The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-13
ONLY MANSION
IN The SKIES,
WORKER LEARNS
All Promises Forgotten
After Publicity Stunt
BY SYDNEY WARREN.

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VANCOUVER, B. c., Oct. IL
Here's the story Of how
worker was buncoed out of a
bungalow he was supposed to
have won in a building fair con-
test promoted for free advertis-
ing purposes by the British Col
umbia Manufacturers Associa-
ton.
About year ago this organi-
cation started a campaign to sell
British Columbia products by
offering bungalow worth
$4,000, as the first prize in a
lottery contest.
TWO Bits Throw
A 25 cent ticket admitted the holder
to view an exhibition of canned fruits,
bricks, tiles, wood veneers, bottled
pickles and other displays Of CASTRO
nomic and artistic value.
The ticket also entitled the person
to chance in the lottery. For 81
four tickets Of admission and five
chances on wipning the bungalow
were given. Under certain conditions
the winner of the bungalow also would
receive piano and $500 in furniture.
1t looked good to everyone in Van
couver and most Of them bit-some
to the tune of several dollars.
D. G. Mcdonald, purser aboard
the Canadian Pacific steamer Prin-
cess Alice, was among those who bit
and when he came into port one day
and was told that he was the lucky
man and had won the $4,000 bungalow
and in addition the piano and $500 in
furniture, he felt that either he was re-
ceiving his heavenly reward or at
least that his planets were exceed
ingly well-aspected, speaking in the
manner of PSYCHOLOGISTS. s
For some days he had no peace. He E
was announced as the winner in the
local Brass Check Press and his pho
tograph appeared with several inter
views from a bevy Of sob-sisters. A
few days after the furore Mcdonald
received an invitation to attend ban
uet to be given by the British Column
bia Manufacturers Assn. at which
he supposed he would be formally
presented with the prizes he had won.
But such was far from the case
After the eats, the chairman, J. A.
Cunningham, president Of the associa-
ton, broke the news to Mcdonald
gently. He prefaced his remarks by
saying that he didn't wish them to get
beyond the four walls of the ban
quoting room and then bluntly told
Mcdonald that, so far as getting the
bungalow, he thot he had won-but
we'll the association was financially
hard up and that he would have to
wait for his bungalow until it took
the shape of mansion in another
world.
Forget Their Promises.
Mcdonald then asked the secretary
of the aggregation of business pirates
what about the piano and the furni-
ture he had also won and was in
formed that the firms that had offered
to provide these articles as prizes had
decided, now the publicity was over,
that it was hardly necessary to live
up to their promises, certainly not
profitable; the excuse offered was
that if they gave these articles they
exposed themselves to a violation of
the laws against lotteries. This
happy thot only came after weeks Of
free advertising.
The association in an outburst of
generosity then suggested that Nc.
Donald buy lot in the expensive
Shaughnessy subdivision and that the
association would build him a house
on the lot for $4,000, putting in their
materials at wholesale prices. Nc.
Donald asked what about the $4,000
bungalow he had won but at the ques.
ton the association lost all further
interest in him.
In order to spar for time the mem
bers of the association assured Nc.
Donald that they would individually,
II necessary, pledge their names and
mortgage their properties to see to IT
that he was fairly dealt with. Shortly
afterwards the organization went out
Of business-before Mcdonald could
take legal action.