The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-14
STREETS WERE QUIET.
Savannah People Left Their BUSH
ness to Sec the State Fair.


ness to See the State Fair.
After l o'clock yesterday down town
Savannah looked like a somewhat en-
larged reproduction of THE Deserted
Village" With rare exception the re-
tail shops were all closed and the
shopping district had fewer persons
within it's bounds than are there on
Sundays. Employers and employed
had gone to add their presence to the
crowds and contribute their money and
enthusiasm to the success of Savannah
day.
The Cotton Exchange and Board of
Trade were closed, many of the big
wholesale house. O.. the Bay and ~sher
downtown business streets had given
their employees a half holiday. the Of
fees of brokers and factors and other
business men had observed a similar
policy and there was evidence every
where that the people of the city had
rallied to the support of the Fair end
were giving it the best possible mani
festation of their interest in its sue
cess and their appreciation OF the good
work it is doing for Savannah
There were no shoppers abroad,
either local or imported, everybody
seemed to be glad to indorse the public
spirit of the merchants and to spend
the day with them and their employees
out on the Fair grounds, in admiration
of the horse flesh that was on exhibit
ton and in constant enjoyment of the
stores of good things that the Fair
offers the public.
Even the courts adjourned for the
day. There was nothing doing in the
Superior Court, anyhow, and in the City
Court the wheels of justice, after
| making a few wobbly and uncertain
revolutions, stopped of their own ac-
cord. while Judge Norwood told the
members of the jury that was slated to
| grind the mill and the officers of the
| court, present to assist and oversee
the operation, TO put on their hats and
must have told the judge to go and
look after his strayed lambs, for a
| little while later he was on the
grounds himself-and he wasn't look
| ing for turymen, either. Possibly he
had forgotten.
For four or five hours the deserted
appearance of the streets continued
but in the late Afternoon they began to
| take on once more the appearance OF
| life. The Plant System trains and
the trolley cars from the grounds
brought a constantly and rapidly in.
| creasing crowd of people back to the
city and these, after having spent the
| day in admiration of the sights at the
| Fair, were promenading about the
streets, admiring the sights of Savan-
| nah, as these latter are only to be seen
under the glare of the electric lights.
The howl of the barker was heard
| once more in the land and from the
several Broughton street places which
| have been opened since the Fair began
could be heard the voices of these gen.
| try, as they cried the forbidden excel
lencies of the programmes of amuse-
ment they offered the visitors from the
rural districts.
The town walked UP again. Fakirs
exhorted the passing public to buy
yellow elephants and pink zebras and
| purple alligators. all of which animals
some hidden mechanism enabled to re-
| produce a more or less accurate imi-
tation of life. Some of the stores open.
| ed for business and did a thriyins
| trade. The streets were filled with
| people, and where a few hours before
the scene would have convinced a Wis
| itor from another planet that the mil.
| lenium had arrived and that the gooc
| time, when every day'n be Sunday.
had struck Savannah, there was noise
| confusion, men, women and children
| fun and merriment enough to banisi
the mistaken impression forever.