OUTBREAK OF GAMBLING.
POSITION IX ENGLAND. EVEN JUVENILES AFFECTED. The end of the war appears to have brought with it an extraordinary revival of gambling; indeed, the evil seems to be more pronounced than aver, says an English paper. Everywhere it is. in evidence. One notices it in the streets of cities and towns, in the workshops, and when taking one's'walk's in the country. Where one person took.a paper from the newsboy for tho pnrpope of seeing the horseracing reports there now seems to be hundreds. A good sprinkling are hemobilised soldiers, and the numbers are said to be largely swelled by people drawing the out-of-work donation. The craze is also very great in city offices where young and old seem to be imbued with the get-rioh-qynck ideas of the war profiteer. While the war was on, of 'course, not only were millions of men out of the country, but racing was practically stopped, and there was less opportunity of seeing the effects of gambling, although it was known to be usually active among the highly-paid munition workers. In the smaller towns around Manchester this was seen in 'the way people took to the fields and open space's for the purpose of gambling with cards. Now that racing has started the evidences of the practice of gambling are to be found mora particularly in the streets. . CHILDREN AND GAMES OF CHANCE. One astonishing feature of the craze is the number of juveniles, now receiving high wages, who indulge in games of chance, and one can see groups of lads engaged m gambling passing not only e-mail change but Treasury notes in paywent of their losses. There is no doubt that the influence of the soldiers has had a great deal to do with this growth of juvenile gambling, for the conditions of things m the camps and in the trenches nave encouraged men to look more and more to forms of excitement to pass their time. Men who never thought of risking money in this fashion-before they joined the army have come back'confirmed- gamblers, and no doubt youths have been influenced by the easy way in which betting on horses, and card-p'laV-ing particularly, have been talked about -The gambling spirit, too, seems to have taken hold of women almost as strongly as men, and a police officer stated that just recently, while on the look-out for a betting tout and taking cover in an entry, a child of ten came along, and, evidently mistaking him for thS tout handed him a slip of. paper and 23s to put on a certain horse. A WOMEN'S "SYNDICATE." The child and her mother were interrogated !,y the police iat er, and it then came out that in the yard where they ned it was the regular practice of the women to have a whip round on race days, subscribing sixpence a head. After he money had been collected a consultation was held as to which horse The which reached about 20s or 255, was then >anded over to the bookmaker. If the horse did not win, of course, the indt v.dual contribution was not though to or W ] °T ' bl,t t0 have «*«™ ed 4s nLn /, , oach «"Pe«w», ao matter how noon «, ° aSeS llad . oc was looked upon, as money easily come by, and no doubt it greatly encouraged the women to impoverish themselves, and at t same time gradually initiate their children into habits of gambling " When erne gets to the ring of towns outs.de Manchester one fi„ds° a very de Plorable state of t],i„ gs . In Z Oldham and Rochdale, and Ashtonjambling » carried on in secluded plfeesstone quarries and places on the moors end so forth, where large bodies oTZn an meet, and where scouts can keep them informed of the approach %f any one .suspected of being memben ti\ police force. Only recently a ra d was earned out on the moors, near Oldham during the working hours of the av and about 100 men were funded up
"WITHIN FIVE YEARS."
DOVER-CALAIS BY LAND. SOME STAOGERING FIGURES. . One of the world's "greatest eneinoertunne, uifter tho sea between KngfonA lacl with,,, five years, Sir Arthur Fell, -Ul, chairman of the House of Com SSf r 3? Bd Tunnel CoMmittee - - "The tunnel," l le continued, "would ™ from a point near Dove t„ , age of Wissont, between -.Boulogne and Calais Tilo rnilwav thro „W e t would be olertrilied There woutd b wo h be.-one i ur the outward and (me 1<" 'if return journey. Each tube "I'M "e about 150 feet under the , ca """I '»«* estimated .that without „,,,..' »«re it would be J, nssihlc t(1 (~,,,, '" boil, directions 30,1X10 nmon, ! :«'.<«o tons of „,„„,, ( , V( ,y so 1 i„mr"f I™v|">..r four hours „ ,)ay for h nnvals clc. 1 LelH-ve the V„U (Jm-- '''•"""■'" l '- 'l;>ite prepared to allow the b»»er operaluu; ~h (, rai , (o bp woeouhfeut .toll ar.nn.viin,., ~„, to allow us (| means at Dover of ilo.vihu,. d, v , ;,, ,„.,„ . " ''"'Hiing the tunne m case of emergency.' ' is „,„, „ 10 fl|n ■"■'b be „„ ( l niiinaw.l by between the ~vo (!,,,,.,'?. will be (1,,-,., mile, iron, lore to Z'e' where ,uit of soli,! pray ,halk will 1,; ~bo e Hie in!,,. |„ uinbehannel, where he'.,,, ,s |,j-f[ deep. ,| U! tunnel will he il.it' below (he Wnlor. I ' ;l '' , - |, ' i '- orilliii- niaebines. .feared a: h,. ; |, .p.,,|, lvl ,| ~,„ (j , ( . •■ I'-"". th:] ' v '' lM w '"' i; ™ advance of f!» J IUiUU ordnnp machine lo -m,. „•„-. nip ol any war.,- bearing MnU , ,) ;; ■nay be „>«,]. t:ie,fric locomotives ;' '■" , '""'«• in.;. trains 11.v«i,«h (he !■„,. '"'• fin, J, l "; '.««iiiu-l-r<.|li„ g stock will be special!} hnnl. A!! wnmhvo"!; of Die pn?Kon"cr ini-,c is to be rendered fireproof and the vh' (lows are to be rubber-cushioned so fVi! , initio and noise can be reduced The tunnel will be electrically lifted I .lKouplio'at and a special pneumatic air sVKi.em will oe installed. '
. ..Mr Arluur Tell said: It will he a hi" .!">. >f >»>t b:pecr titan Goethal's ma r"ve lou, Panama C-n.-il undertaking and I liope well carry ii «<■ v , itl| t!le Sllm ., success us the great Vankee en ? ineer «fh.eved. 1 flunk there will be four tunnels tinder the Channel -witbAiAcn years, and possibly more later on, with one for motor (raffle or.)y, so that we' will be able lo motor to Paris. Train,, should be run through a tunnel direct from Loudon to Paris in less than six lours, and these could, if required? travel nt intervals of five or ten minutes. As soon as they can pass under the Channel the express trains will be able to traverse Prance, Belgium, Holland Italy Germany, Austria, and, Turkey, as I'm p»
Constantinople without any difficulty or change of gauge- At the beginning, however, the tunnel Will be constructed only for trains- Borings will begin on both aides of the Channel simultaneously. England will be responsible for onehalf of the work and France for the ether, and there will be eager competition to see which nation can tunnel the greater distance. Plans are rapidly materialising between the two nations for the beginning soon of this work- with discharged soldier labor. Sir Arthur gives the following figures as the cost, fare, etc.:—Cost of 'tunnel, £20,000,000; period of construction, five years; fare each way, Ss Gd; length of' tunnel, 30 miles; time in traversing tunnel, 40 minutes.
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