New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18


paying lottery for 100000 enabled the company To
| beelu Their works It Is worth mentioning
thai the company, having failed TO a'spose
| OF few hundred tickets OF their lottery, TO
tanned them for Themselves and at the last three
drawings the highest prize has been won ny tnem Win
these tickets. Suspicious people may be inclined 70
doubt of the drawings in these cases out
the precautions taken the state authorities. VINO are
invariably represented at the drawing Of every lottery
private public by three officials render frand utterly
Impossible The system Of drawing which Ii IN vogue
leaves everything 20 chance dishonest manipuia
ton out OF the question. An drawings are pubished
beforehand and any one who chooses may he present.
Before passing TO another branch OF the subject
give detals OF the great Turkish lottery the
tickets Of which principally held IN Austria, ~ an
! example OF the apparently exuaVagant Inducements
which are sometimes offered when the company the
holding the lottery has bad financial reputation
Ts lottery is for s2ooooo00o IN aoco0O tickets OF 20
nominally. But induce tue public 20 take Tickets
they put the market the priee of SO They
bear per cent interest, that "a 40 year on each
ticket. but as the tickets purchased for go
the interest actually amounts 10 per cent
There Is drawing every alternate month.H1
lottery having more than four drawings in twelve
month The first prize $4,000, payable in gold tie
acc each the next twenty from u 600 to .4cO each
neIt ten are OF 500 each and the rensng essls are
Every ticket viii he pald OF at s full value In gold
a nq to psy e her may put HE capital
lottery per cent receive back more than double
the capital invested and beside stands chance oi WI"
ming $4,000. or some less SUM-
PERNTCIoUs INFLUENCE ON POOR PERSONS
II may that give rOse-eolored view OF the
lotteries, scarcely with the statements at the
beginning Of my letter, and that If the facts are az
have stared them il il difficult imagine how the ruin
mentioned can he wrought 60 far have purposely
endeavosed 70 describe system Austrian would
do and follow the line OF thought he would take
II only capitalists or weltodo people invested IN lot
teries little no harm would come OF IT. Tor they can
And the price Of tickets is seldom under $50 IL might
be supposed that only such persons ad nvet 10 men
scribed hereafter the poorest person mas It tne
opportunity OF ns his 9Es INK IN ar tue in Vienna
something ike twenty establishments gong oy
the Of Exchange Offices where, 10
may be. gold Napoleons are sometimes converted pto
paper FORMS out this part OF the business, II
at all take place early in the morn
lng. have never witnessed The real purpose IL 10
push and extend the lottery system and this they DO IN
In more lotteries these establishments issue
"Pronhses' which are printed and numbered eouPons
corresponding with tickets Ia some lotteries, out Wc
only available for one drawing and generally cost
VI g. Each coupon actually represents lor one
ticket IN lottery, and the person VINO purehasses
L is bound. If II draws a prize t. purchase also
the ticket which the represents These promises
purchased thousands by poor people WHO fondy
dream for night two that the great prize has fallen
tickets in a lottery by monthly usttlments OF 50 cents,
ST. g So and yet other combinations which enable
tickets also paid for by nstaments Then again there
shares OF tickets representing the quarter tchth, OF
representing parts Of tickets in four or five different lot
tees or IN The same lottery aud payable by hgh' install
ueHts running over TWO or more years.
ADVERTISING LOTTERIES.
BY these means it becomes easy FOR poor people 70
share In the excitement and the hope of winning large
prize which them from the necessity OF
working the remainder Of their days The Least part
of the evil connected with these coupons and shares
nv est, slm
which them, and the niGuty OF which they are
guilty pockeinc the instailments already paid wnen
a certain date NY without the installmen next due
being paid. The police trace large part OF the theit-
nh o iotTerT share! and the Seeessy Of regularly
paving the installments. No one who has not seen II
form an idea OF the extent ~ VAch TINS sOrt Oh Du-
ness Of the means taken TO induce per
purchase shares IN tickets coupons ana " loIn
combinations" Agents runners peddlers are engaged
the country and the towns TO dispose Of them
No house is SAFE from me intrusion Oh Inese pp VINO
encourage servants 10 sell their goouHa f7SlSI
them IN doing So large part OF the advertising COZ
Of al the newspapers Is filed with the attractive
announcements Of this business.
In Vienna alone there are -four FIVE weekly papers
which contain nothing hut lottery Information notice OF
prizes and claimed prospect. of old and new
lotteries. announcement OF speclAly attractive eomoh
foreign lottery II is not exaggerauou iO say there II
scarcely man or woman IN Vienna VINO does not pos
one or more lottery tickets MANY rely these
where with 10 pay their dents. even their rents Their
are thousands who positively entirely lucky
chance for support their Old whose only pro-
reT beor ~ frends and aconoinr1nces ~ whom good
piece they forget the fate OF their other
friends who died in want and instead OF saving their
money thew invest every horln OF 10 IN lotteries The
Lotteries Simply compete with the savings banks and
beat them out OF the Held The Institutions mentioned
offer too many attractions the hope OF good fortune
too strong the temptations ever before eyer
poor classes great ~ he withstOOd The mprOv
dence engendered by these means and through these
remote chances II unparalleled aud bot 70 be
conceived; the superstition toO-the belief in signs
and auc1lres-probsby SURPRISES anything OF the sort
misery unfulhe ed expectations followed
by want disaster and crime, cannot be matched
other great capital With the poor, every facility
gwen them for sharing in the business If injurious
polite and wicked. coun TEL strange stories OF ora
tickets slowed away lost for many years and coming a.
light again Just IN time 70 secure valuable prze-or
just too late OF others accdenay burned or destroyed
and which have subsequently drawn hundreds Of
thou OF dollars, which could not be claimed OF
washerwOmen deserving their tubs and grazing opera
boxes aud balls, thanks TO lucky number; and finally
u generous errors in the newspaper lists which have
fetes be given and much iubati0n in honor Of
prize, which. when 1t was too Late has been found ~
belong 10 some one else.
ENCOURAGEMENT OF THgIFTLRserEss By The GOVERN
MINT
There another KIND Of lottery which the poor only
take tickets. The evils connected with the regular
Lotteries magnhed hundred-tOd by means OF what
Is termed LOttospie This government monopoly and
Is solely because yearly
profit Of sooOOoo to the State II il easily described
the capital OF every province there Is Lotto bank
the drawings made alternately each capital gin
ing with Vienna and then taking pace az Prague Lem
berg, Linz, and that only few days interval
separates the different drawing and tickets sold
simultaneously in every town IN the Empire There
only 90 numbers in each Lotto, and out OF these 1--WE
numbers dfawl ana published Pr1Or 10 the drawing
small coupons bearing each three numbers for instance
81 IL 49, sold for four cents. Millions OF these
coupons sold before each Lotto drawn their number
not limited When theve plumbers drawn are published
every coupon bearing two Of these numbers entitled TO
g. every coupon whose three nun beers correspond
three numbers out OF the ave drawn at headquarters
receives tl25. In work published by authority Of
lie Government, tnd that Inc chances IN this Lotto
IS per cent In favor OF the State which
oeives on the average gross amount OF G,000,000
When the salaries OF the Lotto officials have been
pad the State remains clear gamer Of s3,0O0000 II 10
painful II would be udicrous spectacle 70
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