The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-27
SALE OF EXHIBITS TODAY
Another Large Crowd Visited the
Fair Yesterday.
CAME FROM THE SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
The Men Who Made the Fair Are Now Receiy.
ing Many Congra' uIations on the
Magnificent Success They
Have Attained.
Have Attained.


The State Fair this year has been
a success.
The attendance for the week has
been equal to that of the best Fairs
ever held here, and the financial re-
turns, from gate receipts and privi-
leges sold, have been most satisfac-
tory.
The number of people in the
grounds yesterday was quite large
far larger than is usual on Friday.
AS it was Educational Day, school
girls and college students were pres
ent in great numbers, and seemed to
thoroughly enjoy the day.
In fact they took possession of the
Fair and ran it to suit themselves,
which means that everything went
free and easy; every body was in a
good humor and nobody was bored.
Nearly every prominent school in
the State was represented.
President Venable and other mem
bers of the University faculty were
present, and the student body was
well represented. Profs. Poteat, Car
lyle and Brewer and other members
of the faculty of Wake Forest College
were there with more than seventy
students from that institution. Trim
ity and Elon were well represented,
as were also the State Normal Col
leoe, Greensboro Female College, Lit
Teton Female College and other insti-
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Creek Academy there were fifty stu
Tents in uniform.
All the Raleigh schools and colleges
gave holiday and their students and
pupils went out to the Fair grounds.
The A. and M. cadets were on the
grounds by the hundreds. Raleigh
Male Academy, ST. Mary's, Peace In
stitute, Baptist Female University and
other institutions were represented by
numbers of students Then there
were hundreds of children from the
public schools, making it Children's
Day as well as Educational Day.
The presence of these young and
happy spirits, with rosy cheek and
bright eye and happy laughter, made
Yesterday by long odds the most en-
joyable day of the whole Fair.
The features of the day were fine
races-the best of the week-and a
football game between The team of
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, at
Blacksburg, and that of the A. and NJ.
College, of this city. The game was
played at clock and was witness
ed with great interest by the thous-
ands in the Fair grounds. 1t result
ed in victory for the Virginians by
score of Is to 2.
: Today the gates will be open again
and those who wish to go in can do so
at half price. This morning the work
of removing exhibits will begin, and
by night the Fakir that now knows
the Midway will know it no more I'M
til the next Fair. Today marks the
closing of the Fair. but quite num-
Der of people always visit the grounds
on the last day, which is usually sale
day, and many of the exhibitors will
today offer bargains to the public.
OF the men who have made this Fair
much could he written, but this is
not the time or place for it, suffice it
here to say that they have labOred
long and arduously for a whole year
and too much praise cannot be given
I0en 1OT the SUCCESS .IHdD uneN nave
attained. President McNamee. who
planned and managed the Fair, has
fully met the expectations of his
friends and he retires crowned with
the honor that success always brings.
1t is, however, an honor that he wears
modestly and generously shares with
his two excellent and able lieutenants,
Secretary Pogue and Treasurer Den
son. They have toiled long and faith
fully. They have borne the heat and
burden of the day. They made the
Fair what it has been.
Already plans for the next Fair are
being laid. AS was yesterday an
nourced. il will have as its executive
head Gen. William r. Cox, and as its
secretary and its treasurer. Mr.. JOS
erh f. Pogue and Capt. {. b. benson.
These selections insure another great
success next year.