Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-22

wise the writer, ana NIL his order Tor the COM
ing drawing, If requested. or return his money.
But the company do not wait for letters OF
inquiry from their careless correspondents.
For instance, If they can decipher the name of
the party and town-while there may be moth
ing to indicate the State-they CLEAN from the
Postal Guide every State and Territory in which
is located a town OF that name, and send
postal card to each one advising the party
named that they are in possession of package
of value, and if his or hers, to write, giving
description of its contents, when sent, name OF
town and State, etc. Thus. very often they an.
ticipate a letter of inquiry, and fill an order
with but little delay. Your correspondent was
told of one particular case in which patron
failed to give any legible address, and all in
quiries on the part of the company iailed to
discover him. But st about the same time il
was receiving letters from some one who was
cslling II hard names, because it failed to send
him ticket as ordered. This party was re
quested to give, If possible, the date of his
original letter OF remittance, the nature OF it,
whether bills, silver, money oraer IL by exprese
or otherwise But the company got no definite
answer from him, only an additional abusive
complaint.
"Finally," said the manager. "a man came
into the office one day and declared he was
going to know why the company had robbed
him OF his money without giving him any sat
isfaction. Learning his name, the general
manager took him aside and by clever ques-
tioning got out of him in few minutes more
definite information than series OF letters had
extracted. Taking him into the "old horse"
vault one OF the boxes was opened ana very
soon the original letter was discovered. Imme-
diately recognizing 1t, the man exclaimed:
why. that's the very old bill that sent with
1t that you got pinned on there"
"Yes," was the reply; you see we did not
steal your money or put it in our pock cts, but
you notice there are no directions in any part
of your letter whereby we could learn where to
send you proper returns"
Then the man was full OF apologies.
No doubt he is a regular patron now, but
more careful in giving proper address. But
the company is not always Iortuu ate enough
to reduce the ''old horse" account as in this
case, and thus a large amount of money neees
sarily remains to its credit
President Dauphin DEGREES that as 1t does not
belong to the company, the company must moi
touch it, concern that Gets up such a stand.
ara OF honesty in its dealings with its patrons
cannot help compelling confidence in all It'll
methods.
All the correspondence appertaininy to each
drawing is bound in alphabetical form and filed
away according to date in appropriate pigeon
holes, that, IN an Instant almost the letter oi
a fortunate winner, showing name and location
may be ascertained. This verified later on
when after the drawing colled on DR.. Dau
phin TO learn if possible. the localities aud the
names of the lucky ones who had scared the
capital prize.
office about 10 o'clock on the morning Of the
drawing, your correspondent had the pleasure
of meeting that old veteran OF the Confederscy
General Jubal A. Early, one of the Commits
sioners. who comes down once month from
his home in Virginia, to superintend the draw
ing. The old gentlemen, although somewhat
beat under the weight of years, yet looks rug
ged and is active on his feet as many men thir
ty years younger. He pre- sents most venerable
appearance. with his long gray beard and broad
brim slouch hat. His eye is sharp and piercing,
aud his voice as firm as in the old campaigning
days in the Shenandoah Valley. He greeted
me cordially, and after making some inquiries
of the general manager relative to 'the bags
containing the tickets, he casually mentioned
that he had just received a dispatch from some
old friend in Rhode Island to wire him imme-
diately after the drawing, the number that Sc
Now, of course" said the General, with q
merry twinkle in his eye, "he expects in some
way eau help him win 1t, for he sends me the
number of his ticket"
Il recollect, not long SINCE" the General con.
tinued, "a man in Rochester wrote me, that II
l could pull the capital prize of 100000 for
bin coTd keep Ss9oSo apa mo oSe send nim
'if could do such thing and was rascal
| enough to do it, did he suppose would be
| foolish eRough to divide ny part OF it,"
"And 80 it is said General Early, some
people have an idea that General beauregard
or myself can, In some way, give the prizes
where we will"
And as we wended our way to the Academy
| of Music, which is but short distance from
| the Louisiana State Lottery Com oanys build
ing on the opposite SIDE eff st. Charles street,
| the General said he would explain to me how
utterly impossible it would be for him or Gen.
eral Beauregard to do any such thing.
The Academy of Music, where The drawing
| takes place. Was soon reached, and at the Gen
I
signed seat upon the stage, where be was
| il ltroouced to General Beauregard, the Associ
ate Com mission T. and Messrs W. l. Hodgson,
William Pink4rd, G. G. Roux and ]. A. A,
Rousseau, who assist the Commissioners in the
detail work. These are all prominent and
weil-known business men of New Orleans.
Seated upon the stage was the genial Colonel
| Dam Wilson, SO well known 10 everyone in
/ the Crescent City, VINO never fails to witness
| the grand drawings.
| On the stage were two large boxes which
| contained the ten bags in which were the tick
| ets-100, ,000-each wrapped or tightly rolled
and encased in strong gutta percha tube. the
ends of the tickets slightly projecting beyond
the ends of the tube or case. Each ticket is
printed, from to 100000. in great big black
type SO as TO be readily read by the audience
ia 'front.' Wnen nelu up 10 view; Ine prlze
and encased in like tubes, for be it understood
| that while there are but S4S prize numbers
drawn out, there are in addiuon 2,298 approx
imation prizes, which are explained below. In
the fret place, to be explicit and give definite
plan of the present Mammoth Drawing, there
arc 2A9 urizQ tiCkptR nnumprptpd aa fOllnwg.