Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-09-02


4l6 Gifts of 800 each ...............". $4,000
12l Prizes, in all $3.50, 600
After paying the expenses Of the enterprise
and making the distribution of the gifts, the
balsncc fthc proceeds arising from the sale of
tickets will be appropriated to the establish
nent ofa
Free Library in Zouisri7le, to be called The
Public LIBRARY OF Kentucky,
The Concert and distribution will take place
underthe immediate supervision of the Trustees
named in the act of incorporation.
The Trustees will lie assisted by well known
and eminent citizens of Kentucky, who have
consented to be present at the concert and to
supcrintend 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 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 Com
pany for collection. All orders accompanied
by Drafts, Post Office Money Orders, or Green
backs, will be promptly attended to and tick
cts returned by mail, registered or expressed,
as desired
Tickets are like greenbacks-good only to
the holder.
Buyers will note there are only One Hun
dred Thousand Tickets, instead of Two Hun
drcd Thousand, as in the San Francisco Gift
Concert, and that there is $50. 900 more
| distributed. l sold that and made the awards
in four months and paid $4SS, 900 to ticket
holders from November End to 18th, 1870, and
turned over $4,000 to the Secretary due
tickets not presented.
1t will be particularly noticed that it is mat
ter of impossibiity for any one to know what
number 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 the amount
of the gift plainly printed is taken from the
second wheel and opened in full view of the
audience, therefore the largest gift may not
come out till towards the last, or in the middle
of the drawing. The 100000 gift in the San
Francisco Gift Concert, under the management
of G. R. Peters, was the 2O0th number drawn
and was awarded and paid to gentleman in
New Orleans.
E1g. The numbers and Gifts are drawn by
blind children from 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
desiring information, will please address this
Office.
IL TICKETS FOR 500; % TICKETS, 1925
| 56 TICKETS, $50; ll3 TICK
ETS, 1000.
The undersigned, late principal bushes:
manager of the very successful Mercantile
Library Gift Conce. t at San Francisco Cali
fornia has been appointed agent and manager
of the gift Concert in aid 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 Us we'll pro.
tected as If they personally superintended the
entire affair.
MANNER OF DRAWING.
There will be two glass wheels Will contain
100000 Numbers, plainly printed on leathe,
tags. The other wheel will contain 72l boxes
each containing a gift. One tag or number
will be drawn from the 100, 900 wheel, and the
first box drawn from the second or 72I.bo1
wheel will contain a gift, neatly printed and
sealed up, and the gift so drawn from the
second wheel will be the gift of the first tag
drawn, whether 500 $1,000 or $loo, 900 a:
announced.
l4,3s4 TICKETS DISPOSED OF IN JULY.
To insure ticket holders, the public are as
sured that if only $4,000 tickets are sold, only
$4,000 numbers 60 in the large wheel, the 72l
gifts awarded but diminished pro rata. In
case 10000 tickets only are sold, only mum.
oers 10 ou,ooo 60 IN the large wheel, and the
72l gifts diminished one-half and in case only
$4,000 tickets are sold the entire 72l gifts will
be paid in fuli-it being intended no unsoId
tickets shall participate
The Manager has already paid into the
Citizens Bank 1872, 800 towards defrayinr the
expenses, and does not depend on sale of tick.
cts to pay his expenses of Printing, Adyertis.
ing, etc. The public are invited to the utmost
scrutiny as to the reliability of the entire affair
Persons DESTROYS of acting as agents for the
sale of our tickets in the United States or Ca,
NADIA address
CHAS. R. PETERS, Manager, Louisville. XIV.
ONCE: 100 Main Street, Johnson's Block.
r. T. DURRETT, President: w. N
HALDEMAN, Vice President; NJ. M. CLUS.
KY, Secretary; CITIZENS BANK, Treas.
urer.
| Money received from sale Of Tickets in Cali.
fornia, Oregon and Nevada, will be deposited
with Wells, Fargo Co., Virginia City. to
await the drawing. NJ: A. FRENCH,
I Gen'l Agent, Virginia city, Nevada.
who will supply tickets and furnish infor-