The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-31
PLANS FOR FAIR
TO BE DISCUSSED
AT A GENERAL MEETING
CALLED BY SAVANNAH RACING AS
ISOLATION FOR TUESDAY.

Everybody Interested in welfare of
City Invited to Be Present-Special
Invitations to He Extended to
Members of All Trade Bodies.
Joseph f. Doyle Elected General
Manager Racing Department OF
Racing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Is Be-
ing Advertised Extensively.
In all probability Savannah will have
another fair this fall, to be given by
the Savannah Racing Association.
A meeting to consider the matter will
be held Tuesday afternoon, in the
rooms of the Chamber of Commerce.
TO this meeting an invitation is ex-
tended to the members of the Racing
Association, the Chamber of Commerce,
the Cotton Exchange, the Board of
Trade and to all merchants, and every
one else who is interested in the well
fare of the city.
This was decided at a meeting of the
directors of the Racing Association
held yesterday afternoon. Nothing fur
Their was settled, though the sentiment
was 0CNAOCQAy III ldNOL VI AOA04AA5 d
fair, and of making it good one. The
date generally favored was some time
in the early part of November.
1t was thought, too, that the fair
should be continued at least ten days.
Racing, of course, will be one of the
features, and should be better than has
ever been witnessed in this city, be-
cause of the excellent advertising that's
the track is receiving from horsemen
who have had entries in former races,
or who have had horses here during
the last winter.
Track Being Advertised.
The track is likely to be even better
known in a short time. Circulars CIV
ing information in regard to it, and
its advantages, have been sent by Sec
rotary Joseph F. Doyle of the associ-
alton to the various papers of the coun-
try devoted to track events, and these
publications have, in a large number
of cases, promised to print such infor-
nation.
Col. ]. H. Estill suggested that should
the fair be held, and he is heartily
in favor of holding it, the efforts of
the association to secure attendants
should be connned TO savannah ter
ritory-that is, to the surrounding
counties. He believed that better re-
suits could be accomplished by con-
filming the advertising to, say, the ten
nearby counties than if a wider scope
of operations should be decided on. He
thought, too, that it would be a good
plan, If the fair lasts ten days, to
have a day devoted to each of the ten
counties, and to be known by the name
of that county.
Doyle Racing Manager.
The directors elected Secretary
Doyle to be general manager of the
racing department, to succeed the late
H. H. Hull. Mr.. Doyle's qualifications
for such a position are we'll known,
and there is no doubt he will be as
ties as he has in attending to the
other departments of the association
of which he has been in charge.
Though not strictly a part of the
meeting, a number of matters were
discussed, among them the proposed
automobile speedway in which the
general interest of all business men
is increasing; and the possibility of
putting the inner field of the race
track in shape for baseball and other
athletic games. 1t was thought that
this could be done with little trou-
BILE and expense. and that it would
be a good thing, both for the Racing
Association and for the ball teams,
particularly if the present league, in
which Savannah is interested, should
prove as successful as is anticipated.