The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-16

the Fair as held by the Alabama Axri- cultural Association during october of 1906. Tn said issue. reference was made to certain officials connected with said Association. and. being Treasurer desire to make the following state ment:
 "As Treasurer of the Agricultural Association, did, on or about, the 1st day of December, 1s0e make report to the President of said Association, giving an accurate account of all moness received by me, likewise all moneys paid out by me. an important Item of which was cash receipts from sale of tickets My report made to the President of the Association, Mir. W. F. vandiver. as to the moneys received from the sale of tickets, was duly ac- cepted by him and pronounced correct. The facts upon which said ticket re- port was based are as follows:
 The original supply of tickets as re- ceived from the printers was turned over to Mir. l.. B. Whitfield, in whose sole charge they were. On the first dax of the Fair, the same being Mon- day, MT. Whitfield Issued to the differ ent ticket sellers a supply of tickets sufficient for the demands of the public for that day; for each roll of tickets so issued, he required of the ticket sellers receipt; with each ticket sell- UA AG AE4t 8 IOPy oI S1lu ItCttQNs T was my duty, as Treasurer, to call on each ticket seller at the conclusion of each day, ascertain from the receipts as Issued by MT. Whitfield. and signed by the ticket sellers, the number of tickets left with said ticket sellers for that day. and In order that might arr rive at the true sales of tickets for said day. l charged myself with the total number of tickets as issued by Mir. WhifnAfd lhnwn hxr A int rt- voucher signed by the ticket seller. From the total of these tickets I de- ducted all unsold tickets or tickets then in the hands of the ticket sellers, the difference being the amount of the ticket sales for that day. The amount so shown was turned over to me in cash by the different ticket sellers and q receipt issued to them for the amount. This was continued from day to day during the entire session of the Fair, and while 1t Is true that on one or two occasions the ticket vouche CTS called for numbers that did not per- fectly agree with the numbers as shown on the ticket rolls themselves, the requisite number of rolls was duly accounted for--in fact, in making my final report to the President Mr. W. F. Vandiver. and after having accounted to him in cash for every ticket sold, I found still on hand eight full rolls of 1000 each of the denomination of 25 cents. and four full rolls of 1000 each of the denomination of SO cents.
 These twelve rolls. along with other unused rolls and parts of rolls were held in my oftice subject to the orders Of the Association. In making out my report to MT. W. F. Vandiver as to the amount of cash received from the sale of tickets, I was careful to show. not only the number of tickets sold each day, but I also showed the number of each denomination so sold and name of the ticket seller making the sale.
 Ticket Report Correct.
 NOW. as an evidence of the fact that my ticket report was true and cor rect and should have been duly ac- cepted by Mir. W. F. vandiver, he re- quired at the hands of Mir. l.. B. Whit field. that he take up from the ticlee takers, or the parties who were sta. tioned at the several gates for the purpose of receiving from the public their tickets as they entered the grounds, all tickets as used by the pub lic from morning of each day until the fair grounds were closed that night Mir. Whitfield faithfully collected up these tickets every night, carried them to his office or to his home, each day's ticket receipts being kept separate. At the conclusion of the Fair, he made out an itemized statement of each and ev- cry ticket taken in at the gates of the Fair grounds specifying the denomi- nation both of 25 cents. 35 cents and 50 cents. The total number of tickets so received by Mir. Whitfield, after be- ing reduced to dollars and cents, in- dicated that I. as Treasurer, should have received so much money On re- ferring to my report fe developed had accounted to Mir. Vandiver for several dollars. as I remember 1t. between $35 and $40 in excess of the tickets so ta~ ken up by Mir. Whitfield, and as was the opinion of Mir. Whitfield, Mir. Vandiver and myself. the overplus in cash, as shown by my report, was acc counted for by the general public hav- ing bought tickets and lost them or in other ways failed to use them.
 My contention is that Mir. WhitdeId's report and my report. both of which are now on file in the oflce of the As- sociation and which show for them. selves. prove the correctness of each, and in view of the fact my report and the report as prepared by MT. Whit field are more than $10,000 less than the Auditors report on this one item alone, am constrained to say Mir. Whit field and myself are correct and the Auditor wrong. have never been approached by any one in the interest of the Fair Association for any in- formation but what said information has been freely given--in fact, I have never been called upon to, explain any feature Of my report. except an item of S3,000, said application having been made to me only few weeks since and the desired information furnished by my producing a voucher for the $s.-