"Chinese the greatest gamblers of the world"

Macao, Nov. 21, 1900. (Special Correspondent of The Bee.) I writte this in the Monte Carlo of Asia in tho greatest gambling hell or Macao, where fantan runs riot. Day and night, sundays and week days, year in and year out, this gambling houses are open. This is the center of the lottery system of west Asia. The Manila company has moved here and the fortunes which went to tho Philippines now come to Macao. Tho chief gambling is in fantan, In which thousands of dollars are lost and won every night by betting on the number of copper cash under the bowls. I am sitting in a gambling hell as I write the notes. (...)

Excerto de artigo de Frank G. Carpenter, publicado no The illustrated Bee, edição de 30 de Dezembro de 1900.