- Name Article: The House always wins – Banker has the only sure thing in Games of Chance
- Author: Frederick Boyd Stevenson
- Year: Thursday 2 April 1903
- Published in: Grant County Herald
- Location: Lancaster, Wisconsin
The House always wins – Banker has the only sure thing in Games of Chance – Grant County Herald -1903
This 1903 article, in the newspaper Grant County Herald, confirms that around 1903 support for gambling was low and that the hunt for Gamblers (this refers to the operators of the gambling houses) had been opened by the authorities. This article refers to the raid on Canfield’s private address while he himself was staying in Europe.
“Sensational Charges made by district attorney Jerome against the professional gamblers of New York (Special New York Letter)”
“In New York, there are probably 50 or 60 so-called First Class Gambling Houses usually designed as Clubs”
“The attack on Canfield will be but the beginning of a long-continued fight on all New York Gambling Houses”
About Canfield’s Club
“Canfield’s place has a worldwide reputation as the most superb on two hemispheres. It is a veritable palace filled with rare paintings and works of art gathered by the proprietor from all parts over the globe, with the exquisite taste of the refined connoisseur.”
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