, 1866-03-29
THE PRIZE CONCERT.
An Unsatisfactory Termination OF q
Great ScukalionS

The long advertised American Prize Concert Of
BltRge, Lemon d Co. came OF a Per announce
neut In Smith 4 Nt1upts Hall last evening. md TO
such crowd as never he.ieeed that Hall before.
1ha place Tas dense1J packed, eEery inch OF stand
ing room being occupied, the hallway was equally
crowded, and the throng extended out into the
street beyond. where nearly many stood patient
" through the entire evening gained pisces In
side. 1t Ia due to the MANAGERS to Gay th1s they
furniahed very good musical Offering, not OF the
most expensive k1ud. yet Of character sufficiently
interesting 10 please well cultivated ear, and keep
IN hour md half The enucer proper was really
worth the money charged for admission without
the S enspcs 9, drawing REtzs tnty een'sh md 70
dollar 10 zee The crowd and watch the action
of hamap!ly, n IL i.ntenssly tegsgsisd phs.e
ting, cnading, and bowling, Mr.. Lemon appearrd
On The e'aee, and. A soon Is he conld be heard,
IN. div as t9s n n,1
nuntcss that It would take still LONGER tlme to
get in returns from asents, and, dualiy. that he
hsa to e to New 9osk to get The gooas for shc
sequence Of all thss, II won1d be impossible TO
r.c o., my Of ths psiScs e1ssgt 'hs three largest
Ing announcenent- Some Of the audience. Hl6er-
MIN gentlemen, yelled 'yas,a-the derl q b,
Of you we'll iysr tee again. .-othsss shouted '.are
ih1n8i" stAre you Cstchem OF Cheatemf" md
some were even nnkind enough to shout loudly
the fns ulling word ~twtndle.r Mr. Lemons smiE-
Ing lmpert1rbabtiy was not TO be shaken, however.
Ne waIted for quiet, and when It was obtAsned,
proposed that = little girl should be selected from
the audience to draw the prize number, This
was the gtrl Selected. Then Mir. Lemon made an
other good point with the audience By d ealiaut
proposition. That the drawer Of the $I1O Ol1 prite
should give to The Ell who drew i Ss9. His mo mo
ard TINS adopted 4 table was brought
.At A%- I,n-
latter reared the large Nheel. Of ereea tia cor
tainIne the numbers nom which ths drawing was
to be made, The committee then surrounded tha
wheel. One ofthe comMIttee stepped forward and
told The audience that he and his as.oc1alcs felt
reflectly Satisfied ihat al was right Another
tomnitteensn stepped forward and with much
| rrs.iculatfon told how the committee had mixed
and mingled the numbers. DeIaive voices In tones
Of comic wonder, 'ls that 60 r. ''Du tell y ''Law
sskes !" md q suspicious voice In IN insuning
manner, .Hon much did yor get aplecer' Amer
| eome isrther delay the drawing commenced. The
following arc the COMMITTEES who presided over It ::
| Il. B. Harrison. Buffalo, n. T.; John Summcr-
field. city; G. nul, Auro1a, ~ y. Il. Armstrong,
| city n. II. Hart, Adrian, Michigan j. S. Nitch-
cock, city Judee Butler, city j. $. Campbell,
M,nnes0.a hsn,g st1HHng, Has%g, aE Geo. L. Shell
| II wss determined that but two hundred num-
hers should be drawn last night but this the crowd
Objected TO- as strongly as they did 10 the ldea o
Lannon's going to New York and at their earnest
demand d hundred more were drawn. The follow.
tns were The principal drawings:
No. o ESQ. 600 in Ercenbacks
observation-disclosures 5000 In s-3l bonda
l ~ 6i,a7................ :. A residence mile
from Chicagc, yal