The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-06
THE CARNIVAL RI |.
G ! : [: Thing
Executive Committee TO Meet at
Headquarters To-Day.
THOUSANDS OF PAPER FLOWERS.
Business and Professional Men are
Sacrificing Their Fimc to Make OF
the Carnival One Of the Great
est Successes Ever Seen.

The Executive Committee Of the Rich
mond Carnival Association win meet at
s the headquarters Of the association. No.
$40 East Main Street, this evening at 8
O'clock All of the various committees
are hard at work, and no effort is being
spared to make the occasion a memora-
BILE one.
The various merchants are planning
eNtravagant displays, and one wide
awake merchant has placed an order for
( 10000 per flowers to be used by him
In his decorations.
In speaking of the Carnival, one of the
board said yesterday:
Without my solicitation or knowledge
was appointed a member Of the Board OF
the new Carnival Association who are
maraging the proposed Street Far n
Nay, and 1 want to thus publicly express
my gratifica ton, and. a the same time,
,amazement at the sacrifice of SO much
valuable time by so many men who are
engaged in no business which will reap
any direct benefit from any Carnival
Street-Fair or other entertainment this
association may direct. mention here
merely the names of those men whom l
know have no direct interests. and In
naming Harry Eicheberger Henry Val
j John Harwood, Stewart Bryan, Herbert
Funston, Garland Pollard, Otway Allen.
I do not wish, in any way. to cast refec-
ton on the many others who, day after
day, have already given hours of what
must be valuable business time to man
age this affair, but the point I wish to
emphasize in this article is, if we have
among US a board of such sterling work
ers who are willing to work for Rich
mond's interests without remuneration,
should not their call for funds meet with
hearty and quick response from every
business man and property owner?
WILL DO GOOD.
'It is needless for business or profession
al men to argue the fair will do them no
good What will benefit Richmond will
benefit every one. The one, two or three
hundred thousand people who will be here
during fair week will leave behind enough
money to make it felt in every quarter.
If it only aids the railroads it will help
to swell the years receipts and result in
better depots and service.
eff it only helps the hotels and boarding
houses.it will in that way help the butch
err, the baker. the hucAster and give en-
pioyment to many Idle hands.
1.-THE building of the booths will give
employment TO hundreds of carpenters
and alone put in circulation thousands CT
dollars. The employment of managers
for booths, ticket-takers and the many
hundreds of store people and concession
aries who follow such carniva!s will
greatly swell the above amount.
with this increased prosperity many
debts otherwise remaining unpaid will
be liquidated and thus the doctor and the
rent man will be benefited. The lawyer,
too. may find client or two better abe
to settle UP. The barber. the candy man,
the cigar stands, and especially the
bar men will reap a harvest. The dry
goods, the shoe the clothing and the
hat men, the agricultural implement men
and the iobbers, too, Will reap results
merely from the fact that their friends
and customers will come to see tho
show and incidentally make closer re-
lations. The manufacturer will have q
chance TO show his wares as never be-