The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-12
RAISING The FUNDS
Ways and Means Committee
are at Work.
ENGAGING BOOTH SPACE
Carnival and Festival viii
Eclipse Last Years.

The ways and means committee of the
Wichita Carnival and Fail Festival have
been diligently at work during the week,
soliciting subscriptions from the mer-
chants TO meet the expenses Of the COM
ing event to be held the week OF October
l to 6. Chairman Goldsmith has adopted
a very excellent system this year for the
working subcommittee. A list of all
the firms, trades and professional men
has been made and classified, then al
alphabetically arranged. Each block is set
apart and a list furnished to the several
committees each day. They then start
out and when the firms have been called
upon their names are checked off Of the
classified lists and the amounts donated
are set opposite the name. The work OF
all committees will be in progress by
next week. Those who have been out
this week have met with the most salts
factory results. Everybody wants an
other big fall festival and carnival SINH
lar to that held in this city last year, but
they all say it must be bigger than ever
and everything advertised must materi-
ialize. To do this a larger amount of
money is necessary than is forthcoming
If the present good work of the commit
tees is kept up and the liberal donations
continue to reward the committee for
their work. In almost every case the
firms that have been called upon for
their signatures to the subscription books
J0,-e - last
years big event by increasing their sub
scriptions from 80 to 100 per cent They
all sing their praises of last years street
fair and want another. The benefits de-
rived are we'll remembered, and it is pure
ly a business proposition when the dona-
ton is made, though there are some who
give their subscriptions from a patriotic
standpoint, given with a free hand to
help make the Wichita festivities credit
to the city and to the merchants. The
Peerless Princess has always done her
self proud and will do it again this time
if the subscribed amount is large enough
to permit the association to contract for
such attractions as will enable them to
make the 1900 affair the record breaker
of the southwest. Plans are now contem-
plated by the executive committee for
four very elaborate parades that will be
brilliantly illuminated with big search
lights that will throw powerful silver
lights upon the dazzling and iridescent
floats. The field to be covered by the
amount of advertising will be very large
and will cost more money than last year.
This is brought about by the more dis
tant points that the railroads will sell
tickets from, an open rate in the state
and Oklahoma having been agreed upon
by the passenger agents to be recon-
mended to the Western Passenger asso-
citation. A big attendance is what the
merchants want, and low rates on rail-
roads are what bring the people. They
will come from everywhere to the fall
festival, and the association intends to
show their patrons and visitors that
Wichita is the leading city of the state
in carnivals and fall festivities, as well
as the largest jobSing center Of the
southwest.
The ways and means committee will
continue their work for the next two
weeks or more. covering the entire city,
to raise the money to meet the expenses
of the greatest undertaking ever ventured
in Wichita. The merchants and citizens
should respond literally to encourag e
those who are giving their valuable time
to the work