The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-19
FAIR TO Be NOV. GIG
DATES FOR THE STATES BIG SHOW
HAVE BEEN FIXED.
IT WILL BE OPENED NOV. g.
But MAY BE EXTENDED BEYOND
THE DATE INDICATED.

Premium List VIII BE out Within n
Few Days-ExcIusive of Purses for
Races. which VIII show at Least
$1,000, the List VIII Indicate
Awards Amounting to More Than
S14,OOO-NVin BE 1919 Awards in
AII-of what the Seventeen De-
parfments VIII BE Constituted.
Letters show That There Is wife
Interest in the Fair.
The State Fair will open Nov. 6, and
Eill continue at least ten days. The
premium list and prospectus of the fair,
soon to be issued, will give the dates
Nov. Gle, but it will be stated that the
duration of the fair may be extended if
the board of directors discovers that the
patronage and the interest are such as
TO warrant it. Ample time will be al
lowed for the preparation of the fair
grounds. upon which work has already
begun. and for the framing up of exhibits.
The selection of the dates is regarded as
wise, as the weather about the middle
of November, it is thought. will be all
that could be desired for a fair.
The premium list has been
opened by Col. = H. Estili. chairman
of the Premium Committee of the Board
of Directors of the Savannah Fair As
ISOLATION The list was completed few
days ago in Augusta. by Vice President
James Barrett and Secretary Martin V.
Calvin of the State Agricultural Society,
who are members of the State Fair Com
mittee.
This afternoon there will be a meeting
of some of the directors of the Fair AS
ISOLATION to which the premium list will
be submitted for ratification. Upon its
final ratification, it will be published. and
copies will be sent TO the many prospec-
tive exhibitors over the state. Many de-
mands for the list have been received,
and it is clear that there is enough inter-
est already created to insure the success
of the Fair.
The premium list aggregates $14,75975,
exclusive of the purses for the races, of
which there will be al least $500. The
list will give much information that will
be invaluable for exhibitors. setting forth
rates for transportation and the special
rules that viii govern county and indi-
vidual exhibits. 1t will show the di-
rectors and committees of the Savannah
Fair Association and of the State Agri-
cultural Society, and a complete list of
the seventeen departments will be given.
These departments will be as follows,
each under the direction of a superintend-
ent to be appointed by President Pope
Brown of the Agricultural Society. at a
stipend of s. a day: Agriculture, cattle,
sheep and hogs; dairy and
apiary; horse show, horses, colts
and ponies; manufactures and
textiles. machinery, agricultural imple-
ments. merchants display, education for
estry, mines and minerals, horticulture.
poultry and pet stock; art. Horticulture.
pisciculture, woman's work and negro's
work.
Among the many matters of which the
list will treat are general rules. exhib-
its entries, space, awerds, judges, prem
iums. designation of officers, admission
to the grounds, and protests. For each
person over Y years of age, the admis-
sion win be 80 cents: Tor each under IL.
Is cents; for 2-horse carriage. 50 cents;
for a 1-horse carriage, % cents; for
saddle horse, % cents; TO the grandstand.
i, % cents. An exhibitors ticket will cost
$50.
The premiums are shown as indicated
previously in the Morning News but
with great detail, showing small awards
that will be made for special features in
al departments. In the agricultural de-
partment, for instance, there will be So
premiums offered. All told, there will be
1873 awards. some of money, some of
diplomas, and some of ribbons.
Letters received by Mr. James c. Shaw,
secretary of the Fair Association show
that there is widespread and increa sing
interest in the Fair. Prospective exhibitors
want the premium list AS soon as they
get il, they will go ahead upon the basis
it furnishes them and will prepare their
exhibits. Among the letters Mr.. Shaw has
received is one from Mrs. w. w. Monk
of Poulan, Ga, who writes that she ex-
poets to make display of domestic in
dustry and to participate in getting up
the county exhibit; one from John +.
Martin. colored tight rope walker, who
wants to show what he can do: one from
Mr.. p II. Raiford of Johnston Station,
who declares that Liberty county will do
its part in making the State Fair great
success; one from Mr.. Thomas NJ. Cad
ley of Mott. Camden county, who ex-
presses the interest that is felt there. and
one from Mr.. d. P. Rose of Bailey's Mill
Camden county, who declares that the
County Agricultural Society. of which he
is president, is anxious to take up the
matter of an exhibit just as soon as the
premium list is received.