Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-09
LOUISVILLE LIBRARY LOTTERY.
The Drawing in Louisville Yesterday.
The Lucky Numbers.
Condensed List of the Prizes Draw,

Condensed List of the Prizes Drawn.
LOUISVILLE, July S.-A large audience
assembled in the. Public Library Hall early
this morning to witness the drawing con-
nected with the third Gift Concert. The
process of The drawing was explained by Col
r. T. Durrett, President of the Board of
Trustees. All the tickets had been sold and
the drawing was for the full scheme, distrib-
uting
Half a GTilIiOn Dollars
In cash gifts to ticket holders. A great
many people were in the city from distant
portions of the country. The drawing has
been the principal topic for some time past,
and as the day approached the interest grew
more intense, until it absorbed almost every
other subject. Yesterday the offices of sew
eral agents who had tickets for sale were
crow ded with purchasers, the supply at head
quar- ters being exhausted. At the opening
of the Hall at six O'Clock this morning the
crowd was already waiting at the door,
which grew into
A Perfect jam
in the Hall by 0 o'clock. A number of
leading citizens and officials of the city were
on the stage. As the drawing progressed
the greatest interest was manifested aud
the announcement of the large prizes was
greeted with applause.
TIE following numbers drew prizes of
one thousand dollars and uppwards:-41,-
740, 27,2S1, 57,695, 41,271, 73,793, 52,76S
drew thousand dollars each; 21,764 drew
twenty thousand; 81, 663 drew one thous-
and; II, 1919 drew one thousand; 81, AGA drew
one Thousand; 22,221 drew 500; 7,719
drew $500; ,002 drew 500; 42,OI5 drew
500; 27,6l0 drew 500; 96,329 drew 500;
$500 drew 800; 99949
drew $500; 1894 drew $1,000;
74,67S drew 500; 22,O6O drew $500; 95,-
l72 drew 500; 1883 drew $500; 62,956
drew drew $500; 1861 drew drew 500;
1926 drew 500; 426 drew $500; S54
drew S100; 6,954 drew $500; $3.50 drew
$500; "a, 496 drew 5000; 90,604 drew $500;
1926 drew $500; $3.50 drew 500; 59,O59
drew 500; 29,044 drew $500; 69, 444 drew
500; 80, 1876 drew 500; 22,375 drew $500;
1906 drew $500; $3.50. $3.50, 1862,
92,901, 64,170 drew $1,000 each; 98,T43
drew $4,000; 93,6l1, 1879, 94,045 and
23,77l drew $1,000 each; 1888 aud o.
900 drew $4,000 each; 1850 drew
$1,000,
2O,993 Drew 100000 and $500 Drew
SoV.VUOs
The sensation on drawing these prizes
was immense. The capital prize was not
drawn till $50 P. NJ, and created an i'm
mense sensation, the entire audience rising
to their feet and applauding. The same
scene occurred, slightly modified, with
other prizes. Col. r. T. Durret, President
of the Public Library, said in speech to
the audience: With the funds derived from
the present concert, payment for the mag
nifcent building we occupy will be COM
pleted, and its rentals, amounting TO about
$4,000 per annum, will be devoted to the
purposes of q free public library, museum,
and kindred departments forever He also
said that when the present concert is over,
we shall issue programme of another,
which win be the grandest of the kind the
world ever knew. 1t will starile nations |
by its magnitude, and be so arranged that
every fifth tickat-holder will be bOuOC to |
draw gift. We shall give no less than H.
600 cash gifts, amounting in the sggregate |
to a million and q half in money. The |
capital gift will he $500 aid the |
lowest one offered will be fifty dollars. |
This scheme will secure q free libra !
ny and museum in our city, which will |
eclipse all upon this continent, AID rival |
some OF the centuTy-groWn collections OF the |
old world. We have MISUNDERSTANDING
some 10000 Volumes, and a museum of
not less than quarter of million speci-
mens, ard gallery of art containing sew
egal hundred pictures, statues, busts, etc,
which are open every day and night to the |
free use and enjoyment of everybody. Bet |
we want 10 increase these collections 10 |
many times their present numbers, open an
academy Of design, establish a reading room
flied with the leading papers and pariOdi-
Gals Of the woTlj, and make this tia finest |
in the United States, where each season a !
course of lectures by the most eminent |
scholars of the age msy be delivered at our
cost and free to the people.
Q. A..Knapp, of the firm Of Jas. A. Clark |
x Co., liquor dealers of this city, held Ne. |
Gallo, which drew So 900.