Volume I Part 6 (1/2)
_Providence, November 17, 1797._
--> _TICKETS in the above Lottery to be sold at this Office, and at_ JOHN DUTCH'S AUCTION ROOM, _Ess.e.x-Street._
_Harvard College Lottery._
CLa.s.s FIRST, Not two Blanks to a Prize.
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND TICKETS, at 5 Dollars each, are 125,000 Dollars, to be paid in the following Prizes, subject to a Deduction, of _twelve and an half per Cent._ for the purposes of the Lottery.
_Prizes_ _Dols._ _Dols._
1 of 10,000 is 10,000 2 5,000 10,000 3 2,000 6,000 6 1,000 6,000 10 500 5,000 20 200 4,000 60 100 6,000 90 50 4,500 100 40 4,000 120 30 3,600 161 20 3,220 200 10 2,000 7,585 8 60,680 ------ ------ 8,358 _Prizes,_ 125,000 16,642 _Blanks._ ------ 25,000
--> THE above Cla.s.s will _positively_ commence drawing in the REPRESENTATIVES' CHAMBER, in BOSTON, on THURSDAY, 13th November next, and will continue from day to day, and be _completed_ with all _possible dispatch._ A list of Prizes will be _immediately_ published, and the Prizes paid _on demand._
The Managers believe it enough, to induce the Public to become Adventurers, to inform them, that the object of this _Lottery_ is to erect a new Building, at the UNIVERSITY in Cambridge, for the further accommodation of the Students. The Friends of literature are to be found every where, and when its cause can be served, and a _good chance_ for personal emolument at the same time presents itself; this double inducement, it is conceived, _must_ operate in favor of the Lottery.
The Managers of this Lottery, had the conducting of the late State Lottery--the Public will do them the justice to say, that the _strictest punctuality_ as to the time fixed for Drawing, and in the payment of Prizes, was observed by them in that Lottery--they pledge themselves for the same punctuality in this.
BENJAMIN AUSTIN, jun. } GEORGE R. MINOT, } SAMUEL COOPER, } Managers.
HENRY WARREN, } JOHN KNEELAND, }
_Boston, July 14, 1794._
--> TICKETS are sold by J. JENKS, D. JENKS, J. HATHORNE, J.
DABNEY, and W. CARLTON, Salem.
Major Benjamin Russell, in the ”Boston Columbian Centinel,” March 26, 1791, says:
The _National_ and _State Legislatures_ being in recess, there is a ”plentiful scarcity” of domestick occurrences, at this time.--This is locally remedied by the Lottery, which seems to arrest the attention of all ranks of citizens.--To describe the symptoms of the _disease_ is impossible--all are fascinated--all expect to be the favoured children of Fortune.--The rich court her smiles, as eagerly as the poor--and whilst, O! fickle G.o.ddess, the _Young_ pour forth their supplications for thy favours,
”_With falt'ring pace, and feeble knee, See_ Age _advance, in shameless haste; The palsied hand is stretch'd to thee, For_ Wealth, _it wants the pow'r to taste._”
The delusion is general--and general must the mortification be. But as attention must be paid to the infatuation--we have endeavoured, by a regular publication of the fortunate numbers, to alleviate its frenzy.
On March 29, 1814, Messrs. Bridge and Renouf, the well-known brokers, of 79 State Street, Boston, gave notice that a prize of $500--No.
3,394--”had” been ”drawn in the Plymouth Beach Lottery.” This number had been ”sold by them to several young Gentlemen who purchased 30 Tickets;”
and they also announced that the drawing was ”suspended until the next Tuesday, when the first drawn ticket will be the highest prize, _Twenty thousand Dollars;_” and besides this, that ”there are remaining to be drawn four prizes of $1,000 each, and four prizes of $500 each.”
It should be noticed that there was, even in its most flouris.h.i.+ng days, a difference of opinion among individuals in regard to the morality of the lottery, as men must differ on all subjects; so that it is perhaps only fair to cite a specimen or two of the communications which appeared in the papers in reference thereto. A writer in the ”Salem Gazette,”
June 29, 1790, says:--
_OF LOTTERIES._