The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-23

The trustees will be assisted by well-known
and eminent citizens of Kentucky, who have
consented TO 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, 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 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.
ne 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 so, O00more distributed. lsold
that and made the awards in four months and
paid $4SS, 900 to ticket holders from Nov. 2nd to
10Th, 1870, and turned over $4,000 to the Secre-
tary due tickets not presented.
1t will be particularly noticed that it is mat
ter of mpossbility for any one to know what
numbers draw gifts, as it is not known what the
gift.ofany number drawn from the first wheelw
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 G. r. PETERS, was
the 200th number drawn, and was awarded and
paid to a gentleman in New Orleans. 72l Gifts
is all that can be drawn in one day.
ne The Numbers and Gifts are drawn by blind
children from . 10 Ii 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 800; % Tickets, 1895; SO Tiek-
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 APP
! 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 10 satisfy buyers OF
tickets that their interests will be as well pro-
tected if they personally superintendent the
entire affair.
MANNER OF DRAWING.
There will be two glass wheels. Ono wheel
will contain 100000 numbers, plainly printed on
leather tags. The other wheel will contain 72l
boxes, each containing a gift. One tag or num-
Der will be drawn from the 100 900 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 500,
/ 81 LOCO, or 100000, as announced.
14364 Tickets Disposed of in July.
To insure ticket holders, the public are assured
| that if only $4,000 tickets sold only $4,000
numbers go in the large Wheel the III GIFTS
awarded, but diminished pro rata. In case o0,-
600 tickets only are sold, only numbers to 90, QUO
go in the large wheel, and the III gifts diminished
one-half; and in case only $4,000 tickets are sold
the entire 72t gifts will be paid IN full-t being
intended that no unsold tickets shall participate
The Manager has already paid into the Citizens
Bank $4,000 towards defrayisg the expenses, ano
4 does not depend on sales of tickets TO pay his ex
penses of printing, advertising, &c. The public
are invited to the utmost scrutiny as 10 the reli
/ bility of the entire affair
Persons DESTROYS of acting as agents for the sale
of tickets in any city i'll the United States or Can
adas, address
CHAS. II. PETERS,
Manager, Louisville, Ky,
OFFICE, 100 Main street. Johnsons Block.
r. TaDURRETT, President.
w. N. HALDEMAN, Vice President. b
M. w. CLUSKY, Secretary.
CITIZENS BANK, Treasurer.
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