Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-22
A SUGGESTION TO THE STATE
FAIR ASSOCIATION.

We believe that the first exhibition o!
our State Fair Association has betn
voted a success by majority OF the Wis
itors at home and from abroad.
There have been criticisms adverse,
peryerse and highly complimentary.
The general run OF these criticisms is
embodied in paragraph from the New
Martinsville Messenger, as follows:
Wheeling is proud over her Fair,
which seems to have been in most
respects a success-not particularly
however because of good management.
The price charged for admission was too
high, there seemed to be failure in the
police regulations, and ii bad not been
properly advertised, but, notwiths;and-
ing these mistakes, it was demonstrated
that it can be made 3 success in the
future.
1t would be impossible for any ass0-
citation to offer an exhibition that would
please everybody, but the average visi-
tor to our Fair was generous enough to
make due allowance for the hurried and
somewhat incomplete appointments OF
first exhibition, and was we'll pleased.
The Fair Association, doubtless, has
heard only the compliments, but We
take them to be men Of too much prsc-
teal sense and experience to be tlattFred
into the notion that their work is done
aud that nothing can be added to make
their enterprise all that the public, in
the future, will expect of it. Thee
perience OF all such associations goes tn
prove that TO make them permanent
success they must be fresher and iairer
every succeeding year than the last
People will not patronz' from year to
year, an old programme and old sights
that have become insipid from frequent
repetition.
With view OF adding TO the interest
and increasing the great advantages
which the Fair may bring to our city in
the course OF its development in future
years, we offer suggestion for the con.
sideration OF the members OF the Asso-
citation.
There is not room enough within the
present enclosure for such an exhibit
ton as the State Fair is designed to be.
This is admitted on ali sides. The Di-
rcctors are as fully aware of this as the
visitors have been, and they have only
been prevented from adding to the pres
ent limits because of the high price at
which the adjoining land is held. They
realize that they will beIobliged to have
more territory in the future. There was
not enough room for the industrial dis.
play offered at even the first exhibition.
Our suggestion relates to a solution of
the difficulty of obtaining more room,
and it is this:
Our State Fair exhibitions comprise, as
do all similar institutions, two dis
tinct departments, consisting of machin.
cry and products of the various mann
factories, and the agricultural depart
IRent, with Its farm products, stock and
horse race.
There is just about room enough in
the present enclosure for the lstter de-.
partmen:. The present buildings, if de-
votei exclusively to a display of farm
products, would DE about equal to the
requirements OF this department.. There
is enough stable room for the stock, and
there is good hat mile track.
Now the question is, would it not be
SOod move to give up the present
grounds and buildings exclusively TO
the Agricultural department of the Fair,
and then erect, on this side the river.
within the city limits, 8 commodious
exposition building with capacity TO ac-
commodate under one roof, all The ex-
hibits OF the mechanical and industrial
department of the FAIR; making it in
fact part OF the State Fair exhibition
separate from the enclosure:
holding the exhibitions at the same time
and under the same management -
now, With one ticket admitting to thu
two departments as now, and altogether
the same exhibition as now, with the