The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-07-17

y clap her plump gloved hands. The radiant
iook on her face showed that she was one of the
lucky ones. Two friends press her hands in con-
graduation and they so Oft stopping at " con-
nSerie on the way.
Ninety thousand, TO hundred, and TO tythree -
Ninety thousand, 70, hundred, and foty-three,"
says Captain Ho1sson.
General Beauregard, who had been looking at
the ticket in his hand says in sharp, distinct
"Three hundred thousand dollars" This is a
Ittle too much even Tor that audience. Several
people rise TO their feet and put their hands TO
their ears to eaten the repeat of Mr.. Roux. The
latter says, taking both tickets in his hand:
,Ileket numt er e0,li3 wins the first prize of
Tie drawing is practically over. The interest
ceases When the great capital prize is announced,
anu most OF the people so ont. A few remain,
reached The prizes yet remaining in the smaller
wheel could be held in the hollow of mans hand.
the larger wheel and still it seems as full as it did
be lore the first ORDER 10 rolf was given. Colonel
Witon yawns capaciously. General Early draws
watch and fob from his pocket 1t is twenty
minutes atter1: Captain Hodgson repeats the re-
mark attributed by history tothe governor of North
Carolina. Then the 100000 prize is reached, and
the audience goes out us mau-all but the Jew,
WHO sits like Mennon turned to stone. The other
over. Then the laborous task of sealing up The
tickets begins 1t is faithfully supervised by two
commissioners, who, with their own hands, put up
the tickets, tie and seal the ba9s and see them
safely stored away in the boxes General Early
locks the chest which the boy in front has guarded
tner escort across the street to the vaults OF the
company. Just before the j0nitor locks the doors
the Jew walks gravely OUT He has won no prize,
but he is not disappointed.
By the time we have crossed the street the place
OF sale Of the lucky tickets had almost been deter
been located as follows;
No g; 49, which drew the capital prize, 100000,
Oakland, Texas, and Guatemala, Central America.
NO T,67S, which drew the second capital prize,
100000 was sold in New orleans, Boston, Massa,
los
California, Charleston South Carolina, Memphis,
Tennessee Jackson, Michigan, Gainesville Georgia,
Springs Arkansas, Paris and Blossom, Texas No.
49, 566 drawing third capital prize of $4,000, was
sold in New York New Orleans, San Francisco Bos-
ton, jackson, Michigan. Houma, Louisiana, Middle
ton, Maryland, and San Mareial New Mexico No.
8o0S2 drawing s25 900, sold in New York, San Fran
CISCO Kansas City, Missouri, Gainesville Alabama,
Lynden, Washington territory. and Vera Cruz,
Mexico Nos q, 425 and i5,2l2, drew each $40 600,
sold in New York, Ormond Florida, San Francisco,
California. Washington, D. c., Chicago, Dallas,
Texas, and Dow City, Iowa.
The threestory granite building on St. Charles
drawing. Its filed with clerks from top to bot
tom. 1t has the usual court extending half way
into the structure and containing fountain with
tour-foot alligator, and a mass of green foliage
and plants. There are about one hundred clerks
and fifty folders employed in the work of record
ing the correspondence, tracing letters and
ss and Nv f hicb t and bona mang t
the complex correspondence is recorded is one
that for its thoroughness and exactness would de-
light the heart of any accountant The mail re-
ceived, especially toward the end and the begin
ming Of the month, often amounts to fifteen thou
sand pieces day. Remittances by letter are in
the hands of one set of clerks who do nothing but
separate the receipts and record their amounts.
Orders calling for special numbers or requests, the
granting of which would violate the regulations of
the company, fall into the hands of another relay
of clerks, sill third set record the address Of
The envelopes are compared back with the address,
and the Enclosure is then sealed up ana mailed. So
perfect Is the system OF checks that mistake or
discrepancy cannot pass one set Of clerks without
being detected. The payment of prizes is made in
coin check or draft by another class of clerks. The
one. The printed list Of prize drawings has been to
every patron by ,nightfall on the day after the
maintain regular habits among its clerks,
6,sg[s at o'clock to ,. which the
takes good deal of the managers time to keep
sufficient tickets ordered up. The tickets inge
nousy printed with delicate water-mnrks that defy
counterfeting. One clerk does nothing but devote
his attention to the old hoss'' department This is
the dead letter department of the lottery where all
the unsigned remittances are received. Hundreds
of letters unsigned without any locality clue to the
Writer'S identity, are received every year, and these
letters, with the money they contain, are deposited
IN two large chests in one of the vaults Before put
ting 1T away for good however, every effort is made
to trace the writer. Several thousands of dollars
have now accumulated in this way and it IL rapidly
increasing.
The Louisiana lottery is merely another phase of
the speculative in American human nature. There
is taste in speculation In other things We in the
north use grain and provisions; here in the south
the lottery is the basis They know the chances
and they perceive the advantage Of their system As
one creole said to me:
Why should not buy lottery tckets2 Iknow the
scheme is safe. Our best men are stockholders; two
of our generals are the commissioners. there are
one hundred thousand tickets and three thousand
prizes. Thirty to one. That is notbad. Then, too,
the working goes on in plain sight / once gave
broker in your town $3.50 to do what he could for
me in wheat. Two days later he came to me and
said: You were on the wrong side of the market
You lost" That is all the consolation had. Here
we can see the tickets shuflled and the prizes
drawn, and we are willing to take our chances in q
thing that we understand and which we have con
ddence in. '"Truly, Why not?'