San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-31
HOW FARES THE FAIR
The Work Done in Committee and
on the StreetS--The Council
to be Heard From--One-

| The city Is stirred up as seldom old
San Antonio is stirred OH the matte
of the Fair. Those who eight months
ago were very Indifferent, could Sc,
no benefit to be derived from Fair
could see no good that the Fair would
do, and who refused to subscribe t.
its stock, have suddenly discovered
| that their business was wonderfully
increased during the weeks of las
November in which the Fair was held
and are now very ardent advocates o.
the project. The soliciting committees
were at work all day yesterday, and
when the committees met to report il
was found that one third of the re-
quired amount had been raised in the
first days canvass.
Some inspection of the ground has
been made and the council will be
asked to grant right of way to lay
tracks down South Flores street from
Military Plaza to the Arkansas Pass
depot, or through Garden street to
Madison and so connect with the
Arkansas Pass tracks in the yard. The
council will be given good and suf-
ficient security for the carrying out of
the promises made by the committee
as conditions of the grant and it is I'M
derstood that Hon. J. Il. Devine Jesse
Pressnall, George Altgelt and Henry
Vernon stand ready to act as sponsors
for the city in this case.
The general committee met last
night and after hearing report of soil
citing committee approved the follow
ing petition to the city council, to be
presented at called netting to be
held this afternoon at $50 O'clock:
''To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of the City of San Antonio:
"The undersigned citizens of the
city of San Antonio would most re-
spectfully represent and show unto
your honorable body:
THAT your petitioners, as well as
other of our citizens, deem it to the
interest of our city that fair be held
here during the coming fall or win
ter, and to this end find it necessary,
that, in order to make it success,
there should be additional transport
tation to and from the fair grounds.
We would, therefore, respectfully
petition your honorable body for the
right of way over South Flores street
from the Military plaza to the San
Antonio and Arkansas Pass depot, or
along Garden street to Madison
street, thence along Madison street to
and across the river, and thence to a
connection with the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass railroad. to construct
and operate standard gauge railway
during the continuance of the fair,
and we hereby pledge ourselves that
said railroad will be used for no other
purpose than the transportation of
passengers, and that the track, etc.,
after the fair"
A meeting of the general committee
to receive additional report from the
soliciting committees has been called
for this evening at S:30r
SUBSCRIPTIONS SECURED.
$500 IBUTORS-Maverick Land
office and Menger hotel.
$500 CoNTRIBUToRs-H.E E. Tuttle and
the Turf.
$3.50 CONTRIBUTORs-Lon Star Brew
cry, City Brewery and Joske Bros.
5000 CONTRIBUTORs-N. Mackey and
and the Express publishing COM
pany.
$3.50 CoNTRIBUTORs-L. Wolfson.
500 CoNTRIBUTORs-S Maverick,
Mrs. M. A. Maverick, Carter and
Mulally. E. F. Hoppe, of the Lone
Star Brewery, Geo. Lang, s. Mayer,
NJ. Half & Bro. Haas q Oppenhei-
mer, q. A. Gibbons, Newton &
Weller, S. Deutsh & Co., Nat Lewis, |
Staacke Bros.
S75 CONTRIBUTOR-J. Laustanau.
$50 CONTRIBUTORS-Jac Dullnig,
H.SChmelter, Froboese IL Santleben,
Geo. r. Stumbetg, J. q. Muegge q
Co., r. Becker, Young & Arnold,
Leroux & Cosgrove, G. r. Sullivan,
Critzer Bros, H. Morris & Brother,
Bell Bros, Kiolbassa d Welton,
f. Hertf, ST., Geo. Koerner, B. G..
Rely & Co., Cash.
S25 CONTRIBUTORs-A.I I. Lockwood,
j. M. Emerson & Co., Johnson Bros,
Wilson & Rote, John H. Bolton,
III. Schultze, Jr., H. Cunningham,
Chas. w. Green, Riedell & Legeler,
A. Brunswick & Son, T. H. MCKEE
john, Rucker, Dignowity & Co.
Temple q Hamilton, Fred. Tuck,
F. F. Collins, ID. NJ. Poor, Hunt &
Booth, Chas. Heuermann, II. Vogel-
er & Co., n. T. Ayers, S. A. LIGHT,
NJ. Goggan, J. w. Crate, G.. Schasse,
Chas. Langholz, Mrs. P. Magadieu,
Porter House, A. w. Krempkau,
Geo. j. f. Schmidt, Monroe Pratt,
Louis BergstrOm. Ed. Polk. ]. G.