San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-15
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TUESDAY, JANUARY. IA. 1889.
THE FAIR SUBSCRIPTION.


stock of the Fair association are now
about double the amount held at
the time the fair closed. The solicit
ting committee report very good sue
cess, particularly among the smaller
merchants and shop-keepers, who
seem to realize the benefits that the
fair confers upon them, and are ready
to respond to all calls for increasing
the efficiency of the association by
providing it with funds to perfect and
carry on it's work. Very few of these
men refuse to put down their names
for at least one share of stock, and are
very prompt in making their cash
payment of twenty five per cent of
their subscriptions. The work is
going on vigorously and next week a
full list of the stockholders will be
published. 1t is a matter of cOngrat-
ulation that our small dealers are
taking so much interest in this mat
ter, as it proves that this fair
project and its success and its
pro spective advantages TO this city
are being received in more favorable
light every week and is slowly and
surely winning its way to public con-
fidence and patronage. 1t also gives
encouragement to men Oflarger means
to invest in such enterprises, for
where all are interested and pull to-
gether the ultimate success of the
venture is positively assured. This
fair has almost passed out of the eX-
perimental stage. The present
amount of subscription needs only to
be doubled to put the association in
possession of working capital enough
to carry out its plans for enlargement
this fall and give much more COM
plete exhibit than was possible last
November. The LIGHT has positive
information to the effect that the ar
rangements are about completed for
paying off all old scores without
drawing upon the capital secured by
the stock subscriptions now being
taken and thus these latter will be
left intact for the use of the managers
this fall. Many improvements, aggre-
gatIve large sum will be made and
these improvements will be at a
minimum cost. Taught wisdom by the
experience of last year these improve
ments will be more practically direct
ed and economically carried out than
the work Of last year. The grand
stand will be changed to the position
originally designed for it, just to
the right of the main entrance
way, and such slight modifca-
tiOns made in the track as this
very much to be desired change rem-
ders necessary. The fair of last No.
vember, creditable as it was, and ex-
ceptionally good for a beginning, will
not satisfy the demands of this cOun-
try nor meet the expectations of the di-
rectors. Yearly year additions and i'm
prOvementS will be made until the San
Antonio International Fair and Expo
sition will be an established institu-
ton, accepted as such from Maine to
California, and draw hundreds of
thousands of visitors annually to this
city. To accomplish this object but
one thing is necessary, money. And
this money is in reality but loan,
the interest and principal of which
will be repaid several times over in
the increase of business that will come
to San Antonio merchants the next
ten years, if the committees now So
Letting subscriptions to carry out the
with anything like the success which
the Importance and the merits of the
enterprise demand.