Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-29

the regular attendants who were ALWAYS IN
| deck, as 1t were, to be in readiness If Their
monthly investment should prove fortunate
| The clock struck IL.
The two ex-generals then glanced at one an
| oIher. Then they arose from their seats and
| each opened the door Of the wheel beside yvbjcJ,
! ne stood. At signal the two blindfoIded boys
| e9ch reached hand inside the wheel beside
| MnIch ne was placed: simultaneously each boy
| see the great drum handed his cylinder to Gen
I ITsliy; VINO had resumed his chair. The boy
p PlHceI oy t3e small brass wheel extended his
| cylinder 10 Gen. Beaureg ard.
OI0 JuoSi drew the white paper from the
enclrchng black rubber tube in which it was
thrust. N measured tones he read the humber
rs, 1885, The voice of Gen. Bgauregard vas
likewise measured and somewhat harder in ifa
s5nsors when ne called the figures on the white
slip OF paper which ne drew from the little black
tube: 2OO' he said. Thus it was that ticket No
y, lS6 drew prize of 500. The rubber cylinders
were handed the boy by the box There were so
cyHnders contained in the small brass drum over
which Gen. Beauregard presided and one by one
the boy, his assistant, drew forth from each the
Eo!I OF paper which decided the fate OF many a
man S or woman aspirations and hopes When
ten cylinders had been withdrawn from each OF
the wheels the clerk, seated az the table called
.'!lme!5 Thereupon "Old Jubal'' and his CO.
adjutor, Beauregard, solemnly arose. closed the
trap doors and caused the wheels to revolve three
times IN one direction and three times the other
Ihen the doors were again opened and the thor
oughly shaken up contents were distracted one
by one by the blndfolded bows
For the benefit of those who are unfamiliar
with the little cylinders / will mention that they
are OF rubber, about one inch long and one
seventh OF an inch in diameter, open at each
end. There are 100, 600 of these cylinders cor
responding to the number of tickets in the draw
ing, and in each cylinder is thrust rolled white
paper ticket or slip, on which is printed one of
the numbers OF the tickets in the drawing rang
ing from to 100, 900. The small wheel contains
similar cylinders, each one containing a Sin Of
paper on which is printed the figures Represents
ing one of the $40 prizes in the drawing The
cylinder which contains the slip marked $500 900
tue capital prize-is the ultima thule of the
hopes of all of those vino invest in tickets in the
drawing.
One hour passed away. ouly three large
prizes OF 5000 each had been taken from the
orass drum. Plenty OF smaller prizes, $500
SSJO and S5OO had come forth, however. The au-
to that of the occupants of the grand
stand on the day OF the FGturity Stakes, became
restless. Men moved uneasily in their seats.
Yon might easily fancy him in bagEv red
trousers and gold lace kept witnessing the
march past Of massive Gallo battalions on the
PLAIN OF Chalons. As the co-manager of the
Louisiana State Lottery, Gen. BeaureVard does
not bury mis- historic identity.
A buzz was heard on the floor and men and
women looked about them TO ascertain il any
person present held the ticket bearing the lucky
number.
At exactly 1880 O'Clock Gen. Early unrolled a
slip OF paper and called ''sl32. - From the
oeauregard side of the green cloth came the
answer SaOO, 900. The audience remained
'llil as death for q moment; then a sound of a
nurmur expressive of disgust went up and half
u those present hastened out of the theater
every ticket holder could not Nv nny manner az
tut the holder apparently thought that his
'iece OF paper ought to have borne the lucky
lumber; hence his wrath. The subsequent pro-
,eedlngs were no longer interesting. One by
ne the numbers were called and one by one the
numbers in the small drum were read off
finally the last of the cylinders were removed
rom the latter and the monthly drawing was at
n end
Mr.. Bowen has this to say about the executive
3 partment Of the Louisiana State Lottery:
Ehe lottery building on st. Charles street is q
!aln affair Of white marble. 1t is three stories
Mol the italian order of architecture and is
loqp5sd on 4 dark granite basement Inside
ne 1aNer floor contains several offices, and there
sr1tgal room which suggests bank Every.
nm 1tremely quiet and unobtrusive. Here
II. Asl4sfp auphin, the President, conduGestthe
etal 41tAe vast machinery. He is purely an
recu p4Ser, and is now in extrenuel deli-
The easf the lottery has Ben teferred
as e92smousifSI am enabled tesaSt sonne sta
sites gyms pelI7s Yhich ea1lf 81 to prove
elonsSk85o the LonfsL ssfS through the
~ skelSeans postoficeH are approximately as