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Show Gl RRALTAR CASTL"F. the privilege of conducting the ambling Casino. And just here let me s tate that o-ambling in Monte Carlo i not a recreation but a business. The regular player buy his scat at the table just as really as a man buys his scat at the Stock Exchange, or his sca t in the Theatre. The tourist gains admission by securing a special ticket <tnd then following the cro·wd. Tf one is fortunate enotwh to enter the buildino· early, he will . ee two strong men bring chests full of real . ilver and gold into the room and empty them upon the Roulette tables. The money is then counted and stacked so as to be easily reached by the C<ts hiers at each table. The chairs around each table arc all occupied by their owners and in a moment the ball begin to roll and the money bco-ins to be placed upon the desired numbers. Somebody alway win 'tis true, but the Cashier's pile this day grew with a teadin . that wa nece5sary in order to be able to meet the Ci,,il and Rcligiou expense of the town and to pay the rince of l\T onaco $350,000.00 per year. 1\Ionte Carlo. Beautiful Monte Carlo. Infamous l\Tonte Carlo Twenty-one hours and 375 miles brought us to l\aplc. , \\'cclncsday. l\Jarch 6th, and forty hours and 1001 miles m rc brought us to Alexandria. Egypt, thus completing more than 5650 mile. o f travel which ior fair skies and smooth sea. have never been excelled nor more enjoyed by tra\·elcrs to foreign shores. Alexandria! That name is a . soc iatccl with Lhc dim and the di stant past. L\lcxandria! ft suggests the name of its founder, Alexander the Great; and take · one back and hack past the beginning of our hri . tian era. ft suggest that famous white marble lighthou se, 'the Pharos," more than 400 feet high. built by Page eventecn |