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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING. 



March 9, 10, 11, 1910. 



Committee met with all members present. 



The matter of advertising the speed program was discussed and 

 the secretary instructed to place the advertisements about the same 

 as in 1909. 



Letters and literature from various parties with reference to free 

 acts, paid shows, music, etc., for the 1910 fair were gone over and 

 the merits of several propositions discussed. Mr. Simpson was in- 

 structed to prepare an outline of the amusement program prior 

 to the next meeting to be held in Chicago with officials of the 

 Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan State Fairs. 



Following the instructions of the board as set forth in the reso- 

 lution adopted at the meeting on February 11th, the compensation 

 of J. C. Simpson for extra services as member of and acting clerk 

 to the executive committee for the Iowa State Fair and Exposi- 

 tion was fixed at $1,800 per annum, payable monthly, dating from 

 March 1, 1910. 



The committee, with Mr. C F. Curtiss, member of the board, 

 considered the matter of employment of a landscape architect to 

 prepare plans for the future permanent development of the Iowa 

 State Fair and Exposition Grounds. Of the several landscape 

 architects of known ability and reputation the committee had in- 

 vited to meet with them, there were present, in person or by repre- 

 sentative, the following : 



O. C. Simonds, Chicago, Illinois. 



Warren Manning, Boston, Mass., by Mr. Ramsdell, representative. 



Charles Mulford Robinson, Rochester, N. Y. 



The committee also had a letter from M. J. "Wragg of Des Moines, 

 Iowa, containing his proposition. Competitive bids had not been 

 asked, for the reason that the committee wished to avoid any ten- 

 dency that might lead them to commission some person or persons 

 to do the work by reason of a low bid that they might make re- 

 gardless of their ability or fitness to properly prepare the desired 

 plans. 



