The Cairo bulletin., 1910-03-19
FREE TROili Rll)F
PEOPLE ALONG iNTEHuREAfl
LINE MAY COME TO CAIRO
NEXT TUESDAY.
Supt. Of lnterurban Read Offers Hat
Fare and Retail Merchants
May Distribute Tickets

diu fHIFNHaftS
May Distribute Tickets
Free.
Another enthusiastic mnetine Vas
held Ia t night by the Eatasl Mer-.
chants Association. at ms.'ch re
subject OF excursions to Cairo wa
further discussed. Alderman Nee
han presided over tie meeting anil
called for a report from Geo. r..
Carnes. chairman Of the committee
appointed at the previous meeting to
confer with the railroad men MIR.
Carnes said there was not mrch to
report The commit ee had conferred
with the representative Of the vari-
Gus roads here. and these had found
il necessary to talie the matter up
with their superiors. HIe had SIR.
ance, however, that an answer would
be bad in a. day or two, TX
The most important propo it.oi
came from Supt, Mel apghfihs of the
interurban railroad to the effect that
the company would give a one, fare
round trip rate on any day tho a so
ciation might designate,
ID. r. Mccarthy 1oelieycd some ar
rangement should be made by witch
the cars were RIM free on that day.
Agent King, OF the Mobile & Ohio,
made the talk OF the evening. He
said from correspondence he had seen
with ssuperiors in the pas enger de-
|partmeats CT the railroads .tsey did
not favor running cxrui' tons into
Cairo inst to lct pcap see thai we
were all right Their lea was that
If the people of Cairo wished to let
the people Of neighboiina towns
knew that they were all right, they
should behave them elves and -alver
|tisa the fact ore i'sirg which stood
in the way OF runnin, excursions into
Cairo before Easter was that the
Interstate Commerce law pronii'ited
excursions except when advert cd
at least 80 DAYS in. advance
Mr.. King suggested that Caro-
merchants adopt the method Of the
st. Louis MERCHANTS. offer refund sips
ito buyers Of merchandise Of from
Ave TO eight per cont on all lur'
lcbaGcs. to cover railroad fare, This
lhad proven successful Ia otter cti-s
land wo''d 10 50 hero. he bad nc
doubt ettess sent 10 the roop G aoi
lall towi,s along the ralroo viii IN
Ia reasonable distance. making tnf
announcement and civin~ n list n
arirs that would Offer them lin
world he en- rtlye. This methos
would I've better than excursions, be
cause while the latter would btinl
In lot Of people in one day. half o
whom did not come to make pur
chases, the other method woull
enable people to come every day D
the week, al the;r conyeninee AM
get their tram ortation free
A Mr.. Hoss spoke al great lengtl
about excursions and attractions K
bring people to Cairo.
Mr.. Mccarthy sail what the bus
mess men of Cairo were after wa:
not sight.seers, but buyers, and h
believed Mr.. Kings suggestion wa
the best to gain this purpose. Mr.
Kings proposition was referred K
! the standing committee for con i'd
Grafton and to report
On motion OF Mr.. Carnes the propo
| sition Of Mr.. Mclaughlin was &C
cepted. the day for the first evcur
sion being next Tuesday.
In reply to Alderman Nellis, Mr.
Mclaughlin said the company would
furnish merchants aitht'skets whIcl
they could distribute free Of cost X
people in Mounds, Mound Citya ans
other towns, II they wished TO DO 90
The matter of advertising the affaii
was left to committee composed O
selden Fisher Al f. Staehle and r
D. Nellis. @A
The subject Of a free ferry wa,
again discussed, and IL was decides
that road building, especially in Ken
lucky, was an important incident Il
this connection A.g y v. i
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