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EOT THE SAME "BRANCH." fl-HATTIIE SUPPRESSION OF GAMBLING HAS DONE rXW THE IBBBBT RESOKT. They * re 6till talking in Long Branch about jj,e great tidal wave of July 22. which swept out »0 sea $500,<M.H) worth of property, a half dozen houses and nearly half a thousand men. The cab drivers, bartenders, bootblacks, porters, •waiters and even some cf the hotel proprietors E bake their heads disconsolately at the mere pjantfoa of July 22, tor they say perhaps the -d»-ath list" wUi never be known. And when a stranger curiously asks : " r still further details cf the great disaster, about which the cab driv ers bartenders, bootblacks, porters, waiters and even some of the hotel keepers seem so broken hearted, be is likely to l>v surprised, if not disappointed, to learn that July 22 simply marks the suppression of the Long Branch cwmhling houses. ■The town was hit pretty gol darn hard by that 'ere reform wave," said one < ab driver, who tad been sitting all day in froiit of the gorgeous flower beds of the Casino. "Is been right here all day, and not a blame fare, and it's all cuz the clubs is shut. The town is on the blink. It'll sever be wat it BE irhen "Phil 1 Daly and 'Davy* Johnson aiid Colonel Kirby and all those other •--eiits' was runnin' the tables. By and by, only the beach'U ■■ left, and they won't allow the cbildruns even to play on it." Just then three men came out of the Casino and walked briskly down to the street. They ■odded to the cab driver anj disappeared around the mer. "There goes Ernest Witte, 'Davy* Johns<.>r. and Emery. They run the place up to when the re form struck the town. I've got to meet 'em shortly." And so saying the cabby whipped his terse out at his slumber and drove drearily dcv.n the street. prbetfeer or not the lamentations of the hack man are in accord with the anti-gambling laws of the State of New-Jersey or the opinions of the leading mm ■liwtH of the century, it is never theless a fact that the closing of the Eamblins houses of Long Branch has had a striking effect upon the life of this watering place. The -ciubs," as the gambling hownrn are poUt< ly called, attracted to them a boat of rapid specu lators" from New-York, including many leading captains of ince in Wall Street, not a few lawyers and actors, together with several big Tammany politicians, who have not yet lost ail they nia.de before the election of Mayor Low. The money that they put into circulation in the ■Test End on Saturday night aggregated enough millions, it is said, to build several miles of the East Side subway. Along wuh these "Jinaneiers" came a host of waiters, subalterns and understrappers, who crowded the sidewalks. Tilled the adjacent bar rooms and j;ave the seasid a stir and bustle which could fairly be called metropolitan. The big gamblers held high court, rolled around in carriages, met their friends at the hotels and amazed th* ir less dashing associates by wanton extravagances. Tli- "regulars" stayed "at the Branch," as they termed It, week in and week out, played roulette, faro and poker as .- pro fession, disported their winning! bragged of their losses, wore their diamonds— as long as they were out of pawn where every one could see them, and changed theii thes to suit the. hour of the day. The "occasionals." played Sat urday and Sunday, coming down from a-York in the interval between business days, and. as a general thing, on their return t< their oi fices "leaving their : ■ Us behind them." The "clubhouses" were furnished in complete accord with ihe Baah and glitter of their patrons. AJthough Long Branch was "shut up tight" last year by relorin, the big gamblers had believed the ■at was clear this summer. They sai . that they had always had their way before, that until 11*01 gambling was as unresti as bathing, that the local police would not inter fere, and that, m fact, the peopk of Long Branch wanted gambling, und were g!a.d to have ihtm there. Accordingly, with the beginning of this sum mer, the gambling houses <>p» ned v] on such a scale of grandeur and magnificence, as to sur prise even the oldest inhabitant. Gardeners had built new flower beds of roses, tulip.-? and poppi painters had brightened the walls, so as to make the structures look like new, and within sculp- I rs. artists, decorators and carpenters had liucsforuied the gloomy rookeries of IJWI into veritable palaces. :. vac keen. Ea« h lul r. T!.