Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-19


JAMES BARBOUR, President,
Nj. f. h. A.
The undersigned in compliance with your
resolution instructing thorough and complete
examination of the books, papers, wheel and
tickets belonging to the Montpelier Female HUI
name Association, placed in our hands, have
made Careful and com plete exam nation of the
same, and respectfully submit the following
At the time of the removal OF the wheel con.
tanning the quilted tickets from the place of
drawing in t5arepta Hall, to the Committee
room, there were In the wheel, by actual count,
- 996 tubes or tickets, to which should be added
Ills Chat being the nun. Der Of p,ize tick cts
drawn from the whee) making q total of 80 ia
tickets in the wheel ut the beginning or the
drawing on Thursday morning, Septem Der so.
During the interval of ADJ 'urnment of the
committee, from Friday night to Monday morn
ing, there wers, BY persons unknown to the
committee, T. 800 more tickets placed in the
wheel, uil OF which, by their bright and new ap-
pesranco were easily distinguished from those
tickets which were IN the wheel during the
drawing. Among the last mentioned were those
tickets dis osed of by the Alexandria office.
Or the 2,i78 prizes drawn out first, 2l64,
amounting to $3.50 050 were drawn by those
tickets sent to the New 7 ork Office leaving but
II unaccounted for, which we think were caused
by errors in the classdc OF the numbers in
the list of those sent to New York, These IA
amounted to $3.50. and numbered as follows:
Ms. S9,349, 97546 rs 1872, AZ 46S, 81 555, for
S0O each Nos 68 34J s5O024, $3.50 1852
G,O42, l19. 4i452 As 591, SO, 92l, Tor $50 each.
Upon the books ol the association the New
York otfco is charged:
For tickets, as, 1863 300
Credited by tickets, IT, 2274 retuined.... $50 $50
Showing balance due this lie Of. $685.. $50
Total Receipts Of the Alexandria office.
For tickets S. 1854
lash of Burnstein stock ).......-........ 500
Total .s58 1861
Disbursements of the alexandria office
For advertisements, general expenses,
salaries, including sc, GOO to the New
1ork office, &c. &c. $47 233 70
Balance Observation-Disclosures. $l1 622 81
Our supposltlon IRON the first WAS that only
the numbers representing the unsold New York
tickets were placed in the Wheel which theory
is strengthened by the fact that this number is
about the same as the nun Der really unsold,
showing beyond question that those tickets
really sold in New York were not represented.
The total nbmber of tickets sent to NJ York
was 4S 365, from which deduct tickets returned
&C. 5273) leaves 3, o27d chargeable to that Off
As no official return Of the actual number Of
tickets sold by the New York agent has, al.
though asked for, never been shown to US, we
have no means of definitely specifying the ac-
tusl number, but we are informed by The ew
York agent that about 81, 600 worth have been
sold, and supposing tins amount represented
LOO tickets, Including fractions Of tickets) that
would very near approximate the number ORR
gnaly in the wheel at the time of drawing.
The proceeds OF the sales of tickets In New
York, we are also informed, have all been ex-
pended, as per statement of Mr.. Metcalfe, the
agent
We further find no correspondence with the
lew York Office. or single report upon which
we Can base, with any certainty, any TRANSACT
lions with that Office. Some $4,000 has been
sent from this to the New York office for ex-
penses nor can we find that any written con-
tract has ever been made with the New York
agent, or security required for the monies en-
trusted to him or the faithful discharge of the
business.
Notwithstanding that there has been most
giarlng fraud practised upon the ticket holders,
our committee from sl the evidence they
cou'd obtain, are unable to designate the guilty
lsrtles, and we think those tfi GERS Of the 1850
eiallon to whom were entrusted the details Of
Inc management of the Alaxandria Office have
not exercised that watchtul care over their
agents as We think they should have done, and
through their negligence gross. frauds have
oeen committed, and we call upon the President
ana Directors of the Association to make
tnough investigation of the affairs of this Office
ana give the result to the public.
On behalf OF the Offices of the Association we
wouid state that books papers and correspond
ohce belonging to the association were placed at
Vur disposal, and every courtesy afforded US by
We also deem it but proper to add, but not as
pJ.ot Inc report that having received from Mr..