"Hey! think of that.

Why, do you know that we have five hundred thousand practically pledged already?
Talk about public spirit, gentlemen, this is the most public-spirited city on the continent.

And the money is not thrown away.

We will have Eastern visitors here by the thousands--capitalists--men with money to invest.
The million we spend on our fair will be money in our pockets.

Ah, you should see how the women of this city are taking hold of the matter.
They are giving all kinds of little entertainments, teas, 'Olde Tyme Singing Skules,' amateur theatricals, gingerbread fetes, all for the benefit of the fund, and the business men, too--pouring out their money like water.