Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-08


numt ers and prizes, done by an experienced
clerk In the resr Of The wheels, this foldipg to-
gether of the two pieces Of paper Ia sure TO
snow It, For the next day the list as made out
By the clerk is
vRRIPIED By GENERAL EARLY
from this compartment box. So, every number
patrons.
When twenty tubes had been drawn from
each wheel, the order to 'Ion was given by the
caecker at the table. Both wheels were then
violently turned forward and backward, most
thoroug nly mixing up the tuoes in each. Again
the doors are opened, and the same process is
bers Then comes another "rol F" When the
next to the last number of the third twenty Is
called, the checker calls out:
"Roll, and change boys"
While the wheels are being rolled for the
third time, two other boys step forward In
place of tae first tive, and two other gentlemen
relieve the two assistants to Generals Early
and Besuregard So 1t goes, rolling the
whseIs every twenty mum GERS, and hanging
boys and assistants every sixty numbers, until
S56 acCual prizes In the wheel are disposed OF
In other words, of the $50 tickets oraWnp each
wins prize.
One thing was -oticeable at this drawing.
Not person at AL connected with the lottery
company was present, either on the stage or In
the houee. The drawings are under the sole
charge and supervision of Generals Beaure-
gard and Early, the authorized commissioners.
At no time, nor under any circumstances, nor
ia any sense. does the company have the
slightest connection with the Drawing or any OF
the details of its preparat on. Their business Is
that of selling tickets TO their Iatrons and they
confine themselves strictly to thai. They
DO NOT CARE PICAYUNE
which numbers are success III.
OF the sS6 prizes In the wheel 900 were Tor
for $500 each-in all, 500. This remaining &l
prizes were one of S9oO,0OO, one of 100000, one
# co., one of SIS 900, two Of Sl0O OJ each, I've
of $4,000 each, and % of $1,000 each. NatpE4lly
500, $500 and $500 prizes were often announeed.
In fact, they came 30 steadily as to be some
what monotonous, inasmuch as everybody In
tho house was in an excited frame Of MINI
awaiting the announcement of the three higher
prizes, which had an exasperattnE way OF re.
naming untouched. For inst&nce, the hTst
$4,000 appeared in the first hundred, the mex
in the second hundred. just before 300 had
been drawn, the 60, 0GO Pile WAS won 0y No.
67,O22. This made the srowd Of spectators
wakeful. Soon after 360sndu bers had been read
|EegardEreplIed:
Zone hundred tnousandm
ftseemed as 4 es+ry person In the audience
sighed deeply, for the sound that reached the
stagewas strongly suggestive of bitterness OF
soul. Surel snere were no holders OF SlsO
present Nothing of particular interest oc-
CURED theSeafter, until $40 tickets had been
drawn, when q, 30l took the $4,000 prize. Evi
IDENTIFY tat vas not held in New Orleans. The
capital prize of
SS00,eo0 WAS EXPECTED
at every number from thence onward. Yet
there came "Rolr' and Roll and change boys,
time after time, with nothing but small shot
UO,
stray $1,000 and $1,000. Ffaaly 7eO prizes had
been drawn. No capital Then IL was $50, and
no casital. Soon the drawn prizes numbered
wheel Great Scott, where was it? Gem
efal Early arose and walked over to
the little wheel He looked through the
resumed his seat. Colonel Dan Wilson, VINO
sat by me-, also went over and looked at the
handful Of valuable tubes, Then he sat down
with smile. and we compared numbers on our
tickets. Tt& spectators were dre9ofully uneasy,
and many were in Intense excitement. at last
S25 numbers had been drawn, and the big $780,
600 prize was missing. Nearly everybody In the
building was then at fever heat, with only
eleven more plies to be drawn! To my mind,
this was indeed lottery in all its purity-the
very essence CT chance! And 1t was all the
more aggraVating because of the manner of
General Beauregard's announcement of tne
$500 pIizes No matter what the amount might
be- the General pronouD ced 1t In slow and mea-
cured tones, and each time he said "Three
h-u n-d-r ed" everybody in the house expected
to hear Thousand" follow.
The 8:6 n number drawn was 53,459. AS Gen
eraI BeR1regard read the prize, he began as
ususl with Three h-u-n-+@.-r-e-d," and like
fl ash that word Thousand" went ont at that
body Of spectators like
SHOT FROM CANNON.
The strain on their nervous systems ceased
surprisingly quick, and they soon dispersed.
The drawing began promptly at IL O'Clock,
and was conpleted at ] As. The tickets were
again placed in the bags. sealed and tied as de-
10 the company's vaults at once.
OF course, 1 had desire to learn where the
lightning had struck hat is, where the two
tickets winning together 100000, had been
sold By reason of the marvellously perfect
system Of transacting its business the com
pany was able IN less than an hour after the
drawing, to locate the buyers of these tickets,
as well as those of others. With refer
ence to So 459, which captured the $780,
600 prize, l was shown the letter
of man in Che. tertown, Kent county, Md,
dated somewhere alb ut Dec. l. enclosing $50
for quarter tickets, and among the ten sent 10
him was one quarter of 53 459, emitting MIN TO
$4,000! l saw his signature too, but 1t Is rule
of the company not to make public winners
name except by his consent. NO. SlSO, which
took the 500 900 prize, was sold In fractions In
ten different cities-NeW I0rk, New Urie cans
Lancaster, Penn, Memphis, Nlcssourg and
Biloxi, Miss. And the books showed the name
of sve y pu chaser of fractions OF hat ticket!
A system of record books which Is inoeed
PERFECTION ITSELF.
The same rapid tracing of winners of other
prizes brought to light their names and rel
dencee.
explained. This drawing was an extraordinary
one, with lOO, 900 tickets at $50 each and prizes
amounting to 81 ,055. COO. An ordinary drawing
ia WI ere The price of tickets is $40, and the
amount of prizes is $3.50, 001. There are twelve
drawings year, once month. heretofore
the ga and drawings have occurred semi an
nually; but in lSSS there will be four of them
one every third month. The tickets are sold
in fractions to suit the patron, but IL Is aDso-
lutsly impossible to send out any particular
number on account of the great amount of la
Dor necessary to find It., and also because the
company put these fractional tickets Into thor
ous hly assorted packages of twenty and
upwards, which are reyer GENT broken
TO large customers. B sides the s36
prizes drawn on Tuesday, there were $500 pr.
yes Deepen dent on the first, second and third
cApItal prizes, viz: Each one of fifty numbers
on Ell her eide of IS ,459 which Drew 'he $500 600
prizs, makes 10 prizes of $500 each; the fifty
numbers on each side of $50, of 100000, make
leo prizes of $500 each; the fifty numbers each
side Of q 30l the third capital prize, make 100
prizes OF 500 each. These are called "spproxi-
nation" prizes. Besides these tt ere a;e 1000
Terminal prizes; that Is, the 1eO0 tickets
whose number ends with SO latter 63,4bs, the
first cauital) ,Idraw 500 each, and another 1000
Draw 500 each by having the terminal so, after
SlS0, the second capital.
IN THE COMING YEAR
the first capital prize in the regular drawings
will be Sl60,000, and In tho extraordinary ones
1t will be $4,000.
On Monday, the day before the drawing,
called at the lottery compary's office and made
known to M. A. Daup In, The president, my de-
sire to see the workings of the concern. It was
vesdily graft and was taken into every de-
partn emit forthwith. T say that improved
nv 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 u e Of the sYs en- in vogue. = ere
some seventy five clerks employed during the
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