The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-08
FLOATS THAT ARE TO BE IN THE PARADE
The Prospects are 70. the Largest Number Of
Visitors Ever Present here at State
Fair. Exhibits More Numerous
Than Ever Before.
Than Ever Before.

ulIenrla 10 HalWpli. AL TpcOFuS vail
certainly he broken as to the number
and extent of the exhibits; and if the
weather is favorable. the crowd also
promises to be one of the largest ever
assembled here ON a like occasion
industrial Day" "Wednesday of Stat
Fair Week, win be a great day here,
and the interest taken in III shows that
the appeal to the business, the mani
featuring and the educational interests
of Raleigh has been answered in a pubs
lic-spirited way. 1t requires enterprise
and zeal to show what Raleigh is do
ing. The trade procession ON industrial
Day" wifi be the browning feature. and
it win contain at least fortyLone floats.
as the following list will show:
/. Farina FIGURING Mills.
.. Raleigh and Cape Fear Railway
3. Mills wagon factory.
A. Robbins livery stable.
5. Capital Printing Company.
q. A. Dughi. bird and animal exhibit
I. Zachary and Zachary, nantels.
s. Steinmet2, the florist
8. Pilot Cotton Mills.
10. Caraleigll Cotton Mills.
H. Raleigh Cotton Mills
j. Raleigh Hosiery Mills
13. Allen and Cram, iron fountry, ete.
II. The Ro!1bitt- Wynne Drug Conpa
N.Y. "Rhelmacide. .
ID. Raleigh Marble Works
16. Wyatt and Son, harness, etc.
IT. Charles Bretsch, bakery.
IS. Thomas and Campbell, furniture.
10. Hicks 'sCapaIdine."
20. Honegcutt and Weir, building coli
tractors.
81. T. l.. I1berhaadt, ice.
-. Acme Wine Company.
%. Berwanger Bros, clothing and fur
nishings.
81. Sherwood Riggs. dry goods, etc.
81. Jones and Powell. wood and coal
%. c. r. Wharton, photographers.
81. lrby and Young, hardware, farm
implements. etc.
%. Walters the tailor.
%. A. B. Stronach. dry goods.
60 The Julius Lewis Hardware Cont
pany.
81. Boylan Pearce and Company, dry
goods. 1
80. Raleigh Gas and Electric Light
Company.
80. Ddbbin and Ferrall. dry goods.
81. Wynnr. ELLINGTON and Company
real estate agents. etc.
81. Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege.
3G. st. Mary's School.
81. The city's white public schools
80. The Raleigh Male academy
30. The News and Observer.
40. The Seaboard Air Lime.
II. Raleigh Brick Company, Whitaker
and Calling.
Not much time remains for prepare
ton 1t always requires active WORK
and good taste to prepare floats. Green's
boro this year had Il notably fine pa
rade of them. 1t is the purpose that
the one here next week Shall sur'pass it.
Floats present wide range of taste
in design. Mr.. Sherwood Higgs, OF
the committee on floats, has number
of illustrations of designs, which are
at the service Of the persons who will
have floats.
A meeting of the committee On floats
and the persons who will be repre-
scented by floats in the industrial pa
rade will he held tomorrow afternoon
at o'clock at the office Of the Secre-
tary of the State Fair, ON the ground
floor. north side of the Pullen building.
At this meeting plans WIFI be matured.
Chairman Frank Stronach, of the COM
nittee requests Il fun attendance.
There will no doubt be other floats
in line besides those in the hist above
given. There are partial promises TO
that effect, but only the names of those
who positively promised to be repre-
scented the published.
The cent-a-mile rates whcih are IN
effect on Wednesday and Thursday wall
bring crowds here, and there will be
thousands to view the long and beau
tifu1 procession of floats. Fayetteville
street is to he kept clear Of all wheeled
trafnc while the procession is moving
so as to give all a perfect view without
or fear of accident. In
years past there has been some neglect
of such very necessary precaution
As has been stated, the city will be
decorated along the line os
march. Most of the decorations are
to be of new materials. Never before
has decoration been so general or so
Revenue Collector Duncan
has specially requested permission to
decorate the Government building and
make it as attractive and gay without as
it is withins
The committee ON decorations ana
floats has worked zealoltsiy, and for
the first time made a personal canvass.
Its work has borne good results.
Prof. Johnson, of the A. and Nj. Col
lege, states that the institution will
show fine herds of stock at the Fair, to
include bulls of Holstein and Jersey
breeds. n number of cows, about twenty
specimens in the way of good swine and
some sheep. While these are sent for
to our farmers, they viii not