The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-08
FAIRS SECOND DAY
bright SUNSHINE AND HAPPY
CROWDS MARKED 1T.
EVERYTHING NOW COMPLETE.
nIBB AND DODGE GET THEIR En-
HIBITs IN LINE.

All Agree That the Agricultural Dis
ing for Prizes, Exceeds Anything
of the Kind Ever known in the
History of the Day-The People
Are Hearing the News and the
Railroads Expect TO Handle Big
Crowds-The Night Performances
Prove Very Attractive Features
and the Reduced Charge Is n Big
Inducement.
The sun shines on Savannah's Fair.
Yesterday was another bright day IN
its history, and as bright with pros
poets of success as with sunshine. Sew
eral thousand people entered the gates
and took in the attractions. The races
were the feature of the day, of course,
and cheering crowds filled the grand
stand and made a dark line along the
fence the entire front of the Fair
buildings. While the races were on
nothing else had any show, and the
buildings were emptied of exhibitors as
well as sightseers, and even the Mid
way was at standstill.
The attendance during the morning
was fairly good. and hundreds passed
through the long buildings. inspecting
the exhibits with admiring comments.
As was to be expected, there was
very marked improvement in the ex-
hibits over the previous day. the state
of incompleteness which characterized
many of them having almost entirely
disappeared. Many of the mercantile
and manufacturing displays are hand
some in appearance. The decorators
art has been lavished freely upon them
and much taste shown in their fitting
out. The result is that the space al
lotted to these displays is a bright
mass of color of varying hues offering
a pleasant relief to the more somber
background of the agricultural exhibits
by which the majority are f1anked.
Many of the individual displays
and exhibits are very attractive, and
this is especially the case in the Fine
Arts and Woman's building.
The crowds were of course not so
large as the day before. There was not
the military and the Legislature and
other invited guests to help swell the
number and the school children were
back at their books. The towns people
who had seen the show the day before
could not, of course, all be expected to
come again the succeeding day. They
may be relied upon to come again,
however, as the interest in the show is
growing one and the races especially
promise to prove a drawing card.
The railroads brought in several
hundred people during the day, but not
anything like what they expect to do
little later. The news that the Fair
is on and that it is the biggest show of
its kind ever given in South GEORGIA.
is just beginning to get around the
rural districts, and it is expected that
by tomorrow the attendance from the
surrounding country will be considera-
BILE. The people of the country and the
small towns do not, as a rule, care to
spend their hard earned coin in rail-
road fare and hotel bills until they
are assured that the show is in full
blast and this is the news that is lust
now reaching them. The railroad men
promise to make the hearts of the Fair
managers glad with the crowds which
they will bring in asssoon as the peo-
pie along their lines realize what there
is in store for them in Savannah.
If the. rural visitor takes an interest
in agricultural matters when he gets
away from home, he will have no rea-
son to be disappointed when he reaches
Savannah. Ten Of the best counties
in the state now furnish the finest ex-
hibition of its agricultural resources
ever shown to the people of GEORGIA.
President Pope Brown of the Agricul.
tural Society. and the superintendent
of the fifteen departments of the Fair
all of them veterans in State Fair
management, unanimously agree that
no such showing of what the Georgia
farmer can do, and is doing, was ever
before made, and that a careful study
of these exhibits would constitute a
liberal education and be Of vast benefit
to the average farmer.
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