Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-11

prizes brought to light their names and resi-
dences.
planned. This drawing was an extraordinary
one, with 100000 tickets at $50 each and prizes
amounting to slCsa9Gl An ordinary drawing is
of prizes is 1856 900. There are twelve drawings
ayear, once a month. Heretofore the grand
drawings have occurred semi-annually; but in
1888 there will be four of them-one every third
month. The tickets are sold in fractions TO suit
the patron, but IL is absolutely impossible to
the great amount OF labor necessary to find IL,
and also because the company put these frac-
tional tickets into thoroughly assorted pack
ages Of twenty and upwards, which are never
sent broken to large customers. Besides the $50
prizes drawn on Tuesday, there were $500 prizes
dependent on the first, second, and third capital
prizes, viz: Each one OF City numbers on either
slSs of 10 ,S3, a 40; wh hi sioS d rev The h. Me-, SuI prize e.
on each side of $3.50, of 100000, make 100 prizes
OF $500 each; the nifty numbers on each side OF
500 each. These are called approximations
prizes. Besides these, there are 1000 terminal"
prizes; that is, the 1000 tickets whose number
ends with 80 after b5,i59, the first capitaD, draw
500 each, and another 1000 draw 500 each by
having the terminal 90, after $3.50 the second
capital.
IN THE COMING FEAR
the FIRST capital prize in the regular drawings
will be sl5N,009O, and in the extraordinary ones 1t
on Monday, the day before the drawing, l
called at the lottery company's office aud made
known to VI, A. Dauphin, the president, my de.
sire to see the workings OF the concern. II was
readily granted, and i was taken into every de-
partment forthwith. To say. that i improved
my opportunity is true, and / came out person
ally convinced of the faithful handling by the
company OF every dollar sent to them by their
patrons. Indeed, this must necessarily result
from the use of the system in vogue. There are
some seventy-five clerks employed during the
two weeks preceding the drawing, though at
other times only forty are required. This is
because the rush comes on the last half of the
month. From one end of the Offices to the other,
the clerks are paired, and each is n check on
his associate as to errors. The number of let
tiers received daily during the week or ten days
1000 and 1000! without system and rigid dis.
cipline the entire concern would be IN chaos in
ten hours. One set of clerks do nothing but
open letters, assert those containing money into
pigeon holes according to the amounts enclosed.
Another set verify the money, by the letter.
that cannot be filled, as calls for special num-
bers and requests outside of regular methods.
Still another set I'LL orders for tickets, the name
and
ADDRESS OF EVERY PATRON
is recorded by another set alphabetically, an.
other directs the envelopes to the customers, an
other set verify the directed letters with the list
as recorded, and the order which comes in at one
end of the great concern accompanied by the
ing department faithfully executed. The work
ing by these clerks in pairs is dead sure of de-
tsctintg any oversight pS or error ,b before 1T has had
clerks begin work at 8 a. m. and at IL half OF
them quit at the sound Of a gong; They at once
by the company, in the rear room of the
building. At the expiration of twenty minutes
they go back to. their desks and the other
half go to lunch. At the end of the forty min
utes all the work of the Office is evened up among
the clerks, and the rush continues until 4 y. m,
or later, as may be. These clerks are experts in
their line, and though receiving good Salaries
are always well paid for all overtime by the
company.
How careless many people are in sending
money! In one of the company's vaults l saw
two large and long boxes opened. They CON
tanned thousands of dollars. sent by persons who
did not give an intelligent address. Some send
only their names; Others send merely their town
and state; and yet some send neither. Then,
hearing nothing from their letter, they accuse
the company OF unfair treatment. But the con-
Germ has q set of books simply devoted to this
class of letters, and for years the letter, envelope
and money remain pinned together in the long
box. of no value to anybody. The money might
rot there before the company would touch q
penny OF it. 1t is held sacred to the 'Old Hoss'
account, as they term the record Kept of II.
Now, | do not intend to discuss the morals OF
lotteries, or the
MORALS OF PEOPLE
who buy tic rets in lotteries. 1t is not necessary
everything in connection with the Louisiana
State Lottery was Conducted-as matter of fact,
and not of moral ethics Nor have j considered
IL necessary to interview the leading men Of
New Orleans extensively as to the honesty and
fairness of the lottery company. That has been
done so often by newspaper men who have come
here bent on the same Investigation as l, that
people all over the country are well aware that
the company has the unbounded respect and
confidence of New Orleans people, from the
highest to the lowest. You can't find a man in