The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-01


Revenue officers. We have in our possession
list OF thirty-nx,pf these unlawful offices now
open within the limits of the Second Third,
Fourth, Fifth, Sikh, Eleventh, and Twelfth
Wards of this city. Ehe Inst embraces the names
.ot the parties engaged in the traffic. and the To-
Calities of their offices. The following, be il un-
,derstOod is but partial lst:-
7. S. Young, No. Ga Lombard street.
j. Won Media. No. 422 S. Sixth street.
George Savage, No. Black Horse alley.
George W. Smith, No. BOZ Bedford street.
George Peyton, Shippen street. above Third
Daniel Shuman, No. ll3 s. Third street.
i. NJ. Provost, No. 22l Dock street.
W. MeIsheimer, No. Litile Dock street.
Lannjng e. Davis, No. l6O N. Sixth street.
Easier Co., No 204 Gold street
Gallagher Benjamin, No. no Cbesnut street.
John Harvey, Harmony street,
George Cook, Harmony street.
Thomas Brltton, Harmony street
H. Drake, Harmony street.
James Doe, Harm ony street.
ID. e. Hoffman, Harmony street.
George White Harmony street.
J. A. Stockton, No. 1884 Harmony street.
F. Stein, Harmony street.
Thomas Ogden, No. Harmony street.
g. j. Boyer, No. 81 s. Fourth street.
II. Clark, No. 4l8 Delaware avenue.
john Frink, No. Maths street.
W. j. Glackins, southwest corner Of SIKH and
Cherry streets.
j. Horsachar No. 1853 Coates street.
Nj Herring l0lrQ ana CneSnnt streets.
A. Johnston, No. 1907 Bedford street.
LOUIS Knige, No 205 Coates street.
Jacob Ke!ns, No. I34 Shippen street.
u. Clark, No 2O9 Gold street.
Samuel Bobb, No. 202 N. Fifth street.
Gallagher Benjamin, No. 604 Race street.
VIM. Kerns, Shippen street, above Third.
J. Mccullough, No. 6O7 Ronaldson street.
CIV. Bennett, No. 2 Decatur street.
John Miller, Young's alley
r. McCabe, No. 1888 Shippen street.
A. j. LOechier, No. l45 s, Third street.
@. McClean, Coburn and Cordova streets.
From the above it will be seen that Harmony
court is the grand rendezvous OF the policy-men,
or In the parlance Of the times, their "head-
centre" From these headquarters, the country
is flooded with circulars, designed to dupe the
gullible. Among other plans adopted by the
sharpeIs is that of sending "conddential letters'
to parties whose names and address they obtain.
These letters are sent to all parts OF the country
and sufficient number of dupes are found to
realize q handsome sum for the enterprising
dealer. One of the latest circulars issued pur.
ports to be from the Office of Barratt & Co, Lot
tery Agents, copy of which we give below
The terms are certainly the most liberal we have
yet seen, and as the design of Messrs. Barratt &
Co, is to increase their business, we have no
doubt they will be greatly obliged to us for
giving 1t to the public. The letter reads as fol.
lows:-
OFFICE OF BARRATT & Co., LOTTERY AGENTS,
PHlLADELPHIA.-Dear Sir AS we are deter
mined to send q good prize in your neighbor-
hood, and with this resolution we have been
looking around for an opening in which, by pre-
senting some discreet and reliable person with
prize OF few hundred dollars, it would have
the desired effect to increase the number of our
customers, we accidentally met with your ad-
dress, and the idea occurred to us at once that
st,1t 4hn 10 ns1 1Vra fn
prise. We therefore make to you proposition
that must strike you as being no less novel than
IL is liberal; and that you may not suppose that
there is any deception in 1t, we inform you that
the prize money does not come out of our plck-
cts, but out OF the pocket of the Lottery
Managers; and we shall not lose by sending
few hundred dollars in prize money but
shall gain by it in the increased amount of
business we shall expect from your neighbor-
hood, when you show the 'greenbacksn and
make 1t generally known that they are the pro-
ceeds OF prize drawn at our office. We make
this offer to you in strict confidence; the pro-
posal is plain:-We are to send certificate for
a chance to draw prize of a few hundred dol.
lars. You are to show the money. The result
will be that hundreds of dollars will be sent to
us for tickets; you may be the gamer of few
hundred dollars; we shall be gamers by our
sales; and the parties who send for tickets may
be gamers by drawing prizes; every one that
sends Will, Of course, expect to draw a prize,
not knowing the offer we made privately to YOU
which is as follOws:-Send us $40 to pay the
managers and we will send to you, securely
sealed, a certificate Of a package of six
teenths of tickets in the enclosed scheme;
and to set at rest any doubt you may
have of our sincerity, we hereby bind ourselves
to send you a second certificate in any OF our
brilliant extra lotteries for nothing, if the first
we send you does not draw you, clear of all ex-
penses, twelve hundred dollars; and mark this
fact, to send you twelve hundred dollars out OF
the managers pocket willIcost us nothing, but
to send you an extra certificate will take money
out of our pocket. We mention this merely To
show you that it is our interest TO send you a
prize. We hand you an envelope with our ad.
dress. Enclose us ten dollars, and state in your
letter whether we shall send YOU draft on your
nearest bank, or shall we send you the amount
in 'greenbacks" by mail, which last perhaps
will suit you better. Please let us have youI
order by return mail, as we shall have to order
the certificate from the manaeers Tor you and
believe us, very sincerely, BARRATF & Co,
private and confdental)
1t ia singular that Third street, OF as it hal
been called, the "Barbary Coast" should b,
selected by the policy men as their base O
operations" Yet we have positive information
that at least dozen of polcy-shops are il full
blast within stones throw of The TELEGRAPI
Office. A great many, too, are located amid tn
haunts of poverty, where they best thrive an
flourish. Lombard, South, Bedford, and kindre