The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-20
CROWD ESTIMATED
At 10000 PEOPLE.
A Hot, Hungry but Happy
Multitude.
FOOT BALL GAME TODAY
BETWEEN A. & NJ. COLLEGE AND
BINGHAM'S, OF ASHEvILLE.
THOUSANDS REMAIN FOR FAIR TODAY
And Another Good Day is Expected. Midway
Came in for a Rich Harvest as Did
Everybody Who Had Any
thing to Sell.
Program for Today.

10 a. m.-Prcession of Marshals, es
corting officers to the grounds.
p. m.-Trotting race, 2:25 class
$500.
Running race, five-eighths mile heats
best two in three, $780,
2:30 D. ln.-FootbalI game on Fair
grounds between A. Il NJ. College and
Bingham school, of Asheyille.
The crowd was the snow at the Fair
grounds yesterday. 1t was a crowd of
the sort that can be found in North
Carolina but once each year, and can
be found elsewhere not at all. You can
find bigger crowds elsewhere-but not
crowd of the sort that ''swarmed and
pitched" at the Fair grounds yesterday.
Fully 10000 people entered the gates
during the day, and this is no off hand
estimate either. At the three turnstiles
near the ticket office the number reg
istered was a rise of 5000 people. These
were people from the city and surround
ing country and people who came up
town from the stations before going
to the grounds, and then walked, drove
or took the cars out.
From Union station the Seaboard Air
Line sold 1900 tickets for its Fair
ground special, and nearly all of these
held the coupon tickets sold with the
tickets over the railroads and practically
all entered the grounds through the big
double gates near the Seaboard sheds,
these gates having no turnstiles. Be
sides these admissions there We're the
people who went in carriages, a large
part of the city contingent, and those
who for one reason or another held
complimentary tickets and went through
the gates where such tickets were ac-
copied.
I The Seaboard yesterday morning ran
a special of Is cars from Llnnberton
and every car was packed. The regular
strain from Charlotte brought 10 cars
and all We're filled. From Weldon 1t
ran a special of Is cars, and when Wake
Forest was reached the train was 50
filled that the doors We're closed and
the run was made straight on into the
city, the train afterward going back
for the people along the line from Raj
eigh to Wake Forest. Nearly all the
people coming by the Southbound Sea-
board got off at the grounds and are
not included in the 5000 who entered
the grounds through the turnstiles or
who bought tickets over the Seaboard
Fair ground special.
By the Southern up to IL O'Clock 2,2O0
people had been brought into the city.
1T was the biggest crowd | have ever
seen at the grounds" said President H..
I'll. Battle last night But 1t was more
than a big crowd-it was good ma
tured, sober, tolerably orderly. dusty,
hungry. hot, but to all appearances
thoroughly happy crowd. And 1t went
in for whatever there was to see, to eat
or to buy. 1t stretched around the race
track from Floral Hall to a point OPP
posite at the other side, and was some
20 Yards wide; then it filled the immense
grand stand and packed the exhibition
building until only the daring would
venture in.
The crowd had its good humored way,
went where it willed and did pretty much
az If pleased. marshals and police to the
contrary notwithstanding. So soon as
q race was over it filled the
track and the marshals would have to
nush up and down the track
an horseback to clear away
for the next start. There were
two or three thousand people over IL
side the circuit and these wan-ed 20 see
their friends at the grand Stan1 anu
their friends wanted to see them aud So
they passed and repassed 1T VIII II
was quite useless to warn them u IL y
off the fence for they hanged places
every moment and the newcomers
promptly climbed up and craned t'lsir
necks TO see whether their fayoEite
horse were coming in first. 80 II went
for the three hours of the races.
Midway. what there was Of t, feape't
harvest. The only way to Sst Ill
Mailing distance of any attraction was 10
20 mt it half back fashion Next to Tie
races the fakirs drew the crowd, and the
double woman and the merry2o round
were competing stars and both ought to
be able to live comfortably through the
winter. About the only criticism heafd
of the Fair was that the midway al
fractions this year were so few.
By no means all the people who went
10 the Fair yesterday were at the
grounds at any one time. Ihey began
leaving at ! o'clock and from that bouf
until night every street car coming into
town was loaded TO its limit. Many
spent the afternoon in going through the
public buildings, the museum especially
being crowded all day
Last night, as the night before, many
people were unable TO secure accommo-
dations in the city and better arrange
ments to care for the crowd before the
next Fair will be made.
Good crowds are expected at the
grounds again today. AT 2:30 this ar
ternoon there will be game Of foot
ball between the teams OF the A and
NJ. College and Bingham School of
AsheviIle. Both have good teams this
year and All excellent game is ex-
pecfed.
The awards on exhibits were made
yesterday, but the, Fair officials de-
clined to give them ont at the office yes
terday to give time to arrange them
properly, that no mistakes may be
made.