The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-11

IouI programme Oh races IS EOOu.
'No doubt about that. The committee
have made some few changes from the
old practice, and while some Of the horse
men do not seem t. like the program
so well, others are enthusiastic over it,
and 1t will be the means Of making the
races more interesting The entries for
races have not been made yet, but have
letters from Maryland, Virginia, and
Tennessee saving that all those States
will be represented. Then you know
North Carolina Das some very fine horses. -
"WiH GcL-Ty b. here p
al do not know, I hope 50. and believe
so; but have no positive assurance of
his coming ! have h ard the rumor
several times, but Mr. Holt has not
Informed this office of his coming. /
believe If he IS aiken Of the circuit in
time he we'll he here. Mr. Holt * a
warm friend Of the fir and always con
tributes literally 10 its support. Indeed
he has been the largest exhibitor for
years, and / am confident that if Gentry
is in North Carolina IN October lie will
be brought to Raleigh. There are
thousands Of people who " nd coma to
Raleigh to see the great horse and Mr.
Holt viii be too generous to disappoint
them If be is in tie State at the time. ?"
what Is this one hears about cutting
off all free passes Is it true that the
fair people will issue 10 free tickets ~
'Well, | might say it is true or that it
is not true. 1t would be very difficult
to strictly enforce such a rule, even if it
were desirable to do so. What the ccm
mittee want to do is to remedy an evil
that has been growing for years, and for
which no one is specially responsible, but
an evil all the same. The practice has
been to issue free passes to exhibitors for
the week to servants employed by
horsemen; to renters of privileges and
their assistants to walters at the res
taurants, etc, etc. All these tickets
have been issued for the week. 1t has
been discovered that many parties seek
some one Of these places to secure a
ticket, and by passing it out
through crack in the fence
admit others. True, names are put on
the tickets, but in the rush gate keepers
have no time to look at the names Last
year, policeman fair policeman-a
man who had been hired and paid to
protect the society, had loose plank in
the fence on his beat, and admitted PEG
pie for ten cents each. A boy, who had
secured ticket in some way was doing
thriving business by passing lis ticket
through the fence to other boys for a
nickle each.
these are Only few illustrations of
how we have been "beaten." Stop it
now, did you say Well, we are going
to stop it If possible. In the first place
We are not going to issue weekly tickets
for any purpose to any person. No ticket
will pass the gate-every one
will be taken up. There will be a clerk
in the Secretarys Office with list of the
names of every person who will be per-
mitted to enter the grounds without
paying. He will issue 10 all such per-
sons an admission ticket, but that ticket
will be taken uD at the gate. 1t is not
so much the free tickets that are prop
erly given away that is Objectionable,
bat it is the abuses to which have al
ready referred
''How about the life memlers OF the
Association2n
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They are entitled to tickets under the
contract, and viii get them, but the
plan of issuing them will be changed,
and no life member will have cause to
complain. The present management do
not propose TO do anything rash or I'M
seemly, but they are determined to break
up this wholesale imposition that has
been going On for years. The people of
Raleigh were called upon last ummer to
subscribe money TO save the fair. They
will not be willing to pay their money
and taen see one third f the crowd GO
ing on the ground without paying one
cent. We expect to be criticized. We
have been already but, as a rule, the
criticisms como from those who have
never paid and never intend to il they
can help it. The good people of Raleigh
and of North Carolina will endorse this
order of the Executive Committee and
stand by them in its execution. Croakers
will grumble, and dead beats may
growl, but the rule viii be enforced all
the same. "
what about we newspaper men," /
asked
"You don't claim to be croaker nor
dead beat do you? OF course not
You will have no cause to complain. 1t
is not the honest people we are after. 1t
is the dead beats we are going to eX