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for at least one year and try it out; say in February some time after 

 the state fairs have their meeting in Chicago, and at that time you would 

 find all of the vaudeville people and the other people here. I don't know 

 that you would save any money, but I think you would be more inde- 

 pendent than you are by looking at it in a catalog. 



If I should pick out one of the attractions and one of our members 

 who had had that show would say it was no good, it would be easy for 

 me to see that it wasn't what we wanted. As far as I am concerned, I 

 should like to see this meeting tried out. I would suggest that the matter 

 be referred to the executive committee to make a report on a spring meet- 

 ing for the fair managers here in Des Moines at such time as they deem 

 advisable and I believe it would be to our advantage. I believe that 

 every man that comes here secures good ideas and you are bound to get 

 something out of the meeting. I got an idea from a man this morning 

 that will pay part of my expenses down here today. 



If it is the will of this body I should like to hear from some of the 

 other men. We should make a trial of it and have it here in February 

 or March, or the week following the week the state fairs have their 

 meeting. 



The Chairman: Now, gentlemen, these are all the speakers that have 

 been assigned to this subject. It is now open to discussion and we would 

 like to hear from you who have not been assigned topics for discussion 

 but who have thought of it here or who desire to get information. 



Mr. Rigby: I move that it be the sense of this organization that the 

 matter of a spring meeting be referred to the executive committee with 

 power to act. 



Motion seconded. 



The Chairman: And that the matter of details be left to the executive 

 committee with power to act? 



Mr. Rigby: Yes. 



Motion seconded. 



Mr. Bradley: What is the object of having it in the spring. I don't 

 believe we would have a corporal's guard here in the spring. Why 

 couldn't we have it at this time and save expense? 



Mr. Shipman: I am in favor of this meeting. I don't suppose I will 

 be here. We have a peculiar situation down with us. The secretary comes 

 here to this meeting and when he returns home he goes before the society 

 for election, and if he is defeated what he learns here may be lost. But 

 the free attractions are handled by a committee and I want that committee 

 here at the spring meeting. They are the ones that should be here. I am 

 very much in favor of that meeting, and I think we can send our attrac- 

 tions committee here at the time and believe they will get more informa- 

 tion in a day or in an afternoon than in three or four days at different 

 times in the year, as at present. I am in favor of it. 



Mr. Pabst: I agree with the gentleman just on the floor. As I look 

 at this matter, it concerns concessions or the privilege committee more 

 than any other division of the county or district fairs. I believe a 



