The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-04
WINSTON'S GREAT FAIR
AND splendid
EXHIBITS OF TOBACCO.
THE GREAT PROCESSION YESTERDAY

Diversified hgLicultule. y

C'cISHed hsllCuItai6.
Winston, n. c., Nov. 3.-(SpeciaIles
North Carolina to-day turns another
mile stone in its march Of industrial pro-
gress." Thus spake Col. Julian s. Carr
III his address to-day opening the Pied
mont Tobacco Fair. 1.-The wealth and
greatness of this and all other common.
Wealths is in the character and patriot
ism of its industrial citizens" said
Col. Jno. S. Cunningham in his speech
to-day. Those two speeches. the first
from one of the worlds biggest tobacco
manufacturers and the other from Que
OF the worlds biggest tobacco growers
opened the biggest tobacco far perhaps
that has ever been held in this or any
other country. Winston's ten thousand
visitors who saw this great show of the
golden weed to-day know what it really
is. The fifteen or twenty other thou
sands who will see it tomorrow and Fri
day will likewise know of its grau,.eur
and beauty, the balance of the world
will have only faint idea Of what's in
reality the most unique and complete ex-
position of single production of the
farm that has hitherto been spread out
before the public.
To-day has been an ideal
day for the opening Of great
fair, and the first rays of the sun feii
on this hustling city, crowded to over
flowing with people from all over the
ne mont section with many hundreds
from far away. The opening parade
was formed ut 10 o'clock a, III. IT was a
mile and half in length and was led
by the famous old Salem band, the rear
columns marching to strains from the
new Centreville band. The parade was
surely the most gorgeous and attractive
that have see in the State headed by
Col. #. ii. Fries, the chef marshal with
his aides, the Reynolds, the Daltons, the
toSIes, the NaughanS, the Hills, the
Hanes and other leading citizens OF
both cites and made up of gaily decor
ated carriages and surveys and coupes
and other vehicles with orators, Fair of.
fcials, distinguished visitors, citizens SOL
diers an" college students in line alto
gether making moving pageant OF
gilded glory.
The open address by Col.
Julian S. Carr was gem. He
came, he said, from the South's greatest
smoking tobacco city to clasp hands
with the SOuth's greatest plug tobacco
city and he brought greetings from one
to the other. He touched briefly but
with force and elOquence on the history
of tobacco culture and tobacco manufac-
ture in North Carolina and declares. that
honest and legitimate rivalry and COMP
etiti0n had inspired and stimulated the
great industry and that the illigitimate
manufacture of the weed in days gone
by was no more dangerous to the in4us-
try than attempts in these days to con-
troll its manufacture and the shutting
out of honest competition by the Organj-
Zation of trusts and combinations. Col.
Carr was cheered and cheered over and
over again during and at the close Of his
speech.
COL Cunningham spoke feeling
ly and fuently OF the tolls and trials
and the great triumphs of the North
Carolina tobacco growers and tobacco
manufacturers and declared that they
must stand together and make the great
industry still greater In the grand old
State and that tobacco was the goldeT
crown OF diversified agriculture,
just before the speeches the vast meet.
ing was opened by prayer by Rev. DIR.
Greasy and ut the close of the address.
the thousands of visitors spent the re-
mainder of the day looking at thu rm->
erous and intensely interestirr disrIor.
The Twin-City is witnessing its ps grent.ss
occasion entertaining its biggest crown
and celebrating its most glorious evenf
the people of the two towns of the en-
tire community and all the visitors from,
1ar away are generous in their praisa
OF the efforts of Col A. r. Gorrell. Car.
!ah's ts u. webb, the president and secre-
i1rE ana al the officials of the Piedmont
! az Associatlon for their untiring effort
and wonderful triumphs in this their
first tobacco fair. 'neAf