The Savannah morning news., 1900-11-27
WORKING FOR STATE FAIR.
SAVANNAH TRYING To Pull nOwN
THE PLUM ron NENT YEAR.

Active Campaign TO secure the Fair
for This city BeEun Last Might.
when Mai. &. ". nyaI. Lett for A.
IAnta-He VIII Interview There
President ,. Pope Brown and the
Members Of the Executive Commit
tee of the state Agricultural so
DISQUALIFICATION a. 80 Place l. Win
Tbem-Mai. Ryals' "Trip l. the Re
suit of a Conference with Mayor
Myers
For some days Mayor Myers and other
prominent citizens ~ Savannah have besa
considering tie adyisabllsy co. making au
cnort to secure the State Fair 90 uext
year for Savannah. and not a Atuo quiet
work along this liue has been done.
The active campaign was inaugunted
last night. when Maj O ST. Rylls. rep
resenung che c,'y left for Atlanta, 70
interview Prcsident j. Pope Brown. o.
the State Agricultural Society and the
members % thc soeie'ys Executive Com
mittec. MAJ Ryais has been instructed
by the Mayor 60 seek 60 Interest the pres
ideut 81 the society ANA the other meme
bers Of the committee In Savannah.
claims 20 the state Fair 20 ascertain
what Euarantees che society win require
from tho CITY and. II possible. 20 secure
such conditional prom ses a. viii insure
the success OF the protest.
Mos. Ryals had a conference with tho
Mayor on this subject some days since
and another conference yesterday morn
To-. IN.
President Brown aud had r.. clsed = ~
ply OF the most encouraging description
Portions Of THIS letter arr intoros tins. Az
ter some general observation ou the aup-
ject. President Brown says.
To give you an idea as Co what Re
would want. will relate the agreement
made last year with the e.it OF AtIan a.
The people OF Atlanta PIT up bonus ~
5000 20 insure the paym. co. 81 an eN-
Tsnses iu addition 10 the gate receipts
aud other sources Of revenue. ]. Was
also understood that m all tae expense
OF the fair V,re paid and fnefc should re-
main any balance. tnat the contributor
10 the $1,000 bonus shou.l nave their
money returned Co them. or whateu cr % .o-
portion Of 10 could be returned ron hr
fund in hand 10 there should ba enough
money 40 repay all the contributors 'ni
sill leave balance. then the state Az
rlcuiturll Society Was 90 Dee Interested ia
that fund
The result was that all OF the EXPENSE
u the fair ware paid every contributor
got back every dollar subscribed and
there was a small sum icft over some
thing like s. 90 The heads of the de-
partments. sixteen tn number, We're PAID
s. per diem duriuc thciE stay in Atlanta.
" fach Ausoyn1sd 20 a cost ~ So per day.
dur1rg the fair Tho fair continued about
ten DAYS, which ne8nt that ga % head ~
a department received 80 for bis services
Not tor ten days work. however. but for
all the time and talk be had pat iu. in be-
half Of the fair from the time We first
agreed to this arrangement We about
duplicated this agreement With the people
Of Nsldosta.
III you have a race track in savannah
and the proper buildings. and your people
desire the fair. Do strikes me that We
could make a brlhiuat success OF u IN
your city. The society viii hold q fair
next year. ! have been Informed that
Macon and Atlanta desire TO make ar
engagements Tor a. and perhaps Rome and
Americas may make bid
Il shall call meeting OF tho Executive
! Committee to meet az an early date and
decide wheTo the fair VIII be held. 10 that
~ can put the farmers on uotice ana
premium list IN their hands eIrly next
year. Thus they viii have no. excuse Tor
not making fine agricultural exhibit"
Maj. Hyals az the Mayor Instance.
communicated with President Brown. by
wire. after the conference on yesterday
and last night received a reply stating
that he would be IN Atlanta to-day. While
no needing of .he Executive Committee
has been called, q number ~ Cos mcm-
bers viii be IN Atlanta in reference to the
bin now PENDING Ia the House which
seeks 10 incrcase the appropriation Tor the