The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-28
HOW TO ORGANIZE
COUNTY ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE
WORLDS FAIR
Secretary Smith Answers Several Cues
tons Verv Important to Counties
Which as Yet Have NO Worlds
Fair Organization-HowM Mar
shall County Was Organized
What Other Counties
Should Do.

A good many Kansas counties that are
somewhat tardy in their work for the
worlds fair have been backward iii
making their organizations simply be-
cause there was no interested party on
the ground who knew just how to begin.
! The following letter to Secretary
Smith explaining how Marshall county
was organized, and also Secretary
Smiths answers to number of i'm
portant questions, will be found of great
value to other counties contemplating
organization:
MARYsvILLE, Kan, Jan. s.
". H. Smith. Secretary Kansas Columbian associa-
tioii. Topeka, Kan:
DEAR SIR: Our Marshall County Co
lumbar Exposition association was
organized last June under the call of the
bureau of promotion and incorporated
with capital of $3.50, of which $500
was intended for the expenses of our
county association and $1,150 was in
tended for our quota of the 500, 900
which the bureau of promotion desired
to raise. Our stock was issued in s.
shares and subscriptions We're taken in
shares and fifths of shares, so that a sub
scriber for 81 received certificate of
one-tifth share of stock, aud in this way
our full amount was subscribed, and a
large part paid in at once to our treas
urer, the rest being subject to our call,
and our treasurer has paid to the treas
urer of the state board 10 per cent. of
our quota on the call of that board
Our township trustees and directors of
our corporation and each one carries the
book of subscriptions in his township
and is ready to collect whenever a call
is made. We have thus been ready for
business ever since last fall, but have
done no other business with the state
board of managers. We had no plan of
work laid out, but had an indefinite
idea that Marshall county would have an
exhibit at Chicago, which, with the ex-
hibits from other counties, would, under
the direction of the state board. 60 to
make up the Kansas exhibit We 10
not know how far this agrees with the
plan of the board of managers for the
Kansas exhibit, and wish information
on this subject.
Next, the important questions are,
1. What shall we exhibit?
2. How shall we prepare our exhibit?
3. Will the expenses of collecting
things within the country be borne out
of the fund of the state board, or must
we bear it out of our contingent fund?
4. If any live stock is to be exhibited
how is the expenses to be borne? And
Will the owner be required to attend to |
the care of it during transportation and
during the time of exhibit:
D. In preparing exhibits of agricul |
tural products, will a statement of the |
acreage cultivated and the yield per |
acre of the crop be required?
These questions indicate the nature of |
the information we need, but the board |
may not be able to answer them yet: !
but the question, whether we have
started on broad enough foundation,
depends upon the answers. Perhaps
what we have done may not yet enable !
us to meet the plans of the state board.
We will be obliged to you for such a
reply as will inform us what the state
board of managers wish us to do next.
Very respectfully,