San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-23
OUR COMING FAIR.

Il
nate in having so little time to ad-
vertise itself. The impossibility OF
securing any facilities for increase d
transportation for so long months and
which determined the fair directors 10
abandon the exposition for this year
delayed the work of advertising fully
three months. Since the citizens have
taken the matter up and compelled
the council to grant such franchises
as were necessary, the advertising has
been pushed as rapidly as possible.
Still there are places even in Texas
where the fact seems uncertain and
the matter of holding the fair here
this fall in doubt. A San Antonio lady
visiting in Austin wrote to this city
not a week since enquiring if the fair
was to be held, and saying that she
could learn nothing about it at Aus
tin. And now comes the Victoria
Advocate in it's last issue with this
query:
SIS the San Antonio fair to offer
any prizes to the soldiers. There is
dense ignorance in these ATTITUDES as
to whether there is to be fair or not,
or what is to be done if they do have
one."
That this ignorance is not general
is very apparent from glance at our
exchanges. The Laredo Gate City in
flinging at San Antonio on the labor
question bears ample testimony to the
fact that a big fair is being arranged
for, as witness this squib:
"San Antonio in addition to having
the big International Exposition on
its hands, Is also getting into the
throes of the labor agitation. Poor
San AntOnio.n
Galveston, also not over much in.
clined to advertise San Antonio,
avows her knowledge of the approach
ing exposition in her own characters
tic way. The Tribune of that city,
with memories of last summer and
smarting under the triumph of San
Antonio in the tented field over the
Island City Rifles, says, somewhat
caustically:
Gentlemen of the San Antonio press:
Let the asylum, Arkansas Pass and
deep water 60 to the devil for the
present and attend to the preliminar-
les of your Fair. Remember. you
promised last summer to lay Calves
toms Semi-C Centennial celebration I'M
der the gloomiest sort Of gloom with
the overshadowing splendOrs of your
Fair, and if you fail to do sO-why--
we'll, Well pity you.
The Tribune is gently reminded
that We have the asylum secured, are
on the highway to deep water at Ar
ansas Pass, have no intention of let
ting that deep water project go to
"Galveston," if that is what the Trib-
une means by the "devil," and are
putting in big licks for our Fair.
The News is much more kindly dis
posed in its notice, and quotes from
this journal in the state press column
that which is the equivalent of very
fiattering notice of our exposition.
ANOTHER Southwest Texas jour
nal published in the midst of stock
growing community says:
"The Fair which opens at the AL
amo City on the 5th of Nevem Der
promises to be the most successful
and attractive that was ever held
in this State. The citizens of our
town and county, and indeed this
entire section, are deeply inter-
ested in the development of our
material prosperity, and no agency
can prove more potent in bringing
about this result than to put on
exhibition specimens Of all our pro-
ducts, both mineral and agricultu-
raj, so that those seeking homes
and profitable investments, may be
| informed as to the inducements this
portion of the state holds out to them.
Our stockmen should also enter the
arena at the fair and contest for the
many prizes that are to be distributed
on that occasion. The time for prep
aration upon our part is short and
prompt action is imperative. We
trust the event Will be commensur-
ate with the energy and activity dis
played IN its inception and realiza-
ton.
st. Louis papers have frequent no.
tice of our fair matters in their tele-
graph columns, and even far away
Topeka and Denver are not without
mention of our approaching exposi
ton. Thus it would seem as