The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-18
LOW AT THE HELM
He Is Elected President of the
Fair Association.
The Work of Preparation Goes
Steadily On.
WILL SELL MORE STOCK
Association to Dispose of About
5000 Worth.
Guarantee Fund and Premium
Lists to Be Made Up.
WILL SELL MORE STOCK

Wednesday nights meeting of the
Kansas Exposition company directors
for the election of officers and trans
action of business was of short dura-
ton. A few minutes discussion of gem
eral matters concerning the proposed
fair followed the election and the meet
ing adjourned A meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee has been called for
Friday at p. m. This will be an i'm
portant meeting. The directors will go
into the details of preparations for the
fair.
C. H. Samson has an interesting coll
lection of catalogues of other stale
fairs. BY the side of some OF these
booklets Topeka's announcement looks
extremely shabby. So far Topeka has
issued only a small folder of racing an
nouncements.
The real work of preparation for the
fair is in the hands of the executive
committee. which will hold its first
meeting Friday evening. One of the
first things will be the preparation Of
the premium list The supervision or
the various departments of the fair win
be delegated to committees which viii
be put actively at work at once.
The election of officers of the expo
sition company followed the swearing
in of the newly elected members of the
board of directors f. H. Foster acted
as chairman for the election. The off,
GERS chosen for the ensuing year are
as follows. N. A Low, PRESIDENT T. }.
Anderson, first vice president: T. P
Ba bst, OF Dover, second vice president.
c. H. Samson, secretary and treas
urer. Mr.. Low then named the follow
ing executive committee. 3. +. Pankey.
G. G. Pritchard, H. A. Heath, f. h
Foster, and j, ]. O'ROurke.
Frank H. Foster proposed the sale of
the remainder of the capital stock 29T
shares which now remain in the treas
ury, 10 persons living outside Shawnee
county. OF the 900 shares, of which the
capital stock is composed, 303 We're sold
year ago, most of it going to Topeka
! people H A. Heath, who has under
taken the sale OF the remainder of the
stock, said:
I am Of the opinion that it viii be a
+ comparatively easy matter to dispose Of
I the stock among the friends of the To-
peka fair out through the state. Last
year number of the men who exhibited
1 live stock here signified their willing
ness to take stock because they were
+ desirous of helping the enterprise I
shall be very glad to undertake the work
of disposing of this stock Much Of il
can be done by correspondence"
This stock is valued at S25 per share
and it is believed that the sale of $1,000
i worth Of it viii be comparatively easy.
/ From last years fair, which was given
under heavy expense, there remains in
1 the treasury 81 z66 Is. AS it is intended
to draw upon Topeka people for cOntr1-
buttons to the agricultural display pre-
/ MUM fund no effort will be made to dis
pose of any of this stock in town.
Premiums for special displays are t.
be offered by the fair association For
+ the development of this department a
special committee has been named. This
feature of the state fair will be worked
up along with the agricultural depart
ment. 1t will cover everything that
cannot be included under the head OF
one of the other recognized departments.
No new plans of action or ideas for the
state fair were arrived at or proposed
last evening. A report was had from j.
/ J. o 'ROurke upon the progress of raising
the $4,000 guarantee for racing pre-
miums. The work of this committee.
which is really acting under the direc-
tion of the Commercial club was sud
denly concluded by the recent flood and
has not been resumed. Less than
thousand dollars has been subscribed to
this fund but the committee feels that
the completion of its task will not be
! very diffirult