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way Company, for the purpose of considering the change in the 

 street car entrance at the fair grounds. 



The correspondence with Mr. C. F. Curtiss and Mr. 0. J. Mooers 

 relative to the use of one of the show horse barns and the stock 

 pavilion by Mr. Mooers was considered. The committee agreed 

 to grant Mr. Mooers the use of one barn at the usual rental of 

 $1.00 per stall per month, and the use of the pavilion during rainy 

 weather and the winter months free. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING. 

 JUNE 13, 1912. 



Committee met with all members present. 



The president of the Des Moines City Railway Company, Emil 

 G. Schmidt, met with the committee to further consider changes 

 in the street car entrance to the fair grounds. 



An agreement was reached whereby the City Railway Company 

 agreed to change their tracks providing the state fair manage- 

 ment would give said company a twenty-five year lease on the 

 south forty feet of lots 2 to 25 inclusive in block A and lots 10 

 and 22, block D, Cotton Mill Addition to Grant Park, on which 

 to construct the necessary sidings, loop, switches and turnouts. 



EXECUTIVE AND SPECIAL COMMITTEE MEETING. 

 JUNE 18-21, 1912. 



The executive committee met with all members present, also 

 board members Johnston, Curtin, Summers, Curtiss, and assistant 

 superintendent of the speed department, A. L. Denio. 



The following contracts were approved: 



Contract with the National Aeroplane Company of Chicago for three 

 aeroplanes. 



Contract with R. R. Colwell, Mansfield, Ohio, for the score card privilege. 



Contract with the Midwest Advertising Agency for publishing the 

 oflScial catalog. 



Propositions from Iowa bands and orchestras were considered. 

 The committee decided to award contract for band to the Fifty- 

 fourth Infantry Band of Ottumwa at $875.00, twenty-five mu- 



