The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-27
From s'Ssw Orleans Our Southern
.E Capital"
BY Lulian RaIph in Harper's Magazine

SnPhs"hs
By Julian Ralph in Harper's Magazine
for February,
The Louisiana lottery being legal
lied, tickets are openly displayed In
the shop windows, and are sold on
the sidewalks by men. women and
children. One store for the sale OF
these tickets bears such q legend as
this on its sign: This is lucky Number
Eleven. More winning tickets sold
here than anywhere eise In town.
There was drawing while 1 was In
| the city, and knowing that the lottery
company was not to ask for renewal
| OF lis privileges, / availed myself OF
the opportunity to witness its chief
public operation and the historic char
acters who have been induced by large
salaries to figure for 1t.
The drawing took place In theatre
called the Academy of Music" at
eleven o'clock in the morning. The
yellow gas-iefs battled feebly with the
daylight in the lobby into which the
people wers pressing without let or
qualification. The theatre was two.
thirds full at last. On the stage. set
with @parlor scene. was a knot OF men
between two wheels. The wheel on
the right was band OF silver, with
sides OF glass and with q door In the
metal rim.
A bushel of little black gutta- percha
envelopes the size Of dominoes had
been poured into this wheel, and q
white boy, bllndfolded with q hand
kerchief, stood at the handle OF the
crank by which the wheel was turned
, He had one arm in the door Of thu
wheel, and with the hand OF the othel
arm offered tiny envelope to Gen
, Beauregard-the last surviving gen
ernl of the late war. fine most gen
tlemanly.looking man he is, with thu
features of q French courtier. will
snowy hair, a white mustache and
8 little goatee and the pinkest skin Q
] baby ever knew.
> He was faultlessly dressed. Acros
: the stage, beside very much large
wheel of parti.colored boards. sa
Major General Juhal A. Early-a per
feet type of the conventional figure o
: Father Time; tall. portly. stoop-shoul
0 dered, partly bald, and with q long
3 heavy. white beard. He was dresse'
$ all In the color of the uniform he dis
T. tinguished by his valor as soldier,
BY each general stood blindfole
ed boy. taking numbers out OF TIT
wheels, and handing them to tho ger
erals. From the big wheel to Major
General Early came the numbers G
l. he tickets; from the little wheel t
l. General Beauregard camethe number
10 of dollars that formed the prize eac
If ticket had won. by each general stoo
n crier. Early read out, 'Twenty-on
thousand ono hundred and iirty-two
and Beauregard, having shellcd IN
% gutta- percha case off billet. req
out, 1.-TWO hundred dollars
Then the criers took the Eillets an
II cried the numbers. Twenty OIL
70 thousand one hundred and iifty-twt
l. from one; lew hundred dollars" iroi
~ the other, who, by-the-way, called OF
:! tew hundred dollars at least two hui
bred times, But all the prizes we
VI not Of that amount. ] CHANGED to hei
r, the capital prizes read out,
I'd Twenty. eight thousand Tour MI
dred and thirty.nino.' said Earl
t, Three hundred thousand dollars
NJ said Beauregard. !,
a. The effect was startling; indeed q
y startled senses refused to grasp t.
H. meaning OF the words. Tho criers /
er peated tho figures. Tho people in Z
r. theut re craned forward, a hundred pc
vn ellis shot over pads or bits OF paper
mems and womens laps. Then Il m
muir OF voices sounded oil over I
. house. The routine on the stage W
halted. for the crier5 took the 2 bits
paper to some clerks who sat at
bles in the farther part Of the stage
allow them to verify the 1mpofla
figures. Then the routine beg
anew.