The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-15
WANT ANOTHER FAIR
SAVANNAH MERCHANTS ARE JUBI-
LIANT OVER SUCCESS.
RETAIL TRADE HELPED.
A PERCEPTIBLE INCREASE IN
CASH SALES is REPORTED,

Suggestion Is Made That Cities
Agree on Dates So That Two Fairs
VIII Not He in Progress at the
Same Time - MIR. Leopold Adler
Says That There Was n Noticeable
Increase in Business in His Store.
Others Report Increases In Both
Wholesale and Retail Trade.
Another fair and race meet for Sa-
vannah in 1904!
This is the merchants slogan. They
were benefited by the fair that closed
last hight and are already talking about
what must be done the next time"
From every quarter comes praise for
the fair management and the absence
of kicking" is noticeable. The fair
has been a success from every stand
point and yet il can be made even
more successful. The management has
learned things now from actual ex-
perience, and has at the same time
satisfied those who subscribed money
enough to make the fair possible.
MIR. Leopold Adler says that the re-
ceipts at his store during the week
were larger than usual and he at
tributes the increase to the presence
of strangers IN the city. Mr.. Adler
is very well pleased with the way in
which things progressed, and favors
holding another fair and race meet in
Savannah next year. Mr.. Adler says
that the management of the fair was
satisfactory, and that affairs could have
hardly worked out any better. There
were a great many visitors in the city
during the week and Mr.. Adler no
ticed an increase in his cash sale.
of &
Bro, said that his firms business had
been helped by the fair. I'VE were
busy all the week. said Mr.. Levy,
land there was quite an increase in
our cash sales. This extra trade came
from the small army of people who had
shows or horses at the fair, and from
visitors to the fair. So far as l can
learn our experience has been that of
other merchants and there seems to be
no longer any doubt that a fair is a
good thing. BY all means let us have
another next year.
Capt. ]. 7. West says that while the
fair has not been of great benefit to
his business he feels certain that he
has been indirectly benefited. What
ever helps Savannah is of benefit to each
and every merchant and business house
individually and l would NC Ver!vV lad
to see that fair made a permanent in
stitution. 1t would bring people to the
city every fall and it pays to have
crowded city. l ann heartily in favor of
the fair"
Mr.. P. T. Foye of Foye & Eckstein,
said: ''Our business has been greatly
benefited by the fair. 1t is good
thing for Savannah business houses.
Our business has been greatly in
creased during the past ten days and
basing my opinion ION the results of
this fair, 1 would at least like very
much IN see another next fall -
Mr.. Charles Marks feels that those
who subscribed should let their money
remain where it is, to be used in get
ting Savannah in the racing circuit next
season. None of us believed that We
would get our money back" said Mr..
Marks, land for this reason We should
not want to take it. The fair has
helped us all, and for one think that
we might just let our subscriptions
stand to be used another year.
''All of the merchants, both whole
sale and retail, have been benefited
and we should now try to get SaVan-
nah in the racing circuit. AS one of
THE subscribers / favor letting the
money that the management has, go to-
wards the expenses that must be in
CURED in getting Savannah into the
racing circuit"
Mr.. A. J Garfunkel believes that
even larger crowds can be brought 10
Savannah next year by a very sim
pie arrangement. He favors the hold
ing of a meeting of representatives or
the various cities and towns IN TINS
section that hold fairs annually At
such a meeting dates could be agreed
upon and there would be a kind of
circuit. In this way two or three fairs
would not be held at the same time.
Mr.. Garfunkel believes that such an
arrangement would be of mutual bene-
At and those who were spoken to on
the subject feel the same way about
It,
Mr.. Arthur L. We'll Of E. A. We'll
e Co., and the Globe Shoe Company
is heartily in favor of holding another
fair and race meet. 1.-THE cheap rates
on the railroads brings crowds to Sa-
Vannah and helps business" said Mr..
We'll 1--WE have noticed quite a
squirt in the wholesale as well as the
retail trade and the cash sales were
larger during fair week. By all means
would should have another fair and
race meet
That the registers of local hotels
have been filled each day with names
of visitors spending from one day to
a week in the city, making it neces-
sary that applicants for accommoda-
tions be turned away, is evidence that
harvest was reaped by the hotels
and boarding houses on account of the
fair.
Mr.. Charles F. Graham of the Pu-
laski House says that when the can
Nass is made for subscriptions for the
next fair, if another is held, that he
will be willing to indorse the institu-
ton with a subscription of from $500
TO $500. THE fair is a good thing,
said Mr. Graham land it should be
made a permanent institution. think
that all classes of business have been
benefited and not only the directors,
but the citizens in general, should go
to work at once to make preparations
for another fair next fall"
The mana cement of the De Soto de-
clares the fair a success from a bust
ness standpoint, so far as the De Soto
has been concerned.
The Screven House management in
dorses the fair, pronouncing it an in
stitution of benefit to them, and favors
another show next fall.