The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-19
FREE LIBRARY IN LOUISVILLE, TO BE
CALLED THE
PUBLIC LIBRARY or KENTUCKY.

PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY.
The Concert and Distribution will take place UNI
der the immediate supervision of the Trustees
mentioned in the act ofincorporation
The trustees will be assisted by well-lnown
and eminent citizens of Kentucky, who have
consented be present at the concert and to SUI
perintend 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 ut 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
Office Money Orders, or Greenbacks, viii! be
promptly attended to and tickets returned by
mail, registered or expressed, as desired
Tickets are like Greenbacks--good only to the
holder.
| me- Buyers will note that there are only one
| hundred thousand tickets instead of two hundred
| thousand, in the San Francisco Gift Concert,
and that there is 800 000more distributed. sold
| that and made the awards in four months and
paid $4ss,oO0 to ticket holders from NOV. md TO
| 10Th, 1870, and turned over $4,000 to the Secre-
1 tary due tickets not presented. ~
1t will be particularly noticed that il is a mat
| ter of inpossibility for any one to know what
numbers draw gifts, as it is not known what the
giftof any number drawn from the first wheelwlll
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 q. IL. PEIERS, was
the Booth number drawn, and was awarded and
paid to gentleman in New Orleans. III Gifts
is all that can be drawn in one day.
HT5 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 de
string information will please address this office
| IL Tickets for 500; 2s Tickets, $3.50; Sc Tick.
cts, $500; 113 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 Gilt Concert
in aid of the Public Library of Kentucky.
The drawing will take place in public, anf
everything will be done TO satisfy buyers O.
tickets that their interests will be as well pro
tected if they personally superintendent the
entire affair. $3.50.
MANNER OF DRAWING.
There will be two glass wheels. One whee
, will contain 100000 numbers, plainly printed o.
leather tags The other wheel will contain ~
boxes, each containing q gift. One tag or mum
Der will be drawn from the 100000 wheel, and tn
7 first box drawn from the second or 72l box whet
5 will contain gift, neatly printed and sealed "
and the gift so drawn from the second wheel wi
be the gift of the tag first drawn, whether $l0t
g 81 900, or 100000, as announced,
1861 Tickets Disposed of in.July.
To insure ticket holders, the public are assure
G that if only $4,000 tickets are sold only 300
numbers go in the large wheel, the 721 Gift
awarded but diminished pro rata. In case 80
600 tickets only sold, only numbers to 500
go in the large wheel and the 72l gifts dninishe
one-half; and in case only $1,000 tickets are sol
the entire 72l gifts will be paid in full--it bein
intended that unsold tickets shall participate
! The Manager has already paid into the Citizen
Bank $50, 600 towards defraying the expenses, an
does not depend sales of tickets to pay his es
penses of printing advertising, sc. The publ
are invited to the utmost scrutiny as TO the reli;
g bility of the entire affair.
Persons DESTROYS of acting agents for the sal
of tickets in any city in the United States or Car
adas, address
CHAS, II, PETERS.