Show The Spirit of Gambling The spirit of gambling and lottery finds its natural atmosphere in this land of dreams and one of the first local eccentricities eccen-tricities to demand the attention of the visitor to New Orleans is the display of lottery tickets in the windows of brokers cigardealers saloons and cobble shops in every quarter of the city high and low And nearly everybody contributes to the scheme not excepting by any means the coloredff population The drawings are monthly and onehalf the receipts go to the management which holds a monopoly organization under a State charter obtained years ago The winning tickets left over drop back into the treasury and taken altogether is a good thing for the management Beau regard and Jubal Early are the head officials the former a short thickset Frenchman of grizzly appearance and the latter an aged and venerableappear ing man the very image of the typical Santa Claus Both live here and thrive on salaries of 10000 a year each from the lottery association New Orleans Or-leans Cor Chicago Journal |