Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-15
CITY FETE FUND
\ IS SLOW COMING
N,SAYS VANCE
Budgets for $4,000 Already
Approved, but Only $780,
$50 Collected.

Although budgets in excess of $780,
900 have already been approved by
the executive and finance committee
of the Committee of One Hundred, or
are soon to be submitted for approval,
the collections toward the $3.50, 900
fund for the 250th anniversary jubilee
next year have only reached the $159,-
/. 900 mark. Secretary Wilson J. Vance
today announced collections of $499. so,
bringing the total to $3.50, ,353S4.
Included in the budgets approved or
TO be submitted, and the moneys
already actually spent, are the over
head expenses, the industrial exposl-
ton budget of the manufacturers and
trade committee, $40, 900: the pageant
expenses, S51,S00; about $4,000 to the
athletics committee; an approximate
budget of between $4,000 and $4,000
of the parades and decorations COM
mittee; $500 already given the pub
licity committee, which will spend
much more; $4,000 for the committee
on schools and philanthropy; and a
sum likely in excess of $4,000 for the
monuments and tablets committee.
Seasonal tickets, such as are issued
for New York city, will likely be
issued for Newark from all points east
of the Mississippi river. as a result
of a conference between the trans
/. portation committee of the Committee
of One Hundred, and representatives.
OF the railroads running passenger
trains into Newark, at the Committee
of One Hundred, and representa- tives
O'clock today.
This morning representatives of the
Pennsylvania railroad visited H.
al 1iVao orf a n
the Committee of One Hundred, and
offered all the cooperation they could
supply In the advertisement of the
Jubilee and all the facilities for dis
play advertising the bulletin boards
of their stations in Pittsburgh and
east of that city afford.
Programs and handbills of all fea-
,tures of the celebration are to be dis
tributed on their trains east of that
poirit and portfolios of the Newark
err" the official organ of the jubilee
committee, are to be placed in all the
club cars on their through trains.
An exhibit in Philadelphia of tho
pN sters entered in the jubilee poster
contest is almost certain The Penn
sylvania railroad representatives
made valuable suggestions for the dis
play. The display is to open in the
Anderson Galleries, New York, on
october 70, ana Will emu with the niBnI
of October 81.
Plans for the pageant which is to be
q feature of the 250th anniversary
celebration next year were discussed
by the pageant committee of the Com
nnittee of One Hundred last night.
They include the enlisting of fifty or
more residents of the city, not men,
bers of the Committee of One Hun
dred, in the work of preparing for
and producing the pageant. These ap-
pointees. on SUBJ committees. will CO.
operate with the members of the
pageant committee in shaping the
pageant and bringing out the utmost
possibilities of the staging and
scenery and TIE 5000 Newark people
who are to take part.
These sub-committees to the pageant
committee, made up of Newark people,
will likely be appointed at a meeting
on October 20. The committees to be
filled are as follows: Book, auditorium
cast, organizations, costumes, dane
ing, music, lighting, properties. stage
setting, publications, speakers bureau,
sanitation, tickets and ushers, con-
struction and transportation.
Pageant Master Thomas Wood
Stevens and Mrs. Florence NJ. Hunt
were present at the meeting Mrs.
, Hunt will assist in the musical fea-
lures Of the arrangements.
The committee decided to meet
every other Friday night hereafter.
The meetings will be at 8 o'clock in
the Committee of One Hundred head
quarters on the eighth floor of the
Kinney building.