The Portland daily press., 1890-01-04

founded with the large additional business
BY express. Transactions, as understood.
are mostly with the larger agents at remote
localities. Returns may be credited with
following in line with receipts. The 10000
sealed envelopes are to be fairly limited TO
June operations by mail. Concede June as
an exceptional month. Make the wholesale
reduction o: 900 incoming letters per day.
Double the number Of outgoing will be H.
900. The figures may be safely accepted as
below, rather than In excess OF the general
average. Letters received are to be divided
under their respective heads. There are or
binary letters bearing simply the distinctive
address. There are the registered letters.
There are the letters, finally. containing the
postal orders. General figures as above with
ssifcation-keeping well within accredited
llnes-may be approximately given:
Lottery letters, received. daily average %. 5000
Lottery letters, outgoing, daily average. 1900
Classifeation-ineomin letters.
Lottery letters, ordinary, daily yerage:: 100
Lottery letters, postal orders, daily average $500
Lottery letters, total received, daily
average. ...s................. 0,OOO
Lottery letters, classed as ordinary, have
their certain distinctive address. They do
not appear as directed to the Louisiana
Lottery Company. That would bring them
under the ban, and incur penalties Of the law
covering Transmission of improper matter
through the mails. Letters so honestly ad-
dressed could not be delivered. They must
needs be transmitted instead to the Dead
Letter Office in Washington. The letters
lind their way into the lottery nav under
cover OF the name Of M. A. Dauphin, who Is
really president Of the Lottery.
Letters containing postal orders, again,
covering money for the lottery, have the
same address. M. A. Dauphin Is thus
credited with his daily mail, averaging 1900
ordinary, and again. 1900 letters containing
postal orders. or daily aggregate Of 5000
A very considerable mail, truly. for private
individual. It appears more particularly so
in view Of the fact. as seen, that 1t is not NJ.
A. Dauphin's legitimate matter.
AN ENORMOUS TRIBUTE.
The monthly t:ibute so levied upon the
country at large is simply enormous. It
may in no wise be definitely arrived at. The
basis Of estimates is found In the number Of
letters delivered at the New Orleans post
Office. There are reported three thousand
daily registered letters to begin with, finding
delivery under cloak of the New Orleans
National Bank. They cover the larger lot
terry remittanees in currency. Registry fees
upon sums Of five dollars and upwards are
understood as at lottery expense. That fixes
five dollars. by fair inference, as the mini
mum figure. Twenty dollars is the general
fixed price for a whole ticket. This Is
doubled for the months Of July and Decem-
Der. Put the minimum at five and the maxi
mum at forty dollars. Take the lowest rea-
sonable average. Estimate upon the basis
Of ten dollars for every enclosure. The sum
may safely be counted as considerably be-
low, rather than in excess Of actual figures.
The 5000 registered letters bespeak, at the
lowest estimate, daily average Of $4,000.
That amounts In round figures to 100000
per month. 1t aggregates for the 365 days
the sum Of 100000 600 yearly.
Next to be considered Is the reported daily
average of !, 5000 postal orders delivered In
the name Of NJ. A. Dauphin. They cover an
understood average Of $40 each. Here Is an
additional 5000 monthly; the sum again
Of slG950.O00 yearly.
Then follows the average daily delivery,
also to NJ. A. DauDhin, of 1900 ordinary let
ters. The minimum is here the one dollar
note. The majority of the letters probably
contain but that amount. The price Of the
full ticket, on the other hand, or $40 green
back. is understood as not uncommon.
There are here Enclosures. again, Of express
money orders, bank checks. drafts and pos
tai notes. The letters are from every State.
from Mexico, Central America and indeed
from nearly every quarter Of the globe. They
put In an appearance even from India. Aus
tralia and China. These contain their bills
Of exchange. The average Enclosure is thus
by no means inconsiderable
Strike the general average at the lowest
figure to be reasonably considered. Put 1t
as low as five dollars per letter--it should
undoubtedly be higheI-it gives daily foot
ing Of $500. That amounts to $4,000
monthly. 1t aggregates, counting the $50
days. So, 7S7 Zoo yearly.
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