San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-03-15
WILL BE RAISED.

r-port gratifying progress in their
work, which was suspended yesterday
| t. be resumed again on Monday, ty
| which time the circulars issued by
| the committee will be in the hands CT
| all our citizens. The LIGHT asks TOR
| he soliciting committee who have
undertaken this work in the interest
Of the city a cOnsiderate reception.
These gentlemen are business men,
have their own concerns and interests
to attend to, and in devOting their
| time to this canvass are donating a
verv valuable consideration to the
city. They shonld not be required to
spend more time in this work than
necessity demands, and therefore
should not he put off when they come
for subscriptions, as the limited time
| for making the canvass no less than
| their own business obligations will
not admit of their making more than
one visit to the same person or firm.
Remember that it is as much your
business as their own, upon which
the committee visit you. You are to
the full as much interested in having
Fair held next fall as any member
of the soliciting committee possibly
can be, and this tact should not be
lost sight of i'll meeting them and
concluding your business with them.
The amount of money asked from
San Antonio to guarantee this Fair
is only one-half what Dallas pays, or
what Fort Worth pays for her spring
subscriptions are made payable are
such as to guarantee that the Fair
Will be held and there will be six
months in which to prepare as against
six week last year, thus insurlng an
exhibit that will not be discredit
to this section of the state. So far
as they have gone the committee
have met with encouragement, and
if our people are not blinded to their
own interests only encouraging words
and literal subscriptions will greet
the committees endeavOrs to the
end. San Antonio never had so
bright, business prospects opening be-
fore her. There never was such a
general enquiry for real estate or so
hopeful a feeling among our business
he ,F
aud enduring advancement. Our
city = attracting attention abroad
as never before. Home and foreign
capital is making investment much
more freely than at any previous
time, and the spirit of development
is abroad. There is a growing con-
victiOn of the necessity of making
ourselves known IN other states and
in the mOneyed centers of the east
and north. In nothing that this
city can do will she so advertise her
self as in holding a fair, and at the
same time more than reimburse herself
directly tor her outlay. As a money
making speculation it will pay.
As an advertising scheme it
will pay as well as in any
that SD, 600 could be expended and as
a combination of both cannot be APP
preached 10y anything else that could
be suggested. San Antonio should
hold fair and such a fair as would
bring to this city IN rich abundance
the products of all this great south
west. Ma Ike this subscription at Cnce
and let the work begin. San AntO-
Mo intends to have a fair tins fall:
there is no doubt about that. Her
business men have reaped the benefit
too richly of last falls effort to be
content to let the thing 90 by default
Next September there would be q
howl all over the city if no fair were
in contemplation, but it would be too
! late. San Antonio has held her last
! fair on six weeks notice. AS this is
| so and as the citizens intend to held a
! fair, now is the time to prepare for it.
! The SO 900 now subscribed will bring
into the business of this city double
that amount of money for every day
the fair is held, to say nothing of the
advertisement it will be of our city
and southwest Texas. 1t is easier to
raise $4,000 now than it was SD, 900
last fall when so many of our citizens