The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-05
C0L0RED FAIR CALLED OFF.
PROMOTERS NOTIFIED THAT 1T
COULD NOT BE HELD.


Was to Have Been a Private Enter
prise for Money Making Purposes,
with Church Booths as a side Is
sue - Promoters Were Evidently
Acting in Good Faith, But They
Did Not Understand the Condition
Under which the Parade Ground
Is ControIIed-Park Residents Are
Very Much Rejofced.
The colored citizens, fair did not open
at the Masonic Fair building, in the Park
Extension. last night, as it had been an
nounced, and the residents along Whita-
ker street and in the vicinity of che park
generally are greatly rejoiced.
AS had been anticipated, the promoters
of the fair were notified yesterday by Act
ing Mayor Tiedeman that the permit OBJ
tanned by them from the clerk of Council
was of no value unless the consent of the
military commanders and of the Park and
Tree Commission had also been obtained.
The Acting Mayor candidly informed the
applicants that he did not think 1t likely
that they would be able to obtain the
required consent.
succession. he showed them a communica-
ton which he had Just received from
Lieut.. Col. T. S. Wylly, commanding the
First Georgia Regiment In the absence of
Col. Lawton, and Capt. Henry McAlpin,
commanding the Georgia Hussars, re-
questing that the structure in the parade
ground erected for the purpose of holding
Masonic Fair, be removed at once. The
communication further stated that: 1.-THE
permission for the erection and use Of
said buildings having been to the Ma
sons and that purpose having been ac-
cemplished, we wish the structure remov-
ed at once, and that it not be permitted
to be used by any other person or per-
sons.'
1t developed that the promoters of the
colored fair were F. ]. Wright, keeper of
the colored cemetery at Laurel Grove
and Emma Carter. The article in yes
terday's Morning News was the first in
timation they had that their PROCEEDINGS
for the fair were not entirely regular
and they were down bright and early to
see the Mayor about Il. Both Wright and
the Carter woman appeared to be inteli-
gent and respectable people, and both
were much put out, after all the trouble
they had gone to in arranging for the
fair, to find that their trouble had been
for nothing. They were evidently acting
in good faith in the matter, and thought
that with the permission TO use the build
ing and a permit from the city that moth
ing more was required. Mr. Krouskoff
seems to have given permission to use
the building without any thought of the
annoyance the park residents would be
subjected to.
The Carter woman said that the use of
the building was given her by Mr.. Krous-
koff and Mr.. Collat and that DR.. Simons,
who was chairman of the Fair Associa-
ton, had told her she could have the dec
orations. 1t was not a church fair, she
stated, but a private enterprise on her
own part, by which she expected to clear
several hundred dollars. The Second Az
rican Baptist and several other churches
were to be given booths, where they could
dispose of whatever they pleased and a
portion of the receipts were to be distrib-
uted to the colored hospitals and churches.
The bulk of the profits, however, were to
go to the promoters. Both she and Wright
were anxious that they should be permit
ted to run the fair for a few days or a
week until they could work off the stock
they have on hand, but they were inform
ed that they would have to go through
the same routine for one week as for
three weeks. They left the exchange with
the intention of seeing the military COM
n1anders.