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Show Art Union On Monday evening next, Jan. 10th, our artistic friend, Fred Hurst, Esq. purposes holding an art union in T. B. Cardon's photograph gallery, on which occasion he desires to dispose of some thirty nice pictures, mostly oil paintings. Several of those unique, beautiful, and valuable ?? pictures, nicely framed, made by Mr. Willie Hurst, will be included in the thirty. The manner in which the affair will be conducted is this: Thirty shares will be sold at $3 each. The names of the purchasers will be written on slips of card-board and placed in a wheel. The pictures will be numbered from one to thirty, and corresponding numbers will be placed in another wheel. A little girl, blindfolded, will draw a name from the first wheel, and another little girl, also blindfolded, will draw a number from the other wheel. The [line unreadable] number, will [line unreadable] whose name was drawn by the first little girl. This manner of conducting the affair precludes the possibility of unfairness. This is not a lottery, as every purchaser is certain to get a picture, and many of those disposed of will be worth from ten to twenty dollars, and not one of them will be worth less than $3, the price of a share. Of course this manner of disposing of the pictures involves a great sacrifice to Mr. Hurst, but his object is to raise money to pay the expenses of his son Willie, who purposes going to Boston this winter to study art. The thirty shares ought to go like hot cakes. The object is a most worthy one, and you are sure of the worth of your money. Special permission of the City Council was obtained to hold the art union, though there is nothing at all illegal about it. |