The Blind Tiger

"A drawer runs into a wall of what appears to be a billiard saloon. You pull out the drawer, drop in your change, shove the drawer back, call for what you want and then pull out the drawer again and there it is, "Straight" or "Spiked" just as you'd have it. Nobody is heard or seen, and the Blind Tiger, apparently without any keeper, works like a charm."

——The Dallas Weekly Herald, 29 May 1875