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How Professional Gamblers Win
THROWING THE MAIL'
On Night Watch in the Registry Division
of the Chicago Postoffice
Mechanical and Electrical Devices for Robbing Players
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Professional gambling from a busi
ness standpoint is, considering the
outlay, perhaps the most profitable oc
cupation In the world'. The initial ex
expense, however, is great. The
equipment of a first class house with
line paraphernalia means an expendi
ture of thousands of dollars and a
continual expense amounting to sev
eral hundred dollars daily. The va
rious items to be considered are the
expenses of rent, wages, light and
supplies, besides the well stocked buf
fet and the fine lunches served free
to their patrons by the best houses.
An intelligent business man who
slops to consider the problem for a
moment must realize that this outlay
could not possibly be met with the
percentage of play on an equal basis
and that the only possible solution of
the problem must- be that the banker
or operator must have complete con
trol of the game at all times, thereby
Insuring protection and profit to the
bouse. To accomplish this, expert
mechanics and electricians are em
ployed to perfect and manufacture
skilful devices that are noiseless -and
Invisible in their operation and so
constructed that they are impossible
of detection. From years of careful
study at home and abroad It has been
proven conclusively that no game of
Chance exists that cannot by electri
cal or mechanical power be made to
answer the control of the operator at
will.
Roulette, supposed to be a machine
Impossible to control in connection
with which, In fact,-control is suppos
ed to be unnecessary, as the percent
age In largely in favor of the house
is . played heavily and in preference
to any other on account of this sup
position. But such is not the case,
s high grade wheels are equipped
with electrical and mechanical de
vices controlling the ball at any par
ticular point.
In games of chance using dice par
ticular attention is given to details,
83 these game re known to the aver
age player to sometimes be fixed, and
lie has the privilege of Inspection at
any time or to call for new dice.
Loaded dice are manufactured to any
desired combination, and 'by boring,
weighing and by filling in with heated
composition appear natural in weight,
roll and appearance, and' even cellu
loid dice, which are transparent,
bear close scrutiny without detection.
In the hands of an experienced
player they can be manipulated for
any desired number, and the chances
of an inexperienced player winning
are very slight. In large dice games
electric power is used; this 1s created
by batteries feeding magnets so pow
erful that they act through any thick
ness of cloth, paper or wood. The cur
ent is controlled by the operator by
the use of a rubber bulb or push but
ton placed under foot, and by throw
ing these metal loaded dice over the
magnetized surface he can beat any
throw his opponent might make. The
batteries used are generally secreted
virder the table and weigh sometimes
forty or fifty pounds.
Poker Is a game that offers unlimlt
(Bd opportunity for the use of various
devices and methods of manipulation;
iln fact, they are too numerous to
mention. ; By the following means
the gambler artfully controls the cards
and i9 in a position to Invariably win
from his opponents:
The sleeve holdout la made of a
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haircloth slideway about the same size
as a deck of cards, with its narrow
sides laid in fine pleated folds, so that
it will lie flat or expand. This is sewed
In the sleeve of the coat or shirt and
reaches from the , cuff to the elbow
Joint. One of the wide sides is sewn
to the near end of the. sleeve, the op
posite wide side is sewn or pasted to
the cult, both ends being open. At the
elbow a strap fits around the arm. to
which is attached a metal tube that
reaches down to the near end of the
sleeve, with a pulley attached to the
end. A short, wide elastic is also fast
ened to the strap and to the elastic is
fastened a metal clamp that holds the
cards.
A cord Is attached to this clamp,
which runs down and over the pulley,
tuen back to the elbow through the
metal tube, thence to the shoulder,
through the clothing to the body and
thence down the loop at the heel with
a hook attached to, the end. ' The cord
passes through a flexible tube' from
the elbow to the ankle. This tube will
bend easily, but not flatten, and is at
tached to the clothing with string ties
to keep It in line with the body. Its
use is to prevent the cord from bind
ing or sticking.
