Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-23

cars and drawn by sixteen mules. The
engineers are not handicapped by TAX
ing It on the march with them, easily
keeping up with a marching army
The light is manipulated by an elec-
trio controller.
LOTTERY eRAFTERs.
ALLEGED That Honduras People Got
s6,0oo,0oo a Year.
The profits Of s6,000,000 a year were
divided among the men at the head
Of the Honduras lottery is the asser-
tion made by the Federal officers In
Mobile whose investigations have re-
suited in the twenty-four indictments
for conspiracy They declare, says a
New Orleans dispatch, that Alfred
Hennen Morris and Dave Hennen
Morris of New York and New Orleans
and Albert Baldwin. Sr., and Frank T.
Howard, bankers Of this city are the
owners of the company and got the
great share Of these profits.
Evidence showing an organization
throughout the country has been gath
cred by the government through Its
raids and the admission Of some Of the
men implicated. This organization
called for huge expenditures all the
way along the line, but even after they
were paid there was plenty left for
the men higher up" When the cases
are tried, 1t is said, the country will be
astonished at the revelations Of the
widespread operations Of this big
gambling scheme, despite all the ef-
forts Of the government to stop them.
Should the Federal officers prove
their case against the four men men
toned they will show that the lottery
business of the country has simply been
handed down from father to son. al
though the younger Morrises and How
ards have sought to free their names
from connection with lotteries. Un-
doubtedly proof Of such connection
would again raise questions among
society people of New Orleans which
were raised in the excitement over the
old Louisiana lottery.
Alfred Hennen Morris and Dave
Hennen Morris are sons Of the late
John A. Morris. whose father was
known as the Lottery King Of Del
aware" On their mothers side they
are grandsons Of Alfred Hennen, an
illustrious jurist Of Louisiana.
1t was through the late Charles 7.
Howard, father of Frank T. Howard,
that the elder Morris and his asso-
ciates, among them Baldwin, obtain
ed from a reconstruction legislature
the charter Of the Louisiana Lottery
company for twenty-five years. How
ard was the first president Of the
company.
While the Morrises and the How
ards and their associates amassed for
tunes, social sentiment for years ran
very strongly against them. Howard
was blackballed when he applied for
membership in the Jockey club, which
operated the famous Metarie race
track. He swore that he would con-
vert the tract into cemetery, and
today the Howard family tomb stands
on its site.
When the younger Howard married,
social antagonism told so heavily that
the father forsook a mansion he had
built in New Orleans and moved to
Biloxi. HIS wife's life was rather
desolate there, but she was a very
lovable and charitable woman. She
built the present Church Of the Re-
deemer as a memorial to her husband
and purchased the beautiful West
home adjoining and donated 1t to the
church as a rectory. Frank T. How
ard has always made his home IN New
Orleans and in recent years has been
prominently socially.
In it's halcyon days the Louisiana
Lottery company's possible receipts
were $4,000,0O0 a month with prizes
running about so per cent thereon.
Unsold tickets were always put In the
wheel, however, and often drew the
prizes. The principal stockholders
amassed big fortunes.
When John A. Morris died his wealth
was estimated by close friends at be-
tween s1S,OOO,O0O and $20,000,OOO. He
was not only the largest stockholder
in the old lottery company, but the
daily drawing was his personal prop
erty, and this alone paid him profits
of about $500 a. day.
Chapman Hyams, one Of the indict-
ed men, Is the head Of the firm OF
Hyams & Moore, one Of the leading
stock brokerage firms Of New Or
leans. Hyams and Baldwin are both
directors Of the United States Trust
Company and Savings Bank, which
Is regarded as a trust and savings ad-
junct of the New Orleans National
Bank. which is one Of the banks
through which tickets have sometimes
been cashed since the anti-lottery law
went into effect.
f. j. Demarest Is now president OF
the NdllOIldl LOltSiJ SSih
pany Gen. Cabell has served as COM
missioner Of drawings, a place for
years occupied by Gen. Pierre G. T.
Beauregard, whose social position In
New Orleans suffered somewhat by
virtue of the fact The alleged con-
nection with the lottery Of the other
New Orleans men indicted Is not
known.
w. P. Johnstone Of Cincinnati has
for some years been known as man
Of very large income and as cotton
speculator of considerable resources
| and success.
B1J There are some curious facts
about our calendar No century car
begin on Wednesday, Friday or Sun
day. The same calendars can be used
every twenty years. October always
begins on the same day OF the week as
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