TRANSATLANTIC GAMBLING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 32, 1 November 1907, Page 8

TRANSATLANTIC GAMBLING.

For. the,first timo in the. history of ocean fcrav'ol the police''of New York city and ,the transatlantic steamship companies havo, iiriitefl in a,war on the gamblers who pfy their Irado on the ocean liners. It is'the intention y>f tne steamship companies to post the pic-. .tures of all ."sharpers in'the smoking-room of steamers, in.the ticket offices, and in every other place whero gamblers might be found. It is also tho intention to "refuso "to sell tickets to men who are known to be gamblers, and to refuse to transport gamblers who attempt to travel on tickets which have been issued under names other than their own.' With the aid of_',the; police,it will not bo difficult for companies N to. create a rogue's gallery of card-sharpors. The" pictures, of the most notorious men of this stamp aro now in the police galleries, and it will be, comparatively, easy to obtain pictures of the ncwr comers in the gambling field. When the system has been put into working order' the smoke-room of every liner'will contain lery of pictures of practically', every man known as a card-sharper,'and it will bo a matter of but a few moments for. a person invited into a game of cliance to ascertain who- ' ther or not any of his fellow-players is. a profossional rlaycr. . .;..'..' Accerding to the arrangement, _it is the plan of the polico to have men with expert knowledge of "crooks" ;to see everyone who goes aboard the ships. , Mark Twain has been among the ' many thousands who have visited the Lusitania at New York. ; In bidding adieu to tho officer who showed him-over the ship, he observed:! "I'll have to tell Noah all about this when 4 I meet him."