Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1891 — Gambling in England. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Gambling in England.

In aristocratic society in England gambling has always been one of the agencies t® while away time and get rid of the guineas. Very nearly all the ladies bet on the races, and incline tp any gambling that is going. Many of them meet regularly for baccarat., roulet, or any other banking game, and lose and win appreciably. Englishmen who gamble for high stakes, however, always do it away from home, at their clubs, or in private quarters. As an instance of how your lordly Britisher backs his judgment, one Londoner, a lew weeks ago, in an afternoon lost $35,(J0.) to a friend, but retrieved this and won $75,000 more from his opponent before dinner. The only club now given to high play is the very aristooratic organization known as the Ceecee Tree Club, in St. James street, St. James Square. This is not far from the quarters of the Field Club, which was raided and broken into by the police last year. This latter was not a club, but a private hell run by a man named Seaton, for the express purpose of plucking young and plunging members of the aristocracy. The game was baccarat, and individual losses often ranged from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO in a single night. The group of players who were captured and arraigned in court embraced a dozen names prominent in the peerage, but they were dismissed with light fines. After a night in jail, Seaton, the proprietor, escaped with a fine of $2,500, which, as he had made a fortune out of the place, he was entirely willing to pay. English as She Is Spoke.

How she would appear if she literally burst into tears.