if one came panting to part with his surplus, a private game could be arranged un * hampered by any limit whatever. Along these agreeable lines the fame and fortune of "Dick” Canfield grew in Gotham. Whistler, the famous artist, was painting the famous gambler’s por trait; selec. upper Bohemian circles in London and Paris delighted to en tertain the modern combination of John Oakhurst and Jack Hamlin. Also: In New York, first in the clubs, then along Broadway, stories were heard of almost fabulous sums won and lost at Canfield's games. At first there was nothing scandal ous—nothing considered so, at least— in these stories. They were told and re told simply as illustrations of the way life was lived in little old New York. If a young man could afford to celebrate his twenty-first birthday by losing $60,000 at Canfield's, why what a very rich young man he must be, and how lucky Canfield! But some one cut the string. On the evening of Dec. 1, 1902, Police In spector Brooks, aided and directed by District Attorney Jerome, smashed in the doors and windows, most of the other wood and glass and some of the stone and brick of the front of Can field’s place in search of evidence upon which Canfield could be convicted of being a common gambler. The outcome wad, as most readers will recall, that the court said that Banker Lewisohn must be nice to Mr. Jerome, and answer his questions, and if Reginald Vanderbilt wanted ever again to enjoy the glories cf New York, he, too, must submit to a con-, versation, not all questions, with Mr. Jerome. Then Canfield showed that he had the principles romance ascribes to the gambler of the first class: he re turned to New York, placed himself within the focus of Mr. Jerome s eye glasses and said, “Stop bothering my patrons: I'll plead guilty.” And lie did, and paid a fine of $1,000 for being a common gambler.” Transferred to Saratoga. That was the passing of Canfield from New York city. But he was the proprietor of the Saratoga clu3, the greatest resort gambling place in the country. This clubhouse is a substan tial building of brick and stone built in 1869 by John Morrisey, who had been a prize fighter, a member of con rrer\ r^-t:=:an ar.J gabbler. The club Morrisey conducted inherited ro mantic traditions, hr it had been founded in the early days of Sara toga's splendor. Even before Morrisey trained for his first ring fights, belles and gallants from the furtherest cor ners of the country gathered at Sara toga to “take the waters,” to drive, to promenade, to tlirt a little—and bet a little. Only a little time before Jerome was moved by a great wish to inspect the inside of the house next to Delmon ico’s. Canfield disclosed his Saratoga plans. At that time Richard T. Wil son, Jr., had newly taken an interest in horse racing. To him and William C. Whitney Canfield suggested the revival of Saratoga in all its ancient glory. Nature had done more than her share; it remained only for art, backed by a good-natured check book to make Saratoga a second Monte Carlo plus Ascot. Mr. Canfield is a convincing talker, and he had eager listeners. Other men prominent in turf matters came into the venture; a majority of the stock cf the old Sara toga Racing association was bought, the old place rejuvenated and made splendid under the fostering( finances ported chef and 162 assistants and servants. Dominating all, watching, caring for, directing all, was Richard Canfield. There were a few brilliant and profitable seasons; seasons so profitable to Canfield that he did not regret the $800,000 he had invested in the venture. Then came the Jerome activity in New York; came questionings by the Saratoga authorities, came appeals to the state legislature; questionings, uneasiness—and a dropping off of profits. Something was affecting Canfield's business, though the fountains in his park murmured and sparkled, the moon shone soft on the curves of sculptured marble, music wafted dreamily over the gambling and din- j ing salon—but there was an oppres sive something hurting Canfield’s business. Possibly, being a gambler, he called this something “bad luck.” There was bad luck elsewhere. Canfield had made a fortune in Wall street as a member of the so-called Reading pool, but late operations in the street had been unsuccessful. The men who gambled heavily were not going to Saratoga. Its Glories Departed. Canfield opened the clubhouse dining room this season*, but it was not lib erally patronized; the people who cared to dine there wanted the fun of looking through the opened doors at the gamblers. But the only gambling going on—because of the questionings —was in a retired room on an upper floor. It was all outlay, little income. Can field could well repeat his best wit ticism: “I lose more money in Wall street than I can make at my legit mate business.” Canfield the gambler was passing. It was not in his nature to blink at the fact. There was something op posing him he could not fight, could not corrupt, could not call off. Did he know what it was? Possibly it was not in his nature to ask questions as to what directs fate. But one morn ing recently there was a black and ( yellow sign nailed on the Saratoga clubhouse, the last gambling place owned by Richard Canfield, and it read? *.