Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-11

bers. Then comes another roll" when the
next TO the last number of the third twenty is
called, the checker calls out:
"Itoil, and change boys
/, While the wheels are being rolled for the third
time, two other boys step forward In PLACE OF
the first two, and two other gentlemen relieve
the two assistants TO Generals Early and Beau
regard. So 1t goes, rolling" the wheels every
twenty numbers, and changing the boys aud as,
sistants every sixty numbers until the 500 actual
prizes IN the wheel are disposed OF. in other
words, of the $50 tickets drawn, each wins a
One thing was noticeable at this drawing. Not
n person at all connected with the lottery com
pauy was present. either on the stage or in the
house. The drawings are under the sole charge
and supervision OF Generals Beautegard and
Early, the authorized commissioners. At no
time, nor under any circumstances, nor in any
sense, does the company have the slightest con.
neetion with the drawing or any OF the details
selling tickets to their patrons, and they confne
themselves strictly to that. They
DC NOT ri A PICAYUNB
which numbers are successful,
OF the sls prizes in the wheel, 800 were for
$500 each, 200 were for $500 each, and 100 were
fST $500 Mere ea6 Sne in s Ed sSN; one a6 of s retnslnt aSe 81 of
Sj0.0O0, one OF SIS, cot, two of $4,000 each, five of
5000 each, aud % of $1,000 each. Naturally
In fact. they came so steadily as to be somewhat
lnonotonous, i%nasnuch, as everybody In the
ing the announcement Of the three higher prizes,
which had an eNasperating way. OF remaining
untouched; For instance, the FIRST $1,000 ap.
INtlNN W biib It's lil Va ~ ANsNN lh VIC otf
opd hundred. just before 300 had been drawn,
TIE 5000 prize was won by No; 6,,GT2. This
after 800 numbers had been read, General Early
read, SEQ and General Beauregard replied;
"One hundred thousandl'
1t seemed as it every person in the audience
sighed deeply, for the sound that reached the
stage was strongly suggestive, of bitterness of
emit. Nothing Of particular interest occurred
thereafter, until $50 tickets had been drawn,
when 2l,30l took the $4,000 prize: Evidently
fGut Nya mt hold 4 n Nav nrlnanG Tho ANITA
prize of
$300,0O0 WAS EXPECTED
at every number from thence onward. Yet there
after time. with nothing but small shot-s2o0.
$500, and SJN0-varied now and then by u stray
draw lava ana No S' Sapita fin Then ~ Il PraseS 10 haa and Ge eo
capital. Soon the drawn prizes numbered 800!
Only thirty-siS more prizes in the wheell Great
walked over to the little wheel, He looked
through the glass and saw the pint or SO of
ban A. Wilson, who sat by me, also went over
and looked at the handful of valuable tubes,
Then he sat down with a smile and we
spectators were dreadfully uneasy, and many
We're in intense excitement. At last s25 numbers
had been drawn, and the big 100000 prize was
missing. Nearly everybody in the build ng was
then at fever heat, with only eleven more prizes
to be drawn! To my mind, this was indeed lot.
terry in all It's purity the very essence of chance!
And it was all the more aggravating because of
the manner of General Beauregard's announce.
menu OIL IHe fbU prizes. NO matter what ulle
amount might be, the general pronounced il in
slow and measured tones, and each time he said
Three h-u-n-d-r-e-d'' everybody in the house
expected to hear Thousand" follow.
The S2Bth number drawn was 63,i59. AS Geneal
Beauregard read the prize, he began as usual
with "I'hree HUN d red" and like a flash that
word 'thousand' went out at that body Of
spectators likea
SHOT FROM A CANNo
The strain on their nervous systems ceased
surprisingly quick, and they soon dispersed.
The drawing began promptly at IL O'Clock, and
was completed at I:+5. The tickets were again
placed in the bags, sealed and tied as described
above, boxed and fastened, and taken to the
company's vaults at once.
OF course / had a desire to learn whereIthe
lightning had s~tfuck-that is where the two
tickets winning together 100000, had been sold.
b. reason of the marvellously perfect system
of uransacting its business the company was
able in less than an hour after the drawing to
locate the buyers of these tickets as well as
those of others, With reference to 90, 459 which
captured the $500, 0D0 prize, / was shown the let
ter of u man in Chestertown, Kent county, Nd.
dated about Dec. !, enclosing $50 for
quarter tickets, and among the ten sent to him
was one quarter ofIS3 ,+59, emitting him to So
600. l saw his signature, too, but it is a rule of
the company not to make public a winners name
except by his consent. No. $50 which took the
$l0O,6O0 prize was sold in fractions in ten differ
ent cities-New York, New Orleans, Boston, st.
Louis, Kansas City. ,Benecia, Cal. Lancaster,
Penn, Memphis, Vicksburg. and Biloxi, Miss.
And the books showed the name OF every pur-
chaser of fractions of that ticket. a system of
record books which is indeed
PERFECTION ITSELF.
The same rapid tracing Of winners OF other