The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
PULLING FOR THE FAIR
MUCH INTEREST IS MANIFESTED IN
 THE PROJECT.
Chairman westcott Announces That Organization of Association VIII Be Pushed When the HOll-
 days Are over

T believe that from my investlga- lions so far subscribers to the $5o.O0O of stock to be put into an Alabama State Fair Association will be found m this State when our committee gets to working systematically"
 This statement was made yesterday by Chairman w. D. Wescott, of the executive committee of the State Fair Association which was launched on December 10, by a large committee of representative citizens of Montgomery County upon the call of the Montgom- cry County Agricultural Association.
 Owing to the holiday period 1t has been deemed wise by Mir. Westcott and his fellow committeeman, B. M Houghton and George w. Jones, to de- lay active work in making plans for getting all the proposed stock sub scribed. Nevertheless, these men have been feeling the pulse of the farmers in every section of Alabama with a view of procuring their opinion of the need and the possible success of the State Fair project. Industrial men as well as farmers and professional men of prominence have been interviewed hv the three members of the conn mittee.
 As soon as the State is a little more thoroughly searched by the gentlemen
 
 more men to aid them in the work of setting up a definite plan for the or ganization.
 Chairman westcott said yesterday that he will wait for the dying of the holidays and by the end of this week he will call a meeting of the commit tee. The remainder of the committee of ten will at this meeting be selected. It will then proceed to draft charter nd aor rlv nnaGihla fharoaf ciIh init 1t and other suggestions to a mass meeting to be called by the committee in Montgomery.
 T am greatly encouraged at the un- animity of sentiment favoring the big enterprise of State Fair" said Chair man Westcott. Every body seems to think 1t will be an suspicious year for Montgomery to show the country what Alabama can do when their people pull together for a big undertaking that will exhibit the matchless resources and possibilities of our great State
 Prominent men in Central and Western Alabama are daily giving as- surance of substantial interest and the whole state will look forward to the event as one that will mark an era in our progress and development. Our own people, continued MT. Westcott. do not realize what we have or what is being accomplished in an agricultural. Horticultural. live stock and industrial way. but unity of effort will present 1t to the admiring gaze of thousands not only of our own peo- pie but hundreds from the West and North and adjacent states. The small farmers and the large ones-the live stock breeder and all of agriculture's kindred branches, are anxious to meet the manufacturing and industrial in terests in a grand show down at Mont gomery next fall"
 The State Fair Association has a hearty endorser in Judge G. G. woolf of Marengo County.
 T am heartily in favor of holding A State Fair" said Judge Woolf to Chair man Nestcott day or two ago when approached on the subject. Tt will he great thing for the people of Ala bama and will promote interest in every line of agriculturaland industrial de- Velopment You may count on me and the people of our section in giving vou every aid In our power to make vour work big success"
 T am glad to see the subject of a State Fair agitated," said a prominent farmer of Montgomery, one who lives in prosperity away out from the city "1 have some fine mules raised on r,,v farm that I would like very much to exhibit at the proposed Fair in order to demonstrate what Alabama can do in the stock line
 T am not the only one who can show some good home-raised mules. eIthsr Tor there are others of my acquaint- ance. continued the speaker noInttnp to two farmers who were walkin9 along Commerce street. These men raise excellent mules, mules as good as could be wanted, and they do if at a saving on Western mule prices"
 When the State Fair Association Ia organized and duly chartered it is ex- pected to be permaent. A Fair will be held annually in Montporoar', Grounds on which buildings are to ba erected in order to accommodate tho exhitits from all parts of the sto.o Will be either bought or leased for a long period.