The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-10-31
AMARILLO TO
HAVE FAIR
Boosters From Here Gathered
Data at Dallas 10 AID Them
in Their Work
From lhe DaIINs TImaA,NeIaId o.

When tho state fair management
divided the second Monday between
the Five Million club and the Pan
hIndlc people It didn't have the re-
hottest idea thai the occasion and the
institution wouldn't he big enough
for them both. Notwithstanding the
numerically impressive name Of the
Five Milloners," the "Panhandlers'
overwhelmed them, The Five Mil
lioners held a program at the Con-
yontion han and invited the Pan
handlers, There were probably sixty
Five Millioners and more than 600
Panhandlers,
The push arrived from the North
west Saturday night as dry as any
herd of cattle or buffalo that ever
roamed the prairles OF the Llano Els
tacado. It was not long until ev-
erybody with the slightest powers Of
observation knew they were in the
city. They established bureau of
information in the Oriental hotel. 1t
wasn't very long until most every
body knew all about the tremendous
resources Of the Panhandle, II he
didn't It wa@beGause ne didn't have
time or inclination TO read.
Claims Of Amarillo. ~'.
Amarillo claims to be the hub Of
the Panhandle and most of, the other
towns admit Il. Amarillo contributed
most largely to the success of the
Panhandle Day at the fair 1t was
estimated that there were l;000,peo-
pie from the Panhandle here, and
600 OF them were from Amarillo,
They wore white caps and had yellow
bands over the visors, and an oC-
casional yellow feather in the bands.
Amarillo has been growing like Dal-
las the last few years and Am3ril-
loites have been too busy to waste
time in useless talk They have
learned to say the most in the short
est time, The average Amarllloan
can tell you all about his town and
the surrounding country in about
two seconds. His story runs some
thing like this:
Amarillo has 1900 people. The
hub of the Panhandle Railroads ra-
dlate in seven different directions,
It's the Dallas of Northwest Texas,
Has twenty-one wholesale houses,
Five banks, Total deposits $4,000
900. Is building $4,000 opera
house and an elegant Baptist church.
Has 40 front feet Of busine5s build
ings in process of erection. Rail-
road shops will be located there.
Double in population in five years,
These fellows may have been wock-
ing hard, but they have not forgot
ten how to enjoy themselves. They
do that just as II they had TO CON
centrate all their pleasure in one
visit to the fair. They say they never
saw anything like It, and they didn't
want to miss a single feature They
wanted to impress every detail on
their mind and reproduce 1t at Anna
rill o in the course OF time b,
Real Object Of Visit.
That's the real object OF their visit
here. They propose to organize for
the Panhandle a fair modelled after
the Texas state fair at Dallas, For
that reason most of the representa-.
tive citizens OF the Panhandle me.
tropoNs have come to Dallas and
are getting acquainted with the meth.
DDS Of running the fair Such citi
zens as former Lieutenant Governor
j. y. Browning, Mayor viii A. MI
Ter, Vernon ReEGs and others made
close observations yesterday anr
went home With pretty much all tht
Information they desired, When they
reach home they will begin thu
ground work of an organization pat
termed after the state fair. 90"
The Panhandlers are enjoyinr
themselves only as Texans know how
and Dallas is theirs, state fair ant
all There are many prominent peo
PIE here from Northwest Texas anc
Ian bespeak Of the prosperity ant
push OF their wonderful section
There are several hundred Of then
here and 1t is good to see what In
terest they take in the exhibits, race
and other attractions The Panhhn
die has sent down some excellent ex
hibits Of livestock and agriculture
especially hogs
The give Mill.onnrs" and TIL
"Panhandlers" are making thing
lively at the state fair. The Pan
handle delegation have no forma
exercises but they are giving al
Texas a splendid sample OF the wa
to advertise a community. They ar
about 600 strong but they make