The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-04
FREE LIBRARY IN LOUISVILLE, TO BE
CALLED THE
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY.

beA<AO iLii>hhhI VIZ hEN OShI'
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-known
and eminent citizens of Kentucky, who have
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 Greenbaeks-good only to the
holder. ~ E. ~.
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 $50, 900 more distributed Isold
that and made the awards in four months and
paid $3.50 to ticket holders from Nov. End to
10Th, 1870, and turned over $4,000 to the Secre-
tary due tickets not presented. AaLc i.-A =
1t will be particularly noticed that 1t is a mat
ter of impOssibility for any one to know what
numbers draw gifts, as it is not known what the
gift.of any number drawn from thefirst wheel will
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 @. r. PETERS, was
the 2Qoth number drawn, and was awarded and
paid to q gentleman in New Orleans. III Gifts
is all that can be drawn in one day.
be The Numbers and Gifts are drawn by blind
children from TO IA years of age ~ tli
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, 1855; Sc Ticl-
cts, $500; 113 Tickets, $1,000. s i.e.
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 to satisfy buyers of
tickets that their interests will be us well pro-
tected as If they personally superintendent the
entire affair. ~ A'aiite4i& ~ l
VS. 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, 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,
$1,000, or 500, 900, as announced, aa4i e-
'9e 4. 14,se4 Tickets Disposed Of in July,
To insure ticket holders the public are assured
that If only 10000 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 QUO
go in the large wheel, and the 72l gifts diminished
onehalf; and in case only $4,000 tickets are sold
the entire 72l gifts will be paid in fnll--it being
intended that unsold tickets shall participate.
The Manager has already paid into the Citizens
Bank &50, 600 towards defiaying the 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 rplia-