The sun., 1900-05-22
ELkS CARNIVAL
WILL silence ALL
The HOME CRITICS
Richmond, Va, Paper Says the
Street Fair viii Exceed
all Expectations.
A PRIZE FOR THE FIREMEN
Sterlith Bros. Offer a Handsome
Horn For Best Marching Conn
pany---More Merchants Take
Space in Industrial
Street.

Nothing Of such magnitude was ever
before presented in the city of Whining
ton as the Industrial Street Fair and
Elks' Carnival which opens here on June
Is for week. From Richmond. Va,
comes greeting to the people of this
city and a eongratulation on the enter
prise in bringing the carnival here such
as everybody is bound to recognize as
the most encouraging news OF the day.
Tine street fair in Richmond is over but
street fair talk will never cease to inter
est the citizens of that Virginia CITY.
The citizens Of Wilmington may better
understand what the Industrial Street
Fair and Eilis' Carnival will be by read
ing what the most prominent paper in
Richmond says. In a leading editorial
the Richmond Dispatch remarks:
NThe success of Richmcnd's Street
Fair and Carnival exceeded all eXpeCta
tions. As a series Of attractions and en-
tertainments taken by and large it not
only pleased our visitors, but was Of such
unquestionable merit as to hush the
voices of home critics. The latter, par
ticularly, we consider a signal achieve
ment, Our community is a great, big
family, in which every one feels at lib
erty to indulge in counsel and comment.
And often the leaders Of public enter
prise-the burden. bearing officers and
committeemen-naye more to dread from
the tongues of these beloved, but plain
spoken, people than from the lips Of
strangers. In this case it happily occurs
that there is but one opinion-and that
i, is that our fair was noteworthy
triumph. It drew many more visitors
than were expected, 1t was more i'm
posing display than We counted upon,
and few, indeed, there were here who
did not find pleasure in it.
sFor all this great and gratifying sue.
GEES we owe larger debt of gratitude
than most people imagine to the working
officers and members OF the Carnival As
sociation. Upon them fell heavy weight
OF responsibility, and there were inces-
SAINT demands made upon their time and
patience and purses They served us ad-
mirably, and they deserve well OF this
community. And we ought to let them
know it! To withhold the expression Of
our appreciation under such circum-
stances would be to chill to the marrow
men who are inclined to exhibit their
public spirit.
"Without such newspaper aid as Rich
: mond had, no such triumph could have
/, been hers. But let another's lips, and
not thine own, praise thee, is the wis
, dom OF inspiration, and guided by it we
shall leave others to speak OF the Rich
mond press. But we may refer to the
services Of other newspapers. Oar Nlr-
ginia and North Carolina exchanges
were very kind to us. They doomed our
enterprise right along, and TO their gen.
erous interest we owed the presence here
. of thousands of visitors.
''It wac astonishing with what zest cur
community entered into the merry
making OF last week. Nothing like it
ever was seen here. 1t was amazing to
see with what ardor old and young be-
came holiday-makers. For the most part,
business was turned topsy.turvy. House
keeping was in many cases left to take
care OF itself. For four days the weather
was warm and clear; on the fifth day
there were providential rains, They we're
providential because the earth was very
: thirsty, and because the intermittent
showers put check upon pleasure, seek
: ing, which in numbers OF cases had
grown into frenzy of excitement So we
: reiterate that it was providential that we
! had four days of clear weather and two
? OF variable weather.
"Hundreds Of suggestions, more or less
practical, are going to be made as to the
next Street Fair. We have one to offer.
1t is that on some side-s5reet, and for a
distance of about two squares or more, a
shelter be erected, and that under II
shall be exhibited exclusively samples oi
: Richmond manufactures. Call it the
"Madein- Richmond booth" 1t is toe
bad that tens of thousands OF visitors
- an6 nf them
r away without due information as to tht
variety and extent of our city's manu-
Q factories
:. Steel Company in it.
II One Of the endorsers OF the Street Fall
and EIks' Carnival is Mr. Howard L
Wallace, president OF the Diamond STATE
! Steel Company. In speaking to a mem
! ber OF Wilmington Lodge of Elks !ester
: day, Mr.. Wallace said: "9ou are doinl
something to wake up this town.
y want to encourage the Street Fair ant
it Carnival. | want to show that We ap
N preciate the fair
The Diamond State Steel Compan'
Of will probably have one OF the larges
i. booths in the industrial fair. Mr.. Wal
" lace said yesterday that every possibl
De wagon owned by the company togethe
with several floats would be placed II
of tine great industrial street parade.
te Competition Among Firemen.
ID The most valuable prize yet offered i
i. connection with the Street Fair an
Eks' Carniva was offered Yesterday b
NJ StirIith Bros, of Front and Tatna
r. streets. This large firm will present
n triple silver plated horn to the tire con
an pany making the finest appearance J
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