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Wall Street Clerks Turn Bookmakers

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 8, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 41.

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Wall Street Clerks Turn Bookmakers

SINCE the fight in New York against the pool-rooms has increased the difficulty of the gambling element in making bets, hundreds of young clerks in the Wall Street offices have turned book-makers, or professional gamblers, for the accommodation of the gambling propensities of the other clerks in those establishments. This shows how completely the gambling mania is saturating the society of the present time.