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IS SURE GITTINS BILLS WILL PASS. New York. June 10. — Timothy D. Sullivan made a Bpedal trip from Albany yesterday to see a friend off on the French Liner La Savoie. He was unusually talkative. "Do you think the racing bills will pass, Senator." he was a;-,ked. "They will." he replied. "All the bills will pass that there is any real demand for. The killing id racing did not hurt the slate especially, but it was a big Mow to the city. It hurt the hotels and restaurauts. They are doing only half the business they would be doing if racing was going on at the tracks around the city. It has put the roof gardens out of business pretty much: they are not worth ten cents on the dollar now to what they were. And it I as put a crimp into all the summer shows. The taxlcab people would not be saying that they have to keep up their rates to keep out of bankruptcy if there was racing this summer. Sure it hurts the city." "Do you believe in permitting gambling, then?" "Between individuals, yes. It is personal freedom. T.pttira; at the race tracks is individual betting. Tetling in a gambling house isnt. Theres the five per cent, percentage for one thing: it is too h-.ivy." "How "about the iKiokmakers percentage?" "It isnt so heavy that I notice any of ilieni with any mosey left." said the .Senator grimly as he walktd off the pier. Canon W. S. Chase is decidedly disturbed over ill- Glttina bills, which he characterised in a state incur given out today as the worst seen at Albany in fifty years. "The Ives bill." he said, "legalised gambling at the race bracks for two months during the summer season: the Percy-Gray law confined it to the race tracks; but the proposed measures restore all restrictions of time and space and mike it Impossible to convict for any kind of gambling. New York will be turned into a big gambling casino, with the police powerless to interfile." On embarking for Europe, August Belmont, chairman of the Jockey Club, expressed the hope that the, Glttina bills, now before the Senate at Albanv. WOUM be passed. "If they do." he Said, "they will lie sure to rehabilitate racing, and go a long way toward placing the sport on its former footing."
