The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-04-02
FUNDS FOR THE FAIR
A Committee Has Gone to Work
to Raise Ellis County's
Quota.

! Hon. b. B. Paddock, ex-mayor of
Fort Worth and a member of the
Texas Worlds Fair commission,
spent yesterday In the city in the
/ interest of the Texas fund. Mr..
Paddock was met at two O'Clock in
/ the council room of the Citizens
National Bank by several business
men of the city. A shork talk was
made by Mr.. Paddock, in which he
explained the object of his visit and
gave short review of the organiza.
tion of the Texas commission and
of the work already accomplished.
In addressing his audience Mr..
Paddock said in parts:
81 believe Governor Sayers madel
great mistake In appointing the
| Texas commission. Instead of max
ing his appointments so that every
section OF the state might be repre-
sented the sixty-two members Of the
cc:s:::::s:: 3: !: . sion were selected in
punches. Fort Worth ia represented
on the commission by seven, Dallas
by five or six, San Antonio by about
/ seven aud other large cities In the
same proportion. Ellis, the banner
agricultural county in the state,
along with several other counties in
the north central belt of the state,
did not get place on the commits
sion. OF the large number OF men
named by the governor to serve on
the commission not more than ten of
them have done anything toward
raising funds to be used la having
Texas creditabiy represented at the
st. Louis Fair. When the Iegisla-
ture refused To make an appropria-
ti9n for the Texas exhibit the com
mission commenced work to raise
fund By private subscription, To
date more than sl35,000 have been
raised I'm cash and subscriptions. OF
this amount about 81 600 have been
expended on the Texas building and
about VI, ,000 will be required TO COM
plete the interior decorations of the
building.
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Pad /
dock' remarks the following COM |
mittee was appointed 70 begin th he
work Of soliciting funds for Ellis |
eouEty's assessment, which Is |
s4i28: II J Cole, chairman; o. f.
Daniap, II, d. Hudson, Osce Good |
win, J r. Strickland, Walter Grow,
J II. Miller, James Kelieher and |
Mr.. spurloek of Forreston.
Every town and hamlet in Ellis |
county will be given an opportunity |
to contribute something to the fund. |
Up 10 this time Ellis county has
contributed put sI35 to the Texas /
fund, 500 of this was paid by the
Citizens National Bank, of this cIty, |
and - by an Ennis bank.
Mr.. Paddock said that notwith- |
standing the Texas exhibit was de- |
pendent on private subscriptions, in /
dseatious were that il would be the |
most varied and intensely interest
ing state exhibit az the fair. No ad- /
equate sidea could be given Of the /
vast amount " work done in getting
together an exhibit of Texas re-
sources, aud ali the work had been
done practically without remunera-
tioni tie only salaried persons be-
lag Manager Workman and his Office
assistant. FL Paso, Tom Green,
Tarrant and other counties ad paid
Ia their fuu assessments, and in
some instances, more. Many Other
counties had met the call upon them.
Ellis county had not. Situated in
the richest section of Texas, this
eeaasY was ia position TO gain more
than most any other from the Texas
exhibit, and ii should pay fair pro-
portion OF the expense. He was just
as sure that we would reap rich re-
suits as he was that coupons on IA
government bond would be paid at
maturity. At D@nison, few days
ago, he said, he secured 5000 at at
meeting Of business men. Waxa
aachie ought aud eoald do as we'll.