The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-15
THE BIG GIFT DRAWING.
TEE REGIMENTS GALA DAY AT
TYBEE BEACH.

Four Thousand Four Hundred Dollars
in Prizes Won in the Regimental
Drawing-The Bain Interferes With
the Programme, Butthe Drawing and
the Day a success-How the Drawing
Was Conducted Some Of the Hold
ers of the Lucky Tickets.
The regiment had wet day at Tybee
Between rain and threatenings Of ram.
more then half the people who intended
gong to the beach stall at home The
morning trains carried down very few, and
the special train. which went down at 2
o'clock, had less than l00 passengers The
regular o'clock train was crowded, though,
and landed between 500 and 600 people
on the island The $50 train car
ried down as many more. The gale
which swept over tbs city in the afternoon
kept many from going As it was, the
pavilions at both the Ocean house and tbs
Ocean View hotel we're comfortably filed.
The prize drawing, which was the leading
attraction, and which was t. have taken
place at $50 o'clock in the afternoon did
not begin until after 6 o'clock and was not
was built IN the Ocean house pavilion, but
the rain drove the committee to the hotel,
and the prize wheels were put up on the
balcony fronting the beach.
IN CHARGE OF TIE DRAWING.
The committee in charge Of the drawing
was Capt. Wheaton Of the Chatham Artil-
lery, Maj. Meldrim aud Lieut. Pritchard Of
the Hussars and Capt, Reilly of the Guards
Lieut. O'Byrne was chairman OF the regi-
mental committee. The secretaries Of the
drawing we're Lieut.. Gaudry Of the Repub-
hcan Blues and COrpl. Morrissey Of the
Jasper Greens.
Everything was ready, and the crowd
had gathered in front Of the hotel, waiting
anxiOusly for the drawing to begin, but
when the committee came to pat the 10000
tickets in the big glass wheel not more than
two-thirds Of the tickets could be got in,
and even that number had to be packed in.
The committee was in a dilemma,
but something had to be done
Lieut. OByrne explained the matter to the
crowd and stated that the only way that
the drawing could take place was to do
away with the wheel and draw the tickets
from a basket The crowd wanted the
drawing to come off and agreed to any
thing.
THE BASKET OF FORTUNE.
The tickets were emptied from the wheel
into a big basket which the committee
rolled over half dozen times to be sure
that the tickets were thoroughly mixed
The prize tickets were then placed
in the prize wheel, which was
not crowded. By this time il was nearly
dark and the committee had to move into
the hotel parlors where the drawing took
place. Master Louis Herman drew ticket
from the basket, and at tue same time
Master John McDonough drew a ticket
from the prize wheel. The numbers of both
tickets were announced aud also the amount
OF the prize as the drawing proceeded.
Lieuts. O'Byrne, Pritchard, Gailhard, Nc
Harrie and Maj. Meldrim took turns in
announcing the prize numbers until the
drawing was tinished
The parlors were crowded with ladies and
gentlemen during the early part of the
drawing, but toward the end the spectators
lost interest None of the leading prizes
were drawn from the first 100 tickets. The
first large prizs was the second prize of
$500, drawn by ticket No 10,4l4 and sold
by Fernandez. Then followed two 300
prizes. The capital prize Of 81 500 was not
drawn until toward the end
NO. 1913 THE LUCKY TICKET
No. 76lS was the lucky ticket. After
that there was very little interest in the
drawing, and not more than fifty neoDl,
lists were gone over as soon as the last prize
ticket was taken from the wheel and the
drawing was wound up. Between 5000 and
1000 tickets were sold, and the remainder
Of the 10000 belonged to the regiment
The holder Of the capital prize ticket was
not known last night. John NJ BRYAN held
ticket NO. 4SlO, " hich drew one Of the 500
prizes andMayor Schwarz held a $50 ticket.
The total amount of prizes was "a. 400
Owing to the latenesS of the hour at which
the drawing was concluded and the few
people who waited to see it through. the
names OF the holders of very few Of the
prize tickets were obtained The com
mittee will publish a list tomorrow.
OF the 9l2 prizes $50 were SIS, 30 were
81 50s and $50 were SIS. There were 40
81 90 prizes, 30 Cos, 20 $lO3 10 $20s. 6 S5Os
SlO0s, and $500 prize, besides tue capital
prize. The committee at the close of the
drawing announced that prizes will be paid
at Flannery q Co.'S and at Fernandezs.
AT THE PAvILoNs.
While the drawing was going on both
pavilions were crowded with dancers. The
rain during the evening was not more than
mist, and although 1T drove the beach
strollers to shelter it did not interfere with
the dancers The tide suited for bathing
but the rain kept many from going into the
surf. Altogether, in spite Of the rain, the dav
passed off pleasantly. The turn out of the
military was large, and had the weather
been pleasant the crowd would doubtless
have been the largest since that of Nav
week. The Tybee Railroad Company had
made every arrangement for the handling
of the people Supt Cobb ran an extra
schedule of trains with leased cars
and the largest crowd could
have been promptly handled. The first
train up from the island last night was we'll
filed, but the crowd waited for the late
trains. The 10 O'clock train brought mn
ten car loads and reached the city at II
o'clock. The late train brought up five car
loads. In spite of the weather being against
it the regiment had altogether a very sue
cessful day.