- re has I ; .- -:■■■' ious I tab, with its stretch of J its ; rticos and fantastically shaped . ■ ■-. < tver Its wheels : Daly presided hi g:side was the grlit ivork- i .- . ■ . .- ' ■ . and Here * Dave" J- hi - . whose ; t reached I lOttom, boa ted ne monej : ■ ■ ; . I Stai • ■ Lately N< m windows looking; r:c!i Take With You on Your Vacation Mr. Major's DOROTHY VERNQN OF HADOON HALL Order cf the nearest bookseller or ncxsJealer. MEW-YORK TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT. down on the sad sea waves. Here "Joe" Ullmann shook hands with his "friends." Northward, in Ocean-aye., old John Daly's place .was in full blast, under the genial management of Colonel Kirby, who never knew what was meant by gambling, but only "entertained." Then there was the Chelsea Club, and many more, where "the pace was not so fast." Now all is changed. The clubhouses are empty. For a time the gaudy restaurants on their front pon hes. as before, tried to deceive the more credulous into believing that the places w-remfrc hotels. But even the porches are now desolate. At the Instigation of Justice Fort, the grand jury brought in the indictments against the "clubmen" with evidence "to liurn," as th<? foreman expressed it. The local police grumble about being interfered with by the Sheriff and his deputies, but that's all. But while the cab drivers, bartenders, boot blacks, porters, waiters and some of the hotel keepers say that the bread has been taken out < f their mouths by the suppression of the gam bling bouses, and many of the cottagers complain that the place now is "dead slow,"' some of the ihopkeepers are rejoicing. As one of them said: "The gambling houses did not patronize us. Th-^y bought all their wines, foodstuffs and furniture in New-York. They did not even rent our nouses for their help, l>ui built their own cottages. They kept away many people who would otherwise have settled here, and increased a. population that was beginning to scandalize the name of the place. Lionj; Branch, though less gaudy, will be better with the gamblers gone." Whether or not the 'clubs" will < i en up again ■ecretly i* etill uncertain even in the minds of the big gamblers themselves. Some of them say that they ir.i.cht run like Canneld'S. at Sara toga, on the club principle, where by charging an initiation fee ■ member's right of privacy in "his dub" would be Inviolable. At any rate, they ajx- talking about it. THE OLD BOSTON MUSEUM i on tinned from i>oki* nine. i i . in i.s4i; v was moved :. its present si., in Fremont-st., just south of Square, i ut many i f the pictures, stuffed animals, etc, were moved with it. being placed in a large entrance hall with galleries. Some <>f th< in are then stilL What Bostonian does not r»-oali the gigantic figure of Washington on that hangs on the landing, t«> be awfully gazed at between acts, and the little stuff--.! creatur s that s«vm u> look wistfully out of their glass cases? And there was <iuili vt-r! Gulliver was a wax figure, Dearly life size, who las f* u ; '■'■'•- while hundreds of tiny l^illipu lia^.s b» ■ : \ •■: him and bound him hand a cloth gr< >und. Th< :: oni r was g ne, and v.<- .:; ■ . I would not ~» it tl I >;-.. iver row mistily between him and 1 ; ■; nly a teary, pa.l bet ie smile s.-«.n after it as install) d ii its new home the Museum lx gan to take its place among the highest cla^s theatres in the country, and the Boston Museum Stock Company was started thai was destined to endure for nearly fifty years, playing most of the time ia that one. house, giving chang< s of bill i<-ntly, as was necessary from the conditions, and bringing out a long list ol competent actors and finished pro ductions, on September 10, LMti Edwin Booth appeared for the firs! time under his own name at the Museum as Tressel to his father's liich urd II J, for the the&tie always received the best of the travtllins attractions. in IVi2 Annie Clarke was brought inio the company as a pick aninny in "Uncle Tom's Cabin/ having at tracted the attention of Miss Phillips. She grew up with the theatre, and Miss Kale Reign< his (now Mrs. Erving YVinslow) has told «.f her un tiring devotion to the company and to her own improvtir.ent. Miss litignolds herseJf became a member of the company in lbtSU. In lM»l .\!.. g gi« Mitchell ami J. Wilkes Booth played at the Museum, and in ISGS Mis. Scott Siddons mad. there l.