El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-12

in town Is given some specific work tc
do, and while is does not take much OF
his time it identifies him with the I'm.
dertsking and makes him
interested in its success
Some of the most important
of these committees are finance, an
usement, premium list, psrades, de.
cor alton. concessions, contests. exhib, Is,
excursions, and advertising. The COM
with getting the premiums and decid-
ing what shall be given on each event,
for larger number of judges are re-
quired for awarding the different pre-
miums.
There may be three or five persons
on each committee. There should be
some women on the decoration and
to do q large amount of house to house
canvassing to induce the citizens of the
town to do everything to give the city
q festal appearance. and to persuade
them to take part in the numerous
parades.
One thing is specially important.
The street fair associations must have
ABSOLUTE control of the downtown
streets during the time the fair is in
progress. 1t is necessary to rope off
from four to ten blocks in the princi pal
business portions of the town, and stop
all vehicles from going through them.
The reason for this is that the booths
are built along the street in front of
each store, so that there is but a mar
row doorway in the center, and this
must be used for the parsdes and spe-
cial performances.
In most instances the space in front
of each building ls given to the person
who occupies the ground floor of the
conduct business in the upper stories
of the basement must make arrange
ments with these who have the ground
floor. In some places where this plan
has been tried 1t is believed that q bet
ter method would be for the fair asso-
citation to erect all the booths and then
rent them, giving the refusal OF each
booth to the person who occupied the
ground floor of the adjoining building,
but in case this person did not care to
pay the price the booth could be rent
ed to other parties. This would be a
' cry good method of getting money out
of some who will give nothing vOlun-
tSrily.
A very vital question, says q writer
in an exchange, considering the adj
visibility of holding street fair is the
method of raising the necessary funds.
The voluntary subscription plan ia
good. but the idea now is to mske the
fair a self-supporting institution, and
not leave it to the generosity of few
citizens to supply all
the money. The money can be made
off of the rental of booths, the adver-
tisements in the premium list, and 9TH
err announcements of the fair sent out
by the advertising committee, and the
permits for pay entertainments In some
places the committee hires certain
shows to come, paying them q set sum
and receiving all Of their door receipts.
Another plan is to receive q set sum
from the different shows for the per-
nits. and the third and probably the |
most successful is to charge them from !
10 to 80 per cent o. their door receipts |
Ind let them run their own risks. In |
ibis event the committee should have |
! re preventative at the door to keep tab |
IN the receipts, and have a settlement |
Zach day. for some of these managers !
IT attractions are both tricky and ir- |
All sorts of psrades attract atten-
ion. Some good ones are the floral |
parade, with floats and decorated car
iages, industrial parade, parade of !
tates, society parade, burlesque' par
'de, merchants and manufacturers
parade, bicycle parade and veterans
parade. These features mentioned do
lot cover the field by any means, but
hey are merely events which have al
eady been tried and found successful.
The floral parade has attracted more
item tion than any other. for more
'eople have taken part in it and gone
o expense to make their turnout
riZe winner, but of course such dis