The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-03-18
SEE NEED OF BIG AUDITORIUM
Promoters of the Show Plan for Next
Years Show as Curtain is Rung
Down at the Coliseum on Saturday
Night. are Pleased.

Nine thousand two hundred and six
ty-two people attended the automobile,
grain and poultry show at the Coliseum
on the last three days of last week as
spectators and when the doors of the
Coliseum were locked at half past rine
o'clock Saturday night and the big
presents offered by the retailers asso-
citation were given away and the men
with automobiles and other exhibits be-
gan to move, the men who ha1 pro-
mo ed and had worked for the success
of the big exhibit wore smiles that
wouldn It come off, 1t was the most
successful thing of the kind ever pulled
off in this part of the country. The ex-
amin ton of the box Office receipts
showed that more than $3.50 people had
more than 5000 had attended as guests
of the committee in charge. It is shown
by these figures that the 5000 repre-
sented the people who came in from the
rural districts as the free tickets were
given away at the opera house follow
ing the regular sessions of the farmers !
institute.
It was a real show from lot of
standpoints. Successful from fnan-
cial standpoint and the small amount
secured from the sale of tickets will 90
into the treasury Of the retailers as
ISOLATION to make up the big deficit
LETT when the expenses o. the last farm
ers institute was hel in Kenosha and
lit will FUR sh nucleus for the put
ting on of a bigger show next year.
From the standpoint of the people who
exhibited the show was great Twelve
automobiles, three motor trucks were
sold during the three days and the men
who handle the motto cars got whole
lot OF prospects which promise to bring
business later in the year. The people
who had the smaller booths did bust.
ness and many bonafide sales were re-
ported at all of these booths. One of
the most successful booths at the show
was that of the Kenosha EQUAL Stuff
rage League. Here the names of more
than 100 Kenosha county women who
are interested in knowing more about
the league received total Of more
than $50 new members. This means
nearly doubling the membership of the
! Kenosha county organization in sin
gle week. The people who exhibited at
the poultry show found it profitable. A
lot of the chickens which had won prize
ribbons were sold and many orders were
secured by the exhibitors.
Saturday night was a great night at
the show and Saturday was the prize
day for paid admissions. More than
2700 dimes were dropped in at the box
office and Then the big prizes of the
exhibit We're given away just after nine
0 clock there were nearly thousand
people in the building. A sixteen piece
orchestra furnished music and the only
reason the show did not end with 4
city-coun'ry dance was the fact that
the automobile men refused to Get their
exhibits out of the way and leave the
floor clear
Before the doors we're closed Satur-
day night plans were being made for a
show to be held next year. The men
who have been in charge see the great
need Of larger auditorium for Keno
sha and it is just possible that the show
just closed will result in a movement
being started for the building of such
an auditorium. Many plans are being
discussed and it is possible that before
the year passes some plan will have
been worked out. 1t is certain that for
another similar show twice as much
space could be sold.
The Coliseum had been stripped of
nearly all of the exhibits by noon
ION Sunday and the committee was
busy getting up its report to the Asso-
citation of t outcome of the successful
show