«r American debut. At this time such men and women as Charles liarron. William Warren, Laura Phiil.'ps. Mis. Vincent and Annie Clarice were favorites with th<- patrons of the j house and recognized through the country. In the season of 1878 and 1879 "Pinafore" ran ' IHI limes at the ... t(... : being its lust , American pi luction in it:.- Kast. In l St_» the house was en tin remodelled into the shai>e that was faini!iar from that time till the fire a year or more ago. li was made t»> st-at 1,501 people, and from the papers <f the day it is learned that this was supposed to bring ■ in £I,— 7S. Nor were there ever speculators at i the entrance of the II iseutn in the days of the | stock company. That ison .^uw Barron War- j j> 11. Annie Clarke, Sadie Martinot.- Mary Shaw, j Rose Temple and Kate Ryan in the company. In 1 vv _ William Warren had a performance in honor of his semi-centennial awearame on the American stage. H< played Sir Peter Teazle that nisht to as large .:n audience as ould be packed into th<- house, representing the best of I Boston and members of his ■■!!'• ssion and ! Fta£<? lovers fr-'Tii all over the country. Shortly > after he retired from the i?tag;e. Misa Clarke's farewell was given in I .L. and it was not lonff j before the company passed away entirely, and J the theatre becan more gr<-n<-r;tl in character, j to go finally Into the hands of the theatrical j syndicate. Mr. Frohman found Robert Edeson j in the Museum company, and has many other reasons to be grateful to it. But its methods THE TRIBUNES &RTDIRECTORy IPaintittgS \— Julius Oehme, 354 Fifth Avenue, High Class Paintings. £btß>retl jpbOtOOrapbCfc at Rockmood's New Studio, Broadway, 39th s/. General {Painter: — Wtn. J. Shaw, 11G West 30//* St., Hard Wood Finisher, were of necessity not his. and " 'Way Down East" and "The Girl from Maxim's" replaced the classics and the quiet, sweet comedies that had made the Museum d<-ur. For the Museum was always, under its old regime, a family theatre, the sort of a theatre that perhaps passed from our American life, at least for a lime, if not forever, with the dissolu tion of its stock company. Some years ago a Bostonian wrote, "To go to the Museum has always been a praiseworthy and rroper pro ceeding." People went to the Museum who would not go to "the theatre." They went and took the children, for plays and players alike were above reproach. One saw one's friends all over the house, and between acts elderly men tame and talked with one's mother, patting one kind!y on the head. They wen- audiences united alike by a love of high, clean art and by social ties outside the theatre. And the company had to be competent. It is probable that such a working together of actors and audience, such a friendly tie between them, and such sound and •'oldfashioned" ideala will not be a possible combination again. It is still more likely that so many fine actors, under our present theatrical system, will not again be gathered in one com pany. For those reasons the entire country has reason to l<«>k lingeringly on the passing of the Museum, where these things once were. INFANTRY RANGE FINDER. [MPORTANT AID TO MARKSMANSHIP WITH SMALL. ARMS. An Instrument which will enable the soldier to tell how far away th.' enemy is at whom he wants to shoot is a very useful thins;. The elevation of his i;un In aiming is controlled by the distance. Jn .1 practice range a man knows what the interval is between himself and the target, and governs himself accordingly. Hut in the field, in actual warfare, it i? putty much guesswork. For heavy ordnance, either on ship board or in roast defences, range tinders have been common for several years. Thk- need of apparatus that will perform the same service for infantry had not I n well met until recent ly. There has been, to be sun . the "mekon* ter" ."f the British army. This ■ onsists of a pie. c of ..... .. , | long and having various de .,. d a . an at ea« h end. Uut Professor ( ;,.,..-.• Forbes an Englishman, thought that he • t. and tried last year. ,;,. know a little about it early in the wii • : ■■>• '■'• •■ S ' ln Africa a little later .. ■ ■ . told the I'nii - -• ■ ::i. n in Londoi ■P , p or bes i ■ ■ ■ nd< r is mu< h simph i . .. . ■ • ml ran .■•■ n mil dated bj c mai '' ] fronl ti; ' There is a lisl I stall i m ■! Pix feel .■■■•■■ .lie. so that 11 an • I Id ■ is Tl ■ : lis held horizon tally md it is. . nwswise in frol . ,-■ his facp. At ■:. h•nd is a small : I ■ ■ • ■ ■ : ■ . . i th« rod. I : • ■ ■ • A certa ■ v in.