The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-15
BROOKS the WINNER
SOUTH GEORGIA COUNTY CARRIED
OFF FIRST PRIZE.
sPALDING WON SECOND PRIZE.
barlow is THIRD AND OTHERS
GET CONSOLATION MONEY.


pegree-Some Were Disappointed
of COurse-Too Much Handling OF
Exhibits Proved Costly to Cobb
and Others.
Brooks county first prize, $500.
Shading county, second prize, $1,000
Rartow county. third prize, $500.
The above figures give the result OF
the contests for the premiums oHereu
nv the savannah Fair Association for
county agricultural displays. Coop'
Sumter. Bibb, Dodge, Camden. Worth
and EHngham. which were also in the
contest, received 5000 each.
For the second time in its history,
Brooks county carried off the first prize
for the best agricultural display at the
State Fair Last year it won the
first prize of 81 900 at the State Fair at
Valdosta, and also wins the first prize
of 81. 500 at the State Fair at Savannah.
Spalding, Brooks county's closest
competitor. gets the second prize or
81 600 The Spalding people were lit
tie disappointed at not getting the first
prize. but when they reflected that 1t
was their first exhibit. and that it had
been gotten up in half the time taken
by their competitors, they concluded
that they should be well pleased TO
have come in second. The veterans of
the State Agricultural Society told
them that they were in big luck to get
in ahead of counties which have rec
ords behind them in the matter of ex-
hibits and prize taking.
Barlow, with her fine exhibit, took
third prize. She was a close compeu-
tor with the other two counties for
both first and second prizes, but under
the system of percentage used by the
committee in making the wards, she
fell a little short. The standing of each
county by percentage, as stated by the
chairman of the committee, was as fol-
lows: Brooks 911s, Spalding So; Barlow
1914 Cobb 72. According to the rules
for making the awards laid down In
the premium book the number of pos
sible points in each department of an
exhibit were 60 for agriculture, 20 for
garden vegetables, 10 for home indus
tries and ten for fruits. Each commit
teeman marked each portion of each
exhibit according to his own ideas. and
the averages were taken after the in
spections were concluded.
The committeeman were 10th to give
out the announcements yesterday, but
President Brown of the Agricultural
Society insisted that this should be
done. The announcement would doubt
less cause dissatisfaction on the part
of the unsuccessful exhibitors, he said.
but he held that both the exhibitors
and the public were entitled to the in
forma ton and that the suspense should
not be continued any longer than no.
essary. The announcement was acco4 u
irgly made shortly before o'clock yes
terday.
Brooks Gets the Prize.
When the committee approached the
Brooks county section, with announced
object of making their decision known
Manager E. G. Young was all s-trem-
BILE with excitement He and his as
sociates had worked hard and felt that
they deserved the prize, but the COM
naittee had kept its secret well. When
informed that the blue ribbon belonged
TO Brooks county he was almost be-
sides himself with joy. Messrs. j. M.
Gaulden and r. L. Grower, who had
a large hand in the making of the eX-
hibit. were also greatly delighted.
The committee next proceeded 10 the
Spalding exhibit, where the second
honor was conferred. The Spalding ex-
they concluded that second honor and
a 81 900 prize was something to be
proud of for their first effort in the ex-
hibiting line, and with the experience
they had had they might reasonably
hope to secure the first prize on their
next attempt.
The Barlow county exhibitors were
likewise disappointed at not coming in
for the first prize, but were pleased
t.aA raf~n not Of nttf Nf he n
ming altogether. Cobb county was
probably the worst disappointed of al
at the failure to land a prize, as she
recently won the first prize at the At
lanta Interstate Fair, and has a record
of four consecutive prize winnings. The
low percentage assigned Cobb by the
committee is said to have been due Il
the fact that her exhibits had beer
somewhat damaged by the handling
which they had experienced by reason
of the fact that they had appeared
first at the Atlanta fair and were thef
transferred to Savannah.
Consolation prizes of 5000 each were
given the counties which did not ge
in on the main prizes, this provision
having been made in making up thu
premium list, in order that exhibitors
who had gone to the trouble and ex
pense of making up an exhibit nigh
receive some remuneration.
Apparently the committees decision
met with the general approval, no
only of the members of the Agricul
tural Society, but with the Savannah
public and the visitors generally. l
is no partiallity to say now that Brooks
county has been the favorite with tn
great majority of the visitors to tn
Fair This was due partly to the yer.
handsome manner in which the displa.
was set forth and largely to its evi
dent merit In the same way Spaldins
was generally looked upon by the visit
ors as the next in merit. Had tn
matter been left 10 a vote Of the PEG
pie who attended the Fair il is prac
tically certain that the result as q
the first and second prizes and prob
ably as to the third also. would hav
been the same as the decision of tn
committee.
How Brooks Won.
I'VE are proud TO have the priz
awarded 10 Brooks" said Mr.. j. NJ
Gaulden yesterday. 1T Is an homo
which we feel that we have honestl,
earned. The matter Of making an ex
hibit was discussed for some time, bu
the positive decision 20 undertake
was only made six weeks before tn
Fair. We then went actively 10 worl
soliciting contributions from our bes
farmers IN which we were very sue
cessfu, A great many contribution
were made for which we gave bonde'
warehouse receipts. In this way GU
exhibit was q thoroughly representa-
tive one ~ the entire county. Their
wac a great deal ~ work for the com