The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-13
Brokers Eagerly Dodge Lee
gal Barriers to Buy the
Chances at $3.50
$4,000 IN BONDS
is THE FIRST PRIZE
Cost CT a Dinner Will Be Paid for by
Three Misunderstanding III Bonds
and War Stamps Popular Among the
Brokers.


NEW YORK, April ia rattle for
100000 of third Liberty loan bonds
with chances costing $3.50 apiece is I'M
der way in Wall street district. Not
withstanding the high price, the rapid
it, with which tickets are being sold
would indicate quick taking of all
the 400 numbers.
/ None OF the stock or commodity ex-
changes has any official connection with
the affair, and undoubtedly would OBJ
! iect to it, but some cotton brokers
whose patriotism is at fever heat are
conducting it as secretly as anything
can be done in the financial district.
i Therefore, if a well dressed gentleman
should pull YOU aside and into a door
way at the same time inquiring IN a
low tone of voice if you care to take a
chance for $3.50, don t cry for the aid
OF the police.
The rattle calls for three prizes, two
of which are fortunes in themselves
/ lIt III ~ IiiILt toISISic VI ~fV-pOV VI
Liberty bonds, the second 500, 900 of
the third loan and the third $4,000 of
the third Liberty loan.
There viii be no public advertise
ments OF where the drawing will take
place, for the patriots don t want any
interference from the police while they
are doing their bit For that reason a
soon as all the chances have been SOLD
the owner of each ticket viii
be quietly informed that he is entitled
to a place at a dinner to be held up
town for the 400 participants in The
rattle The numbers are to be placed
in a hat and viii be withdrawn one bN
bv one until there are only three left
The last number drawn will entitle tn,
the holder to the $4,000 i'll Libert,
bonds. the second from the last mum
her viii result in the presentation o
$4,000 in Liberty bonds, and the thir,
from the last $1,000 III the thir
Liberty loan. The cost of the Dime
is to be footed by the three prize win
ners. each contribution being in pre-
portion to the size Of the prize won b
: the lucky holders of the three last nun
berS in the hat.
Rafics for Liberty bonds are hecom
ing popular in the Wall street distric
d Thursday afternoon loo chances at s.
each were sold in a rattle for a 50 0c
bond of the third Liberty loan. Tt
l. drawing took place within a stone
4 throw Of the Liberty loan headquarter
> The name OF the winner was kept s.
: cret for fear that a ban might |
placed on further ratfieS.
Gambling in war saving stamps h:
IS been going on in the financial distri
- for weeks and has become quite pop
lar. All sorts of games of chance, wi
the stamps as prizes. are being co
] Quoted in brokerage offices. banks al
. corporations. The play has been esp
cially heavy IN the stock brokerage {
fees, owing TO the dulncSs Of the sto,
market. In one office wheel wi
&c. five numbers is used II costs % cen
c. to obtain one of the numbers T
wheel is spun five times. each time f
,st a p cent thrift stamp a little ball
Mt, used and stamp is given to the hold
.er of the number on which the ball stoI
lct For about three weeks one wheel W
&c used, but the game has become so PC
nlar that three wheels were going
ny once all Yesterday
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