The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-14

touch of time, every line of it is clearly
discernible. The spelling of the word
document was issued by the authorities
of g college. The college lotteries seem
to have inspired the people at large
with a desire to do likewise. as might
have been expected, and the authorities
found it necessary to put a check upon
lotteries. For nine years such enter
prises seem practically to have been
abandoned. In 1772, however, the college
Halsey a committee to arrange for a
drawing of a lottery at New Castle,
Del. Then the province Itself got the
lottery fever again and Sell from grace,
abandoning the, high moral stand 1T had
taken on the subject. The State wanted
a road on the meadows rom what was
known as New Barbados Neck to
Paulus Hook. and authorized a lottery
to raise money for the purpose In Sep
TENDER, 1772. Two years later there came
one more anti-lottery spasIn, and a very
the establishment of lotteries and the
selling of tickets in the colony:
LOTTERIES FOR CHURCHES.
After the Revolution the lottery re-
turned and fi~ourished at various periods.
In 1891 Elizabethtown and New Bruns-
wick held lotteries. In 17S6 the trustees
of the Presbyterian churches at New
Brunswick and Elizabeth erected lot
teries, the largest prize being 1880 and
the lowest $40. The New Brunswick
church netted something X $3.50. But
LleTG were cfuTCn lotteries IOuS Ue-
fore this. AS far back as 1851 the AS
sembly permitted the wardens and YES
trymen of st. Peters Church at Perth
Amboy to raise money by lottery for
house and ferry house. in 1852 the As
senbly empowered the church wardens
and vestrymen of st. Mary's Church., in
the City of Burlington, to raise by lot
church, parsonage and burying ground
in said city" In 1871 the trustees of the
First Presbyterian Church at Newton
prevail, as did, also the Presbyterian
Church people at BridgeIon, Cumber-
land County, n those OF the same
denomination at Middleton Point. Mon
mouth County, both in 1898. This was
q great year for church lotteries, for
the First Day Baptists at Piscataway
had ore also.
terested in the welfare of Newark Acad-
envy decided TO increase the funds of the
institution by the means which was then
quite popular, and on April l3 of that
year Abraham Ogden and Elisha Bou-
dinot were appointed a committee ito
petition the Legislature of the State to
grant a lottery to raise a sum not ex-
ceeding $4,000, for the benefit of the Acad-
envy W months later the committee
reported that the Legislature had grant.
ed the lottery, and Isaac Gouverneur
and Abraham Ogden, William Burnet and
Colonel John N. Cummings were appoint
GU IAl1lloSCIcy d1ld Liz WCIC C4SA {
CURED to give security to the extent of
49, 600.
At the same meeting it was resolved
that a quarter of the net proceeds of
the lottery be appropriated to finish
the upper story of the Academy. This
part of the building had been set apart
for the use of the Masonic fraternity,
several of who's members were Gov
ernors of the Academy. In the min
utes of the meeting held June %, 1893,
the managers of the lottery agreed to
give their services to the finishing of
the upper part of the Academy. Nearly
the lottery managers were instructed
to proceed to draw it as in their wis
dom they shall him proper, and on De-
ito prosecute the object of the lottery
till they raise the money allowed by
law" How successful the lottery was
the minutes of the Governors do not
ACT TO SUPPRESS FAIRS.
There have been other lotteries au-
thorized by a special law in New Jersey,
but those mentioned above serve to
give a fair idea of the rise, growth and
fina decay of the institution. At first,
as has been shown, the governing power
of the Provine met the issue squarely
and prohibited lotteries by the laws.
Then, driven to the. last straits to ex-
tricate the colony from the Indian claims
difficulty, by special act they, despite
themselves, gave new impetus to the
lottery pfdctlce. Inc "educatlonaI ana re-
ligious institutions were sadly in want
of funds, and the Assembly, although
opposing such practices, nae to give In.
Early in the present century, even,
Princeton applied for permission to es-
tablish a lottery, but the request was
refused, and the feeling against them
had become quite pronounced.
There is an act still on the statute
books which is entitled "An Act to Sup
press Fairs. That no fair or fairs shall
hereafter be held at any city, town or
place in the State.'' This rigid prohi-
bition was very probably caused, in a
evil. When the statutes were revised
some years ago by Judges Beasley. De-
pue and Cortlandt Parker, the statute
very probably thrnu9h an oversight