Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-22
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 well known
and eminent citizens of Kentucky, who have
consented TO be prese Mt at tho 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 Dank or
express company for. collection. All orders
accompanied by drafts. postofice money or
ders, or greenbacks. will be promptly attended
10 and tickets returned by mail, registered OF
expressed, es desired; Tickets are Ike green;
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.
1 sold that and made the awards in four
months, and paid Sass, 900 TO ticket holders
from November I'd to 18th. 1870. and turned
over SI2. 900 to the Secretary due tickets not
that it is a matter of impossibility for any one
to know what numbers draw gifts, as IL is not
known what the gift of any number drawn
from the first wheel will be-, until the sealed
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 100000
the management of G. r, PETERs, was the
200th number drawn, and wns awarded and
paid to q gentleman in New Orleans. Seven
hundred and twenty one gifts Is all that can
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 viii please
address this Office.
lITick cts for 800; rs Tick cts, SASS;
SO Tickets $500; lib Tickets, $1,000.
The undersigned. late principal business
manager Of the very successful Mercantile
Library Gift Concert Of San Francisco. Cal, t,
has been appointed agent and manager of tho
Gift Concert in aid of the Public Library Of
pusIic, and everything win 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.
OF DRAWING. % /
There will be two glass wheels. One wheel
will contain 100 600 numbers. plainly printed
on leather tags. The other wheel will con-
tain 72l boxes, each containing a gift: One
tag or number will be drawn from the 100, 600
wheel, and the first box drawn from the sec
ond 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 500, $1,000. or SlOO,-
900, as announced.
1864 Tickets Disposed of in July.
To insure ticket holders, the public are as
sured that If only 25,UOO tickets are sold. only
Y, 900 numbers go in the large wheel, the III
gifts awarded, but diminished pro rata. In
case $1,000 tickets only are sold, only to
$4,000 go in the large wheel, and the III gifts
diminished one-half; and in case only 5000
tickets are sold the entire III gifts will be paid
in full-it being intended that no unsOld ticket
shall participate. The manager has already
paid into the Citizens Bank $50, 900 toward
defraying the expenses, and does not depend
ON sales OF tickets to pay his expenses Of
printing, advertising, etc The public are in
yited to the utmost scrutiny as to the relia-
bility of the entire affair. Persons desiTous
of acting rs agents for the sale Of our tickets
in any city in the United States OF Canadas,
addres CHAS. X. PETERS.
Manager, Louisville. Ky.
Office; l20 Main street, johnson Block
R.T. DURRErT. President; W. N. HALDE-
MAN, Vice President; NJ. W. CLUsKY, Secre-
tary; CITIZENS BANK. Treasurer. 1865