Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-12

taken for speedway, grandstands and
garages. At the same time the archi-
tects are having the work of preparing
plans for the buildings executed
Prosperity for City
This proposition, if carried out sue
cessfully (and there is no reason why
1t cannot be-, will mean for Harris
burg great prosperity from the fact
that it will bring hundreds of thou
sands of people to Harrisburg who will
spend hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, of which the bankers, business
men and the people generally will
share in the good it will do the conf
munity, as has been fully demon
strated by other speedways and State
fairs.
1T will be three years on the 10th
of next November since the work of
securing a site for the Keystone State
Fair and Industrial Exposition was
started and now we are meeting with
the business men of Harrisburg to pre-
sent to them our proposition and lay
! before them the progress made and
the financial condition of our COM
pany, which we take great pleasure in
doing.
Since our organization we have had
two or three propositions laid before
our company from promoters. One of
They agreed to loan our company
100000 upon the following terms and
conditions, namely: If our company
has sold 100000 of the companys
stock they would put up $4,000 and
as our statesmen were selling stock
they would put up in equal proper
tions to the amount sold, and for their
services they to receive S175,000 in
cash and bonus of S250,O00 in stock.
Only Endorsement Needed
Il did not agree in this, although
understood some were in favor of 1t.
II a few of the best representative
people of Harrisburg will take the
management of this proposition and
place the Chamber of Commerce of
Harrisburg in position to notify the
other Climbers of Commerce through
out the state that the proposition is
founded upon honest lines and is now
under careful strict, conservative
management. and the Motor Club of
Harrisburg do likewise with the motor
clubs throughout the state, and our
banks placed in a position to answer
| inquiries from other banks throughout
the state in a satisfactory way, it will
not take our organization long to float
its full capitalization"
DR.. Seibert's Letter
A letter was read from DR.. w. l..
Seibert, of Steelton, as follows:
you very SlnCSEely LOT lHS
kind invitation to attend a meeting to
be held in the interest of the Keystone
State Fair and Industrial Exposition
July II.
But am sorry to decline the invi-
tation, as my vacation occurs next two
weeks.
However, [ will add that it speaks
we'll for this great local enterprise
that the Chamber of Commerce takes
up the matter in a business manner.
This enterprise means much more
for Harrisburg and this locality around
Harrisburg than the community COM
prehends.
II fancy thousands of strangers will
gather here and remain for days once
the enterprise gets into operation and
in way 1t will help to put Harrisburg
still more prominently on the map of
the United States"
w, E, Skinner, general manager of
the National Dairy Show Association,
sent a letter telling what is being done
in this line in New England. He said:
THE twenty-five men who came out
to invite us hold our convention in the
East on their return journey pledged
the purchase price of 10 acres of land
upon which tho buildings were to be
constructed for the purpose of holding
an annual agricultural and industrial
exposition, and in six weeks time had
$3.50, 900 subscribed practically by the
citizens of two communities to con-
struct the equipment and finance the
work, and there is now in course of
erection beautiful coliseum and ade-
quate buildings for the housing of our
show this year as a starter. BY 1917
they will have one of the show places
of the country-I mean by this one of
the beautiful exhibition grounds and
plants of the United States. Their
scheme is wonderful and they are car
rying 1t through. making of it one OF
the spots that tourists through New
England will all visit; and 1t seems to
me that the people of Pennsylvania,
under the present agricultural con-
ditions of our country, owe to the
wealth. producing interests of the State
that they have at some place within
the boundaries of the State a fair
grounds that would not only be an at