Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-15
Federal Officials Declare Insti-
tuition Yielded Promoters
$5OO,OOO a Month
FOUR CAPITALISTS ARRESTED
Held as Part Owner. Of Money Making
Device Known as Honduras Com
pany-vanderbiIt Kin and Bank Off
ciaIs Neutrality-suspicious. the Leg
isIaturs.
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lion dollars a month added to the banl
accounts of four men. Such has TO
years been the astonishing fruit of tn,
Honduras Lottery Company's opera
tions, according to the federal officials
who have at last secured the indictment
and arrest of the owners and managers
of the huge money-making device.
The four men who own the Honduras
Lottery Company, according to these
federal officials, are Alfred Henner
Morris, David Hennen Morris, Albert
Baldwin ST., and Frank T. Howard
bankers and capitalists, against whom
indictments have been returned charg-
| ing them with conspiring to violate the
anti-lottery law.
Alfred Hennen Morris and David
Hennen Morris, who married one OF the
Vanderbilts, are sons of the late John
A. Morris, whose father was the lot
terry king OF Delaware. On their moth
ers side they are grandsons of Alfred
Hennen, one of the most illustrlous
jurists of Louisiana and antebellum
chief justice of the state. 1t was thru
the late Charles I. Howard, father of
Frank L. Howard, that the elder Mr..
Morris and his associates, among them
A. Baldwin, ST., secured from re-
construction the charter of the Louisi-
ana Lottery Company for period OF
twenty five years.
The elder Howard managed the CAM
paign before the legislature and was
the first president of the company.
holding the office until his death, when
he was succeeded by Paul Conrad, who
remained president until the death OF
limitation of the Louisiana Lottery
Company. Mr.. Norris founded West
Chester park, the famous racing track,
and also the Morris stables, which in
recent years have furnished the colors
for some notable blooded animals. AS
a close business associate of Mr.. Nor
ris A. Baldwin made a fortune as a
stakeholder in the lottery company In
addition to which he was founder and
head Of the present A. Baldwin & Co.,
limited, hardware. and president of the
New Orleans National bank.
Frank T. Howard has been receiver
of the New Orleans Water Works COM
pany since it went into the hands of a
federal receiver. Mr.. Howard has al
ways made his home in New Orleans
and occupies a mansion adjoining the
city hall and fronting La Fayette
square. which in recent years has been
kept beautiful largely by his generos-
ity He and his sister and brother built
the Howard memorial to their father.
While the Morrises and Towards and
their associates, chief among who was
Albert Baldwin and Chapman Hyams,
amassed fortunes, social sentiment for
years ran against them because of the
lottery So strong was it, in fact, that
Mr.. Howard was blackballed when he
applied for membership in the jockey
club that owned and operated the ia
NOUS race track. The son swore that
he would convert the race track into a
cemetery. Today the Howard family
home stands where horses passed under
the wire.
When the younger Of the Howard
sons married social antagonism to the
lottery told so heavily that Mr.. How
ard forsook a mansion he had built in
New Orleans and made his home at
Biloxi. Biloxi was always a favorite
place of Mrs. Charles T. Howard, whose
life was rather desolate because of So
cial antagonism to the lottery, but who
was lovable and charitable woman,
and who built the present Church of
the Redeemer as memorial to her
husband, and purchased the beautiful
West home adjoining and donated it
to the church as a rectory.
In it's halcyon days the Louisiana
Lottery Gorapany's possible receipts
were s4,O00,OO0 month and the prizes
is said unsold tickets were always put
in the wheel and often drew the prizes,
the largest of which was $500, 900. One
quarter of the capital prize was won
in 1890 by one of the antilottery lead
ers, who accepted SIS ticket from a
vender in partial payment of debt
that the antileader could not otherwise
collect. This winning played a big
part in the lottery argument that the
antis were insineere and were using
reform as a lever to lift themselves
into power"
The principal stockholders of the lot
terry rapidly amassed fortunes and
when John A. Morris died about 1894
his wealth was estimated by close
friends as between $1s,0OO,O0O and
s2OOOO,OOo He was not only, the larg-
est stakeholder in the old lottery COM
pany but the daily drawing was his
personal property and this alone paid
him profits of about $500 day.
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