The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-06
FREE LIBRARY IN LOUISVILLE, TO BE
CALLED THE
pIIRI IC IIRI AI1r on Ir1,NrI11,Lcv

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.
Tho trustees will be assisted by well-known
and eminent citizens of Kentucky, who have
consented 10 be present at the concert, and to SUI
per1ntend the drawing and distribution of gifts.
The holders of tickets to which gifts are award
ed 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 OF Express company for col
lection. All orders accompanied by Drafts, Post
Office Money Orders, or Greenbacks, will be
promptly attended to and tickets returned by
mail, registered or expressed, as desired.
Tickets are like Greenbacks-good only TO the
holder.
Hes Buyers will note that there are only one
hundred thousand tickets instead of two hundred
thousand, as in the San Francisco Gift Concert,
and that there is $50,O00more distributed. sold
that and made the awards in four months and
paid $isS,0O0 to ticket holders from Nov. 2nd to
10Th, 1870, and turned over $l2, 600 to the Secre
tary due tickets not presented
1t will be particularly noticed that it is a mat
ter of impossibility for any one 10 know what
numbers draw gifts, as it is not known what the
gift 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 towards
The last, or IN the middle OF the drawing. The
100000 gift in the San Francisco Gift Concert
under the management of @. II. PETERS, was
the 200th number drawn, and was awarded and
paid TO a gentleman in New Orleans. III Gifts
is all that can be drawn in one day.
Hf5 The Numbers and Gifts are drawn by blind
children from to "a years of age.
The Drawing win be extensively published,
and parties ordering Tickets will have printed
lists sent them. Parties forming Clubs and de-
string information win please address this Office.
II Tickets for 500 % Tickets, $685.; SO Tick
e cts, $500; 1l3 Tickets, $1,000. s
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
every thing will be done to satisfy buyers of
tickets that their interests will be as well pro-
tected as il they personally superintendent the
entire affair. lH4l M
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
boxes, each containing q gift. One tag num-
Der will be drawn from the 100000 wheel, and the
first box drawn from the second or 72l box wheel
will contain gift, neatly printed and sealed up,
and the gift so drawn from the second wheel will
be the gift of the tag first drawn, whether 800,
81, 900, or 100000, as announced.
14,S64 Tickets Disposed of in July.
To insure ticket holders, the public are assured
that if only $4,000 tickets are sold only $4,000
numbers go in the large wheel, the 72l Gifts
awarded, but diminished pro rata. In case co.
900 tickets only sold only numbers to 80 QUO
go 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 fullit being
intended that no unsold tickets shall participate.
The Manager has already paid into the Citizens
Bank $50, 600 towards defraying the expenses, and
does not depend sales of tickets to pay his ex-
penses of printing, advertising, &c. The public
are invited to the utmost scrutiny to the relia-
bility of the entire affair.
Persons DESTROYS of acting rs agents for the sale
of tickets in any city in the United States OF Can
adas, address Q ~ ae--e
CHAS. r.. PETERS,
Manager, Louisville, KY,
OFFICE, 100 Main street, Johnsons Block.
II. Il. DURRETT President. a
w. N HALDEMAN, Vice President.
M. w. CLUSKY, Secretary al
CITIZENS BANK, Treasurer
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