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NOTES
1. Good accounts of this riot, of similar troubles in 1712, and of the Doctors’ Riot in 1788, can be found in Headley’s Sketches of the Great Riots. The Doctors’ Riot grew out of the robbing of graves by medical students. Most of the physicians were driven from the city, the militia was under arms for several days, and Baron Steuben and John Jay were wounded while attempting to disperse the mob. This was before the time of the gangs, and the underworld had nothing to do with any of the outbreaks.
2. Prints of the Old Brewery show only three stories, but writers of the period say there were five.
3. In the slang of the period a rabbit was a rowdy, and a dead rabbit was a very rowdy, athletic fellow.
4. A cape, or short full cloak, named after Talma, a French actor.
5. Stuss was an adaptation of faro, and there were several variations, but the most popular was played with a layout of thirteen spaces, numbered from ace to king. The dealer shuffled the deck and placed it face downward upon the table. The players made their bets on whatever cards they hoped would appear, and the entire deck was then turned over. The card now on top was the dealer’s, and all money which had been bet on it went to the house. The next card was the players’, and the house paid off on it. Every other card was the dealer’s, so that the players could not possibly win on more than six of the thirteen. The percentage in favor of the house was enormous. The game was widely known in the underworld as Jewish Faro.
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