San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-11-19
THE NEXT STEP

and ample indeed for the outlay,
then it would be wisdom for the
people to manifest an immediate in
terest in the matter of the next In.
ternational and take steps to secure
N exhibit that will be creditable to
our section. For a collection of pro-
auctions hastely gathered together
from this quarter of the state, with
a small contribution from Northwest
Texas, this exhibition may do, as the
drummers beefsteak. as a samp Q
| from which to order a square meal
No one of intelligence suppose that
a fair, growing in yearly attendance
and accurately representing this
great southwest is to be maintained
without much greater effort than has
been made. This next fair, if one be
held, must be prepared for. The pre-
paration should begin now. The year
before us and intervening between
now and the date at which fair
will naturally be held will all be re-
quired, to gather together our
products advertise our fair, give
agriculturists opportunity to take
advantage of the season to prepare
their exhibits for such prizes as are
open to them, and these should be
neither few nor small. This fair has
demonstrated that there is no money
in a fair as a speculation. 1t has dem
onstrated that there is large money 10
our citizens in it, Money in trade in
crease to our merchants, money to our
whole section as an advertisement of
its resources. Some thousands of
people have been here, have seen us
and have been we'll treated. They
will come again. Two questions face
us in view of the holding of another
fair. The question of transit and the
question of guarantee. Last year the
directory were held up by the abso-
lutte lack of all provision for transit to
the grounds from making any effort
to advertise the fair until it was too
late to do so adequately. Nothing but
the utmost energy and exhaustive la
bors on the part of the manager avail
ed to put the matter into any shape at
all. If the Fair management are left
to themselves this year, as they were
last, for the next five months even they
will hold no fair. They must see
the way open to transport people to
the grounds and they must see from
the citizens some guarantee that their
OUTLAWS in securing exhibits and pay
ing premiums therefor, their expendi-
lures in advertising the fair and Sc
curing the attendance of thousands
of strangers who have never yet seen
our city, their necessary expenditures
also in maintaining the fair during its
continuance and properly differing
all its Observation-Disclosures things
must be seen to and provided
for, or there will be no fair.
The LIGHT knows whereof it affirms.
There is no remuneration to capital
for its outlay and to time for its ex-
penditure in maintaining the fair as a
speculative or business arrangement
on the part of few. To offset this
there must be some guarantee given
by the people of this city, that the ex-
penditures of the fair will be met.
The fair directory have given their
time, some of it very valuable busi-
ness time, they have given their mon
ey, pledgej their credit and done
hard work, and they feel that as the
benefits come to the city and not to
them, that it should be city
movement in so far, at least |
as guaranteeing the management
against loss in carrying it
forward. There is great work to be
done before the first OF next Novem-
Der if another fair is to be held |
Within three months a premium list
should be prepared and published
offering agricultural premiums to an
extent unthought of generally as yet. |
This whole country is to be opened to
agricultural production, ana prospec-
tive investors want ocular demonstra-
ton of what the country can produce
Premiums are needed for vegetables,
in at least five bushel lots, such as
potatoes, beets, turnips, parsnips,
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