The age-herald., 1899-04-07
ARRANGEMENTS FOR
 THE MAY FESTIVAL Completed By the Board of Di-
 rectorS Yesterday.
PRICE OF ADMISSION FIXED
Three Performances at the Auditorium Tickets Will Be Placed on Sale in Few Days-To Be Thor
 oughly Advertised.

The board of directors of the Birmingham l May Festival association held an important meeting at the Conservatory of Music yes
 terday afternoon, to decide number of questions in connection with the festival to be given May and 3. The most inn portant business transacted was fixing the price of admission to the performances.
 For all three performances, Friday night, May 5, Saturday matinee and Saturday night, May 6, a season ticket, so to speak, will be sold for $2 good for seats in any part of the Auditorium.
 For single ticket to either one of the night performances parquet seats will be sold for $l, dress circle seats for seventy five cents and gallery seats for fifty cents.
 For the matinee a general admission of
 fifty cents will be charged, tickets good for any part of the Auditorium.
 These tickets will be printed within the next few days, and will be placed on sale immediately afterward. number of the subscribers to the festival fund will take up their subscriptions in tickets and dis pose of them, thereby relieving themselves of any obligation in case there is any deficit. A committee consisting of J. A. Van Hoose, R. s. Munger and Otto Marx was appointed to look after the distribu- ton and sale of these tickets.
 The meeting yesterday was strictly a business one The charter, which was ob- tained for the association a short tine ago, enabled the directors to proceed with full authority. President James Bowron and Secretary A. R. Dearborn were the officials present. Other directors there were Major r. Y. Anderson, B. Steiner E. Lesser, Solon Jacobs, R. F. Manly, B. Guckenberger and
 K. s. Munger
 It was officially decided that the festival should be held in the Auditorium, and a committee consisting of J. A. Van Hoose, r Y. Anderson and B. Steiner was ap- pointed to make all the necessary arrange ments with regard to the house.
 Bills to the extent of $1S7, which has already been spent in buying music tor the great choruses, were approved. A com mittee on music, consisting of Oliver Chall- foux, R. F. Manly and A. R. Dearborn, was appointed, who, with Professor Guck- enberger, the director, will have charge Of
 the programme and other matters in con
 nection with the music.
 The question of how the festival should be properly advertised was thoroughly dis cussed, and resulted in the appointment of E. Lesser, Solon Jacobs and Claude Seals as committee on publicity and advertis- ing. An appropriation of several hundred dollars was made for this committee. It is very probable that large number of hand somely Autographed circulars will be print ed and all of the cities and towns within a radius of two hundred miles of Birming- ham will be thoroughly posted. This work will begin next Monday at the same time and by the same men that the Carnival society will use to distribute posters ad- vertising the great Birmingham carnival, which is to be held just after the festival, on May and g. A great saving will be ef- fected by this arrangement. The commit tee was also instructed to look after the matter of newspaper advertising the print ing of tickets, and all other details in con- nection with printing and advertising. MT. Jacobs stated that nearly all of tke railroads intended getting out handsome circulars advertising the remarkably low rates which were offered to the festival and b the carnival, which would be distributed broadcast all over the territory within a Distance of two hundred miles,
 "I don't see what you want wi.h any mere people in town,' said one of the l members present. We already have more people in Birmingham than we have any | loom for" This called to mind a eerious | problem which will have to be met by tie l committee later that of housing the great number of visitors who will be in Bi'mir g. !, of h | This matter will be fully attended to later, however.
 Before adjourning the meeting passed a | resolution thanking E.. ;. Meglemery for | the valuable assistance he rendered in get | ting the exceedingly favorable rates on the | railroads which have been granted. They 1 are the best which have ever been granted l for similar affair anywhere in the south.