The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-24

PUBLIC LIBRARY DE hENIUChf.
The Concert and Distribution will take PLACE UNI
der the immediate supervision OF the Trustees
mentioned in the act otincorporation.
The trustees will be assisted by wel-known
and eminent citizens of Kentucky, who have
consented 10 be present at the concert and to SUI
perintend the drawing and distribution of gifts.
The holders of tickets 10 which gifts are award
ed will oe 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 Express company for col
lection. All orders accompanied by Drafts, Post
Office Money Orders, or Greenbaclss, Will be
promptly attended TO and tickets returned by
mail, registered or expressed, as desired. 9Ny
Tickets like Greenbaeks-good only to the
holder. t. -,.
Eefs Buyers win note that there are only one
hundred thousand tickets instead of two hundred
thousand, in the San Francisco Gift Concert.
and that there is S50, 000nlore distributed. Isold
that and made the awards in four months and
paid :lSS, 900 to ticket holders from Nov. 2nd 10
10Th, 1870, and turned over $4,000 to the Secre-
tary due tickets not presented. ff !.
| 1t will be particularly noticed that IL is mat
| ter of hnpossibility for any one To know what
numbers Craw gifts, as it is not known what the
2iftofa 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 MOI come out until towards
the last, or in the middle of the drawing. The
! Slgo,0 gift in the San Francisco Gift Concert,
| under the management of g. r. PETERS, was
| the 20Oth number drawn, and was awarded and
| paid to q gentleman in New Orleans. III Gifts
| is all that can be drawn in one day. ~, y
| R9s 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
II Tickets for 500; % Tickets, $3.50; SO Tick.
cts, $500; 115 Tickets, $1,000.
L.
i 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. aal
The drawing will take place in public, ant
every thing will be done to satisfy buyers o
tickets that their interests will be as well pro
tected if they personally superintendent the
entire affair. st stf+r isst.te fli..t "a s. t.. q
MANNER OF DRAWING,
will contain 100000 numbers, plainly printed O.
leather tags. The other wheel will contain ~
boxes, each containing a gift One tag or nun
Der will be drawn from the loo, 900 wheel, and tn
. first box drawn from the second or 72l box whe'
will contain gift, neatly printed and sealed VI
, and the gift so drawn from the second wheel wi
|. be the gift of the tag first drawn, whether $lO
4 81 600, or 100000, as announced. oa.ii su a
1864 Tickets Disposed of i'm July.
To insure ticket holders, the public are assure
that if only $4,000 tickets are sold only 25,00
numbers go in the large wheel, the 72l Gift
awarded, but diminished pro rata. In case so
600 tickets only are sold, only numbers to 90 OF
go in the large Wheel and the 72l gifts diminishe
4 onehalf and in case only $4,000 tickets are sol
g the entire 72l gifts will be paid in full-it bein
intended that llnsold 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 e,
penses of printing, advertising, &c. The publ
are invited to the utmost scrutiny as to the reli
u biity OF the entire aiiiiir,
Persons DESTROYS of acting rs agents for the sal
of tickets in any city in the United States or Can
! adas, address .f ~ ~. .
\ r..T. CHAS. r. PETERS,
: rs4 re4i Manager, Louisville, Ky,
r OFFICE, l20 Main street. Johnson's Block
II r. T. DURRETT, President
:. w. N. IIALDEMAN, Vice President.
:. I NJ w. CLUSKY, Secretary.
! CITIZENS BANK, Treasurer
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