The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-13
Committees That Have Affair
in Charge Plan to Waste No
Time in Preparing for the
Big Event.
PLAN STRING OF LIGHTS
FROM MAIN TO NORTH E
Decorating Committee Intends
to Connect Two Business
Districts With Blaze of
Electricity.

Active prepa, ations for the Fall Fes-
tival will be started on Friday when
meetings of the amusement. privilege
and decoration committees will be
held. Promoters of the festival say
that from present prospects the 1910
event will be larger than ever before.
The decorating committee is planning
more extensive work than last year
and the amusement committee expects
to secure better attractions. An ad-
vertising campaign will be commenced
in a few weeks. when the poster. de-
signed by Charles Clawson. will be
ready for the public.
The feature of the decorating as
planned will be a chain of electric
lights, connecting the business district
of North E street with that OF Main
street. This chain will be on either
Ninth or Tenth street and strung at
the height of the regular arc lights.
Tenth street is favored because 1T is
wider. although Niath street is more
centrally located. touching as 1t does,
the middle of both the north end and
the Main street business sections. The
committee expects to use the usual
arc light decoration on Main street.
but more extensively than before. The
meeting Of the decoration COMMITTEES
will take place at the Leeds room on
MIN str0et. Friday TiiSlit. 80
Plan 70. Amussmsnts.
Charles M. Marsh. representing the
Theatrical Exchange OF Chicago. will
meet with the privilege and amuse-
ment committees on Friday. F. L. Tor
renee and Fred Lahrman are the chair
men Of these committees. The The
atrical Exchange is one of the biggest
booking firms In the country for plat
form and small shows. In a letter to
Secretary w. w. Keller. of the Young
Mems Business club. Marsh states
that he has en excellent line of shows
this year. This concern has booked
shows for the Indiana state fair at In
dianapolis for several years, and is
thoroughly reliable.
Many new advertising schemes will
be employed by the advertising COM
mittee. 1t has been suggested that q
number of large muslin signs advertis-
ing the festival be printed and dis
played at county fairs and racing
meets within a radius of $50 miles of
Richmond. A large delegation Of Fall
Festival boosters will go to the racing
meet at Hamilton. O., during the last
week in July. Other big fairs to be
visited are the Preble county fair at
Eaton, o., and the Fayette county fair
at Connersville.
Posters May be Free.
A great many posters are left over
from last year and because of this it
has been suggested that only a nomin-
al sum be charged for the posters
this year, instead Of twenty-five cents,
as was charged last fall. Some mem
bers OF the executive committee favor
putting out the posters to the public
free. Last year merchants were furn-
ished posters free provided they would
exhibit them. A suggestion was made
that the placards be sent free to out
Of town people in case their names
and postage to cover the cost of send
ing them are sent to the executive
committee.
The premium list went to the print
er yesterday. Eight thousand copies
will be printed and sent to all farm
ers In this section OF the county.