The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-03


land syndicate who desired to cut
dJ up into town lots. Our people re-
fused the offer, and told the city If
they would assume the $4,000 bonded
debt We would give them the property.
This the city accepted, and we then
made a contract with them that We
would give a fair each year for TWEEN
ty years. at cur own expense, and
without any cost, expense, or liability
whatever to the city, and expend on
the grounds each year every dollar of
our net profits. Fifteen hundred citi-
zeEs of Dallas signed this agreement.
and put up the money beginning on
this last contract with the fair of 1905.
They also agreed that no officer or
director, save the secretary, should
receive any remuneration whatever
for his services, and no stOckhOlder
any dividend on his stock, each share
OF stock TO be a donation. and the
only privilege 10 the StOckhOldeT be-
ing a free entrance to the fair grounds
for each share Of stock he might own.
The fair Of 1905 cleared sos, 200.
which We spent on the grounds and
for the betterment of the fair Of 1906.
the fair of 1906 cleared $50, 900, which
We spent on the grounds and for the
betterment of the fair of 1907, and the
fair of 1907 cleared sos, 600 which
we are now eXpending on the grounds
and for the betterment of the fair
of 1908.
The railroads running into Dallas
have been very liberal to us during all
of these twenty-five years. They have
given us a rate of one fare and a third
from all over the state for the entire
length of the fair: for a four days
limit they have given us rate of
70 Y-c MI ton q
trip, not TO exceed 81 for the round
trip within radius of 100 miles, and
on one day a rate of s. round trip
from any point in the state of Texas.
Our street car facilities are not sur
passed by any city in the United States
SO far as our fair is concerned. Every
car line in the city. during the fair,
ieads to the fair grounds for five
cent fare.
Children Advertise Fair.
We open on Saturday, making the
opening day free for all children un-
der twelve years of age, but We are
not very particular about scanning
their ages, as we intend it as a free
day for children, even If they do creep
over the age limit a little. We make
it a point to have our fair full open,
shows IN full blast, and we depend al
great deal on the advertising that the
children give US in talking about the
fair when they go back to their homes.
We ruin three Sundays. closing on the
last Cne and these three Sundays are
our largest days, for on account of
the 81 rate we get trainloads of peo-
pie from all over the surrounding ter
ritOry within so or so miles, composed
Of clerks, employees and people gen
orally who canncT come during the
NO
that every boy and girl within so miles
of this place have already made upl
their minds to attend this fair on onel
OF these Sundays. Our laws are very
liberal towards us on this score, and
there being no Individual gain or
profit connected with this fair, we are
not at all bashful in asking our legiS-
lature to mako us separate and dis
tiDct charter, giving Us privileges on
the fair grounds on Sundays that aTel
not accorded any other section of our
city.
I'D to the present, the prohibition
wave has not reached us, nor has theI
anti-poOI law struck US. nor can Il df-I
feet us for at least one more fair. as
our legislature does not meet until at
ter the close OF our 1908 entertain
ment What Will become of the anti
pool law then. We cannot say. The
race department OF our fair Is a very
prominent one: we give thirteen days
racing. $40, 900 in purses, and last year
our Erandstapd receipts and pool-sell-
ing privileges paid the total amount
of our race department expenses and
left US a profit of something hike $50
OGCr
The merchants here in town are so
busy during the fair that we have
never asked them to give US more
than enc day, but we demand that
from them. and they have always com
piled by closing up every store In the
city. and making it. a mark of honor
- be seen on the fair grounds on Dal
las day.
Our admission fee for adults is fifty
cents. for children, twenty-five cents.
and this entities the purchaser to one
admission to the grounds. IF he goes
cut and desires to come back in again
the same day, he has to buy another
ticket lust as though he had raver
been in before We have found cut
from ICng experience that IL would
never do 10 issue return checks 10
people who desired 10 20 out OF the
grounds. for if W did. the same Check
could be used by a dozen different
people Il a man desires 70 80 in and
cut of the grounds at viii, We have
arranged that he -au have his photo.
graph put On his + -lzet, which will
admit him back and forth through the
gates as often as J. D likes.
We charge twenty-five cents for We!
hicIes, bu. make The driver ard each
occupant pay fFty cents. Where public
hacks desire % 10 50, VIC sell them a
privilege 4 sic. which privilege en-
titles hack AID driver 10 pass in and
CO. Of the crCunds at will during the
entire lEGgth OF the fair.
We have no free space on Our fair
grounds: We charge ten cents per
square foot for exhibit space ii our
Exposition building. five cents peri
square feet IL cur Vehicle and lmple-i
uent building. and three cents per
square foot fer outdoor space. all of
ne above chars -beinC 10 eXhi bitOrs.