Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-30
GREENEyILLE FAIR.
over S-ycn Hundred Entries-A Large
AttFudRnce-TheF Fair Decided Sue.

Attendance-The Faira Decided Sue.
cess
GREENEvILLE, Sept. p, GP.M.
Special Correspondence Chronicle.
The Fair opened on Wednesday
with a fair showing Of success, there
being IA tolerable good attendance, and
a large number of entries were made,
but to-day it remained 40 longer a
matter of promise, for 1t soon became
evident that it wls a success, beyond
doubt. When we arrived on the
ground we found the Secretary Mr.. G.
l.. Sewer, basy taking entries, and by
9o'clock a. NJ, they had run out of
Cards-over seven hundred entries
having been made. Through the kind
ness of Messrs. o. p. Temple, Jr., j.
r.. Brown, J. A. Galbraith aud
others, we were soon made to
feel at home, and by their assistance,
we were enabled to take few dots.
THE OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION,
Capt. r.. c. Carter, President, and c.
l.. Sewer, Secretary, have left nothing
undone 10 make the fair a success, and
in this noble work they wer5 ably se~
conded by Messrs. j. a. Galbraith, J.
r.. Brown, b f. Earnest, l. A. Allen
f. Link, w. j. Jones, w. d. vii.
liams, j. b. Spencer, G.. i Nc
Gaughey, Jos. II. Willis and many
others of the enterprising citizens of
Greene county.
BUILD1NG AND GROUNDS.
The building is quite substantial
structure, being 50 by so feet, and since
its recent completion, being or
namented with coat of paint, pre-
sents a grand and imposing appear
ance. Ii is perfect octagon in form
three stories high, including the obser,
vatory. The wings on the second and
third floor are used as galleries,
encompassed with ballustrades. The
skill and artistic taste displayed by
the Architect, Mr.. A. +. Natf, are par
crcelIente and Greene County, to-day,
boasts of the best arranged and most
commodious building in East Tenn
essee, excepting the building of the
Eastern Division Association. The
basement story, under the manage.
ment of Messrs. j. b. Spencer and
II. /. Brown, is used as "A floral Hall
being gorgeously decorated with d
variety of choicest flowers, these
gentlemen having displayed excellent
taste. 1t contains a perennial fountain
erected in a basin of 20 feet circum'
ference, and by the mechanical engen'
uity of Mr.. James Willis, water is pro,
iected to the same height-thus sprink.
ling natures "choicest gems" RnC
preserving them in their pristine
beauty. The grounds are very attrac'
tive-clothed with beautiful sward o
grass and dotted all over with clus
tiers of majestic oaks, whose UNI
brageOus shade affords a grateful
shelter to the immense crowds tina
annually congregate there.
THE ATTENDANCE.
We had no means of ascertaininl
the number in attendance, but heard /
estimated at from two thousand t
twenty-five hundred, and it is though
that "a much larger crowd will b.
sentto-day.
THE DISPLAY
is very creditable to Greene county
and in some particular lines we have
never seen it surpassed at any fair
The display of jellies was the larges
and finest we have ever seen, anC
among the rows of jelly glasses We
noticed three stands which surpassed
all the remaining in point of taste anC
variety. Miss Campbell had stanC
containing thirty-four glasses of diff
ferent varieties of jellies. Mrs. II. p
Daily had a stand of thirty-tive glasses
of different varieties, but the fines
stand we have ever seen was that o
Miss Fannie Brown, who had stanC
there gotten up with exquisite taste
containing A glasses jelly, each glass
containing a different variety. We arr
informed that the young lady INTENDED
TO make even fifty different varieties
but had to leave her home Cor schoo
before completing this laudable enter
prise, and consequently was not pres
cnt to enjoy the triumph she was 5,
Justly entitled to. In fact
THE LADIES' DEPARTMENTS
were all well represented, and had tn
gentlemen of the city and countr,
taken no interest in tie fair at all, tn
ladies of Greene county hat
determine to make it sue
cess, and having once determined 81
to do, Trey did not wait one upOl
the other buc all vent to work, ant
succeeded in making the fair com
plete success fair of which an,
county might be proud,
Besides the jellies above referred To
there was splendid display of pre-
serves of every variety imaginable
pickles, butter, cheese, light bread
cakes, &C., &c.
In the opposite end ofsthe ladies' de
partment could be seen every speci
men of needle work imaginable; wa,
work, beed work, silk embroidery
fancy braiding, specimens of shirt
made by machine, crochet work, tn
finest specimens embroidered ladies
underwear, quilts and counterpanes il
endless variety, silk log cabin quilts
carpets, rugs, &C., &c.
In this department we noticed som,
ladies' cotton hose, the cotton havin!
been raised by Mr.. Henry Hoss, o
Jonesboro', was spun by his wife, ant
knit into ladies' hose by her, which
would compare favorably with tn
finest wove hose we have ever seen
They were admired by every one WIFI
saw them. Some pencil sketches ant
embroidery by the Misses Rankin at
tracted general attention and ELECTED