Gambling Is On The Wane

"I don't know why it is, but the American mania for gambling is dying out," said Tom Brewer, one oí the best known of the Denver sports, at the Arlingtcn. "Take horse racing, and over two-thirds of the tracks are closed. The breeding of fast horses ie not nearly so profltable as it used to be, and there is not one race where there wero ten, twenty years ago. Then faro. It is a fact that there are not as many open faro rooms in the TJnited States as there were in Chicago or Denver alone a few years ago. I have not seen a keno card for ten years. There are a few rooms, but they are comparatively small. Poker is played privately and in clubs. There are a few poker rooms where etrangera can get into a game in all large cities, but there are not one-fourth as many as ten years ago, and the games are very much smaller, only occasionally a game being played for heavy stakes. The places of these are taken to some extent by crap rooms, of a much lower order, but that is being rapidly forced out of existence. There ie probably less gambling among Americans now than among men of any other leading