The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-09-02
FREE LIBRARY IN LOUISVILLE,
TO BE CALLED THE
Public Library Of Kentucky.


under the immediate supervision Of the Trustees
named in the act of Incorporation.
The Trustees will be assisted by well known
and eminent citizens of Kentucky, who have con-
sentcd to be present at the concert and superin-
tend the drawing ard distribution OF gifts.
The holders of tickets to which gifts are award
fraction, Mt the Office in Louisville, the second
day after drawing aud every business day for six
months thereafter and may be sent direct OF
through any Bank Express Company Ior col
lee tion. All orders accompanied by Drafts, Post
Office Money Orders, Grecnbacks, will be
promptly attended to and tickets returned by
mail. registered or expressed. as desired.
Tickets are like green only to the
holder
Buyers will not there only One Hundred
Thousand ekefs, instead of Two Hundred
Thousand, as iu the san Francisco Gift Concert,
and that there is $50, 900 more distr butcd.
sold tina, aud mad. the awards in four months
and paid $4s6 900 to ticket holders from
November I'd TO 18th, 1870, and turned over
$4,000 to the Secretary due tickets not pre-
sented.
1t will be part;cu arly noticed II at it is a mat
ter of mpossibility for any one to knew what
numbers draw gifts, as it Is not known what the
gift of any number drawn from the first wheel
will be. until the sealed box, with amount of the
gilt plainly printed, is taken from the other wheel
and opened in full view of the audience, therefore
the larger gifts may not come out till towards the
last, or in the middle of the drawing. The 500,
600 gift in the San Francisco Gift Concert, under
the management OF G. Il. Peters, was the 2Ooth
gentleman New Orleans.
lss- The numbers and Gifts drawn by
blind children from s to Ia years of age
The drawing will he extensively published, and
parties ordering tickets will have printed lists
sent tn Parti-s forming Clubs and desiring
information, will please address this Office.
IL Tickets f,s 500; % Tickets. $255;
SO Tickets $500; 5000. aAs 1aeke'''
The undersigned late principal business mana
ger of the very successful Meicantile Library
| Gift Concert at San francisco, California, has
! been appointed agent and manager of the Giif
| 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 tick
cts that their interests will he we'll protected
IA. ii they personally superintend cd the entire
affair.
Manner of Drawing.
| There will be two glass wheels. One wheel
will contain 100 .00n numbers, plainly printed on
| leather tags. The other wheel will contain III
| boxes. each containing gift. One tag or num-
ber will be e:rlwn from the 100 .000 whse', AMI th-
| first box drawn from the scconi OF III box
wheel will contain gift, neatly printed aud seal
| ed up, and the gift drawn from the second
wheel will bc the gift of the tag first drawn,
wheth $i0a 81 900 or $laa .Oa0. as anuo..nccd.
IA, ,364 Tickets Disposed of in July.
To insure ticket holders, the public assured
! that if only 25,0U0 tickets sold, only $4,000
numbers go in the large wheel, the 72l gifts
awarded, but diminished pro rata. In 5e.-
0t0 tickets only are sold, only number to 80 .oe0
I
ed one half. and in only IS 600 tickets are
sold, the entire 72l gifts will be paid in full it
being intended unsold tickets shall partici-
pate.
The Manager has already paid into the Citizens
Bank So $50 towards defraying the expenses and
does not depend ON sales OF tickets to pay the ex
penses of Printing. Advertising, etc. The public
inyitei to the utmost scrutiny as to the reia
bility OF the en- ire affair
Persons desirous of acting agents for the
/ sale of tickets in any city in the United
States CanadaS, address
chas Il. Peters, Manager, Louisville, KY.
! OFFICE: 100 Nam Street, Johnsons Block.
Il. I. DURRETT. President; w. y. HALDE-
| MAN, Vice President NJ. w. CLUSKY, Secre-
tary !; CITIZENS BANK. Treasurer.
Money received from sale of tickets in Califor
mia. Or gon and Nevada, will be deposited with
| Wells, Fargo Co., Virginia City, to await the
| drawing.
I M. A French,
General Agent, Virginia City, Nevada.
Who will supply tick cts and furnish inform tion.