The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07
THE LOTTERY.
HOW SOME VENDORS HAVE TO PUSH
THE SALE OF THEIR TICKETS NOW.



who of themselves, are incapable Of under
, standing the schemes offered, and rely en-
tireY upon what Is told them of the golden
opportunities to win fortunes that institution
offers In the central portions Of the city,
where the business man, the clerk and book
keeper are wont to nduIgein this Intoxicating
game Of chance, or ra thor no chance the sub
Ordinates of Charley Howard do not dare to
act as some of the office keepers do in neigh
bOrhOOds where principally ignorant people
try the lottery" On our principal thorough
fares no particular Inducements are offered to
those who may be passing by to enter these
policy shops and purchase, but 1t is otherwise
in several portions of our city. Yesterday q
representative of the DEMO GRAFT WaS aCCOSted
by q gentleman who resides in the Second
District. not far from tho French Market.
Opening the subject of his own accord, he
said:
Il am very glad to see that you are fighting
- gallantly that miserable lottery What
you have already done is very good, and !
hope that you will keep it up, for tits "A shame
on our city that such thing is allowed. |
tell you now you are
! HURTING THAT LOTTERY BADLY"
Mr.. G. Why, by causing hundreds of people
| who have he0n in the habit of purchasing
tickets daily to stop and thus save their
money.
Rep.-Do you know of many stopping?
Mr.. G.-YCs, indeed sir, On the square where
| live, St Philip. near Chartres, on that one
square almost everybody. the poorest at one
time, would take ticket every day but all
this has passed. Now you don't see hardly
anybody trying this lottery business. know
Of d number Of wives of poor men who every
day bought tickets, taking the money from
what was given them by their Woodworking
| husbands to support the family. who. after
| what the DEMOCRAT has said, have stopped.
One Of them asked me the other day: is all
| that true what the paper says about there
being no chance hardly at all to win in the lot
| teryY' told her it was. Then" 8aid she 81
am not going to buy any more tickets, for
have
TRIED AND TRIED
to win for two years, and could not, and
believe what you say Is true" That's what
they are all beginning to think now.
Rep.-Thon the sale Of tickets in your
square has dmished lately
Mr. CT has undoubtedly. Now when
that yellow man who has an Office down there
comes around nobody buys.
Kep:mDt9Fes tFe that yoIlow man" ask people
Mr. G,-Yes. sir. He comes to your house,
knocks at the door. and in French hoIIers up
the alley-way: "DO you want ticket to-day
madam, in the grand lottery? ] have
SOME LUCKY NUMBERS
to-day, Will you try your luck and win n
big prize?' He has been in the habit every
day Of going around asking who wanted to
buy, but now nobody answers him. | have
put him out Of my house several times, tell
ing him to keep away, that l wanted none of
his tickets.
Rep.-Then he solicits people to buy from
door to doOr2
Mr. G-From door to door. myself have
seen him fifty times going around calling on
the people to take n chance for fortune.
But he's not the only one, for there's the
woman with books
Rep.-What bOOks2
Mr.. G.-ThOse books they have which are
given out by the lottery or are published by
them. There are
SOME OLD WOMEN
that go about with them, and they ask in
families down town whether anybody had q
dream about anything. She then would show
a book in which there were combinations of
numbers opposite every kind of a dream.
Say you had dream about falling off
hOusetOp, she would give you three num-
bers. like 7-14-3O. II the women doubted
her, she would tell them to
BUY A DOLLAR TICKET
on those numbers and she would put in
twenty cents. | don't know how these
women make money out OF this, unless they
get big commission for selling tickets.
When any Of the women in the house would
refuse to buy, she would go on telling how
lucky she was in getting out prize numbers
and would tell OF the luck these dream-boOks
brought people.
Rep.-HaS this drPam-bOOk business been
going on for some time?
Mr.. G.-I have seen it for a long time, and
there are plenty of ignorant people who be-
lleve in it, You have no idea how many Of the
poor and ignorant classes have believed in
this thing and how much they have lost in
the lottery on account of it. There is one
widow know Of who has lost within the last
two years
ALL THE MONEY SHE HAD,
and is now left to support herself and three
chidren just as she can. She is not able to
work and is barely able to live. She played
and played as long as she could, hoping every
day to draw prize but the prize never came,
and she now needs all the help she can get to
procure food.
Rep.-To come back to this vendor of tick
cts, who has his office near st. Philip street;
does he enter houses to ask people to pur
chase?
Mr.. Gle does. He has come to my
house several times, and | had to
PUT HIM OUT.
He is an impudent fellow, and came back con-
trary to my orders when | was absent from
home He goes on our street calling out
"Qui rente a prendre um billet du prochoine
GRAND tirage de la I0terie?" which means,
"WhO wants to buy a ticket in the next grand
drawing of the lottery"
Rep.-Is his trade large down there?
Mr.. CT used to be, but now it has
dropped off so it amounts to very little The
people. are all stopping and few buy now.
You will open all the peoples eyes if you keep
on to this grand humbug you see if you
don't. l don't take the other papers now, be-
cause they don't speak out like the DEMOCRAT
about the lottery. | have seen what that
thing is, and that is why believe in the DEM
OCRAT in this thing.
A gentleman who happened to come down
in Magazine street car with an acquaintance
yesterday morning gave the information to
the reporter that there must be something on
foot on the part of the Lottery Company, for
he was told that his friend had been accOsted
by HOward'S detective Schreiber, who wanted
him to buy some Havana lottery tickets.
Schneider opened his book, displaying some
lottery tickets that looked like the Havana