* "This plot of ground and all : : the buildings thereon : : FOR SALE.” Inches of Time. Beware of losing or wasting inches 01 time—they are the little foxes that run away with many days. So much can be done in them, and with them— often the very things for which we sigh hopelessly. Fill them, every one. Keep something handy—something that fits the interval. Remember a famous law book was written because a lord chancellor chose net to be idle throughout the 15 minutes his wife made him wait each day for dinner. , Recall, too, all the men, noble and eminent, who have climbed to the Canfield s Establishment at Saratoga. of the new ‘'Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses.” Made Place Beautiful. Canfield enlarged the clubhouse, re decorated and refurnished it; bought adjoining land until he had a pa:-k of 11 acres, where there were paths, bordered by thousands of plants, wind ing about fields and forests beautified by fountains and statues. There was promise of all that Monte Carlo of fered. Leading off from Canfield’s vast gambling salon was a magnifi cent dining-room patronized by Ihose who won—to celebrate—by those who lost—for consolation. The great park was kept up at a cost of $25,0i)0 a year; the clubhouse was made attract ive by the ministering care of an im heights by saving inches of time. All of us cannot hope to become likewise eminent—but we can reasonably and easily make ourselves happy with, things wrought in the fragmentary moments which we might unthriftily leave vacant.—The Delineator. Nearer Man’s Heart. “Men are so queer. Tell them after the honeymoon that your love is grow ing cold, and they never glance up from the paper.” “No; but tell them the soup is getting cold and they jump about ten feet.” -- Uncle Allen. * j “Take everything as it comes,” ad vised Uncle Allen Sparks. “You bump into half the troubles of this life by trying to dodge the other half.” LAPPS ON THE DECREASE. And with Them the Reindeer is Grow ing Constantly Scarcer. The Lapps are decreasing in num ber, says the Philadelphia Record. The most sanguine estimate of the numbers of the entire race in Nor way, Sweden and Russian does not place them above 54,000. By some the number is palced far lower on the strength of trustworthy data. In Nor botten the number of Lapps is 3,000, of whom 2,500 are nomad Lapps, and 500 families have abandoned their wandering habits, have built habita tions here and there and have endeav ored, with more or less success, to imitate the life of the Swedish set tler. That the race must die out even * tually is certain, and its diminution may be very speedy, though its com plete extinction may be still far off, since there is no race that can pos sibly take its place on the reindeer fjaell. Yet even here we come upon a factor which has, perhaps, hardly -! been reckoned with. We mean the decrease of the herds of tame rein deer. This has been going on in the last quarter of a century with striking rapidity. In one district alone in the last twelve years, the reindeer have diminished from an estimated 30.000 to an estimated 7,000. This decrease is explained varionsly. The com monest and most plausible explana tion. which carries the authority of men well qualified to judge, is' that the demand for reindeer flesh which has been brought nearer to the Lapp by the opening of the Bohemian rail way, has tempted them to part with the deer at a rate too rapid for ’..heir production. The herd* of reindeer, which are tak en off the high fjaell down to l.heir winter quarters, are now within four or five days of Stockholm and there is a good demand for reindeer flesh. It is said that the Lapp, who in no more able to resist a strong drink than any other half-civilised man, is plied freely with brandy, and in that state will part with his reindeer for _____ a trifling sum, or even for a fresh bottle of spirits or two. And he goes back to his fjaell stripped of half his herd, and with nothing to show for it. But there is another cause so al leged, and that by equally good au thorities. It is said that the Swe& ish state education is having upon the Lapp the efTect which not uncoip monly follows the early stages of learning. Every autumn the Swedes and Lapps alike send down theli children to the nearest national school, where they remain for the winter months, the Lapps in most cases having “seminaries” to them selves. And it is declared that the case of both races alike, after a few years of this training the youngest generation, when it comes to the age of choosing its way of life, shows an unwillingness to return to the hard outdoor life of the homes in the in terior. Arriving at the Truth. Hear one side and you will be in the dark; hear both sides and all will be clear. 4- -.’V ■ ‘ HERITAGE OF CIVIL WAR. Thousands of Soldiers Contracted Chronic Kidney Trouble While In the Service. The experience of Capt. John L. Ely, of Co. 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An ingenious Spaniard says that “rivers and the inhabitants of the wa tery element were made for wise men to contemplate and fools to pass by without consideration.” And though I will not rank myself in the number of the first, yet give me leave to free myself from the last, by offering to you a short contemplation, first of riv ers, and then of fish; concerning ■which I doubt not but to give you many observations that will appear very considerable; I am sure they have appeared so to me, and made many an hour pass away more pleasantly, as I have sat quietly on a flowery bank by a calm river.—Isaac Walton. He Set a Date. A merchant in a Wisconsin town who had a Swedish clerk sent him out to do some collecting. When he re turned from an unsuccessful trip he reported; “Yim Yonson say he vill pay ven he sells his hogs. Yim Olesen. he vill pay ven he sell him wheat, and Bill Pack say he vill pay in Yanuary.” “Well,” said the boss, "that’s the first time Bill ever set a date to pay. 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