Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-09
Free Library in Louisville, to be called the
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY.

The Concert and distribution will take place
under the immediate supervision of the Trustees
named in the act of Incorporation.
The Trustees will be assisted by well known
and eminent citizens of Kentucky, who have
consented to be present at the concert and to
suporintend 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 Louisville the
second day after drawing and every business
day for six months thereafter and may be sent
direct or throuh any Bank or Express Company
for collection. All orders accompanied by Drafts
Post Office Money Orders, or Greenbacks, will be
attended to and tickets returned by mail regis.
tered or expressed, as desired.
Tickets are like greenbacks-good only to the
holder.
Buyers will notice there are only One Hundred
Thousand Tickets, instead fTwo Hundred Thou.
sand, as in the San Francisco Gift Concert, and
that there is 500, 600 more distributed | sold
that and made the awards in four months and
paid $4SS,O00 to ticket holders from November
I'd to 10Th, 1870, and turnded over Sl2 600 to
the Secretary due tickets not presented.
1t will be particularly noticed that it is a mat.
ter OF lmposslbility for any one to know what
numbers draw gifts, as it is not known what
the gift of any number drawn from the first
wheel will pc, until the sealed box, with the
amount of the gift plainly printed, is taken from
the other wheel and opened in fall view of the
audience, therefor the larger gifts may not come
out till towards the last, or in the middle of the
drawing. The 500, 600 gift in the San Francis
co Gift Concert, under. the management of c. R.
Peters, was the 200th number drawn, and was
awarded and paid to gentleman in New Or
leans.
Def5@ 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 the Of
fee.
II TICKETS FOR $IOO; rs TICKETS,
$255; sc TICKETS, $5OO;II3
TICKETS, $1,000.
The undersigned late principal business man
ager of the very successful Mercantile Library
Gift Concert at San Francisco, California, has
been appointed agent and manager of the Gift
Concert in aid of the Public Library of Ken
lucky.
The drawing will take place in public and
everything will be done to satisfy buyers of tick
cts that their interests will be as well protected
as If they personally superiutended the entire
affair,
MANNER OF DRAWING.
There will be two glass wheels One wheel
will contain 10000 numbers, plainly printed
on leather tags. The other wheel will contain
~ boxes each containing gift. One tag or
number viii 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, ana the gift so drawn from the Sec
ond wheel will be the gift of the tag first drawn
whether $lOO, vi 600 or $500, 600, as announced
14,364 Tickets Disposed of in July.
To insure ticket-hoders, the public are as
sured that if only 25, 900 tickets are Sold only
$4,000 numbers go in the large wheel, the IN
gifts awarded but diminished prorata. In case
$4,000 tickets only are sold, only numbers 70
$4,000 go in the large Wheel and the III guns
diminished one-half, and in case only 83,OoV
tickets are sold, the entire III gifts will be pau
in full-it being intended no unsod tlcke'S
shall participate.
The Manager has already paid into the Cl'l'
zens Bank $32, 600 towards defraying TIE eh'
penses, and does not depend on the sale of llch'
cts to pay his expenses of Printing, Adyert5e,
ments, etc. The public are invited to 'u'
utmost scrutiny as to the reliability of the en'
tire affair.
Persons desrous of acting as agents for tng
sale of our tickets in any city in the Uh''''
States or Oanadas, address
CHAs. II. PETERS, Manager,
Louisville, kentuchs,
OFFICE 100 Main Street, Johnson'S blo'A'
R. T. DURRETT, President; W. N. HALph,
MAN, Vice Presidents NJ W. CLUSKY, oeere"'
ry; CITIZENS BANK, Treasurer
Money received from the sale of tickets IN Ia' .i
ifornia, Oregon and Nevada, will be deposit
with Wells, Fargo Co., Virginia City, to @"'''
tie drawing.
M. "A. FTR ENCH, Agent
General Agent, Virginia city Ne'""'
Who will supply tickets and furnish ln,o'H 40 R
tion. 5o-l"