San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-17
NO TIME TO WASTE.

| The San Antonio Fair directory,
having decided to hold a fair, and
having made announcement to that
effect Internationally, are reminded
that there is not one day to spare,
and that every available moment
is needed to give the thousands who
will visit the city this fall some show
for their money. San Antonio will
not be satisfied with any such exhib-
it as she gave last year, or even the
year before, and certainly Southwest
Texas will not. Plainly speaking,
there has not yet been held fair that
was creditable to the association, or
that was fairly representative of the
products of Southwest Texas, or that
in any true sense met the eXpecta-
tiOns of our citizens. In 1855 the fair
was organized too late to insure
very general representation
of exhibitors, but it was ac-
copied as as first effort and lenient-
ly judged. Last fall the executive of
the association washed his hands of
the affair and was firm in his deter
mination, sanctioned by the board of
directors, to hold no fair. That con-
clusion was overruled by the citizens
committee and fair decided upon too
late for human effort to make sue
cess of the attempt. This year, after
losing seven months of valuable time
it is determined once more to enter
the lists. Four months and
two weeks remain before the fair |
gates must be thrown open to the
public. If Dallas requires year for
her preparation, and it is not too !
much, San Antonio certainly must !
feel that her time is exceedingly cur
tailed. The whole work of advertis-
ing, securing the exhibits, arranging
premium lists, manning the depart
ments and placing these exhibits is
now to be undertaken. A prompt
decision as to what is to be attempted,
a clear defining Of the limits within
which the fair management shall
confine its operations is first in order.
1t must be determined, and at once,
how far, within the time remaining,
it is practicable to arrange for a gen.
eral agricultural exhibit, wool and
cotton products, and all the growth of
the ranges as well as the output of
mines and quarries. No more i'm
portant question than the place that
shall be given to products of the
farm, orchard and garden can be
mOoted in the councils of the fair
1t is what Texas pro-
iuces, and this part OF Texas, that
Northern visitors Will be interested in
seeing, and their opinion will largely
follow the line indicated in this falls
exhibits. The fairs of 1855 and 1889
have done little to remove the too
General impression that Southwest
Texas has little to offer of soil pro-
duets save cotton and cactus and
range grasses. There is no more pro-
ductive soil than that of southwest
Texas: none in which every variety of
vegetable and fruit and cereal grows
to greater perfectness, and demon
sJratiOn of this fact should be sought !
in the products of orchard and vine
yard and farm and garden exhibited !
in San Antonio this fall. A wise,
broadly intelligent conception of the
scope of this fair is needed, and then !
double distilled energy to accomplish |
in four and half months what might !
very well fill the measure of a year of |
earnest effort. The readers of the |
LIGHT and the fair directory need not !
be told that the LIGHT will do all that
lies within the compass of its powers
to secure the best results, and aid in
every way to make the most of the
remaining weeks. They know this
already. This article is written to aid
in determining a speedy course of ac-
ton.
NIGHT and silence are vocal if one