The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-03-18
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yrss "xsv Orleans, Our seutAsr.
Capital"
The Louisiana lottery being lesslised
tickets are openly displayed n TIE hon
windows, and are cold on the eidevatks
ny men, women and children. One
store for the sale OF these tickets besrs
such legend ~ this on it sign: This
y lucky Number Eleven. More winning
tickets cold here than anywhere else in
town.
There was drawing while / was in
the city, and knowing that the lottery
company was not TO ask for renewal OF
its privileges, l availed myself Of the OBJ
portunity TO witness Its chief public
operation and the historic characters
who have been induced by large salaries
70 ngure for II. The drawing took place
~ . theater called "the Academy OF
Music, " 1t eleven O'Clock in the morning.
The yellow gas jets battled ieebly with
the daylight In the lobby into which
the people were pressing without let or
Qualification. The theater was two
thirds full at last. On the stage, set
With parlor scene. was q knot OF men
between two wheels. The wheel on the
right was band Of silver, with sidee of
giass and with door in the metal rim
bushel oil little black gutta- percha en-
seiopes the size OF dominoes bad been
noured into this wheel, and q white bow.
blindfolded with . hand kerchief, stood
At the handle OF the crank by which the
wheel wac turned. He had one arm in
the door Of the wheel, and with the
hand OF the other arm WAS Offering tiny
envelope TO Gen. Beauregard-:he last
surviving general who served on either
eide In our late war. A fine. most gen.
Hooking man he Ia, with the
features OF French couYtier, with enowy
hair, white muetache, Q little goatee.
and the Pinkest ekin baby ever knew.
tie was faultIessly dressed. Across the
stage, beside q very much larger wheel
Of psrti-colored boards, sat Ma jor-Gen-
eral Jubsl A. Eariy-a perfect type of the
""nvent onai figure OF Father Time; tail,
portiy. etoop shou der, PARTLY tad,
ana with q long. heavy, white beard
tie was dressed all in the color of the
uniform he distinguished by his valor ae
. soldier.
BY each general stood blindfolded
boy, taxing numbers ont cf the wheels, |
and handing them to the generals. /
From the big wheel to Ma jof- General /
Early came the numbers OF the tickets:
from the little wheel TO General Bean.
regard came the number OF dollars that I
formed the prize each ticket had won. |
BY each general stood q crier. Early
read out, ''Twenty-one thoueand one |
hundred and fifty two" and Beanregard.
having shelled the gutta- pereha Gaze of |
. billet. read out, Two hundred dol |
are" Then the criers took the billets |
and cried the numbers. .T~enty-ope |
thousand one hundred and fty two" |
rom one; Two hundred dollars" from |
the other, who, blythe way, called out |
two hundred dollars at least Two hundred ]
mes. But all the prizes were not OF 1
that amount. / CHANGED 10 hear the 4
capital prize read out.
"Twenty-ei2ht thousand four HUNDRED
and thirty nine" said Early. Three.
hundred thousand dollars" said Beau
regard.
The effect was startling; indeed the |
startled senses refused to grasp the |
OF the words. The criers re-
peated the figures. The people in the 4
thea er craned forward, hundred pen
cils shot over pads or bite OF paper in
mems and women'e laps. Then a muir
muir OF voices sounded all over the house
The routine on the stage was halted.
Tor the criere took the two bits OF paper
10 some clerks who sat at tables IN the
farther part OF the stsge. to allow them
70 verify the important figures. Then
The routine began anew.-By Jul an
Ralph in Hsrper's Magazine for Feb
ruAry