The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-01-22
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The long and anxiously looked-for event.
the drawing of the Crosby Opera House AT
Chicago--came of yesterday in the pres
ence of large concourse of spectators
The holder OF the lucky ticket (5s,60O) was
John Meyer the keeper Of lager beer sa-
loon In Chicago. IL is stated that about
thirty thousand unsold tickets remained in
the hands of Mr.. Crosby.
A large number of tickets were held in
this city, and during the afternoon there
was considerable excitement among the
holders thereof About three o'clock, re-
port was circulated that Dayton man was
the lucky individual; and we heard of two
or three enterprlsing individuals who
started out to buy up tickets, one of them
paying as high as forty dollars for four.
We of course, do not vouch for the truth
of this statement, A friend of ours was
informed that word had been received by
telegraph that he was the possessor of the
lucky number, q story which he seemed
very much disposed to credit. Unfortu-
nately for him, it turned out to be what is
sometimes facetiously termed hoax. He
has our sympathy. Chicago lager won the
day. We didn't suppose the Opera House
would be allowed to leave that city.
Pertinent to this subject, we give the
following from correspondent of the In
dianapolis Journal who philosophically
descants on the "chances" of winning, and
treats the matter from purely mathemat-
ical standpoint. His reasoning may afford
some consolation to those who didn't win
ut is easy enough to understand that the
holder of ticket in lottery with one
prize and 100000 tickets has only the 2l0,-
OOOth part of claim on the prize. In
other words, he must buy 2l0000 times a
ticket in such lotteries to have a full claim
for winning.
"Our conception, however, of numbers
OF such magnitude is very imperfect and
to appreciate them we must convert them
into numbers of less figures, but with a
greater unit OF measure, as is done in as
tronomy.
$50 It is with regard to the probability
that any one ticket shall draw the Opera
house, probability which is represented
by the 2l0000th part of unit. To com
prehend this fully we must give some as
sistance to our Imagination. As stated be-
fore. a person to have full claim to the
prize, according to the laws of chance, must
take ticket in 100000 of such lotteries.
Now, allowing year to have 800 working
days. and suppOsing that on every working
day drawing of such lottery should take
place, it would then require ZOO years for
the daily purchase of a ticket and the draw
ing of the lotteries.
"A person purchasing daily ten tickets
would acquire in seventy years full claim
to prize. ! will also remark that, accord
ing to the calculation of chances. a person
who holds four and one-half tickets has the
same chance of drawing the Opera-house
which he would have for throwing sue
cessively eighteen in two throws with thre..
dice
LATER.-The following dispatch to the
Cincinnati Commercial, locates the lucky
man outside Chicago. 1t win be seen, how
ever, that there is discrepancy in the
thunderstorm and $4,000
CHICAGO, January 2l.-A. II. Lee, Prairie
Du Roche, Randolph County, Illinois,
about fifty miles north of st. Louis, is the
lucky holder Of ticket $4,000. The ticket
was sold by Petite & Leathe, st. Louis. who
Immediately, on the receipt of a telegram
from Mr.. Crosby announcing the drawing,
started a messenger on horseback to notify
Mr.. Lee of his good fortune. Lee held but
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