Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-01-30
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Meeting OF the stock holders - 4
Encouraging Keepers Presented.

Meeting of the stock holders - An
Encouraging RcpOrE Presented.
The stockholders OF the Wilmington
Fair AsRoci ,tion met in annual session in
the lecture room Of the Masonic Temple,
S Saturday afternoon, Fl. III. McMuilen
presiding and 4. d. Brown, secretary.
The annual report Of the board Of man
ayers wss read, and managers for the
ensuing year elected.
The report opens with o statement of
the amount invested by the Rocietv in
permanent improvements, which 10 $27,-
537.S3. During the past year the board
OF managers made further Investments
for the enlargement and improvement OF
tho pinnt, made necessary by the unsx-
peeted demands for exhibition space and
the general magnitude of the exhibition.
These items of Improvement amounted to
$2l ,05S Sc, including SO GIG 80 for the
ladies' exhibition hall and $9,S TO. the
main exhibition building. The present
vana of the s1cistY's plant is SAB 673 20.
Upoa this Investment there is an in
debtedness OF $685. 60, of which
amount the sum OF $4,000 is in the
shape Of negotiable loan, the balances
being in accounts and bills PAYABLE. As
an Offset to this dsbt Of 9l8,094 90, there
arc bills and accounts due to the amount
of $1l.d45 40 and unsold stock to tho
amount Of 's20,733.
The soliely's plant is now one Of tbs
largest and best equipped in the Middle
| States. 4 large amount of money wa1
expended last year in wicsniug aud sur
1 facing the race track, aud 1t Is urged that
the expenditure OF about 800 FOR sur
facing on the back stretch viii make it
one OF the beat hal'-mile tracks in the
country.
Among the recommendations for this
year are: First, turn styles for all tho
entrances to tho fair grounds, aud other
arrangements to aaeura againet loss
i (Whloh was considerable last Year, from
that clesa of people who are alWaysready
to beat their neiphbor; aeoond, a aLod
roof 10 DO extonded slung the front Of
the grand stand, to protect the occupants
from the rass OF She sun.
This exhibition OF last fall, the rapos'
says, was grand success. TITO recoipt.
were ST. 1873 40, and ths expenses SIG
3j2 As, showing profit o. 81 ,526 %.
at this point tis repors slys
''In the light Of experience it is conf
IDENTITY expected that, with sn equal at
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more careful and com orehOnsiye manage
ment, and juaioious cutting down o
expenses the profits can BIO made man!
times greater than they vera at your las
exhibition. Your last exhibition ha
fnlly demonstrated tie fact that agfieul
turai fairs eau be held without the objec
tiOnghle features that detor SO many from
attending. The association is fairly es
tatliahed a. cue of the great fair asso
ciaticns OF the United States You ca
draw your exhibits from an extended Sec
ton, and with proper arrangements wit
the different lines Of travel reaching you
grounds, and judio,ous advertising, you
future success ID no longer en experiment
lii all such enterprises as this OF yours
cooperation is ,hs life Of success.
needs your individual aud combined 81
forts"
The following were elected manage,
for the ensuing year George G. Lohdal
Preston Lea, L. b. Cotton. +. N. Bucl
d. W. Taylor, William du Pont, H. 4
McMullen, Thomas &. Robinson, NJ.
, Hayden, Thomas o. Wilcox, Wlllial
Lawton.