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Title: Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans and environs, with map : illustrated with many original engravings, and containing exhaustive accounts of the traditions, historical legends, and remarkable localities of the Creole city
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
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Publisher: New York : W.H. Coleman
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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thesporting element. Under the stimulating effects of two so powerful agencies as an immenseand reckless transient population, all of them by nature and temperament bold speculators,ready to stake anything or everything on the throw of the dice, and the plethora of money pro-duced by such causes it will not be wondered at that the gambling furor again broke out inNew Orleans. Gambling houses were now opened in all directions, all over the city, near theSt. Marys Market, near the steamship landings, near the hotels, the boarding and lodginghouses, wherever returning soldiers or emigrants quartered or congregated. At that time certainhouses were licensed by city ordinance, such as carried on the games of rondeau and loto;and all through the night, from dusky eve to early morn, in every frequented thoroughfare,could be heard the deep and sonorous voice of the game keeper as he called time and game atrondeau. None of these establishments, nor of those which had preceded them, assumed any
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GUIDE TO NEW ORLEANS. 205 pretensions to luxury or elegance. It was not until the fifties, that elegantly-furnished houses,where sumptuous dinners and suppers were supplied to visitors and patrons, were introducedin New Orleans and the new departure was first brought to perfection by a trio comprising threenotable men. McGrath, Sherwood and Perritt were men of marked individual character, with strong dis-tinctive personal points, and all of them self-made men. In all their dealings and in all theirintercourse in New Orleans or elsewhere—and these were not confined to sporting businessand sporting circles, but extended in many directions and embraced many sections of legit-imate trade—those three men ever enjoyed a name and reputation for fair play, for stricthonesty and integrity in all transactions of whatever nature. Price McGrath, one of tne part-ners, upon the breaking out of the war between the States, closed up his establishment andwent North, but finally settled down in Ken

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