The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-17
The FAIR HAS ENDED
ITS TEN DAYS CAREER SUCCESS
FULLY WOUND UP.
NOT ONE DISPLEASED.
EVERYBODY SATISFIED WITH THE
RESULTS.

chiIdren's Day Drew Enough of the
Pupils of the Public and Private
schools of the city TO Make the
Grounds Gay-Every Premium
oGered VIII BE Paid and the Fair
VIII End with no Indebtedness
Outstanding Against It-Exhibi-
tors and ConcessiOnaires RemoV-
ing Their Property From the
Grounds.
The Georgia State Fair has ended. Not
a person connected with it, not one
who has had the pleasure Of enjoying
its attractions. is dissatisfied with its
features or its results in the way of
exhibits.
The crowd yesterday was compare
lively small, compared with the crowds
that filled the grounds on former spe-
cial days. What it lacked in num-
bers it made up in enthusiasm, and
this enthusiasm found frequent vent
from the time the gates were opened in
the morning until, to the accompani-
ment Of fireworks and noise, the Fair
was declared ended at midnight.
Every premium offered will be paid,
for the Fair directors have rallied to
the support OF the enterprise with
cheerful enthusiasm that evinces the
interest that they have taken and their
pride in the results that have been ac-
complisbed. They voice the opinion of
the people Of Savannah, when they say
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for the city and that both friends and
money have been made while its gates
have been open.
The closing day of the Fair was
Children's Day, and the pupils of the
public and private schools of the city
made the grounds beautiful with their
smiI ng faces. There were hundreds Of
them in attendance, and though they
made cnly small part in the throngs
that filled the grounds, there was
leaven OF youthful beauty sufficient TO
impress the crowds with their indirid-
uality.
Tie children were everywhere. They
were granted admission tickers at 10
cents, ana from the time the gates were
opened they filled the aisles of the
buildings and crowded around the
booths in which the exhibits were dis
played in open-eyed and open-mouthed
admiration. Throughout the day every
building was filed with them and their
friends,
In the late afternoon the Fair
grounds began to wear a dismantled
appearance. Heavy wagons, drawn by
double teams OF horses and mules, be-
gan to take away from the Plaza the
shows that have made it attrac i've for
ten days and the concessionaires on
the grounds were also active in the
work Of removal.
The Fair has passed for them and
they were anxious to remove the en-
ticing devices with which they are
wont to woo the coy sheckels from the
pockets OF the wary customer. To
"green fields and pastures new" Some
of them expressed the hope that they
would not find the sheckels as coy
and as hard TO get at as they have
found them in Savannah, when they
pitch their tents in their next stop
ping place With some of them this is
Jacksonville; with the majority or
them Charleston is the place chosen
for the next exercise of their tempting
and seductive wiles.
There were relatively few attend
ants at the final obSequies of the Fair.
Most of the visitors to the city had
got away on earlier trains, and the
Savannahians had awaited themselves
of other opportunities OF viewing the
attractions the Fair has afforded. The
night vaudeville performance was
given and some of the shows on the
Plaza still offered their attractions,
but that was all. Save for the pres
ence of the clerical force of the Fair.
all which was busy, there was little
TO remind those who were on hand of
the rush and scramble and push of the
past ten days.
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away their displays during the after
noon and before night most of the
buildings had been practically dis
mantled The live stock that has
formed so attractive a feature of the
fair. the agricultural exhibits that have
been pronounced the best ever dis
played In the state, the exhibits OF
manufacturing enterprises and mer-
chants in the city and throughout
Georgia began gradually to disappear
They were loaded on drays at the en-
trance to the buildings and pulled
through the gates to the trains.
Everybody was pleased. everybody
was satisfied with the results attained.
Some few of the concessionaires had
not made the fortune they had expect
ed to, but these were in the minority
and even the most dolefrl of them did
not feel they were in position to put
up a very vigorous kick. AS for the
people who have attended the Fair
and spent their money, they were sure
they had all that was coming to them
and more. The Fair has not been a
financial success, but this loss the d.
rectors and stockholders have cheer
fully horne; otherwise it mas been a
glittering success.
The directors and shareholders in the
Fair Association have gained some val
lrable experience, that will be of use
to them should fair again be held in
Savannah. and the people have had the
full worth of their money. There was
no one to feel Respondent when the last
rocket that announced that the Fair