Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-09-07
FAIR PARAGRAPHS.
The Approaching Fair Being Well
Advertised by Santa fe and
Fair Officials.
BRIEF NOTES ABOUT ATTRACTIONS.

1t is now a foregone conclusion,
which was reached in conference yes.
terday afternoon, that there will be
some interesting midway attractions
and the secretary is using the wires
to capture some of the very best at.
fractions.
The Citizen has not been informed
officially when the privileges of the
fair will be put on sale. but plenty of
time will be given prospective purch.
asers to get into the swim. There
will be some first-class privileges and
concessions to be offered.
The newspapers Of the territory, es-
pecially at Las Vegas and Santa Fe,
are to be commended for publishing
the announcement OF Secretary Nc
Gamma of the Territorial Fair associa.
ton, regarding the advertising car.
What advertises Albuquerque. adver.
tises the whole territory. and this kind
of a motto Is being well observed this
year by the territorial exchanges.
At a recent meeting OF the execu.
tive committee II was voted to give
$50 for the best decorated float In
the trades parade. For the past few
years these parades have been inter.
osting features of fair week and some
have been brilliant and up-to-date. but
II Is the intention of the fair q
agement to make the trades parade of
the approaching fair outshine all pre-
vious efforts, and of course II will be
done.
w. II. Simpson, who has charge Of
the advertising department OF the
Santa Fe Railroad company, has in.
structions from General Passenger
Agent Black to see that every station
agent along the Santa Fe route from
Denver to La Junta, thence south to
El Paso, and from Albuquerque to
Needles, Cal, Is fully provided with
posters advertising the fair and rail.
road rates to and from their stations.
Mr.. simpson Will also send to the fair
management a big bundle of fair post.
ers.
The Santa Fe railway. through Gen.
eral Passenger Agent Black. has is
sued its rates for fair visitors, and
they are cheap. much better than stay.
ing at home. Here are the rates from
some of the cities named In the circu.
lar: Thornton, sl.15; Cerrillos, $3.50;
Santa Fe, s2.65: Las Vegas. 81: Ration,
$3.50; Los Lunas. So cents; Socorro,
$3.50; Magdalena, s2.S5; San Marcial,
$40; Las Cruces. $685.: Lake Valley,
$3.50; Deming. 81; Silver City, $40;
I'll Paso, Texas, s7.65; Trinidad. IS:
Pueblo. Colo. s12.35; Denver, 1855.
These are round trip rates.
The advertising car with its load of
AIR posters and smaller literature,
and in charge Of Col. Scott Knight,
will pull out for the northern towns
Tuesday. IN article published else
where in to-day's Citizen. written by n
gentleman who understands the good
and bad qualities of the genial man
ager of the advertising car, says:
Mr.. Knight Is a whole encyclopedia
of information on fair matters, and Is
moreover blessed with the kind of dis
position which makes II pleasant to
him to talk to the public" The execu-
tive committee made no mistake in its
selection Of Scott Knight for this i'm.
portant duty.
The present season. with its abund.
ant rains, good crops. fat stock and
better than all, good prices for every.
thing, has surely put the farmers,
ranchmen and people generally In n
better humor than for several a
past. and these facts. coupled with the
information that the fair association
will again give horse racing and exhi.
bition OF another trial.
ought to bring together at the fair
next month a tremendous crowd from
all over the southwest country. Let
everybody come-the horse racing,
the cowboy tournament, the Indian
dances, the base ball games and the
lilo Yln 49, 90 .na..u,aa a- NA-
blankets will prove interesting and in.
structive In every particular.
AS has already been officially an
%nounced, the base ball games will be
played by professional teams and II
they don't put up gilt.edged playing II
will be no fault of the president, sec
rotary and executive committee of the
fair. Efforts have been made by let.
tors and by personal representations,
TO secure some of the best ball play
ers in the National league, and they
have agreed to come. Phe Citizen 10
In receipt of a letter from Fred Ray.
mer acknowledging marked copy of
an article published in The Citizen
on the return of the Junior member
from n business trip to Chicago, and
he states positively that he, with Wad-
dell. Green. Hartsell and Chance, OF
the Chicagos, and Powell. Kruger and
Mccain of the st. Louis team, will be
on hand to represent the Albuquerque
Browns. McGann graduated from the
Shelbyville, KY, club, and that Is the
reason he is called "Old Kentucky"
As a first baseman he has few equals.
Raymer graduated from the Albuquer.
que Browns a few years after Secre-
rotary McCanna and Scott knight re.
tired from the diamond field, and he
Is considered today one of the best
shortstops and third base players In
the National league.