Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-12
READY FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS
Committees Appointed to Solicit Stock for
the Exposition.
CITY TO BE THOROUGHLY CANVASSE[
South Omaha and Council Bluffs to De
Represented-S3O in stock
Desired to BE Taken
Mt Once.

An important meeting of the board OF
directors of the Transmisssslppi and In
ternational Exposition was held yesterday
afternoon at the Commercial club rooms
The subject under consideration was the
matter of ways and means for raising the
100000 of stock subscriptions which had
been decided upon at the meeting of the
stockholders Friday as the amount which
must be raised in order to insure the sue
cess OF the exposition. The directors met at
1890 and discussed the matter informally
while they ate lunch and when lunch mad
been disposed OF a business meeting was
held, which lasted all afternoon.
1t was decided to classify the population
of the city according to occupation and ap-
point a committee to call upon each line
of business or classification and solicit sub
scriptlOns. A city directory was called into
play and all of the business houses, profes-
siona men. sal lried men of every class,
laboring men, mechanics and, in fact, every
man, woman and child in the city, was put
under one or another Of the several classi-
flcatlons, for which a committee was ap-
pointed.
After an animated discussion ii was
decided that the most effectual manner
of getting at the large army OF salaried
people would be through the heads of the
business houses or establishments in which
the people are employed. 1t was the con
sensus OF opinion in the board that every
person employed regularly should subscribe
for at least one share of stock, the pI ice
of which is $40. The blanks prepared for
subscriptions to the stock provide that not
more than 10 per cent OF the amount sub
scribed shall be called during the year 1896
and not more than 60 per cent during the
year 1897, the entire subscription being con-
ditional upon 5000, 900 being subscribed
Each share OF stock entities the subscriber
to one vote in a meeting of stockholders.
1t was also decided to put South Omaha
in a class by itself for the purpose of raising
subscriptions, and to do the same with
Council Bluffs. The stock yards and pack
ing houses were also put in a class by them
selves
Lucius Wells was designated as a com
mttee OF one to look after Council Bluffs
IL being understood that the Twin city al
for just such purposes, and 1t was expected
by the directors that this committee woulC
take the matter in hand without any fur
ther action.
The committee for soath Omaha consists
OF Mayor Ensor, 7. J. O'Neil and DayiC
Anderson.
COMMITTEES APPOINTED.
The classification as finally decided upoI
and the committees appointed are as fol
lows, II being provided that the first MAJ
named on each committee shall be the chair
man OF that committee, viz
Capitalists and real estate owners, bank
ers brokers and collection agencies an,
their employes-Herman KOuntze, G. w
Wattles, A. L. Reed.
Transportation companies and franchiset
corpora rations-Frank Murphy, Dan Farrell
| jr., II. Rosewater.
Manufacturers and wholesalers and thei
employes-Z. T. Lindsay c. +, Weller, f, T
| Kirkendall o. C, Holmes.
pmplOVpg-H
Thompson, A. HOspe, jr,. John Hussie, o. l.
| Kiplnger
Hotels, theaters restaurants boarding.
houses and their employes-W. Il. Bennett
| Emil Brandeis,
Brewers and liquor dealers and their EN-