Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-03-03

To my mind, this was indeed lottery in
all its pnrlEy-tte very essenoe OF
cha1cel And It was oil the more agra 4,
waiting because OF the manner of Gen.
eral Bsaurezard's announcement OF theI
$500 prtzss. No matter what the
amount might be, tho General pro-
nounced IL Ia SLOW aud measured tones,
nad each time no said "Three b u-u-
-t-e-1" every boly In the house ex-
p.cted to hear "thouland" follow.
Tho 826th number drawn vas 53 400 IL
As General Btauregagd read the prize,
he Oela as usual with "Thres h-u-n-
d-r-e-d," and like fash t1at word
thousand" went out at thai body of
spectators like
SHOT FROM A CANNON. 8
The strain on their nervous syttam
ceased surprisingly quick, and they
soon dispersed.
Tbs drawing baRan promptly at II
O'Clock, and was completed at 40. Thel p,
tlokets were again placed In the bsgB,li
aeRsed aud tied AZ described abov We,
boxed aud fast med, and taken TO tie
company's vaults at once.
OF oouree, I had desire TO learn
where the lightning had siruck-thnti
is, where the two tickets, winning t.
gether $500 COD, Ind been sold. By reA
son OF the mervelOuSly perfect system
of trnnsacting It's business, the COM
pany was able In lesa than an hour
after the drawing to locate the buyers
OF these tickets a. well "a thone oil
others. Win reference - 60 40, which
captured the $500 eco prize, Wa
sho nm the letter OF man " Chester
to WI, Kent County, Md dfttd some.
where about Dsc. /, enoioaing $50 for
quarter tickets, and am lng the ton sent
W him was one quarter of % 400, eli IT,
ting him to SIS 00tl l saw bis sigma /
ture too, bus IL Is tule Of the COMPANY \
not to make public n winners name 1
except By hi, consent. No. $50, which 1
took the $4,000 pSiz,, was sold in
frRc i1nB In ten different ciiies--New
York, New Orleans, B,ston, 81. Louis,
Ksnsas City, Beuecia, Cat. Lancaster,
Penn, kemphls, Vloksourg and Il
loE,, Miss. And the books showed tEeI
name OF every purchaser OF fractions Of
that ticket A system Of record books
which is indeed
PERFECTION ITSELF.
The same rapid tracing of winners of
other pr,zes brought TO light their names
and residences.
| AhN pau Va tAO lObltl1 10 anu
easily explained. This drawing was an
Extraordinary one, with 100. 0g0 tickets at
$40 each and prizes, amounting to 81 ,055,
001. An ordinary drawing Is where the
price Of tickets is Go, and the amount OF
prizes is $5}5. 900, There are twelve
drawings year, once month Hereto
fore the graad drawings have occ urred
semi-annually but in 1855 there will be
four of them-one every third month.
The tickets are sold in fractions to SUIT
the patron, but 1t Is absolutely impOssi-
BILE TO send out any particular nuAber,
on account Of th great amount o, labor
necessary to find II, and also because the
company put these fractional tickets into
Thoroughly assorted packages of twenty
and upwards, which are never sent brok.
en- to large customers Is .sides the S3B
prizes drawn on Tuesday, there were
. 800 prizes dependent on the fir t, second
and third capital prizes, viz: Each Que OF
titty numbers on either SHE of 3,450,
} which drew the S}J0,uCO prize, makes 100
prizes OF So 0 each; the fifty numbers on
each side OF $50, of Sl9O,00J, make 100
prizes OF $500 each; the fifty numle 6
each side of q ,}Jl, the third capt.l
prize, make 100 prizes oil 900 each
Those are called Approximation" priz e.
Besides these there are 2,0UJ terminal
prizes that Is the 1000 tickets VIII Sc Lun-
bers ends with 80 Cater 3,45J, thu mrs I
capital) !, draw 500 each, and another
l 900 draw 500 each by having the ter
mlnal so, after S,lSI, the second capital.
IN THE COMING YEAR
D the first capital prize In the regular draw
, ings will be Sl5O 900, and in the extraor
. dinsry ones II will be S3JO,U00.
B On Monday, the day before the draw
a ing, called at the lottery comp4ny's
office and made known 10 NJ. A DAuphin
the president, my desire 10 see the work
+ ings of the concern. 1t was readily
granted, and was taken into every de-
} partment forthwith. To say that i'm
proved my opp .rtunity Is trne, aud
came out personally convince, d OF tho
, faithful handling by the company OF
1 every dollar sent 10 hem by the r patrons.
Indeed, this must necessarily result from
3 the use OF the system in vogue. There
are some seventy,llve clerks employ ed
! during the two wesxs preceding dsaw-
ing though at other times only forty ara
4 requi ed. 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, aud each Is a check upoa his
) associate as to errors TIE number of
| letters received daily during the week or
3. ten days before drawing is very large
i. averaging between 10,lUJ and 1910. .
o Without system and rigid discipline the
q Ientre concern would be In chaos In Il
A hours. One set OF clerks do nothing Out
3 open letters, assert those containing
J, money into pigeon holes according TO the
o amounts enclosed. Another Set verified
the money by the letters Another sci
read the letters and lay aside orders that
cannot be filed, as calls for special mum
= bers, and requests outside OF regular
y methods Still another set ill orders iol
" tickets, the name and
- ADDRESS OF EVERY PATRON.
:. is recorded by another set alphab st!cally
!, another directs the envelopes to the Gus
/. TONERS, another set verify the directed
o letters with the list as recorded, and thI
= order which comes in at one end OF TIT
L great concern accompanied by the proper
n amount OF money, goes out at the mail
u ing department faithfully executed. The
# working by these clerks in pairs is deaI
D sure OF detecting any oversight or error
/. be fore It has had time to travel and en-
o tangle the records. The clerks beg gin
C work at s q. m. and az IL half OF thea
q quit work at the ssund OF gong. They
8 ~ once 90 TO hot and substantial unci
q prepared by the company, iu the real
n room of the building. Al the expiration
/. OF twenty minutes they go back 10 he'll
Il desks, and the othct half go 70 lunch a
the end OF forty minutes all the WORK
the office is eyened up among the clerks
q and the rush continues until p. III. u
q later, as may be. These clerks are eS
y perts In their line, and though receiving
y good salaries are always Well paid tor al