The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-10-15
METROPOLITAN LETTER.


CLOSE OF THE FA1R-No wHTTEwAsH-
NG--No sKULDUGERY-Tn VOICE
OF THE HAssEs-THE SUCCESSFUL
JERSEY VS.. BILL LAI;RIN's SCRUB
MIsLoCATIoN WORSE THAN NIsMAN-
AeEMENT, &C., &c.
KNOXVILLE, Oct. Is.
DEAR GAZETTE Fair
week with its consequent vexations
and annoyances has passed, and
while many may have enjoyed it.
not few would rejoice to know it
would be the last.
Our dailies may plaster as much
as they will, but the fact is the Fair
rs a show was failure. The receipts
may exceed the disbursements, for
outside of advertising and officers
pay | suppose the expense Of the
whole git up thus given was compar-
atively light.
The p. & II. would have it's read
ers believe it was the grandest sue
cess of all. But the p. & H. is like
a certain prominent witness who
was called upon to testify before the
Congressional Reconstruction Com
mittee. They do not associate with
the masses, and are not capable of
giving evidence as to the general eff
feet of the Fair. It is true as the
p. & II. says, number were ''in-
clined'' to compliment the manage
ment, but they, 1 opine, were part
and parcel Of the management.
The verdict of the masses, was.
'huge b0re''-'grand faiLatre"' Mon
roe county excelled it," The cholera
scourged Greene and Washington.
esnaided by Knox, ''out-showed you"
and last though not least, the ex-
hibit made by the Farmers Club at
Thorn Grove, q suburban precinct Of
Knoxville, was tauntingly claimed
as having surpassed the Eastern Di-
vision Fair at Knoxville. / am sor-
ry that did not meet mp with some
of the gentlemen who consoled the
2. & H., for really l felt mortified,
but as Col. John Williams said before
the same Reconstruction Committee,
I associate with the people - the
common herd and am accustomed
to hear honest expressions of opin.
ion, unmixed with kumfu9Ltng and
skuldugrg.
BY the way, did you observe that
the premium butter was the product
of an imported Jersey? 1t may be
the same that so successfully COM
peted with Bill Larkin's scrub last
year.
am inclined to the opinion that
mislocation is more to blame with
the failure than mismanagement. it
/ is the "to and from the Fair grounds"
that deters many. A location on eth
er of the four lines Of the railroads,
entering here, accessible by accom-
mediation trains with very much re-
duced rates, would insure success,
for thousands would 90 to the Fair
daily il they could be at home at
night. If we want the people to
come to Knoxville. we must get up
some inside attraction, before hand,
and not wait as we have done, till
they get here, and in order to hold
them, send up few sky rockets and
paper balloons. or advertise grand
knights of Pythias'' parades which
don't come off, It's too thin, and
people see it. No more of Fairs
this season.
The season for sociables and SIGH,
is now at hand, aud we have dam
cling school to be held in hall with
beer-room and restaurant attached
a good idea. Heretofore the yonng
gents have had too far to walk for
fresh air and refreshments.
You certainly did not expect much
of me this week, and for fear of dis
appointing You, l will close Def re
say something.
Yours.
u. B. Down.