The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-10
.~soUrH cARo1INA INSTITUTE.
IMPORTANT MEETING OF MEMBERS AND
CITIZENS
a Grand Fair to be hold at tho WASH
ingGon Race Course In November
noxt.

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In pursuance of tho call made by the board
OF directors, q meeting or the South Carolina In.
stitu;e was he'll at the Market Hall last night, for
tile purpose OF considering the propriety Of re.
viving tho Oil South Carolina Institute fairs.
The meeting was organized by calling William
N. LaWton, Esq, the president of the Institute
TO the chair. and requesting General W. G. De-
Saussure to act as secretary. On taking his seat,
the chairman made the following remarks:
Gsnlcn,en and Hen,oe1's or the I1stft1te-The
board OF directors OF your Institute being duly
| impressed will, the Importance OF more
| thorough development OF the agricultural re-
sources OF the State. and to encourage Inanufac-
| tullng and mechanical arts AMI Industry gene
rally have resolved 10 hold fair in this city, to
he opened to visitors on the 1hth OF November
| next, and continued for several days.
| To this end the Institute was organized twenty
one years ago, and incorporated by the Legisla-
ture with perpetual charter. SO long as tue asso
ciation continued tO promote the objects set
| FORTH and thereby stimulate the welfare OF the
| commonwealth by holding fairs, &C., &c.
| The distribution Of premiums rs awards OF
merit for the largest yicld or staple OF deld crops
| of the South, and excellence In the varied
! branches OF manufactures and mechanism, as
also for the finest animals and all specimens OF
| ingenuity and thrift. have been found the highest
| incentives To material progress.
| Coutem plating this laudahle object, and desir-
in~ to inspire generous emulation among our
| people, The cooperation and sympathy IN 0chall
"f the efforts OF the Institute Is solicited from all
| quarters.
Your counsel and cheerful encouragement will
| inluse energy and spirit among those who are
striving and giving their time to promote the wei.
| fare OF all classes.
The chairman then proceeded to show how sue.
cessrul fair had been held In Columbia without
| any munc, to commence with, aud how before
/ n, ,taI f,
pay its expenses by the proceeds OF the fairs, and
! he thought tho same thing could DC done again.
The chairman then stated that 1t had been re-
solved by the hoard OF directors to invite the CO.
operation OF the Jocky Club and the Charleston
County Agricultural and Horticultural Society, in
the movement for holding fair, and said that,
III any delegation was present from those bodies,
he would be happy to hear from them.
Major Vardcll, on behalf of the Charleston
| County Agricultural anu horticultural Society
pledged their hearty cooperation. The chairman
stated for tile information OF persons, not men,
bers OF the institute who might be present, that
before the war the society numbered about 200
| life members and 1000 annual members, but that
all the papers had been lost when tho hall was
burnt but all life members could still claim tho
| privilege, and others could become life members
on payment OF S10 or annual members on pay
mcnt OF So.
Colonel b. F. Evans stated that he had visited
| both the South Carolina State Fair at Columbia
and the Georgia State Fair at Macon, in Novem-
,er last, and said that he was satisfied that II the
merchants and other business men OF Charleston
would realize the practical benefit large fair
would be to the city, they would at once set to
| tl,o;- m fhutn n
| jcct lie said that at the fair in Macon, there
were sometimes as many as 10000 people on the
! Ssir grounds at one time, and that not only was
every vehicle of every description pressed into
service to convey the people TO and from the lair
| grounds, bus that two trains OF cars OF twenty
cars each, were run every half hour, and they
were always so packed as to endanger life and
| limb. The benefits to be derived from such an
assemblage OF citizens, not only to the city, but
to the State, would suggest themselves OF oGce to
| every thinking man.
General W. G. DeSaussure then offered the fol
lowing resolution:
ReSoloed. That the members OF the South Car.
olina Institute approve OF the determination OF
The board Of directors to hold fair In Charleston
on the 18th OF November next, and will concur
with and aid the board In all the steps necessary
| for the accomplishment OF such purpose.
| In support OF the resolution General DcSaus-
sure made lengthy and effective speech, setting
| forth the resources OF the society and the mo-
tiyes that induced the board to come to the deter
mlnation, In which they now asked the concur
renee OF the society at large. The board had To-
| bored earnestly for two years TO resuscltate
| the society, and are now determined to
make one grand effort, which, If it failed,
| I>a not life
enough in the community to sustain them.
There were three great objects to be sought
afrcrin planning great fair. 1st. A large area
| where ploughlng matches, and other trials OF
skill requiring much room, could take place. 2d.
Stables to shelter horses and cattle. 3d. Large
and substantial buildings to hold articles put on
exhibition. The two first had been kindly put
within the reach OF the Institute by the Jockey
Club, who had consented to low them the use OF
the Washington Race Course, and stables thereon,
and the third he thought was within the means
OF the society, which, lie believed, could raise
SSOO0 on its property quite enough to put up good
buildings. For premiums and other transient e1-
pcnscs, he thought 1t was safe to depend on the
libcrality OF the community and tho proceeds OF
the fair. lie estimated that the whole expenses
OF the fair, first and last, on liberal scale, would
be about SIS oO0 and the cXpcrrnce OF other fairs
showed that moro than that sun would be real.
lied from 1t. The South Carolina Agricultural
and Mechanical Society had o surplus from their
last fair OF aboat ;eOO and the Georgia society
had u surplus OF over $4,000. This society aimed
q: no surplus. but merely wished to pay expenses,
laying out all the money it received for the benefit
Of the people ut large.
The resolution was then put and unanimously
carried.
Hon. W. D. Porter congratulated the society on
the adoption OF the resolution, as it rendered the
holding Of fair on Washington Race Course,
next November, fixed fact. 1t was pleasant
thing to contemplate. His heart thrilled with
emotion on every occasion like the present, when
he was called on to meet again the old familiar
faces he had all his life been accustomed to see
when engaged in any effort for the good OF his
native city and State and the fair which they con-
templatcd was but another such reunion, only on
larger scale. The Columbia and Macon fairs were
successful, because men were glad to seize an op'
portunity OF meeting their old friends once more
and discussing with them the great events which
had occurred since they had met before, and to
shake hands with those who carried their hearts
in their hands, Our fair would be successful for
the same reason. Our people are anxious to see