The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-02
MARY GARDENGOT
SEVENTYPERC CENT
Public Bled i'll Name Of Charity,
When Charity Gets
but Little. "a
CITY WON'T AID SHOW FOLK
Committee Will Not Rent Audi
forum Hereafter Under
False Pretenses.
city WON'T AID SHOW FOLK.

Entertainments for the benefit O.
some charitable institution, but from
which charity receives little or No
benefit received n check last night
| when tho Council Committee OF
Grounds and Buildings declined &c
| grant the use of the City Auditorium
at nominal rate for a series Of must.
cal entertainments, notifying the pro-
inoters that they must pay the fixed
n rate OF $50 per night. A
Some weeks ago the use of tho civ
Auditorium was allowed to promoters
OF the Mary Garden concert at a nom
maj rate the committee being inform
cd that 1t was for the benefit Of the
Fine Camp Sanatarium. It later APP
peared that while the concerts rcaliz-
cd about $4,000, Miss Gnrden got
seventy per cent. the expenses tool, n
large part of the balance. and Pine
Camp received an almost insignificant
part of the proceeds.
Demands Full Rntc.
volunteer musical organization
asked last night for the auditorium
TOR June 16 and II, promising 10 d.
vide the net proceeds with Pine Camp
and Sheltering Arms Hospital The de-
pate was extended. and II was brought
out that the singers proposed ito bring
costumes here from New York, and
would have other expenses aggregat-
ing more than $500. SO that at popular
prices, the hospitals would receive
little benefit. Members of the commit
tee dcplored the fact that reputable
hospitals and worthy charities were
allowing their names 10 he used by ALI
sorts of entertainment enterprises.
ten bringing them into disrepute and
The statement was made that the or
sanized charities should be protected
from scheminE advance agents OF all
sorts OF amusement enterprises who
make large promises secure conces
sions and assistance under the Suise
OF charity, and yet render little or
nothing to the charity whose name is
used. -
Cheaper Than Real Theatres.
Heretofore the committee has grant
ed The use of the Auditorium at the
nominal price OF s1o-less than the
cost OF lights and janitor attention. 10
charitable and benefit enterprises.
charging otherwise $50 for each night.
the latter rate being about one half
the cost of renting one of the licensed
taN-paying theatres for a night The
committee decided that hereafter n
would stick to the $50 rate. unless
mere were some guarantee az to what
the beneficiary would get No applt-
ca ton for the building came from Pine
camp or the board of the Sheterins
Arms, the application coming only
rom the promoters of the concert.
The. playground subcommittee re-
ported that all city Fairgrounds would
De opened on June g. including two
added since last summer, one on ,be
Van Lew property on Church Hill. and
one on property of the Chesapeake and
ohio Railway In Fulton Supervisors
and monitors were elected on nomina-
lion oil the Federation of Taother's
cubs. and the report adopted Plans
we're approved for keepers hruses in
Joseph Bryan and Marshall Parks. II
was announced that the summer band
concerts would open on Monday night
at Chimborazo Park.