To work ihis holdout the hook at
the end of the cord is fastened to the
loop of the shoe on the opposite foot;
when the feet are spread apart this
causes the cord to draw the clamp re
ferred to down through the slideway
and to near the end of the sleeve. Any
curds that are in it will reach into the
palm of the hand, where they can be
taken out or placed back into the
clamp. By drawing the feet close to
gether again it causes the cord to re
lax, and the elastic referred to will
diaw the clamp and any cards it con
tains back up the slideway to its place
near the elbow.
Shiners are various forms of reflec
tors and are used to see the cards as
they are dealt out by the dealer. They
are made in many ways, the wet shin-t-r
being the simplest, the gambler
spilling a little wine from his glass
upon the surface of the polished table.
The light shining from a certain angle
pl.roduces a reflection and he can thus
TIs tlif sanguine springtime season.
When they swamp us hip and thigh.
The public's !jwjet unreiison
"Coimtft those, letters." is their cry.
Ves. the April rush is coming.
And it sweeps with thunderous roar,
flow the stump machines are humming
Purring son as kettles snore.
"Look alive, there, Roush and Ready.-
Jeik those pouches through the door.
Cluster 'round there, strong and steady.
Twist those chunks along the Moor.
Hurry up the Main Guy's' calling
t'tear the decks and .start anew.
While ten tons of mail are sprawling.
Jiygers. Kondy, shove her through!'
Then the Pouch Room's all commotion,
Ki aught with keen nnd lusty life.
Tons of mail sweep like the ocean.
Swamping all in stubborn strife.
''J.oosen up there, quit your dreaming.
Rouse up from your studious trance.
Keep your eye on Rondy teaming.
Jiggers, stop your song and dance!"
The mall Is the pulse of the nation,
And gauges the state of the times.
Aim', rn asiies j race s fien-fe exultation.
When Commerce grows big or declines.
The Postal Clerks are deserving more
money.
They are working like beavers all night.
They're as buwy as bees hiving honey.
They are hustling in thick of the fight.
You arc young and you're life's work be
ginning, .You are keen for the joy of the fight.
You are eager for striving and winning.
You exuR in the pride of your might.
A word in vour ear 'ere you wander
To plunge in the thick of the fiay.
Have a care ere your treasure 3011 squan
der. And waste all your gifts by the way.
A Voice from the Pouch Rqom Des
patching Section.
We are jollying the game along all the
strenuous .day,
Pully yourselves together, boys, you've
the right of way.
Hustling heavv mail sacks across the
Pouch Room floor.
Wrestling with the "Overland'.' dumped
Inside the door.
Grappling with the big bulging1 sacks
from Frankfort on the Spree,
Smelling 1 he stilt ocean brine the sal
vage of the sea.
Roasting all the fresh young cubs when
they, sojer long.
Tuning up the old night bunch with some
rousing song.
The dear-, delicious public's notes swamp
us left and right.
Throwing mail from dewy morn tons of
mail at night.
The pretty girls gftt valentines couched
in rippling rhyme.1
The Postal C'lurk gets in his work hust
ling all the time.
We are jollying the game along through
the star-strewn night.
Connecting every scrap of mail that
dawns upon our sight.
Sweet and low across trie snow the sup
pie reind?rs glide.
The crooks held up poor Santa Claus last
jocund Christmas tide.
We heard the sleigh bills aerial song,
their mellow, tinkling chime.
The silvery spell like chiming bell that
rings like honeyed rhyme.
Shy, pte.uant girls with wind-swept curls
beneath the mistletoe.
With rose-leaf face and fawn-like grace
and lustrous eyes aglow.
But the boys behind the pouches are con
necting all the -mall.
They have no time for pleasure, throw
ing stations on the rail!
JAMES K. KINSEULA.
Registry Xivision, Chicago Postoffice.
Tea an Ideal Stimulant
see what cards are being dealt his op
ponents as he passes them over th
spot . which reflects the faces. Th.
poker chip shiner is a convex reflector
set in a poker chip, over which hi
passes the cards in dealing, and when
iiot in use or when in danger of ex
posure he will stack other chips on top
of it.