- > . ■ . ■ "i .■••.. I • anpl< tie 1 ■;■:■'■■ ited i • y index will th« :•■! ' ■.•'■■ th< ■ To a ' " forussii Pmf< or Forl» I uts into ea. i. barrel will not ■ • : ■ ..• ■.. too . h, a parent ph topraj hof a ball- I ■ ' tail [1 ; : • .-ntres of the two are <x . . • • ■ ■. • es of th , -, twci images will foales«-< ami .!];• .n d the ba looi h ill seem to 1« I;. tograph • ■ ! pid« tvaj -■ v. ith ■•■ tni< romt-tir sinw II ran b«" : • I toward the othci ; :■:■.■ h at motion n k< . i•; ..i .. . : .r. W!: '• I '■■■■ ' ail T '• I•■ is th : i-r ihv column «f I the ten! .. !. ; : ■■ instrument I thi fo . Is ;•■:■ ct and the scale ma . l>< r-a<l off. l*i Forli s declares thai he I im«l il iasj to gel « ithin - i- r cent of the acl ual distan< •• bj means of his range finder, when tli- range «.is a^ {,'reat as three thousand yards. A convenient iiosture for the man who u.s's A Most Fascinating New Novel mrs. athertons THE CONQUEROR OrJii oj tin- tuartsi bookssllet or ntwsdtaler. CARL H. SCHULTZ. TeL: 142 Maiiisi.li Sq. 43t»-4)4 First Aye.. N ■S Artlt'n ial Vichy, Ki^i ;ip<-n. S< Itrrs. Ebbs, Uthia Water, Uthla-Vlchy, Uthia CarMtad. MarwDbad, l"u!!na. Bilip. Doable ami yuaiiruj.lc Chrlatad, Bomburr. WUdungen. Carbonic, Club Soda, are also pnt tir in Nittl«;» for out rr town delivery. The Best of all Good Company MR. WJSTHR'S THE VIRGINIAN Order cj the nearest bookseller or tuwsdej.'i i. the range finder is to lie on the ground, chest downward, resting both elbows on the earth and holding the staff up before the face at a height of a foot or fifteen inches. The head must be thrown back a littlt in order to look into the fieldglass. Sine the images of the c it my are picked up by the prisms, out at thy end of the rod, and inasmuch as these are sis feet apart, the operator's head may be conceali <.' behind a tree or bowlder. I'rofessor Forbes rode about for a week witl the troops, and carried the range finder wita. him. At night it was left with the saddle. < '1 one occasion his horse rolled over it. but with out doing any harm. The device could bo manip* ulated bo quickly that it was possible to gel the range with it while other men were making their preparations to use th<> "mekometer." Be sides, every person of ordinary Intelligence could learn in a few minutes how to operate the Dew Instrument. cows, rin:n: likes AND dislikes. "Cows have their likes and their dislih said the milkmaid to the summer boarder who was curious to see every part of the farm. "For instance, a cow admires a horse, and will stand and watch one f.. r a long tin,-. She ia sorl of timid about him, but she admires him just the same Sh< has a contempt for a mule, and seems to 1..- amused by his antics. li.- i Fh« to!, rates, that's all. And sheep, she bates. She v ill n..t eat grass whei sh^ep have been. SI;.- hates dogs. too, ! 'it will tolerate the .•-hep herd dog-, because she knows shi- simply has tO| and that the shepherd dog will not bite her. "Cattle go *ild at bi ing let in( a fresM pasture," added the milkmaid. "It seems o go to their heads. Each is afraid that the other has g. < a better feeding pla< <• than herself, and tries to drive her •■■■ ighl . -r away." "Then there is a good deal of human iatur< in the < o-.v. a!t-r all." mused the summer boarder, who had studied -i year or two at a. university, .-.:.■! a> given to philosophical it - flections. "Well, I should smile." answered the milk maid. "A single row with a call will boss a whole herd '■!:»-: and, swinging ■:;... over h«-i arm. she went down to thi milking pens. « i i//\s mi: coxs i upti i /:>■. :■■.,■•■ imb-r of the • <■"• • ■ th Rootl food, pure air, daily : : ; r medical treatment, says !•■ H' ■ I ■ In "Chai Ities," is an aim which it ; i ■ ;• to accomplish at a reason ■ : . :.. . • • , ,ji, ,i : - • ft»r consumptives ;;, the out t hi A (•:.!(•• within reach hy the str< e;irs — fur instance, in The Mroux would be suitable for s'n h a purpose. There t li • - consumptive could upend the da;-, receive a shower bath, lj.-; proper food, plenty of milk and medical attenti< and in i).. evening return to his home. No special building would be needed, except a large wooden shed i>> furnish protection against run. i few tents or barracks, \\.tli beds for enn rg< n<-j cases, and a kitchen wagi n, in whicM to prexiare th- food. Kach patient could hava his own chair and his table ut«:i.- to b4 mark'd I » J numbers. 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