San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-11
ANNUAL MIDwINTER FAIR.

| now being arranged TOT III TINS
city deserves to succeed. Not on
ly is it a move in the right direc-
tion, that of enlisting our people
in all the creative industrial work
that lies within the compass of
intelligent effort, but it is move
for permanently. 1t is the inten-
ton of those interested in this
enterprise to put it upon a per-
manent foundation. All that is
requires sufficient means and eff
fort and interest and good
sense and patronage to start
the thing right, when it will de-
velOp into such a real aid to all
that makes for the increase of
the city that there will be no diff
ficulty in maintaining it as a per-
manent institution for all time.
The plans as proposed at present
are not over ambitious. There
will be no straining after greater
results than can be reasonably
comprised, and there will be no
disappointment to follow. 1t is
not Il kid-glOve, or band box ar
rangement that is proposed by
the promoters of this Midwinter
industrial, but a practical expo
sitiOn of what this southwestern
frontier city can really do, and is
daily doing in the way of manu-
featuring. 1t is intended to place
this fair centrally, within the
down town precincts of the city,
so that it can be readily visited at
any time without any waste of
time, and largely upon the
ground floor so that there will be
the utmost facility in moving
Here the actual pro-
cesses of manufacture will be
carried on, just as in the estab-
liShments represented in their
daily operations. Thus the ex
hibit will be not only an indus
trial exposition in its truest
sense, but it will be educational
as well, instructing the young
and the old no less in the pro-
cesses of making everything that
is prepared for market out of the
raw material in this city. The
scores of establishments that
have been sending their products
to the gift meetings held by the
Home Industry club, for the past
three of more months, will be
found here working practically
as they do in their own shops ev-
cry day. This will be an object
lesson in the life of manufacture.
ing that will greatly increase the
interest taken in this branch of
economics and help in every eff
fort that is made to enlarge it.
To make and sell at home that
which we grow as raw material,
to the greatest extent possible, is
the open road to wealth, to high
wages and general prosperity. To
foster this spirit and show how
easy it is to make beginnings if
only favorable conditions are Gre
ated, is the aim of the Midwinter
fair. The climate and all the
conditions here cOnspire to make
such a fair at such time of the
year peculiarly successful, and it
will also serve to draw thOus-
ands to this city who will be re-
tanned here for weeks to their ben
eft and our credit, if only the
Fair is made sufficiently attrac-
tive. Proposals for site and 9th
er practical matters are now be
fore the committee and they will
be decided with that business sa-
gacity that has hitherto charac-
terized all of the operations OF
the Business Mems club. \ per
manent Fair such as is suggest
ed will make a difference of many
thousands Of dollars yearly in
the money that strangers will ex-
pend in this city. 1t is well not
to lose sight of this benefit along
with others. All that is required
this winter is few hundred dol
lars, plenty of sound sense in di-
rection and the grit to make the
thing succeed. When this one is
made a practical success, then
the next one will come easier and