The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-05

| heeQ, Is now uTdWluS up the IuedouiO
| which is intended to close the few remain
ing loopholes through which the dealers
now keep themselves before the public.
All measures directed toward the suppress
| sion of lotteries adopted in the past have
been deficient in one essential respect.
They have stopped the publication of adj
vertisements of lottery drawings to take
place in the future, but have ignored the
more important lads" that tell of the
thousands won by lucky ticket-holders.
| These induce thousands of gullible per-
sons to invest, in the hope of being equally
| fortunate" and do far more harm than
those that urge the reader to try his for
| tune in the next drawing.
1t is against this particular form of ad-
| vertlsing that the measure Will be directed,
and when ready it will be presented to the
Board of Supervisors and that body asked
to declare the publication of lottery lists
and alleged winning numbers, or any in
| formation in relation to the drawings OF
lotteries a misdemeanor.
"There is no doubt" said Mr.. Reed yes
terday, ''that there will be some opposition
to this measure, but, with the public senti-
| ment which THE CALL has aroused against
the dealers, we have every hope that the
Supervisors will bow to public opinion and
| pass the ordinance.
sit is only lately that such thing would
be possible, for in by-gone days the lotteries
were looked upon as harmless method of
gambling that might possibly bring big re-
| turns. But with the expose of the bold
faced manner in which they have been
swindled the people have come to look at
the moral side of the case and condemn
| the lotteries as pernlcious and unworthy
of federation. There is not the slightest
doubt that since The CALL began exposing
the lotteries their business has fallen off
| fully so per cent.
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doing so confesses that The CALL has
accomplished something which he could
not do. However, as long as they are al
lowed TO advertise, these fakirs will find
people to fleece, and we intend to put a
stop to it if possible.
1.-THE Penal Code-section 322-provides
very stringent measure against adver-
Using drawings to take place in the fu-
ture, but either by accident or design,
probably the latter, the advertising of
fake lotteries by telling in print the great
amounts won by lucky individuals
was not touched upon, and the result has
been very bad.
1.-The measure now under consideration
will be very com prehensive, and will be
carefully considered to cover all the points
at issue before the Supervisors are asked to
pass upon it. Of course, those publishing
these lists will claim that they are not
advertisements but matters of news, but |
by the proper tribunal the true facts
OF the case will come out"
Emboldened by immunity from con-
tinued exposure, the dealers in fake lot
teries have begun to take courage and
crawl out of the obscurity into which they
were driven by THE CALL. One of the
most notorious swindles of the lot was
the Spanish-A American Lottery Company,
sometimes known as the Spanish-American
Guarantee Company. The rottenness of
this concern was vouched for. Soon after
the expose was begun, Chief Crowley re-
ceived the following letter from the Spanish
Consul in this City:
CoNsULADo DE EsPANA EN- SAN FRANCISCO, !
SAN FRANCISCO, June II, 1895.
Str: Persons having called on different occa-
sions at this consulate inquiring about lot
terry company pretending to be established in
Havana Cuba, and called the Spanish-Ameri-
can Lottery Company and Spanish American
Guarantee Company. its president being one
pany is not authorized in Cuba and is coDse-
quently an imposture. Therefore take the
liberty of addressing you. so to take the
steps you might consider best to protect the
public. / remain, sir yours respectfully,
JoRG MADRILLEY, Cons III OF Spain.
To P. Crowley Esq, Chief of Police, San
Francisco.
This letter was published in this paper
and, few days later, the following para
graph:
u. L. heyIOIusy Tie ISSpOLoipiS iuoi III
this City for the irresponsible Spanfsh-Ameri-
can lottery fraud, who was recently arrested
at the instance of Detective Wright, has been
fined $50 by Judge Joachimsen. He has prom
ised to seek more honest vocation.
In spite of this plain evidence that the
! Spanish American was a fraud, pure and
simple, and further evidence that the
concern existed only in the imagination OF
the ''agent," the latter was not discour-
aged. and yesterday he caused the publ
~ So HI ~
an evening paper:
monthly drawing of the Standardization lot
terry took place to-day. Following are the
lucky numbers: So. $40, 500 900; SOLO: 800. 90,
aud 81 s26, each $1,000; 1895, %, O22
55,641, II ,491, SS ,S31, each $1,000.
If by chance any reader of this article
should hold ticket bearing any OF these
numbers he need not trouble himself to go
after his money, for he will never get it or
any satisfaction from the "agent."
Another fake has come to light after a
season in seclusion, and Is advertising its
wares as of yore. This is the San Domingo
Lottery Company, that was exposed as the
most barefaced of swindles in the issues of
this paper of July and IA.
The story of how thousands of tickets
were sold by advertising that a well-known
saloon keeper had won $4,000 was told,
and evidence given that the man never
won dollar, but was paid for the use of
his name.
1t also advertises the following banks as
repositories of its funds:
franklin National Bank, New York.
Mechanics National Bank, Boston.
Second National Bank, Jersey City.
Equitable National Bank, Cincinnati.
Chemical National Bank, st. Louis.
Metropolitan National Bank, Kansas City.
| National Bank of Commerce, Omaha.
American National Bank, Denver.
Bank of Commerce, Chicago.
First National Bank, San Francisco.
Not one of these banks except the San
| Francisco institution, ever had dollar of
the alleged lottery's money on deposit,
and the First National never had enough
to pay the smallest of the prizes advertised
in the following cablegram Cd that APP
peared In an evening paper on Tuesday:
SAN DOMINGO, Sept. 3.--The regular
monthly drawing of the San Domingo Lot
terry Company took place to-day. The prizes
were the usual monthly ones-one of $780,
900, one of $4,000 one of $40, 900, one of
$4,000. two of $4,000, five of $4,000, and 1851
other prizes.
They don't sell so many tickets these