The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-24
CARNIVAL WILL BE
A BIG SUCCESS
President Meyer Believes the Guaran-
tee Fund VIII Be Raised.
PERHAPS BY MARCH FIRST.
Electricity Will Play a Great Part in
the Carnival. but Other Features
Will Not &c Crowded Ont.
Many Bands of Music.

President Meyer, of the Carnival Asso-
citation, said last night that the Carnival
next October would, If the $1,000 guar
antce fund is raised. be one of the grand
est affairs ever given in the south. aside
from the New Orleans Mardi Gras-
Aside from the industrial features OF
the Carnival said Mr. Meyer, there
will be amusement features galore, and 1t
is the purpose of the association TO have
Mardi Gras features that Will eclipse any
thing ever seen here. There will be q
night for nnaskers and big Rex parade
with the accompanying battle of confetti
The ruhber-ball man has written for
privileges, and we receive bundles of let
tiers in every mail from everywhere ask
ing for privileges for all sorts of novel
attractions
We will have no trouble whatever in
filling Broad Street and the side streets
from Twelfth to Belvidere with attrac-
lions of all kinds. The amusement people
of the country have heard CT the great
success Of last years Carnival. and they
all want to come here.
The Richmond Carnival opens just as
The Buffalo Exposition closes. and we
VIII get the big features from that place.
it will probably be the policy of the
amusement Committee to withhold eEclu-
sive privileges for amusement features,
SO that there VIII scarcely be a limit to
the attractions to be offered
The local merchants and manufacture
ers are entering into the Carnival idea
with more unaninlitt than they did last
year, and the chances are that the dis
PLAYS along that linc will be of immense
proportions.
FARMLAND Or ELECTRICITY
The idea Of making of Capitol Square
and the Capitol building faiiyland OF
electrical display will by no means indi-
ro,y .<,ft fyr q
will be neglected. The fact is that the
electrical displays will be but additions
10 an entertainment shat will attract
thousands of people here from all over
the country.
AR e. l.. Eemiss. president of the
Traction Company and of the new eltc-
1ricai company, Will probably have charge
OF a great part of the Capitol Square
feature He has much experience in such
matters and is connected with the Edison
Electric Company Of New Orleans. which
furnishes the lights for the Macdi Gras.
He will introduce many novelties In the
way of electrical decorations.
Many applications have been received
from experienced men in the exposition
business who wish to secure the position
OF director general OF the Carnival.
Among them are Messrs. Lewis j. Beckey.
OF indianapolis; Leon Mooser, of Chicago;
Nv. II. Stanley, Of New Haven: George
Benson of La Porte, Ind: William Ken
dal. Of PittsburE; Thomas G. Scott. Of st.
Louis; T. T. Schoch, of New Philadel-
pflia. O.; DR.. J. II. Lane, of New York;
w. S. Heck, of Cincinnati; II. c. Lock
wood, of Wichita, Kan, and L. w. Cas-
kill. of Cleveland.
This indicates said Mr.. Meyer, that
we have made a hit and that we will
make a better hit next time. and the
whole thing is now in the hands of the
merchants and business men who will
reap the profit and the benefit.
We have already over 5000 as a
starter. II the remaining $4,000 OF the
guarantee fund cannot be secured by the
list of March, then l am Very much mis-
taken in my calculations. ! can hardly
see how the several hundred big business
houses of the city can fail to give at
least $50 each and the smaller ones So.
Many of them can give 500 and reap a
big benefit.
HOW TO RAISE THE FUND.
Say that 200 firms give s25 each; that's
5000. Then say that 100 give $50 each;
that's $1,000 more. Then say that p give
500 each; that's $3.50. There's your
guarantee fund. This doesn't allow for
the many So and $40 subscriptions, aud
feel that we will get our fund with ease.
The association hopes that those who
are called upon by the canvassers this
week VIII not hesitate IN putting tielr
names down for whatever they feel they
can give. The money will not called for
until late in May. but there is much work
TO be done and none of it can be started
until the fund is guaranteed
one OF the prominent workers OF the
Carnival Association who was APP
preached for carnival notes said:
"A more determined lot OF men You
could not get osether-determined are
they to give no carnival unless the
money IS raised, and determined to give
Richmond its greatest show to date if
the money is raised. Superintendent w.
II. Thompson, OF the Fire Alarm service,
is developing plans for the monster cleo
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