Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-08
MONTPELIER FEMALE HUMANE AssocIA-

TIoN,-The Montpelier Female Humane Asso-
cla,iou swindle continues to be the town talk,
and the more that is found out concerning it
the worse is the aspect it bears, and there is
90 doubt that 1t has done injury to the city and
Stale. The sub committee, appointed by the
examining committee, to examine the contents
of the now famous wheel, and the books of the
Association, are still engaged in thar work the
rest OF the ticket holders portion of the com
mlttee being excluded from the room-aDd, it
Is said TO- day, will not make their report until
next Tuesday. Examining the contents Of the
wheel is nearly all they have TO do for most of
the books were burned 90 the day of the draw
ing, and from those not destroyed little or no
Information can be obtained. The committee,
consequently, have discovered nothiug not al
ready published 10 the Gazette Many of the
officers OF the Association are in the city, but,
with one exception, they have, as yet. made no
puollc statement concerning the affair with
which their Damcs have unfortunately been
connected. Tho exception alluded TO is Judge
Williams, who, on Tuesday, the 9Th inst. "a day
after the whole fraud had been discovered after
all the members Of the examining committee
were thoroughly convinced of the swipde, and
after the news it had spread from one end of
the country to the other, sent the following re-
markable telegram to New York:
ALEXANDRIA, Va, Oct. 5.-The publication
III the New York papers was founded on state
ment in one of the evening papers Of this city.
Every member or the committee disclums hav-
ing lntlmated remark that justified the state
ment The committee commenced the exami-
nation this morning, and their report mus, ex-
pose the newspaper statement
WM. g. WILLIAMS
Vice President Montpelier Female Humane
Association.
For cool and impudcDt assurance the follow
ing card, addressed TO the editor Of the New
York Herald and appearing in yesterdays is
sue OF that paper has rarely been cqualled,
and never eXceed:
A CARD-To TIE TICKET HOLDERS OF THE
MoNTPELIEA Fem LIE HUMANE ASSOCIATION ::
Having noticed IN your evenings issue State
ment relative to a swindle in the above enter
prise thereby throwing odium and disgrace
upon the New York office and the endeuvors of
the Association, and having been connected with
the same since this office first ope led, we deem
1t our duty IN justice to ourselves and the pub.
lie at large, to make full and correct state
ment: A lsrge majority of All the tickets dis
posed OF We're from this office, through all the
principal cities and towns of the United States.
Every tick sold, with the numbers OF the same
selected from the whole one hundred thousand
was forwarded 10 Alexandria, to the care of T.
T. Aistrop, Secretary OF the Association. These
numbers were p accd in the quilts by thu co
young ladies Of Alexandria, whose Characters
Tor honesty and integrity are ab,ve reproach
Ihey were also counted by the same young la
dies and sealed up by MIR. Aistrop until the
morning Of the Both Of Septem ber They were
then placed in the wheels in the presence Of the
Judges committee, anda large concourse OF PEG.
pie, ut that place, all of which was peri city sat-
lstactory to all present at that time. The draw
ing commenced at II o'clock u. III. and closed on
n,tk
every one will att 1t, there not tie least dis
satisfaction on the part o. any one present The
wheels and contents, at the solicitation of Hon
Judge Ba bour, President of the Association.
were then placed in the hands of conn. ittee for
lnve tlgaton. Up to this time everything WAS
stTsigat ana correct,as Wesre prepared TO prove.
| left for New York on Saturday evening, leav.
ing the wheels IN charge Of The COMMITTEE.
What may have been done between SATURDAY
night and Monday morning, am unable to say.
If anything, it WAS the fault of that committee.
The statement relative TO the money having
been ''solely entrusted to sharpers in this CITY.
and not beng SUBJECT to draft of the officers.
and not bona fde ticket holder has been heard
from" is false in every sense. There has up to
the present time been presented to this off q
over SIS, 90 worth of priza tickets, and among
the same Is the capital prIz purchased by K.
B. Waterbury, from Montana, and now living
in New Jersey, who is now on his way to nego.
tate the pay ment of the same, Endorsed by +.
p Aistrop and w. G. Williams, Vice Presi-
dent, as all tickets must be before they can be
paid. With reference to the money being paid
in this city, we admit it,. We are prepared to
give our reasons fo' doing so when it is required
The fact simply is that several disreputabe pco-
pie who follow lottery 2chemes as gypsios do
public festivals, failed in their expectations to
fasten themselves upon the Montpelier Associa-
ton. which was founded upon the principles of
Christian charity: N one who knows the time
hnn nf ho Iup II -
l.. Kenpe, the present Governor Of Virgins,
ex Governor Wake Lier :. Gorerno Fhomas,
and all the members of the Legislature Of that
State car, for u moment, believe that they have
lent themselves TO the chilean: with which the
Association is charged, aud the assertion that
"sharpers" in New York have done wrong. if
wrong there was, shows the real aninrus of the
charge, rs the alleged frauds were co united in
Alexandria, while the wheels were unt err the
immediate supervision of the commit >" The
men who make the assertions, as we will provo,
are the human vultures who follow every battle
field of lie, stripping the dead, killing the +,
wounded, and even, as IN the present case
snatching. in their greed, the bread from the
mouths of the dead soldiers widows and midi
gent old ladies in their hope of petty gain.
c,.,. +. METcALFE, General Agent
.- &. FAkw ELL, Manager.
The following telegram appeared 10 the Bal
timorc Sum f this morning:
. hLthANDRlA a, ~ A.. OCLOUCT i.-Ile commit
tees report win be ready Saturday 1t will de-
clare the teliet that all the sold numbers were
not in the wheel; that the wheel was filled after
it WAS. locked up, subsequent to the drawing;
that the money WAS deposited in New York and
not in Alexandria, in bad faith, and that the
lottery was not q lair one ..
REPORTED Loss OF "A SCHOONER. A gen.
temau from Philadelphia was here, this morn
ing, inquiring for the schooner Northumber-
land, reported to have sunk 10 the Potomac
1t is understood the vessel supposed TO be lost
was bound from Yccomico to Philadelphia with
a load Of railroad ties.
DISPLACED SWI1cH. The locomotive at
tached to the outward bound freight train on
the w. & O. R. r. ran off the track at the
junction Of the Union street track with the
main line, this morning, aud obstructed the
track at that point for about 40 hour.
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