The Price of a Gambling Habit

Several Seattle merchants have petitioned to have more gambling be permitted in Seattle, but if their clerks steal money from them to play the faro table, they will be very angry. A young man who had charge of the Great Northern and Dominion Express Company business in this city is pending investigation into the accounts of Arthur G. Ganwell, who, it is claimed, is short $400 in his accounts. It is said Mr. Ganwell had been raising funds to receive packages and not return the proceeds. After a while the senders sent letters of inquiry regarding remittances; the reply was that packages were here unclaimed for. At last the company made an investigation with the result that packages were found to have been delivered and the money used by Ganwell. Many of the boys around town know the young man to be tricky and frequently found him a gambler at the faro and roulette tables of the various gambling houses of the city. Last winter it was a favorite pastime of his to come over from Fairhaven on horseback at night and roll the dice high. That the result of the shortage in his accounts was the outcome is not known at Ganwell. He is a bright, intelligent, active young man, and is another victim of the hell-holes that reporters and people generally complain about, but which escape the eagle eye of our ever-present police.