Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-16
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 bv well known
and eminent citizens of Kentucky, who have
consented to be present at the 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 Louisville the
second day after drawing and every business
day for six months thereafter, aud may be sent
direct or throuh any Bank or Express Company
for collection. All orders accompanied by Drafts
Post Office Money Orders, Greenbacks, will be
attended to and tickets returned by mail regis
tered or expressed, us desired
Tickets are like grcenbacks-good only to the
holder.
Buyers will notice there are only One Hundred
Thousand Tickets, instead of Two Hundred Thou
sand, as in the San Francisco Gift Concert and
that there is $40, 600 more distributed. | sold
that and made the awards in four months and
paid S488 0G0 to ticket holders from November
I'd to 10th, 1870, aud turnded over $l2, 900 to
the Secretary due tickets not presented
1t will be particularly noticed that it is a mat.
ter of impossibility for any one to know what
numbers draw gifts, rs it is not known what
the gift of any number drawn from the first
wheel will De, until the sealed box, with the
amount Of the gift plainly printed, is taken from
the other wheel and opened in full 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, the 2O0th number drawn, and was
awarded and paid to a gentleman in New Or
leans.
BESy@ The numbers and Gifts are drawn by
blind children from to If 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
IL TICKETS FOR 500; 2s TICKETS,
S255, sc TICKETS, $500; ia
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
tucky.
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 superntended the entire
affair,
MANNER OF DRAWING.
There will be two glass wheels. One wheel
will contain 100, 900 numbers, plainly printed
on leather tags. The other wheel will contain
III boxes each containing gift. One tag or
number 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, ana thegift drawn from the sec
ond wheel will be the gift of the tag first drawn,
whether 500, 81 900 or $l00, 600, as announced.
14,364 Tickets Disposed of In July.
To insure tcket-holders the public are as
sured that if only %, 900 tickets sold, only
%, 900 numbers go in the large wheel, the 72l
gifts awarded, but diminished pro rata. In case
$4,000 tickets only are sold, only numbers 10
$4,000 go in the large wheel, and the 72l gls
diminished one-half, and in case only 85,OOO
tickets are sold, the entire 72l gifts will be paid
in full-it being intended no unsold tickets
shall participate.
The Manager has already paid into the Citl-
zens' Bank $32, 900 towards defraying the e1-
penses and does not depend on the sale of tick
cts to pay his expenses of Printing, Advertise
ments, etc. The public are invited to the
utmost scrutiny to the reliability of the en-
tire affair,
Persons desrous of acting as agents for the
sale Of our tickets in any city in the Uniteu
States or Canadas, address
CHAs. IL. PETERS, Manager,
Louisville, Kentucky
OFFICE 100 Main Street, Johnson's Block
r. T. DURRETT, President; W N. HALDE-
MAN, Vice Presidents NJ W. CLUSKY, Secre'a'
ry; CITIZENS BANK, Treasurer.
Money received from the sale of tickets In Oal,
iforna, Oregon and Nevada, will be deposileai
with Wells, Fargo Co., Virginia City, to awA''
the drawing,
Nj. A. FRENCH, Agent,
General Agent, Virginia City, Nevada
Who will supply tickets and furnish informs
ton. S5-lm'D