| The Brook-- A.R.'s Saratoga Gambling House |
| Saratoga Race Track Crowd, circa 1907 |
Arnold Rothstein's Saratoga Chronology
1904 - Makes first trip to Saratoga aboard the Cavanagh Special; strands Abe Attell.
1909 - Marries Carolyn Green at Saratoga Springs; pawns her jewelry (August 12).
1917 - Begins bankrolling Saratoga gambling house owner Harry Tobin.
1919 - Opens The Brook in Saratoga Springs.
1920 - Subway Sam Rosoff loses $100,000 in one night at The Brook (August).
1920 - Rothstein wins between $850,000 and $900,000 on Sailing B (August 27).
1921 - Engages Bill Fallon to defend Jules Hormel on charge of bribing Saratoga
officials.
1921 - Rothstein's Sporting Blood wins the Travers; wins purse of $10,275, plus
$450,000 in winning bets (August).
1922 - Sells The Brook to Nat Evans (alternate date: 1925).
1926 - Saratoga Taxpayers' Association petitions Governor Alfred E. Smith to probe
local corruption.
1926 - Gambler George Formel charges A.R. paid Saratoga County District
Attorney Charles B. Andrus $60,000 in "protection."
1934 - Evans insures The Brook and its contents for $117,000 (November 1).
1934 - The Brook burns down (December 31).
1904 - Makes first trip to Saratoga aboard the Cavanagh Special; strands Abe Attell.
1909 - Marries Carolyn Green at Saratoga Springs; pawns her jewelry (August 12).
1917 - Begins bankrolling Saratoga gambling house owner Harry Tobin.
1919 - Opens The Brook in Saratoga Springs.
1920 - Subway Sam Rosoff loses $100,000 in one night at The Brook (August).
1920 - Rothstein wins between $850,000 and $900,000 on Sailing B (August 27).
1921 - Engages Bill Fallon to defend Jules Hormel on charge of bribing Saratoga
officials.
1921 - Rothstein's Sporting Blood wins the Travers; wins purse of $10,275, plus
$450,000 in winning bets (August).
1922 - Sells The Brook to Nat Evans (alternate date: 1925).
1926 - Saratoga Taxpayers' Association petitions Governor Alfred E. Smith to probe
local corruption.
1926 - Gambler George Formel charges A.R. paid Saratoga County District
Attorney Charles B. Andrus $60,000 in "protection."
1934 - Evans insures The Brook and its contents for $117,000 (November 1).
1934 - The Brook burns down (December 31).
| Broadway at Saratoga Springs Turn of the Century |
| Main Entrance to Saratoga Race Track |
| Grandstand Saratoga Race Track |
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| Arnold Rothstein's Saratoga |
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| Advertisment for The Brook in its Later Years-- Featuring "Cuisine Francais" and a "Sunday Dinner Special" |
Arnold Rothstein ran one of Saratoga Spring's most opulent casinos, The Brook; operated his
own racing stable, Redstone Stables; won and lost hundred of thousands at the track, bribed
various and sundry local officials; plotted the fixing of a World Series--and married showgirl
Carolyn Green there in August 1909.
own racing stable, Redstone Stables; won and lost hundred of thousands at the track, bribed
various and sundry local officials; plotted the fixing of a World Series--and married showgirl
Carolyn Green there in August 1909.
| 185 Washington Street, Saratoga Springs, New York-- where Arnold Rothstein and Carolyn Green married on Thursday, August 12, 1909 with Herbert Bayard Swope and Margaret "Pearl" Honeyman as witnesses, justice of the peace Fred Bradley officiating. Carolyn Rothstein wrote: "I was wearing a large black hat of Milan straw, a black-and-white silk dress, black patent leather shoes, and black stockings. There were no flesh-colored stockings in those days, and well I remember my sense of shock when I saw flesh-colored stockings being worn for the first time. They seemed indecent. I always wore black and white in those days. We all wore corsets, of course, and I have a memory that my sleeves were rather large, and my skirts rather long." |
| 185 Washington Street, as it appeared in July 2003 |
