The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-11
THE CALIFORNIA LOTTERY.
Incidents of the Draving-Exciting Scene
DOnht Abunt The llnnlIMl PrIZe.

Incidents of the observation-disclosures Scenes
Doubt AbOnt the capital Prize.
The San Francisco Bulletin of the 1st inst. has
the following, which we condense from long
report:--
Before 9'25 A. NJ, the hour of opening the
drawing, nearly every seat in the room and gal
leries was occupied.
At time above mentioned r. B. Swain ad-
vanced to the front railing of the platform and
addressed the audience, explaining the manner
of making the drawing, which we have already
described in the Bulletin. He named the gen
temen who witnessed the act of placing the
tickets and prizes in the wheels. He said one
af the blind children would draw ticket from
the wheel, and Messrs Smiley and Hickox
would approach, read the drawn number and
announce it to the audience. The prize would
then be drawn from the other wheel by another
blind child, usealed by another member of the
committee, and announced to the marker and
audience. 1t would then be placed in trunk
in the custody of the committee, and which will
be sealed and kept inviolate. His remarks were
received with frequent demonstrations of ap-
plause by the audience.
Having given his explanation, Mr.. Swain said
the managers would retire and act as mere spec
tatOrs of the drawing.
at the conclusion of his remarks the blind
children were led to the front of the platform
by Professor Wilkinson, who said that in ac-
cordance with an invitation he had brought
twelve of them from the institution to make the
drawing He then retired leaving little girl
at the wheel of tickets and boy at the wheel of
prizes.
There was breathless silence as she drew
forth the first number, 11,011, and IL continued
till the prize was drawn and announced, $4,000,
when there was general burst of applause
from all parts of the building. The first ticket
was drawn at 35 minutes past 9 A. M.
The second ticket drew prize of $1,000.
The third of the drawing drew 500. When
this prize was announced there was general
shout of laughter from the audience, aud cries
of "Where is he {? Where is the lucky man p"
The next numbers drew small prizes.
The fifteenth ticket drew prize of $4,000
the announcement of which created much ex-
citement, people being generally inclined to
laugh at the small prizes.
At II A. n. the hall was filed to the platform
ing. At thathour thirty prizes had been drawn
showing that the operation of drawing a ticket
and the prize occupied about one minute.
At 1920 the drawing was stopped for space
OF about five minutes, during which time both
wheels were rapidly reyolyed-11 prizes having
been drawn, aggregating $54 700, being an
average of more than $1,000 to each number.
After intermission, the drawing opened with
an &lS,OO0 prize. The winner of this was q
man, apparently German, but who was too ex-
cited to tell his name. He turned deathly pale
and those nearest him thought he would faint
away, but he soon recovered his composure and
retired.
At the 200th drawing, number 154, OF was
called and drew the prize of 100000. There
was tremendous storm of applause, which was
redoubled when an old grey-haired woman was
| entitled to the prize. When a man yelled it
| was concluded that he had won a prize; when
| another put his hand on the top of a woman 8
| head is front of him and leaped clean over her
with a scream like an Apache, there was a sus-
| picion in the minds of sane people that he had
| a winning ticket or coupon. When another
man turned pale as ghost and forgot his name,
II was correctly surmised that he had taken a
prize.
AS to the 900 prize, various reports were
| circulated, and among them one that il had been
| won by a negro woman.
At the time of the writing of this report there
| was still question as to who won the SlOO, 600
prize. The old lady who is mentioned above.
| and who is about eighty years of age-certainly
old enough to tell the truth-declared from the
| platform that she had no ticket in the concern.
Mr.. Peters stated that the winning ticket had
been sold in this State. Several persons In the
| crowd appeared to think they had the lucky
| number One man claimed to have 1t, and.
jumping up with ticket in his hand started
from the building. He was followed out, and