Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-01-24

UuiiNiuR was tltn III ioNoE neat, VIVID
only eleven more prize to be drawn 4
To my mind, this WAS indeed lottery IN
all its purity--the very essence OF
chaucti And It was oil tina more RR-
GrRvAting because Of the manner of
Geueral Beauregard' e ar nouncement Of
tho $500 prizes. No matter what the
amount might be, the general pre-
nounced 1t In slow and measured toner,
and each time he said "rhres b u d.
DIRE d" everybody In the house ex
peotod to hear "thousaud" follow
TIE 826!h number drawn was 90, 4t9.
As General BsAureRatd read the prize,
he began ~ usual with Three hun
DIRE D." aud like fash that word
"thousand'' went out at thai body Of
spectators like
SHOT PROM A CANNON.
The strain on their nervous syttPms
oessed surprisingly quick, and they
soon dispersed.
The drawing hogan promptly at IL
O'clock and WAS completed ~ Las. The
tickets were again placed 10 the bags,
scaled and tied rs described above,
boxed and fastened, and taken to the
oompauy's vaults at once.
OF course, l had . desire to learn
WhNAo tho bhh
10, where the two tickete, winning to.
gether 100000, had been sod. BY
reason Of tie marvellously perfect syE-
tom OF transaotlng Ito business, the
company was able In less than In hour
after the drawing to locate the buyers
Of these tickets as well as those OF 9TH
ers. With references to 3d. 459, which
captured the $500 600 prza 4, was sho Vu
the letter OF q man In Ohesisrt1wn,
Kent county, Md, dated HomsVhere
about December /, enclosing $50 for
quarter ticke.s, and among the ton ssnt
to him was ono quarter of 50 45J, en-
titlinR him to $75 00Oi l saw bis sigma
turC, TOO, but II Ia rule Of To lmpsny
not to make public \ wiun2t's name ex
Dept by his consent. No 3 70, which
took the 800 00o piise, was sold In
{ factions in ten different elties-New
York, New Orleans, Boston, st. LoGis,
Kansas City, BeneciR. Cal, LanoAstor,
Penn, Memphis, Vlcksburg, and
Biloxi, Miss And tho books tbowed
tho name Of every purchaser OF frAc
lions OF that ticket A ~ ste u OF record
books which Is Indeed
PERFECTION ITsELB.
Tho Same rapid tracing Of winners
VI OelOE pLlGdh otOukus W lublE
names and re6idepcas.
Toe plan OF the lottery ia Slfuolr aud
easily explained. This drawing was an
Extraordinary one, with loo, 900 tickets
at $40 each and pr.8es nmounithX 20
I 81. 0b5 COO, An ordinary drawing is
where the price OF tickotE Is $40. aud
the amount OF prizes is 1915 Oc0. Talre
are twelve drR1iupa Q year, once q
month. Here sofoEe the grand drawings
have occurred semi 'ann ually; bu. In
1883 there will be four Of them-.one
lovery third month. The tickets are
sold In iracions to suit the natr0p, but
1. is absolutely impossible to send out
any Particular number. on account OF
the great amount of labor necessary to
| and It, and also because tho Gem pany
put these Irrational tickets into thor.
oughly assorted packages Of twenty
asd upWards, which are mover cent
broken to large customers. Besides the
1856 prizes drawn on Tuesday, there
ware 2 800 pf!zss dependent on the frat,
s4cond and third capital prizes, viz
Each one OF fifty numbers on either
side of o., 459, which drew the $500 ,0J0
priza, makes 100 prizes OF $500 each
the fifty numbers on each side Of $3.50
To- $l00 Geo. make 100 pIiz IS OF $500
Q lnb; the fifty numbers each side u
81, sol. the third capital pIiEl, max .
100 prizes Of 500 each. These arc cal cd
i"approx imation" priz5s Besides these
there are 1000 'termina" prizes; thhi
is, the 900 tickets Whcss number ouds
with 60 (after SO ,l59, the first nspitAl)
ldraw 800 each, and another coo drA~
500 each by having the terminal 80.
alter &, l8O, the second capital.
IN THE COMING YEAR
the arst capital prlza in the regular draw
Tugs will be $3.50, 900, and In the eEsrgor
binary ones It will be 100000
| On Monday, the day before the drawing
1 called at tho lottery company's Office
and made known to ". A. Dauphin, the
president, my desire TO see the worEing'
OF the concern. 1t was readily granted
and | was taken into every department
forthwith 10 say that ! improved my
opportunity Is true, and came out per
lsonslly convinced Of the faithful handling
by the company OF every dollar sent to
them by their patrons lndasd, this mus
NECESSARILY result from the use OF the eys
Item In vogue. There arc some seventy
five clerks employed during the two
weeks preceding a drawing, though a
other times only forty are required. Thii
is because the rush comes on the last hal
of the mouth. From one end OF thu
Offices to the other, the clerks are paired
and each is a cheek on his associate as Il
errors. The number of letters rtcciveC
daily during the week or ten days betoTt
a drawing is very large, averaging be
tween 10 900 and 10000 Without sys
/ ten and rigid discipline the eutire con
Germ would be In chaos IN ten hours. On,
= a u iVafr hut lAtNn
sssort those containing money into pigeon
kholes according u the amounts enclosed
IAnother set verify the money by the let
ter. Another set read the letters and La
aside orders that cannot be filled, as call
for special numbers aud reques OUTSIDE
of regular methods, Stlll another set fl
orders for tickets, the name and
Address or nv ERr PATRON
, Is recorded by another set alphabetically
J another directs the envelopes to the Gus
toners, another set verify the directed
lletters with the list as recorded, and tn
, order which comes In at one end ct tn
igreat concern accompanied by the pro
, per amount OF meney, goes out at tn,
mailing department faithfully executed
The working by these clerks in pairs /,
| dead sure OF detecting any oversight o.
, error before 1t has had time to travel ant
entangle the records. The clerks begii
work at 8 A. NJ. and a. II half Of then
quit at the found OF a gong. They at ono,
20 to hot and substantial lunch pre-
pared by the company, in the rear room
of the building. At the expiration o
Twenty minutes they go back to theil
Idesks, and the sther hall go to lunch. AT
the end OF the foCty minutes all tho work
of the oflce is evened up among the
Iclerks and the rush continues up Il 1 Z