The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-20
CALLED THE

PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY.
The Concert and Distribution will take place I'M
der the immediate supervision of the Trustees
mentioned in the act ofincorporation.
The trustees will be assisted by well-lsnown
and eminent citizens of Kentucky, who have
consented 10 be present at the concert, and to SUI
perntend the drawing and distribution of gifts.
Inc 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, rs desired.
Tickets are like Greenbacks-- only to the
holder.
NE Buyers will motto that there arc only one
hundred thousand tickets instead of two hundred
thousand, as in the San Francisco Gift Concert,
and that there is $500 00more distributed. Isold
that and made the awards in four months and
paid s4SS,000 to ticket holders from Nov. md 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 impossibty for any one to know what
numbers draw gifts, us il is not known what the
giftofany number drawn from thetirst wheel will
be, until the sealed box, with amount of the gift
plainly printed, is taken from the other wheel
and opened in fun view of the audience, therefore
the larger gifts may not come out until towards
the last, or i'm the middle of the drawing. The
100000 gift in the San Francisco Gift Concert,
under the management of G.. II. PETERS, was
the 20oth 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 to 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 500; IS Tickets, 1895; Sc Tick
cts, $500; lib 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-Publc Library of Kentucky.
The drawing will take place in public, and
tickets that their interests will be as well pro-
tected ii they personally superintendent the
entire affair.
MANNER OF DRAWING.
There will be two glass wheels. One wheel
will contain 100000 numbers, plainly printed on
leather tags. The other wheel will contain 72l
boxes each containing gift. One tag or num-
Der will be drawn from the loo 600 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,
vi 900, or 100000, rs announced. .'f
1864 Tickets Disposed Of In July.
To insure ticket holders, the public are assured
that if only $4,000 tickets are sold only $4,000
numbers go in the large wheel, the 72l Gifts
awarded, but diminished pro rata In case co.
600 tickets only are sold only numbers TO 90 600
go in the large wheel, and the 72l gifts diminished
one-half; and in only 81, 900 tickets are sold
the entire I'll gifts will be paid in full-it being
Intended that no unsold tickets shall participate.
The Manager has already paid into the Citizens
Bank 100000 towards defraying tho expenses, and
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 TO the relid
bility of the entire affair.
Persons DESTROYS of acting rs agents for the sale
of tickets in any city in the United States or Can
adas, address "a
~ ~ CHAS. II. PETERS,
l Manager, Louisville, Ky,
OFFICE, 100 Main street, Johnson's Block
II. 4. DURIsETT President. tist
w. N. HALDIsMAN, Vice President.
nj. w. CLUSIiY, Secretary.
CITIZENS BANK, Treasurer.
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