The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-10

GOethe'S Visit to Carlsbad.

Fort Erie, Ontario. The following from
| the Buffalo Express best describes how
| the drawings are made
III you stand on the Ferry street dock
| and look straight across the river at the
houses of the Fort Erie people green
| house will strike your eye. Your eve cam
not help it. Tie greenness OF that house
| is omnipotent in attractiveness. 1t is
not Nile green, nor is it Irish green. 1t
is greener than any other green In Christ
! endom.
! And this house of wonderful hue Is the
| headquarters OF Joey Whitman, the young
| Napoleon of policy, and of George Wash
ington Kohl, Joey's Marshal Ney. There
| they are to be found at noon and at even
| tide, helping on the honest visitor to
| quick fortune. Surrounded by gorgeous
ness galore, they toll not. neither do they
spin. They hire boys TO do the spinning.
This week the programs of Buffalo the a
| tiers have borne an advertisement reading:
"Red and Green, or Rubies and Emer-
aids. Daily, at Fort Erie. Morning,
il:so Evening, 4;so In public. e. Wash
A reporter for The Express found George
| Was nington Kohl at home yesterday af-
ternoon at the hour suggested. Once in
| you lind sixty or eighty visitors sitting
in row. The room is not large. A quar-
ter OF 1t is taken up by a platform four
feet high. On the platform is long table
| and a writing table. On the big table Is
a glass wheel made to revolve. Beside 1t
stand two, small boys aud young man
| with red mustache and an air OF acrid
honesty. He is q. w. Kohl.
There are three pictures on the walls.
One represents aSred girl waving green
parasol at some unseen person. Another
shows blue girl shading pink. CLASSY eyes
with yellow hand and waving black
handkerchief at a scrofulous ferryman.
| The third picture represents a dark,
| jrowning person, with his arms wound
about his chest and his lowered chin
shielding his disturbed dickey. 1t bears
| easily tell that 1T favors the young man
who sits at the writing table beneath it.
1he young man is Mr.. 10. eph Whitman.
He is wrapped in thought.
| The whistles from the city factories
show that the hour OF 4:30 has come.
The visitors breathe heavily and take out
note books. The smallest boy pulls from
his pocket q blacks cap, to the front OF
which hangs mask. There is wooden
rack on the long table. In 1t are some 7S
green paper boxes such as pills come in.
The boxes are an inch and half long
and an inch wide. With great solemnity
the glass wheel is opened and the lit
| the wheel.
On the wall is a wooden rack. so made
as to admit little slides containing num-
bers. Ii is five feet high and foot wide.
1t is divided into two sections by line
down the middle.
At the top is printed: ar Apr. 10Th, "
&c. '95, p. m" Down the dividing line
are numbers from one to thirteen.
George Washington Kohl opens his
mouth. There is a great hush. "Gentle'
men" says he, "drawiDgs will now
begin. This is what is known as the red
and green lottery, the only one drawn In
| public. You see we have thrown IS num-
bers into the wheel. The wheel will now
be turned at a furious rate. You are in
vited to step up as closely as you can, as
there Is no fraud about this.
The larger boy whirs the wheel VIC
!ously, till the momentum Is so great
that the little green boxes stick to the
sides. They get a good Jogging,
black cap over the eyes of the proud lit
tie lad. The top of the wheel is opened
and the boy dives in and comes up with
! a green box. G. Washington Kohl slides
| open the little green box, exposing to
| view the number 20. He calls 1T out
I loudly, and Mr.. Whitman writes it down.
| The visitors write 1t down. Mr. Kohl
| takes little wooden billet with the mum
ber on it and puts 1t opposite No. in
| the rack on the wall.
So it goes on till the red row is filled.
| Mr.. Kohl directs the janitor to lock the
door, "Under the rules parliamentary,
| of course) no one can leave the room un-
til the green numbers are drawn" He
J says this, looking hard at one of the visi.
| tors, whom he may suspect of being will
| ing to swim across the river with the
red numbers between his teeth. And
| then the 13 green are drawn. Yesterday
| Nos. II, "a and rs came out on the green
side. And when the bell Is over, when
the small boy and his black cap go away,
| and Mr.. Kohl retires into the rear room
to record the official numbers, Mr.. Whit
| man unlocks the front door and saunters
| down to the ferry, followed by the visi
tors, who hold post mortems on the gigs
"My lottery" said Mr.. whitman to the
| reporter, sis the only one in the world
on the square. Ii Is running under the
laws of Canada. They tried to break
me when / started, but i got decision
from the highest court. My policy-draw
! ing il open. Pm out for Chicago, New
York, Boston and Philadelphia business.
| can contract for gigs in Canana and
deliver them any place in the world. y
Buffalo Express.
The threat t. establish agencies In al
| large cites in the United States has csr
tainly been fulfilled, so far as Providence
is concerned, and that il Is popular here
Is evinced by the efforts being put forth
by the sold crowd" to have the "nev
gang" shut up shop.
|
| lime Caught Fire.
| r,o-npg,pu Mae March m