The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-31
FREE LIBRARY IN LOUISVILLE, TO BE
CALLED THE
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY,

PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY.
The Concert and Distribution will take place I'M
der the immediate supervision of the Trustees
mentioned In the act ofincorporation.
The trustees will be assisted by well-known
and eminent citizens of Kentucky, who have
consented TO be present at the concert and to SUI
pcrintend the drawing and distribution OF gifts.
The holders Of tickets to which gifts are award
cd will be paid on presentation of them or their
fraction, at the office in Louisville the second
day after drawing and every business day for six
months thereafter, and may be sent direct or
through any Bank or Express company for col
lection. All orders accompanied by Drafts, Post
Onice Money Orders, or Greenbacks, will be
promptly attended TO and tickets returned by
mall, registered or expressed, as desired
Tickets ARE like Greenbacks-good only to the
~ Buyers will note that there are only one
hundred thousand tickets instead of two hundred
thousand, rs in the San Francisco Gift Concert,
that and made the awards in four months and
paid SASS 900 to ticket holders from Nov. Ind to
10th, 1870, and turned over $4,000 to the Secre-
tary due tickets not presented.
1t will be particularly noticed that it is u mat
tor Of impossibility for any ono to know what
numbers draw gifts, as it is not known what the
giftofany number drawn from the first wheel will
be, until the sealed box, with amount Of the gift
plainly printed, Is taken from the other wheel
and opened In full view OF the audience therefore
the larger gifts may not come out until towards
LILO luSt, OF III tn6 nluQle OF INC DRAWING. Inc
$l0o, 900 gift in the San Francisco Gift Concert,
under the management Of G. r. PETERS, was
the Tooth number drawn, and was awarded and
paid to a gentleman in New Orleans. 721 Gifts
is all that can be drawn in one day. ~
M3 The Numbers and Gifts are drawn by blind
children from S to IA years of age.
The Drawing will be extensively published,
and parties ordering Tickets will have printed
lists sent them Parties forming Clubs and de-
string information will please address this Office
II Tickets for 500; IS Tickets, S255; SO Tick
laa cts, $500; lib Tickets, $1,000.
The undersigned, late principal business manager
of the very successful Mercantile Library Gift
Concert At San Francisco, California, has been ap-
pointed agent and manager of the Gift Concert
in aid Of the Public Library of Kentucky.
The drawing will take place in public, and
everything will be done to satisfy buyers of
tickets that their interests will be as well pro-
tected as If they personally superintendent the
MANNER OF DRAWING.
There will be two glass wheels. One wheel
will contain 100000 numbers plainly printed on
leather tags The other wheel will contain 72l
Der will be drawn from the loo, 600 wheel, and the
first box drawn from the second or 72l box wheel
Will contain gift, neatly printed and sealed up,
and the gift 50 drawn from the second wheel will
be the gift Of the tag first drawn, whether 800,
$1,000, or 100000. as announced. sI
2 go iA,3o4 Tickets Disposed Of In July.
To insure ticket holders, the public are assured
that II only $4,000 tickets sold only $4,000
numbers 60 In the large wheel, the 72l Gifts
awarded, but diminished pro rata. In 3d.
600 tickets only are sold, only numbers to 1900
go In tho large wheel, and tho 72l gifts diminished
one-half and In case only $4,000 tickets are sold
the entire 72l gifts will be paid in full-it being
intended that no unsold tickets shall participate
D The Manager has already paid into the Citizens
Bank 350, 900 towards defraying the expenses, and
does not depend on sales of tickets to pay his
psnses of printing, advertising, &C. The public
are invited to the utmost scrutiny Us to the rela
biiity of the entire affair.
Persons DESTROYS of acting as agents for the sale
Of tickets in any city in the United States or Can
adas, address -, ~ NJ.
CHAS. n. PETERS,
.ssi. is fg Manager, Louisville, Ky,
OFFICE, 100 Main street, Johnson's Block
R. T. DURRETT, President.
w. N. HALDEMAN, Vice President.
M. w. CLUSKY, Secretary.
CITIZENS BANK. Treasurer.
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