Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-07

in NEIT nv registered mail and
HAN iFAS to pay no money or
Nil NIX ders to that concern.
E.G tn This is fake" en-
terprise which has
flooded the country recently with advertis-
ing literature. 1t sends out all such matter
by express so as to avoid infringing the
postal laws. To individuals picked out to
serve as agents in various cities ana
towns it addresses the following ingenious
and attractive communication, marked
confidential"
my Dear Sir: We want to do some bust
ress in your locality. and have selected
you to represent us. We fully understand
why your people have almost stopped buy
ing lottery tickets; it is because there has
been no prize OF value drawn in your neigh
borhood for years, and many have thus be-
come discouraged, and have ceased to pa
tronize lotteries. There is but one way to
revive the oid-time interest and excitement,
and that is for some one to draw a prize
large enough in value to stimulate and in
duce others to start buying tickets again.
We give 1900 more prizes than any other
company in the world, and will guarantee
that the sale of a few of our tickets viii
result in some ones drawing a prize, as in
our company one number in every eighteen
wins If some well-known man like your
self should draw $4,000 $4,000 $4,000 or
even 5000 in our lottery, it would be the
means of selling thousands of our tickets
IN your part of the country. Now, we give
you the inclosed So ticket free, hoping that
It may win such a prize as the above, and
fully believing that, should you draw an" OF
the amounts mentioned, the increased sale
of our tickets in your vicinity would more
than pay us for the money thus expended.
We inclose fifty one-dollar tickets, and we
want you to sell every one of them IL you
can, as We want as many as possible in
your town interested in our April drawing.
Do not sell your 50 ticket Keep that for
yourself and, If you will look out for our
interests. We will look out for yours. We
will send you prize lists of the drawing i'm
mediately after it takes place. Your COM
mission will be % per cent 1t being I'M
lawful to use the mail for lottery purposes,
we caution you against sending US any
matter by mail all such mail goes to the
dead letter office at Washington. SEND
money and all other communications by ex-
press only. Do your best and leave the rest
M. DAUPHIN. President"
A WeII-Daited Hook.
Observe now artfully the addressee is
/ led to imagine that in return for his serv-
| ices in selling tickets the company" will
so manipulate the drawing TO throw him
a prize of 5000 or perhaps $4,000. He can
afford to be Indifferent as TO the luck of
his acquaintance, among whom he is
expected to dispose Of the fifty one-dollar
securities. The latter are quite deliberately
got Imprinted. most appropriately, in
green with a careful imitation of lathe
engraving, and numbered couseCutively.
Supplementary instructions say: Employ
/ all the suba gents you can use to advantage.
Q Of rb.Ap, Mill ha Nvif Ton
cents on the dollar. Occasionally, in small
! towns there is foolish prejudice against
I lotteries, and agents do not care to be
known as such. When this is the case. We
suggest that the agent get up a club
in which each member would be interested
/ in proportion to the money put in. If You
! should need more tickets than we have
sent you, telegraph US for the additional
number you want, at our expense. DO not
use the mails under any circumstances"
| Now all this is a swindle from beginning
to end. TO begin with. there is no such
person as II. Dauphin. That was the name
! of the president Of the real Louisiana
! Lottery Company, recently elected from
this country, and now doing business in
| fake concern makes no drawings and
distributes no prizes. The sole object of it's
! existence is to gather in dollars from per-
sons who are so foolish as to purchase its
tickets. The agents employed whose
cupidity induces them to act as stool
pigeons. never receive the Twenty-Five ner
/ cent commission. The tiVe-dollar tickets
bestowed upon them as special brides are
worthless, of course.
The Old Louisiana Compagy
Nevertheless. the extensive distribution
/ of the tickets and literature throughout the
/ country proves that there is money in the
business. Men of good reputation are
easily got TO serve as agents and collect
the dollars from victims. The lottery"
has its headquarters at Kansas City, Kans
Fra uds of a like description have given z
good deal of trouble of late to the post
office authorities. They send out all their
stuff by express, but a great many letters
are addressed TO them by mail. Such
/ communications. so long as they are under
seal, cannot be interfeTed with. There is
no way to punish the swindlers so long as
| they refrain from violating the postal laws
The original Louisiana Lottery Company is
| still doing business all over the United
States, though its drawings are made at
Puerto Cortez, in Honduras Ii has an
office at Port Tampa. Florida. from which
a boat of its own runs to Puerto Cortez
All of its advertising literature is set nm in
type at Port Tampa. but the printin,, is
| done at Puerto CorteZ. The printed stOfY
is brought to Port Talapa and foryya nd; a.
| therce by express to all parts Of the co,in-
Try. Tie tickets are sold through AGENTS.
| who return the money by express No
registered letters are deliverable 10 the
| company, and no money order viii be sold
Dy any postmaster payable TO the concern.
| The Canadian post office authorities have
| recently adopted eqUiVa lent rastrictions
| against the lottery. Its Industry as row,
conducted, is safe from Interference f-oo,
the law, but the profits derived from ii arc
only a small fraction of what they usa5 "a
be. The express system is expensive and
money cannot be sent in that way from
! every small town.
good many postmasters have got into
trouble about the Columbian stamns ov.
ing to the eagerness of the demand by col
lectors for those interesting issues In a
| number OF instances they have entered In
to arrangements with Spectators who de-
| sired to procure cheap cancellations For
| example: A dealer sends 800 worth of the
stamps to postmaster in a country town,