NO CIRCUSES ON LABOR DAY. ~ Council Passes Ordinance Favored by Mayor in Special Message.

August 10, 1909
NO CIRCUSES ON LABOR DAY.

Council Passes Ordinance Favored
by Mayor in Special Message.

In order to allow members of the trade unions to have the full benefit of "spending money" on Labor Day, Mayor Crittenden last night sent a special message to the council favoring the passage of an ordinance to bar circuses from Kansas City on that day, it transpiring that shows have made it a practice to map out their routes as to be here on general holidays, especially Labor Day. A complaint had been made by the ways and means committee that circuses were taking about $25,000 out of the city each Labor Day.