The finger ring shiner is composed
of a half inch or smaller convex reflec
tor setting of a ring; this is worn on
the little finger of the left hand, and
by turning the setting to the inside of
the hand it Is possible to read the in
dex of the cards as they are dealt. The
ralm shiner is a small device with a
reflector fitting on the ball of the little
finger of the left hand, and is used in
the same way as the ring shiner. Mica
is sometimes used as a reflector, and
being tmn car be bent or curled up
easily without' breaking. It is also
preferred, as it makes no noise, as
glass would if struck by accident. It
is used in many ways, by pasting tc
the hand, table or clothing.
The table ehiner is made by cover
ing the top of a table with various
chemicals such as are used in the
manufacture of mirrors. By the use
cf shellac, alcohol, silver solution and
silicate of soda (liquid glass) it takes
on a brilliant polish, but is invisible,
except to a person wearing eye-glasses
fixused to a distance of one to three
ftet and of a lighter or clearer coloi
than the atmosphere through which
the person is looking. A gambler will
fix the entire top of a table with this
solution and readily and easily tell
e very card as it is dealt.
Marked cards are made in various
ways and are nearly always used by
the professional gambler. Magnifying
spectacles are sometimes used where
the markings are so flue that they are
invisible to the naked eye at a dis
tance.' and in some the lenses are so
powerful that they bring a card three
feet away close up to the vision of the
eye. Cards are also sometimes marked
in various ways on the edges by inks,
and often by shaving or cutting down
to a fraction that is barely perceptible,
this method especially for the higher
cards, as . the four aces, kings and
queens.
The advantages of playing with
marked cards are numerous, and a
skillful player can tell immediately
the cards his opponents discard, draw
and finally hold, and at a favorable op
portunity fill his own hand with cards
suitable to outplay any other against
him. Ringing in or switching a marked
or cold deck isv easily accomplished.
An accomplice secures a deck identical
to that in use, stacks or sorts it for a
winning hand, and at a favorable op
portunity slips it into the hand of the
gambler, who secretes it in his lap, un
der the table or in a holdout. At his
deal he will drop a card to the floor,
reach for a spittoon or something on
the floor, and while doing so will
Bwitch the decks. He will then false
shuffle the fake deck, throw, jog, crimp
or brief mark by bending, etc., into
tnem for a confederate to cut to, or do
likewise to an innocent player and
then switch the cut to its original
place, making it impossible for him to
lose. New York Herald.
Every little while there is an out
cry against the practice of tea and
coffee drinking. Irately it has been
alleged that the degeneracy observed
in the lower classes of Great Britain
is largely due to the immense quanti
ty of tea which is drunk in that king
dom. Without any doubt a few peo
ple do drink too much tea and would
be better without it. But tea-drinking,
as in China.-may be the salvation
:f a people from much greater evils.
The decoction has, at least, the ad
vantage of having been sterilized by
'Vat, and water-drinking in China has
its dangers, as many an old traveler
can testify.
The immense quantities ot tea used
without apparent damage by some of
the most robuftt peoples in the world
ather than the Chinese, such, for ex
ample, as the Russians, the Hudson
bay voyagers, and the lumbermen of
the north, does not testify to its evil
fects on general health, under
oroper conditions:. For a cold coun
try it is almost an ideal stimulant,
reviving the energies, even after al
ciost apparently complete exhaustion.
and affording a feeling of comfort
that hardly anything else can give,
and this without any noticeable un
comfortable after effects.
Of course, in our civilization there
are some who take too much of many
things for their own good, but even
in these cases it is hard to say that
the evil is as great as sometimes
charged. The practice of giving large
quantities of strong tea to mere in
fants, which is common among cer
tain of the poorer classes of our cities,
of course, cannot be too strongly cort
demned, but it. is astonishing how
many infants seem to thrive on it.
There should be some discrimina
tion in the general condemnation of
sveh stimulants - as tea and coffee.
They probably do more good than
harm .and we should welcome their
use if by any means or to any extent
they can be made a substitute for
things that are worse, and if the habit
were universal in some of our unsani
tary communities we might find it the
safeguard against many serious evils.
-r-Journal of American Medical Asso
ciation. . .
Deadly Freak of N a t u r e
The government of the Republic of
Nicaragua has sent experts from the
Cfpital to examine a remarkable and
deadly tree that was recently discov
ered on the hacienda of Senora Maria
Gssteazoro, near the town of Petacal
peque, department, of Chinandega. Tp
the tree has been given the name of
arbol del diablo, or tree of the devil.
