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the tickets and the gate, and he is also one of the executive board. 

 He has been at it twenty years and he understands it thoroughly. 

 He takes this work from the secretary. This year, I will say, I 

 did not over-strain myself in regard to work, because every one 

 of the superintendents was familiar with the work. Next year 

 we will have the same working forces. But if you have a system 

 whereby you can get co-operation it takes a good deal of work 

 from the secretary. 



In regard to ticket sellers, we have fourteen ticket sellers this 

 year. We have three main entrances. The fourth is down by 

 the horse stable. It is not called a main entrance. "We have an 

 automobile entrance, the main pedestrian entrance, and one where 

 the teams come in. So, really, we have fourteen ticket takers. 

 Now, in regard to the accounting system. The gentleman here 

 said in regard to his tickets that they appoint a committee, that 

 is, the man that has charge of the tickets and gates, that is the 

 ticket gate treasurer. Our treasurer and committee on this has 

 charge of the tickets and gates. Before the fair we find out how 

 many tickets we want, the secretary orders them and as soon as 

 he orders them he checks them to the treasurer. The treasurer 

 has absolute charge of the tickets. The tickets are no more trouble 

 to me, than it would be if we had no tickets at all. He checks 

 up what he leaves in my office, and we make distribution of season 

 tickets to the banks, and we only issue one ticket at that. Re- 

 garding the collection of tickets in the morning, they start both 

 ways from this one gate, the main entrance gate. They are all 

 locked, the automobile gate and the team gate are both locked. 

 They start both ways. Every booth has to have a ticket the first 

 morning. Everybody has to have an identification card of some 

 kind. If it is a complimentary ticket or whatever it is, he has 

 got to have some ticket. We issue pass out checks. We haven't 

 the least bit of trouble. Our pass out tickets issue up to 1 :30. 

 Our evening entertainment comes at 2 o'clock. Pass out tickets 

 are no good after half-past two, and we live up to it. Every- 

 body has got to have a pass out check. 



Our daily tickets are the same the season through, but the pass 

 out checks are a different color each day. We issue four dif- 

 ferent colors, and everybody has absolutely got to have a pass out 

 check, and these are no good after half-past two o'clock. We 

 don't issue these checks to you to put on your coat, we don't use 



