The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-22
FAIR BUILDINGS UP
ONLY POULTRY HOUSE AND CATTLE
SHEDS YET TO BE BUILT.
PROGRAMME FOR THE RACES.
WILL BE COMPLETED AND TURNED
OVER TO PRINTERS TOMORROW.

The Race Track Excites General Adj
miratiOn-WOrIS to BE Continued
on 1t Up to Time of the Races
Seats to BE Placed in Grandstand
This Week-BrOOIxs, Camden, Cobb
and barlow Counties the Latest to
Apply for Space for Exhibits-Con-
tinuOus Demand for Premium List
and for Programme of Races-Mr.
III. III. Hull Elected by the Racing
Committee Manager of the Speed
Department..
So rapidly has the work at the Fair
grounds been pushed forward that all
of the buildings have now been COM
pleted, with the exception of the poul-
try house, on which work is now being
DONE and the cattle sheds, on which
work will be begun within a day or too.
All of the buildings, sheds and out
houses, said Mr.. Percy Sugden yester-
day, will be finished, cleaned up and
ready for the exhibits by the end of
next week.
Painters are putting the last coat of
paint on the grandstand, and the
benches will be put in within a day or
two. On the race track work is still
going on, the surface being continually
raked and repressed. This work, it is
thought, will be continued up to the
actual time of the races.
That the track is a fine one is con-
ceded by every one that has seen it.
1t is one mile long, fifty feet broad,
except in the homestretch, where it is
sixty, and is banked at the turns, the
scale being one inch to the foot. Every
foot of the track will be visible from
the grand stand.
The south side of the track, that OPP
posite the grand stand, will be bounded
by high board fence, that surround
ing the Fair grounds. On the north
side, however, there will be a low
picket fence, over which visitors to
the carrousel, Midway and outdoor
shows can readily see all races. The
fence and that of the inner part of the
track have not yet been built, but
work on them will be begun this week.
Counties continue to apply for space
for exhibits. Such requests were re-
ceived from Brooks, Camden, Cobb and
Barlow. So far all the counties that
have been heard from will make agri-
cultural exhibits There will be a num-
Der of individual exhibits other than
of this class. Exhibits are expected to
begin coming in about Oct. l. If no
other county exhibits should be made,
there will yet be all that are needed
The interest that is taken in the Fair
all oyer the state is shown by the great
demand for copies of the premium list,
of which, the, first edition is almost ex-
hausted. and the proportionately,
equally large demand for the race pro-
gramme. This has not yet been issued,
but will be this week.
Innumerable applications for privi-
leges are also coming in. Last week
the committee having in charge this
branch of the work, met and consid-
cred a number of these applications.
Several of them were accepted provis-
ionally. The members of the commit
tee are surprised that so far there
have been SO few bids for the restau-
rant privileges, but expect that so soon
asst is generally known that it is still
10 be had, number of bids will be
forthcoming.
The Racing Committee met last night
and chad an interesting session, during
which various matters were discussed.
number of which will take the form
of recommendations to the board of
directors at their meeting, to be held
Tuesday afternoon. The committee
elected Mr.. H. H. Hill manager of
the speed department. The finishing
touches to the race programme will
be made Monday, and the work turned
over to the printers that afternoon.