Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1891 — Gambling at Saratoga. [ARTICLE]

Gambling at Saratoga.

Atlanta Constitution, Saratoga is, perhaps, tho most free and easy place in America. Although one sees many policemen, there seems to be no police regulations at all. Tho bars are open on Sunday just like week days. It is strange, but I have not seen a single intoxicated man here. The gambling rooms aro run with wide open dcors. There are two mammoth and magnificent ones here besides numbers of small ones. The principal one bears the name of Saratoga Club." The building cost per haps $109,000 and the furnishings half as much more. In it, besides the various gamds of chance, is one of the finest restaurants in America. When .ohe looks at this place for an hour he comes to the conclusion that every one but he is rich and that money to a man is no more than matches. One sees more one hundred and one thousand dollar bills at this place than he will see in any bank in Atlanta. Men play for hours and never bet less than SIOO at a time, and they make perhaps two bets a minute. A young member of the last Congress dropped into this place the other evening and won $4,600 in hall an hour, but the next evening he lost SIO,OOO at the same game, and now he has gone homo to work. This is the experience of the jority of men. They never kn«* when to stop.