The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-08
THE GREAT STATE FAIR.
Columbia Making Ready for her Annual
Festival.
Especial to the News and Courier

Especial to the News and Courier.
COLUMBIA, November 2.-Secretary
Thos. w. Holloway of the State Fair
Society is giving daily personal attcn-
tion to the prepara ton of the buildings
and grounds for the coming great State
gathering. The new grand stand at
the race course, which Is to take place
of the one blown down last summer, is
receiving its finishing touches, and the
whitewashers began work on it to-day.
The new stand is in all respects much
superior to its predecessor and, having
ten additional rows of seats along its
length of POO feet, it can accommodate
from $50 to 200 more spectators than
the old one. The erection Of new
"bleaching boards" was begun to-day,
neat fence will be put up along the
quarter stretch, and the arrangements,
all in all, will be much better than
heretofore.
The old combination judges and
band stand has been taken down
from its position in the centre Of the
exhibition arena, in order to afford
more room for riding and driving the
horses. \ band stand has been built
against the balcony of the old main
building, and judges stand is we'll
placed on the west side of the arena.
In the new main building, the open
ing in the floor of the second story,
allowing inspection of the ground floor
as from balcony, has been tloored
| over, and as a result the floor. space of
this story available for exhibits is much
increased. Whitewash is being freely
applied to fences, sheds, &C., and the
grounds will be in first rate condition
by the end of next week.
Secretary Holloway says that the
machinery, stock, cattle aud horse ex-
hibits will be fully as good as usual.
The machinery exhibits will indeed be
finer than they have ever been, except
one year when the display was extra
ordinary and was accounted the finest
in the South. Among the special tea-
lures this year, in addition to the cream
cry feature already mentioned in this
correspondence, will be two saw mills
in operation, their proprietors having
already ordered supply of logs to saw
up. Another exhibitor has engaged
several hundred bushels of cotton seed
which be will crush free of cost.
The railroads will sell excursion tick
cts to Columbia and the Fair with Il
coupon attached emitting the holder to
admission to the grounds. This coupon
cost fifty cents and must be bought by
all who desire excursion rates to this
city, but life members of the society
and the representatives of the press
who hold complimentary tickets of
admission are requested to understand
that upon their entrance into the Fair
grounds, the management will refund
the amount paid for the coupons.
The press of the State will also take
notice that there is some misunder-
standing as to the arrangements for
freight rates on exhibits. The freight
on allexhibits shipped by rail must be
prepaid by the shipper at the point of
shipment and upon the return of the
exhibits to the shipping point and the
issue Of Il certificate by Secretary Hollo-
way that the exhibits have been dis
played at the Fair, the amount paid for
freight will be refunded by the railroad
authorities. In short the same arrange
ment exists which has previously been
in force. Some exhibitors do not know
this and are worried.