The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-09-29
Fashion and Show Week, Dollar Day and
Best Of All CarniVaIs Will Be
Widely Advertised
TWELVE BIG TENTS;
TWO FREE SHOWS
A Whole Lot for the Round Dollar and
Fashion Display With Live
Models Among Items


A discussion of unusual interest was
precipitated at the regular session of
the city council last night when B. F.
Morgan, on behalf of the Commercial
and Farm Bureau, asked the council
to remit the $50 daily license for a big
carnival company which, under the au-
spices Of the bureau, would soon come
to Chickasha for a weeks engagement.
He stated that under a contract al
ready entered into with the Great Pat
terson Shows the Commercial and
Farm Bureau expected to receive be-
tween 5000 and $500 as its share, r.
resenting Is per cent of the gross
ceeds. The bureau, as all know, is
great asset to the community, but in
endeavoring to advance the interests
OF Chickasha and Grady county 1t had
acquired balance Of about $400 on
the debit side Of the ledger. With the
profits expected to accure from this
show and carnival week in Chickasha
as the result of bringing to the COM
munity good and clean attraction the
bureau would be lifted out OF debt and
would have funds with which to oper-
ate. He therefore asked the city coun-
Gil to remit the rally license tax of
$50 in order that greater profits might
accrue to the bureau, which otherwise
would hasc to bear the burden Of the
license which would reduce its profits
to about $780,
In the beginning the council seemed
not disposed to consider the matter Sc
riously, but as Mr.. Morgan went more
directly into the question the interest
Of the members was aroused and with
single exception no dissension was
expressed. The single opponent was
Councilman Linn. who expressed him
self as being opposed to offering any
concession whatever to carnivals OF
any kind, declaring that he should pre-
fer to tax the carnival and to then re-
turn the $50 a day to the Commercial
and Farm Bureau. He cited instances
wherein carnival managements have
noe kept faith with local beneficiaries,
had withheld from them commissions
on their most lucrative attractions.
The fireboys, for instance, had brought
carnival attractions to this city on two
occasions when they were firmly con
vinced that they would place several
hundred dollars in their treasury.
Smooth work on the Part Of the carni-
val officers, however, showed the boys
that the profits in the show business
were really very small and he had lost
confidence in their promises.
Mr.. Linn also stated that notwith-
standing the contract which they had
entered into with the bureau and
which he had not seen, he was quite
sure that it contained joker and that
the local organization would find that
certain parts of the proceeds would
stick to the bell rope by virtue of omis-
sion of mention Of some of their best
paying tents.
This aroused Mr.. Morgan to the ex
tent that he offered to donate to Coun-
Gilman Linn a $50 suit of clothes if
the carnival people got away with a
single penny that shodld justly come
to the bureau under the terms of the
contract. Every money making devise,
even to the baby dolls, came within
the province of the bureaus revenue
and if the bureau did not make money
out of the transaction it would be be-
cause the people of this section did
not know and patronize good show
when they saw one. Furthermore, ne
said the management had guaranteed
the bureau a profit Of $3.50 under all
conditions.
Mayor Coffman and others backed
Mr.. Morgan in his contentious. and
proffered proof that the coming carni-
val was in fact big and a good show
and it was unanimously voted that the
license for the week be remitted.
The week beginning October IT,
promises to be an active one in bust
ness circles in Chickasha when one
of the greatest carnival shows in the
country will spend week here AMI