The morning times., 1895-08-13
WIDE OPEN 1T ROSLYH
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and they are greeted with expressions Of de
light by few. The disappointed usually
have very little TO say.
1t occasionally happens that winning
of So coo VIII be made on siTgle IL
ycstment OF dollar or so aud this receives
wide publicity There are every day win
ninGs OF SO TO 500 on 10 10 30 cents. the
results were formerly published in the
afternoon papers, bat there has been
great fight 10 stop the bus iness both in the
courts and by additional legislation
CARLISLE THEIR ATTORNEY
Secretary Carlisle has been Tor years the
attorney OF the company and since he has
held his present position his services have
been called for 70 defend the company's in
terests in the courts The constitutional
convention put into the new constitution
provision which it was hoped might over
throw the lottery, but the attorneys raised
the point that the company had vested
right. for which it had paid by money given
the schools.
They carried the case from court to
court Major d. " Sarders, the lottery
leading counsel, makes a specially Of con-
tinuauces, and meantime his clients are
gathering in their golden harvest 1t was
expected at one time that the fight would
be brought to the United States Supreme
Court, but it has never made its appearance
Attic time the last attack upon the busI-
ness was begun the drawings were dIsCOn-
tinued and publications in the new spapers
ceased This was a heavy blow, because
persons who employed servants to play for
them had no way TO tell whether they were
given the true report oftac drawing
When the results are chaIked up n the
LITTLE offices in Louisville they are also tele-
graphed 10 many other cities. 1t is this
report that Is received daily at the south
end of the Aqueduct Bridge With this
as q nucleus has sprung up little colony
of gamblers and toughs who spend most Of
their time waiting for returns. They en-
gage in all sorts OF games Of chance 10
keep things going and rope in the igno-
rant and vicious from every quarter
Times reporters yesterday made a visit
TO the place From the Virginia end OF
the bridge IL looked as though q colored
picnic was in progress on the river bank
near Analostan Island There We're
groups of men. women and children NOV
ing about or lying on the grass apparently
enjoying the chance 10 be in the country
4 band of little fellows were in swimming a
few hundred yards beyond.
IN THE SALOONS REAR
The newspaper party found its way to
the rear of John c. Clark's saloon There
on a grassy knoll on the hill overlooking the
Potmac sat two young men In the shade Of
a small tree. One of them had tin pail
full of pennies, nickelS and dimes, with
a few larger pieces There was about a
pint of the coin.
where is TIE "a awing over here?" as
asked
What drawing?" was the answer, quick
| and nervous. I'VE don't know about no
! drawing ~
| The Times crusade on the iniquities
1 about Washington has become so hot that
/ the operators are constantly en- the lookout
/ for representatives of the paper and Keep
! track of them as they do OF the officers OF
| the law.
| There's a drawing of the Covington lot
! terry here every day and 1 want 10 go
/ down to it" continued The Times man.
! sOh. that's the Franklin lottery You mean.
! It's about a half mile over that-a-way.'
| And the lank young Virginian waved his
| hand toward Arlington. Then, as II
| thought had struck him he added: See
| that house over there; that's the place,
| and he pointed to a negro shanty four
| hundred yards away.
| This palpable lie was received at its face
value and as the party passed on the i'm,
provised cash box and its wner disappeared
| to the rear The rendezvous for the draw
| ing inexactly the ppositedirectionfrom
| that pointed out. ..t
| Just beyond the outpost thus encountered
| the ground slopes abruptly to deep ravine
| at the end of which is a big culvert-
| On the other side three or four white men
were reclining under the trees. They were
waiting, they said, for some friends VINO
were engaged on the construction OF the
Mt. Vernon road. They never heard OF any
drawings Similar groups were scattered
| through woods for half a mile in every
| direction.
| WIRES ARE BURIED.
! A sharp lookout for wires only showed the
| guys of the telegraph holes carrying twenty
to thirty wires each, that go that way
| toward Alexandria. Nothing that could
be supposed to terminate in a telegraph
| instrument was discovered. 1t is probable
| that the line is under ground. Over the
ridge from the rayine and the party of white
men came the steep decliyity leading down
| to the AnaIostan flats.
The Times men slipped down this over
! the grass and bushes and at its foot were
! right in the middle of the picnic. Under
| their feet were dozens of torn policy tickets,
most of them printed, few rudely scrawled
with lead pencil.
Beneath the splendid elms lay groups OF
men playing cards. One party, consisting
of a shrewd- looking white fellow with four
or five colored men, were playing draw
| poker with cent ante A little handful OF
small coin lay in the middle OF the old blan-
ket which served them for a table Twenty
| to thirty feet away half a dozenother games,
seven-up, pedro, high five and the like, Were
in progress, each with its little gang.
At the left, beside an old shanty boat
beached there months ago when the river
was up, rang the familiar cries "Come
seven, come 'leven," that told big crap
shootin' was in full blast ...>.....s.. ..s
/ Back of these on level grassy space