370 _ STATE JBOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Superintendent Main Building and Concessions reported: 



Officers and Members of the Executive Committee of the Michigan State 

 Agricultural Society: 



Gentlemen — As superintendent of concessions for the fair, 1905, I 

 would submit the following report: 



The total receipts from all sources of the department were |8,764.30. 



The concessions can be classified as: Concessions for which the so- 

 ciety furnished shelter; concessions working on percentage basis, and 

 the miscellaneous concessions for which the grantee pays cash at a 

 fixed rate of price per foot frontage. 



We furnished shelter in grand stand for: 



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Swan & Norton |2,000 00 



Geo. Young 770 00 



Jordan & Bernstein 200 00 



Dan O'Connor 100 00 



C. A. Everett 30 00 



13,100 00 



In dining hall for: 



Swan & Norton |500 00 



Main Building, Gl concessions 651 80 



Check room tent 82 77 



Dairy tent, dairy lunch, Lawrence Snell 50 00 



1,284 57 



Total from concessions furnished shelter $4,384 57 



Concessions on per cent basis: 



H. A. Kline, tent shows |796 23 



Sign writing 42 89 



Anderson Lumber Co 35 25 



Detroit Lumber Co 16 00 



Berger & Anderson, photos 6 00 



Johnson Tent Co 5 65 



J. C. Goss Tent Co 32 65 



Barber shop 20 00 



1954 67 



One hundred and nine miscellaneous concessions, 



the society furnishing ground only |3,402 26 



Collection from sale of old material 22 80 



Total receipts from the department |8,764 30 



These receipts total an amount double those of any year in the history 

 of the society except the last 3'ear held on the old exposition grounds 

 in this city, where, with a ten day's fair, the South Sea Islanders and 

 other World's Fair attractions, the receipts reached a little over $8,000, 

 but not as high oven then as last year. 



It Avas the intention of your superintendent to entirely eliminate the 

 gambling game feature from the grounds and so far as known nothing 

 of the kind existed. 



The amusements furnished by the vaudeville shows were of a varied 



