Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-23
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY


The concert and distribution will take place
under the Immediate supervision of the Trus-
tees mentioned in the act of incorporation.
The trustees will be assisted by we known
and eminent citizens OF Kentucky, who have
consented to be prese mt Mt the concert and to
superintend the drawing and distribution of
gifts. The holders of tickets to which gifts
are awarded will be paid on presentation. of
them or their fraction, at the Office in Louis
vile. 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 collection. All orders
accompanied by drafts, postofhco money or
ders, or greenbacks.wil be promptly attended
to and tickets returned by mail, registered or
expressed, as desired: Tickets are like green
backs--sood only to the holder; Buyers will
note that there are only One Hundred Thou
sand Tickets, instead of Two Hundred Thou
sand as in the San Francisco Gift Concert,
and that there is $4,000 more distributed.
| sold that and made M the the awards IN four
from November ID to 18th, 1870. and turned
over SI2,UOO to the Secretary due tickets not
presented. 1t will be particularly noticed
that il is q matter of impOssibility for any one
to know 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 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 toward the last,
or in the middle of the drawing. The Sl0O,0OO
gift in the San Francisco Gift Concert, under
the management of Q. X, PETERS, was the
20Oth number drawn. and was awarded and
paid to a gentleman in New Orleans. Seven
hundred and twenty-one gifts is all that can
be drawn in one day: The numbers and gifts
are drawn by blind children from TO IA years
of age. The drawing will be extensively pub
lished, and parties ordering tickets will have
printed lists sent them. Parties forming
Clubs and desiring information will please
address this 0ilice.
IITIekets for 500; 2s Tick cts, $e55;
80 ticket $500; 113 flick cts, $1,000.
The undersigned, late principal business
manager Of the very snccessfll Mercantile
Library Gift Concert of San francisco, CAL.
has been appointed agent and manager of the
Gift Concert in aid of the Public Library of
Kentucky. The drawing will take place in
puslic, and everything will be done to satisfy
buyers of tickets that their interests will be
as we'll protected as if they personally super
intended the entire affair.
MANNER OF DRAWING.
There will be two glass wheels. One wheel
will contain 100 900 numbers, plainly printed
on leather tags. The other wheel will con-
tain 72l boxes, each containing gift. One
tag or number will be drawn from the 100000
wheel, and the first box drawn from the sec
ond or T21 box wheel will contain gift, neatly
printed and sealed up, and the gift so drawn
from the second wheel VIII DC & the gift oi the
tag first drawn, whether SlUO, SlUOO, or SlO,-
900, as announced. d..
1864 Tickets Disposed of I'm July.
To insure ticket holders. the public are as
sured that if only 25,V00 tickets are sold. only
q, 900 numbers go in the large wheel, the III
gifts awarded, but diminished pro rata. In
case 1000 tickets only are sold. only TO
80, 900 20 in. the large wheel, and the 72l gifts
. diminished one-half; and in case only 5000
tickets are sold the entire III gifts will be paid
in full--it being gintended that no unsOld ticket
shall partioipatn. Hhe.manager has already
paid into the Citizens Bank $50, 900 toward
defraying the expenses. and d0es not depend
on sales of tickets 20 1pay his expenses of
printing, advertising. etc. The public arc in
vited TO the utmost scrutiny IS to the relia-
bility of the entire affair. Persons desirous
Of acting As agents for the.sale Of our tickets
in any city. In the United States or Canadas,
address s'ssCHAS. X. PETERS.
Manager, Louisville, Ky.
Office: 40 Main street, johnson Block,
r. 7. DuRRErr. President; ". N. HALDE-
NAN. Vice President; NJ. w. CLUsKY, Seere-
tary. CITfzENs' BANK, Treasurer. l46-H