The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07

Were ready
The house was still as death in
aoment. as tube was handed from the
zig wheel to General Early. who I'M
olded it and announced in a clear. res
nant voice:
'.Thirty-six thousand two hundred
md twelve
simultaneously the boy at the small
Wheel handed General Beauregard d
,riZe tube, when he, in a deliberate,
plainly heard voice. exclaimed:
Two hundred doIlars.''
General Early then handed his ticket
% an assistant standing up beside him,
Who again announced the number,
sc, PIP" at the same time holding it
up so the audience could plainly see
the figures. General Beauregard also
handed the prize ticket to an assistant
beside him, who for the second time
the prize $500 for the num-
Der just drawn.
The ticket sc. PIP and the prize cor
responding. which, by the way, is
printed in similar black, figures, are
then handed to young man sitting in
front Of the commissioners, who folds |
the two together and places them in a |
box arranged in compartments, accord. |
ing to the grade or value. Thus there |
is compartment for 5000, $500, $500, |
81 900, s., 600, So 900, 0,000, S25. 900;
ments for the three capital prizes of
500. 900, 5000. 900 and 5000, 600. While
this IS being done clerk seated just
behind General Early keeps record of
the number as drawn and the cores
ponding prize, printed book adapted
just for that purpose. The tickets
thus folded-the number and the cor
responding prize-are verified next day
by Generals Early and Beauregard,
with the record kept by the entry clerk.
so that no possible mistake may be
made in awaI ding or Withholding the
prize to the holder of the lucky ticket.
Thus the drawing proceeds-a num-
,, Der FROM the big wheel, a prize from
! the small wheel, until twenty are
| drawn out, when an assistant who
keeps tally sings out:
Roll
And both wheels are rolled back and
forth fol some time. the doors of each
in the meantime being closed by the
two commissioners, who allow no one
near those openings except the blind
| folded boys who take out the tubes.
After sixty tubes have been taken from
each wheel the tally keeper sings out:
Roll, and change boys"
And Immediately the doors are again
closed. the wheels several times re-
Volved, thus thoroughly mixing the
tubes, and two other little fellows
come forward as a relief party, are
blindfolded, and the drawing goes on.
For some fifteen minutes the prizes
announced ranged from $500 to S40O,
with an occasional $500. 1t was really
Straining on the nerves OF the anxious
ones. Then General Early called out
80 $50, )" which was answered by Gen
eral Beauregard with $50 ,000." Then
it varied for time with the $500 prizes
all seemingly at the very door of the
prize wheel. The command Roll .
came two or three times latter every
twenty tubes) and Roll, and change
boys'' for the third time, before Gene.
raj Early called out ''37 ,677, - the cor
responding prize being So 900.
During all this time the audience
sat immovable. but eagerneSs, wistful
ness, hope, was depicted on every
countenance, while the prize wheel de
clined to deliver up any of the little
tubes that denoted more than So 900
with an ever varying $200-SS00-$400
had been drawn from the wheel wheI
General Early called out:
''S9, 53O.''
Which was answered by Genera
Beauregard with:
S25, 600.
A little buzz of excitement was per
ceptible through the audience, but al
, | WAS uuICU llSIduD, anu b1OIo hobi
, no sound heard except the monotonou!
: calling of numbers and small prizes
It was after roll and change, boys,
, that General Early called out:
s''69. 704. :"
When General Beauregard immedi-
ately arose from his seat. and taking {
step towards the footlights, said in /;
! slow, distinct, but very impressive
, tone: "Six hundred thousand dollars.
Then excitement was apparent among
-: the great audience. This was thu
longed-for moment. and each one ca
. gerly scanned the slip of paper held il
! hand forsooU, while each one knew
? that they did or did not hold tina
: | magic number, they knew that within
! certain limit they might be luck!
: | enough to get an approximation prIZ
of 81 ,000, for any number within fifty
on either side of SO, 704 would so entitl
] them.
Although the other two granC
: prizes of S200, 900 and 800, 600 were We
= TO be drawn. 1t WAS easy discernabl
5 THAT the great and overshadOwiDg in
I terest was allayed somewhat, but n
: change was noticeable in either Genera
0 / Early or Beaurergard. they sat cain
: and unmoved amid the suppressed dill
: that for a while permeated the Acade
D my of Music and kept on the eVel
!, tenor of their way, the one calling GU
: thenumbers and ether announcing
thepriZes.
r Ticket 6s,744, drew the second cap
ital prize of $500 900, and in conse
: quence there is one very happy it'll
: woman in Council Bluffs tonight, VIII
} if mistake not, was a former resi-
:, dent of your city of Omaha. TIL
: third capital prize of $4,000 wa
q drawn by ticket As, 0S5, and the $50, 90
fell to ticket $3.50. After these prize
/ had been drawn from the wheel nearl!
g ali the interest was lost, many of tn
q audience leaving. Yet the commission
n erS and their assistants went on in tn
: methodical manner as before, and S
d continued to the end until the las
It prize tube of the S4S was taken iron
= the wheel and announced. Then cam
e the work of replacing the tickets lief
d in the big wheel back into the bag
o again. and this operation was closel,
l. watched and Superlntended by TIT
l. commissioners, General Early an
It BeauTegard.
et Each bag was securely tied by Gen
e eIal Early himself, the string woun
r round with manila paper bearing tn
: autographs of the two commissioner
|. and then sealed with their seal, just a
e they were when brought from the CON
81 pany's vault.
e After verifying the record of Tn
pflZeS dS kSpG Dy Tie 0HtIy clotk VIII
y the folded ticket and prize ballot aboV
q referred to, the tickets in the bags ar
; all counted again to make assuranc
; doubly sure, that not single one
: missing.
: Perhaps ere this reaches you tn
y winners of all the capital prizes. an
y all above S., 900. viii be published
. the papers of their several localities
fer good news, (of this kindl travel
. fast, and each one is eager to tell hi
: neighbor, but it is general rule of th
company not to publish the names @
. winning patrons without their pei
= mission.
To DIR. b. a. Dauphin, the honore
ef L.