The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-17
ten BROCK TRACT
WILL BE RECOMMENDED BY COM
MITTEE THIS AFTERNOON.
AS SITE FOR FAIR GROUNDS.
THE QUESTION MAY BE DEFINITE
LY SETTLED BY THE DIRECTORS.

Committee VIII Recommend the Ten
Brock Tract, Contingent Upon
Certain Provisions Being Met.
Board of Directors May or May Not
Abide by the Report-Board May
Decide Upon a Site or May Agree
TO Leave the Question to the
stocI1hOIders-TenB Brock and Dale
Avenue Tracts Now the Only Ones
in the Race.
The question of a site for the State Fair
will probably be settled at a meeting of
the Board of Directors of the Association
this afternoon at o'clock, at the Office
of the president, Mr.. George w. Owens.
The Site Committee, Chairman ]. w.
Jackson said yesterday, will be ready
with report to the Board of Directors.
The report will be a recommendation that
the Ten Brock tract be selected by the
Board of Directors for holding the Fair,
provided certain conditions that Will be
conveyed in the report are complied with
by the owners of the tract.
Mr.. jackson would give no init
NATION as 40 which tract would
be recommended, but there can
be no question that it will be either
the Ten Brock or the Dale avenue prop
erty. He felt that he should make no an
nouncement of the intention of the COM
mittee prior to the report to the directors.
but from another source it was learned
that the Recommendation would be for the
Ten Brock tract. provided certain re-
quirements are met.
While he would not indicate what the
recommendation of the committee would
be, Mr.. Jackson said that it would not
be for the acceptance of the Ten Brock
tract under the proposition made by the
directors of the Agricultural and Mechan-
ical Association of Georgia, when they
met with the Site Committee last Satur-
day. The meeting was held then to see
if an amendment to the former PROPOSE
ton considered by the committee could
be agreed upon.
An agreement was reached. but II
seems that it was not upon a proposition
entirely satisfactory to Mr. Jackson The
difficulty, Mr.. jackson said, is in the
wording of the paragraph relative to an
option on the property, which is to the
Agricultural and Mechanical Association
OF Georgia will recommend to the stock
holders that an option to purchase for
$4,000 within three years be granted.
This, Mr.. Jackson declared, is not really
an option.
1t would seem from the informant Sc
cured elsewhere that the committee will
recommend the Ten Brock tract and
from Mr.. Jackson's statement about the
option, that one of the exceptions to the
modified offer will have a bearing upon
the right that is desired by the Fair AS
socian 10 purchase after having improved
the property.
The meeting of the fair directors this
afternoon will be one of a number that
have been held to receive the report of
the Site Committee So much unexpected
work devolved upon that committee, how
ever, that ii was unable to report earlier
than to-day, and at the same time feel
that the best interests of the Fair AS
ISOLATION had been consulted. The COM
mittee wanted to look into all the ques-
tfons bearing upon the matter of sites
for the fair grounds, and a premature
report might have been hurtful to the as
ISOLATION and to the prospects for the
fair. Certain it is that by waiting the
committee has been enabled to secure far
more advantageous offers of tracts than
were at first submitted.
IL is possible that modified offer from
the Merchants and Mechanics Land
Company may reach the Site Committee
before 1t reports. A letter has been re-
ceived by Mr.. Jackson from Capt. d. G.
Purse, president of the Merchants and
Mechanics Land Company requesting
that the company be allowed the courtesy
to amend its offer, as such a courtesy
had been extended the Agricultural and
Mechanical Association of Georgia Mr.
Jackson replied that Capt. Purse was at
liberty to offer any amended proposition,
and that the committee would be glad
TO consider it.
The settlement of the question OF the site
will be welcomed, as the stockholders aud
the people generally would like to know
where the fair is to be held. There is a
division of opinion in the matter. Ten
Brock tract and the Dale avenue tract
each having many adherents who believe
that one or the other would be better
suited to the purposes of the Fair AS
ISOLATION. Unless it be decided by the
directors 10 leave the question TO the
stockholders OF the association for SCI
element, II is believed that a selection
viii be definitely made this afternoon