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

| Daily average received, $500; daily average
sent out, H. OOO daily average registered letters
received $500; daily average postal orders re-
| representative of the New Orleans National
oank, with an assistant, is stationed in the post
once 10 LOOK after the 5000 registered letters.
| po5tothce Is derived from the lottery
There is constant complaint that letters adj
3 crossed 70 DauphIn and to the New Orleans
National Bank are broken open and robbed BY
postal clerks and employees. The postal inspect
ors are kept busy investigating these cases The
temptation to commit crime is of course great
Those who handle the mails on the various
routes leading into New Orleans understand
very wei that letters addressed to NJ. A. Dau-
phln probably contain loose bank bills. They
also are keenly alive to the fact that the almost
1nnumerable registered letters going to the banks
contain money for the lottery
The postmaster at New Orleans has mora
trouble on account of the letter robbinr than all
else. Recently the vigilance of the Inspectors
has materially diminished the thefts
Upon the vital question, whether or not the
drawings of the Louisiana State Lottery Com
pany are fair and honest, and in accordance
public, Mr.. Bowen is very explicit His testi-
mony coming as it does from an adverse source
Will be conclusive to any fair-minded person
The most important problem connected with
the lottery which endedUOrsdto soEue was the
question of the fairness of its drawings Jt was
with the hope that fraud could be discovered
That spent much time and labor in striving TO
trace trickery. There are two ways by which
the company could swindle its customers The
in the large wheel than the scheme calls for
The number OF tickets in monthly drawing is
1900 There are 100, 900 tickets placed in the
large wheel. against which are drawn $40 tickets
bearing on each the amount of a prize If the
number OF tickets placed in the large wheel
were t increased 800 5000, 1000 or even 20. 900
the chances OF ticket purchasers TO draw a prize
would be correspondingly diminished.
Inc tickets contained in the little rubber CYL
lnders which are brought IN sealed bags and
publicly deposited in the large wheel MIGHT he
Increased in number prior to their removal from
the lottery Office. If SO, the fraud would be com
piete. But there are two reasons Wly this il
not done. The two Generals have allowed
themselves to become the conductors Of a gam
ping scheme, but could not find enemy OF
the lottery who would admit that either old
Jubal Early or Gen. Beauregard would counte-
nance fraud or permit cheating to be carried on.
me contents OF the sacks are sealed By them
and no one but themselves have access to the
tickets Fraud could not in all probability be
without their sanction.
1t would be difficult to increase the number OF
tickets in the wheel to any considerable amount
without attracting the attention OF the regular
lTequenters OF the drawings. The wheel with its
little cylinders, each containing ticket occupy
! given space in its interior. The addition Of
~ W tickets would raise the contents above the
amllisr line they attain at every drawing
The second way by which fraud might Be urac-
iced would be for Gems Early and Btz1rerard To
Practice that which the fancy recognize a.
'palming.' They could dispose OF tEs several
'reat prizes in the interest Of the Company AZ
ollows: At given signal old Jubal could adroit-
z ~ = = - iiuuer nnicn ne carried about
rs person for the cylinder handed to him BY the
lind folded boy and taken by the latter from
he large wheel. simultaneously Gen Beaure-
ard could, by the same manPuvre, substitute
hinder for the one drawn from the brass or
riZe wheel. The $500, 900 could thus be disposed
and the number Of the ticket SO fraudulentIv
rawn would correspond with ticket retained
y the lottery.
That anything Of the kind occurs do not TO,
moment oelieUe. I matched The hands Of old
ubdL and Of has confreTe tghe11 tSe capital prizs
as drGl1n, and there trGs NOT the slightest
1Gdotr Of doubt In the proceedings. Ths 5ovs
req out the eytindcrs and Beouregard and
drIy took them lcith the tips Of their faoers
hey 1nrotted the tickets in plain siqhs and
EiIed out the numbers