Its discovery was made through the
disappearance of a son of Senora Gas
tcazoro. Several days later the body
of the boy and the carcass of the pony
he was riding were found under the
tree in a remote part of the hacienda.
It was noticed that a sickly sweet odor
emanated from the tree, and those
who removed the body of the boy be
came suddenly dizzy while under its
branches. Closer examination of the
boy's body disclosed the fact that sev
eral bloodvessels had burst, and later
the same condition was. disclosed by
an examination of the remains of the
pony. Under the tree were the bones
ol goats, hogs burros and hundreds
of birds. It is supposed that the boy,
coming upon the heap of bones,
stopped to investigate and that both
boy and pony were overpowered by
the deadly fumes from the tree.
Since that time the tree has been
examined to a limited extent by per
sons on the hacienda, and its deadly
operation' has been noted. Along the
tranches of the tree are small valve
like projections.' open at the ends. It
is believed .that the poisonous fumes
issue from these valves. A bird light
ing on a branch of the tree is caught
and held fast, and within a few min
utes the 5 bloodvessels of its body
burst. News of the discovery of the
tree has spread throughout Nicaragua
and has caused consternation among
the Indians. It is said that similar
trees have been discovered in Portu
gal and Corea.
Tricks of the Tornado
A typical tornado acts as follows: It
is a funnel-shaped tube a half-mile
high, 6,000 feet in diameter at the top.
100 feet in diameter at the bottom. It
travels with a forward motion, cover
ing fifteen to sixty miles an hour.
The outer edge of the top revolves at
the rate of seven miles an hour; the
rim near the bottom of the vortex at,
200 miles an hour. In the lower tube
is thus produced tremendous centrifu
gal force, a partial vacuum causing ob
jects in its path to explode and pro
ducing a low temperature. ,.
This cold generates the sheath of
vapor that makes the funnel visible in
the form of a cloud and causes a con
densation, producing electric dis
charges, just as in thunderstorms on
1 large scale. The tornado's duration
may vary from a few minutes to sev-.
eral hours. The wind's great velocity
prostrates every obstacle in its path.
Its effect is vpt only to hurl objects
before it and to produce an-explosive
action in its vacuum, but also to lift
bodies in a vertical direction. :
A velocity as high as 600 . miles an
hour in the lower tube has been re
ported. Measurements of some re
cent tornadoes have been computed by
n.eteorologists. The great waterspout
of Aug. 13. 1896. in Vineyard sound,
seven and a half miles northeast of
Cottage City, Mass., had a tube extend
ing from the cloud to the surface of
the sea, a distance of 4,200 feet, was
3.400 feet in .diameter at the top, 170
feet at the narrowest part (1,500 feet
above the sea) and 250 feet at sea lev
el. It revolved at the rate of fourteen
miles an hour at the . top and 350
miles an hour at the bottom.
In a Perilous Position
The late L. Clarke Davis. Phila
ielphia's distinguished journalist, has
i broad knowledge of the American
stage, together with a great number
f theatrical anecdotes'.
Mr. Davis would often tell a story
ihat had been narrated to him by
Edwin Booth.
'Booth," he would begin, "once
played at the old Arch street theater
if Philadelphia, the hero's part in an
)ld-fashioned drama. These were his
jarly days, when his weight was not
nuch more than a bird's. The hero
was supposed to be robust, ut Booth
-as unable to give him that appear
ince. "Well, one Saturday night, the old
fashioned drama progressed very
smoothly up to the middle of the
third act. Booth, as Maltravers, the
hero, sat, then, in his daughter's sitting-room,
his head bowed in hTu
hands. The wife of Maltravers was
very ill. The poor fellow feared that
she was nigh death's door.
"His daughter, to comfort him, of
fered him some refreshment, but he
refused the offer.
" 'No, no, dear child, I cannot eat
he said.
"The play had gone well up to this
point. But now, when the gaunt
Booth said, 'No, no. dear child, I can
not eat,' a young Irishman up in the
gallery sang out: .
"'Can't eat? You can't eat? The
sa:nts forbid I was a, mutton chop
before ye.' " . .
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