The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-29
ADOPT new PLANS
Carnival Committees Are
Ready for Work.
WILL BEGIN WEDNESDAY
Estimate of $4,000 for Cost
of Next Meeting.

The Carnival and Fall Festival associa-
ton has completed all its committees and
the business of this years October fes-
tivities has been started in a complete
and business like manner. A meeting of
the ways and means committee was held
at the office of the association on Friday
last and plans were adopted that will be
pursued in raising the necessary money
TO defray the expenses of this year 5
undertaking. Last year the occasion of a
fall festival was a problem we'll con-
I sidered and the result of the street fair
and carnival. is too well known to COM
ment upon. The association deserves a
great deal of credit for the mastery
manner in which the undertaking was
pulled off. The idea was new and a
novelty and most of those who under
took the financial management had a
difficult task presented to them when the
amount of money subscribed last year
was less than half the necessary amount
required to meet the contracted obliga-
tons in order to complete a weeks pro-
gram of festivities that would result in
a creditable street fair worthy of the
city and its enterprising merchants. This
time the ways and means committee,
through the experience obtained, have
adopted an entirely new plan. They will
start out on Wednesday morning to call
upon the business houses 10 ask for the
amounts necessary to guarantee the sum
required to meet the expenses for the big
carnival and festival that will be held in
this city during the week of October
to 6. The merchants who are interested
in the welfare of their home city and the
entertainment of their patrons who an
nually visit here. should show their in
terest by giving the committee a ready
response to their solicitation when they
call at their places Of business asking for
subscription to the fund that will be
required to meet the expenses of this
years fair, carnival and festival 1t will
take, at the least calculation, over &c.,
900 to meet the expenses this time, and
this means a bigger and better fair than
was held last year. Wichita must keep
up its reputation, and the merchants and
citizens are the backbone of the success
of all enterprises that are planned to give
the people of the surrounding territory a
treat in the way Of an annual fall fes-
tivity.
Mr.. l. Goldsmith, who is chairman
again this year of the ways and means
committee, has entered upon his duties
with the usual energetic activity that he
always displays and his committee asso-
ciates are representative business men of
some of the best firms in the city. Presi-
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the occasion requires and other officers
will do likewise from time to time until
the committee has finished the complete
canvas Of the business and professional
man.
One day last week few business men
were visited and asked how they felt
toward holding another fal FESTIVAL in
October. Every one was enthusiastic
over the idea and signified their willing
ness to subscribe from 50 to 100 per cent
more than they gave last time They
know what they can and will expect in
return for their liberality, and when it is
shown to the men of Wichita that pro-
posed plan is for the mutual benefit of
all business interests and not for few
interested individuals they respond with
free hand and give literally. Last
Wichita eclipsed all other cities in Kan
sas, and win do something greater this
time. 1t is not within the reason of good
argument for any enterprising firm to
stand in their own light and progressive
ness and question the financial benefits
to be derived from the many thousands
who visit our city during the fall festivi-
ties held here annually.
The advertising Of the 1900 carnival and
fail festival overshadows all coming
events and by the time of the big week
in October Wichita will be well adver-
tised throughout the east and west.