Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-09-30
FAIR rlSAso,AL REPORT.

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nival and street Fair. OF the New Mexico
Territorial Fair association, submits In
to.dsy's CITIZEN one OF the 1nest and
most accurate financial reports OF any
Fair ever held Ia this city. and, think OF
II. only one week after the great blow
out" had passed out OF existence.
The report contains q mass OF figures.
and every it IN should be read by sl sub.
scribera 10 tina Fair fund, 10 they will be
satisfied that their money was iudiciously
handled and Tor tbs slcctss OF the faif-
In a straight ~0ut-anl0ut legitimate
manner
Now that the fSir Is d thing OF the
past AMI the most important part OF the
program has been carried oui-thst OF
the promise OF the executive CON nittee
TO make a complete finaGcisi report
the president OF the association, on be
half OF the committee, desires TO extend
thanks to certain people whose helping
hands were found at ali times.
In the hrst place. the committee ap-
pointed at the mass meeting TO select a
presids ant singled out rs the victim
W. L. McCreight, OF THE CITIZEN, but be-
fore he accepted that position he desired
q few concessiOns-thst OF handling the
funds and receipiing for them; OF saying
who would constitute the executive COM
mittee, and the naming Of the chairman
OF that committee 10 man who had been
with the president on several previous
successful exhibitionsh and OF
having no interference from too
many bosses In the carrying
out OF the programs. These concessions
were granted, and the preliminaries TO
one OF the biggest exhibitions-ave days
and nights OF solid tun-were begun. aud
the readers OF The CITIZEN are again re-
minded that u financial report pub
lished elsewhere In to-dsy's paper Will
tell them figures never lie) how hard
that committee composed OF Messrs. Nc
Gamma, Campheld, Albright, Hesselden,
Stern, Trimble and Putney worked Il
make the great Fair, held in this city
last week. q success from all p0ints-iI
amusing and entertaining the people
surely In attendance. for the actual mum
Der OF outside visitors aggregated a little
over $4,000 during the week.
The Fair association desire to extend
thanks to Hon. o. N. Marion, mayor
and the board OF aldermen for certain
necessary CONCESSIONS; to Capt A. Ii
Fuller and his gallant troop II, OF the
Ninth cavalry, for marching to this city
and giving interesting drills; TO Mrs. W
Y. Walton and the pretty Misses who con
stituted the may pole and scarf dances
to the Los Angeles Fire Work
company; TO z. c. hummell for repro
ducing the Battle OF Manila to tn
American Amusement company OF whicI
g. o. Lift was manager; TO Chas. \
Riggs for the SUPPLEMENTARY OF tn
great Midway features; 10 Gov. OIero an
party for their presence, for the governo
had arranged beforehand u triI
to Chicago TO 10 on hand; u
Hon. Jscobo Yrisarri for his building
for Exhibition hall and TO the Misse
Armijo for their building, free; TO Mr.
b. o. Greene for granting uss OF barn 10
the storage OF fire works; TO Chss. Ro
who allowed the 'free zone OF the gran
stand to be located on has premises; I
Marshal McMilin, who had charge {
the watchmen and faithfully carried OF
every obligations; TO Thoe. Haley, WI
was the foreman Of laborers al
who had charge OF the canvas worl
TO Gov. Slower, for magnanimously turl
ing over his water tank TO the soldiel
and their horses; TO Manager Msuri'
Vaughan of the WesternU Mon TelegraI
company, who used the wires extensiv,
ly in the interest Of the Fair; to DR..
II. Chamberiin, grand marshal, and b
assistants, for the successful manner
which they handled the big trades di
play and parade; to Felix II. LIE
ter who ably superintendent q
the bicycle races and parade;
X. l.. wsshburn and II. X. Jewell, wi
we're the supsrintendents OF Exhibiti'
hall; TO c. o. Cushman, who oficiated
superintendent OF the bureau Of info
nation and to John Hughes and Laws
Aud, the two boys who saw that I
l5, 900 visitors all had rooms; 10
good people Of Albuquerque who pray
that the Fair association be bless
with sunshine days, and u
the rain. which threatened
damper all proceedings, should Gel
on Friday night before the Fair; to
merchants whose liberal spirit promp'
them to make grand outside booth .displi
and parade floats and to all who purchsI
privileges; TO Fox & Freeloye, who put
sgrand stand sufficiently large enough
hold a vast amount OF people. but left
opening on Gold avenue lno fault
thairs), through which the sssociat
lost at least $500 during the week; 1
to all others who cOnspired 10 make
Fair OF last week a glorious success.
liz the new prize lighters trust
make q new ratio between the fight
ana talkino nroelivitiaa of tha pugili