San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-15
A FAIR.
A Big Thing-How to Do tt
All Figured Out on Paper.

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by the Arthur OF Contributed Scraps
Dallas has a fair and $4,000
persons we're in attendance on one
day. AT so cents per head for ad-
mittance, the receipts would have
amounted to $1,000 for just one
day.
And il these $4,000 persons ex-
pended 50 each, in Dallas, her
merchants and traders would
have sold $4,000 in goods, fruits,
etc.
These things attest the great
advantages Of fairs to the business
men OF a city.
Even Victoria has had a fair,
and it was a success.
1t rather stakes the starch out
OF" the citizens of San Antonio to
reflect, that their city could not
hold fair for lack of the neces-
sary funds to run it. There is
abundant local capital here, but
the trouble was our business men
and capitalists felt no lively desire
for fair.
The same thing will occur next
year unless we set to work in time
with a resolute purpose to. push
it thorough.
Let joint stock fair company
be organized, and place a share o,
stock at 500. There are unques.
tionably forty citizens who could
take a thousand dollars o.
stock without Inconvenience to
themselves. This would amount
to $4,000.
There are certainly fifty citizens
able to take $500 each in stock
without Inconvenience to them
selves and this would foot up to
$4,000.
There are fifty citizens able to
take $3.50 apiece in stock, which
would aggregate $4,000.
There are 500 citizens able to take
500 each, in stock, which amounts
to $50, 900. .1s-.,S s, a
These various sums would raise
a total fund Of Sl27,50o, which
would DO ample.
Let STOCKHOLDERS have vote
for every share ofone hundred dol
lars of stock, owned by him. Then
let the stockholders elect a presi-
dent, board OF directors, secretary,
and treasurer, and place the
treasurer under proper bond for
the faithful performance of his
duties.
Start out fully determined to
make the fair not only pay all
the expenses incident to it, but
leave a surplurs to. be distributed
in dividends to the stockholders.
The next step should be to so
arrange and fit the prizes as to in
terest stock breeders and farmers
in the fair and induce them to
compete for the prizes
Prizes should also be arranged
for preserves, pickles, quilts, etc.
so as to induce ladies to com pete
for the prizes.
The greater the number of
competitors in each department,
the greater will be the success of
the fair.
The fair should be the main
show and attraction, and the races
side show, and secondary affair.
The next thing to be done, would
be to advertise the fair, as widely
as possible, and to scatter the list
of prizes all over the state. This
advertising business is exceedingly
important to the success Of fair
and cannot be overdone. = - s.sss.s..
The various railroads should be
prevailed on to give excursion
rates to the fair. This would
quadruple the visitors TO the fair.
Let US suppose the fair lasted
six days and that the attendance
averaged $1,000 per day, or $4,000
for the week. At an admittance
fee Of so cents per head the receipts
would sum up $4,000. This sum
ought to defray all the expenses
of the fair and leave surplus OF
$4,000 to be distributed in divi.
dends to the stockh olders.
The daily attendance ought to
amount to 10000. San Antonio
ought to contribute 10000 atten.
dants per day, and the visitors
from abroad ought to average 10,
600 per day. Such an attendance
would swell the aggregate receipts
to 100000.
The sale of the various privileges
to vend articles On the fair grounds
ought to net $500. g