FOURTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART I 55 



Place strip around balcony in agricultural buildms; to keep dust from 

 falling down on exhibits ou lower floor. 



Order fifty galvanized iron garbage cans. 



Build addition to barn for police and marshals' horses that will stall 

 fourteen to sixteen head. 



Put In one additional wash stand in the court of swine barn. 



Put up band stand east of stock pavilion for Sunday concerts and for 

 Fisher's band during the week. 



Put in sidewalk from southwest corner of machinery hall to Machinery 

 avenue. Also a north aind south walk through the block east of the street 

 car entrance. 



Screen in the north and west porches of the Rest Cottage for a day 

 nursery. 



Put up two additional flag poles on the horse barn. 



Order 17 5 boxes from O'Dea Hardware Company in accordance with 

 their bid of 50c each in which to exhibit small grain. 



WEDNESDAY, JULY 23. 



The committee in company with Railroad Commissioner Thorne 

 and other representatives of the railroad commission and commerce 

 counsel, and Attorney General Cosson. attended the hearing be- 

 fore the U. S. District Court at Council Bluffs relative to granting 

 the railroads a temporary injunction restraining the railroad com- 

 mission from putting in reduced rates to the Iowa State Fair. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING. 

 JULY 28, 29, 30, 1913. 



Committee met with all members present. The purpose of the 

 meeting w^as to open bids for general contract and plumbing for 

 the women and children's building to be erected on the Iowa State 

 Fair grounds. 



Bids were received on the following proposal and opened at two 

 o'clock July 29th. 



PROPOSAL. 



I will furnish all materials and do all the labor as required by the 

 plans and specifications, (as revised July 1, 1913), for the new Women and 

 Children's Building to be located at the Iowa State Fair Grounds, for the 

 sum of $ 



If the tile of the Niagara pattern are used on the main roof, deduct 



If 5 to 2-in. cedar shingles, stained with a coat of oil stain, are used on 

 the main roof in place of tile, deduct $ 



