The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-23
To OPEN THINGS WIDE.
THE ELKS' CARNIVAL COMMITTEE MET
LAST NIGHT.
subcommittee Appointed and the
Whole Shooting Match to Go to
Work at Once to Arrange for the
Big Attraction Wilmington Is to
Have In ctobe

The Elks' executive committee. which
has in hand the arrangements for the
grand carnival and street fair to he
held in Wilmington during the third
week in October, met last night at the
Elks' Temple 10 set the ball in motion
for this magnificent attraction. Past
Exalted Ruler Ruler H. J. Gerken,
chairman of the committee, presided.
and Ma. Thomas H. Wright, the Sec
rotary, was present. There was a large
attendance of the members of the COM
mittee and enthusiasm ran high.
The committee having closed the con-
tract for the great -Ferrari
aggregation tc be here during the car
nival week, met to appoint sub-com-
mittees 50 they can grease up the
axfes and run the arrangements red
hot from now till the carnival opens.
The Elks propose to open things wide
and will get a hustle on them to make
the affair the most s~tupendous thing in
the history of Wilmington.
The first step to take in the arrange
ments is to ecCre low railroad rates
from all points in North Carolina. South
Carolina and Virginia, s the transpor-
tation committee will get a hump on
itself today. They will call on the rail-
road authorities today and it can be
predicted hat the railroad people will
do the right thing.
At the meeting of the executive COM
mittee last night it was decided to or
der 1900 carnival buttons. The but
tons will be ordered at once and
they will get mere in about tend days
when they viii be distributed. They
will also be stuck on everybody who
comes in or goes out of the city.
1t is desired TO make the carnival a
great success and no efforts will be
spared to make it a big thing for our
city. 1t Can be made a, harvest for the
merchants as well as a benefit to the
Elks, and no doubt the will
enter into the affair with great hearth
ness and enthusiasm. The Elks will
need their assistance, and when the
soliciting committee starts put in a few
days, they should be cordially and
heartily greeted and turned way with
~liberality. The carnival will be held
at a time of year when the farmers
will have their crops in hand and will
have one If they ever will have it.
To get them here. therefore, means
that it will give them the opportunity
to make their purchases and help the
merchants to do q big business.
Dur business men should run over
each other TO get to the soliciting COM
mittee, and they should overWhelm
them with generous subscriptions.
Besides the $1,000 guarantee which
the Elks made to get the famous Bos-
tock-Ferrari attraction, they will have
an additional expense of about $4,000.
They will nave to furnish 400 mean
descent electric lights and Is arc lights
to light up the features of the street
fair and will have to furnish lumber
for fourteen exhibition booths. An ex-
pert will pe here a month before he
fair to direct the building o i the
booths.
Let everybody get ready to help the
Fix make the carnival the most mag
nifcent affair and the greatest success
of all occasions from the first settle
ment of Wilmington down to this CEN
tTIrV