Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-01-30

then these hackers have to come to the rescue.
The game, he said. is so well guarded that there
can be no crookedness in il. as all writings
have to be delivered by certain hour.
SALARIES OF WRITERS.
Referring to the writer's he said that most OF
them earned apretty large salary. For in
stance, he said a writer who is not old In the
business will collect from eos to $50 a day and
his commission is 20 per cent or Sl0. ana II he
turns his papers over to runner" he paws
the latter 10 per cent of his earnings or 81. aud
II he takes them himself his salary for the day
Is sl0. Plenty OF them are willing 10 risk a
jail sentence for that salary, although there are
others who do not care to take that risk. and
many OF them have quit the business for fear
OF punishment. There are several hundred
rows played by the policy player, the numbers
ranging from l to IS, and each row has its
name, the most common among them being
baby row, 1-2-3;" ''nigger row, 4-ll-44," and
razor row. 2-4-63"
The officer assured the reporter that the war
on the policy people would continue in the fu-
ture as in the past until the business is either
broken up or until the jail is filed with policy
writer's.
SCENE AT THE HEADQUARTERS
Few persons in this city have ever visited the
headquarters Of the firms in Louisville and
Frankfort and studied the workings Of those
institutions. Detective Raft visited there a
.e"As ako Wutu went eOutI On ponce
business. Speaking to a STAR reporter he said
that he reached Louisville about two hours be-
fore the evening drawing was to occur. About
4:45 o'clock he heard bell in the tower Of a
large hall ringing and everybody on the streets
seemed to turn and go in the direction of the
sound. Being told by q policeman that 1t
was signal for the players he followed the
crowd and soon reached a large hall, in which
several hundred men, women and children had
congregated and each had pencil aud paper in
their hand.
As soon as the hour hand was on the figure
and the minute hand denoted the exact hour a
small boy was brought forward and blind
folded lie was led to the platform, where
there was large glass wheel, and in which was
placed package Of seventy-eight numbers.
The wheel was turned and then the boy with
drew slip OF paper containing q number. The
number was recorded by one Of the clerks and
was then handed to another clerk who turned
1t to the audience. 1t was large enough to be
seen and distinguished in all parts of the large
hall. and when the clerk exhibited il the men,
women and children used their paper and pen
Gil to record 1t. One after another the num-
bers were drawn until the thirteenth number
was taken out and then the throng moved to-
ward the street. In the morning he said there
are only twelve numbers drawn.
AS soon as the drawing was finished the num-
bers were handed over to telegraph operators
In the building, who sent the result of in
cipher, each firm receiving the number having
Its own cipher, so that 1T was almost impossible
to tap the wires to any advantage.
All through the city there are policy Offices
open, and on strings in the candy shop win
dows there are any number Of lottery tickets.