The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-09


grown was more than worth while.
Congratulations are in order to all
the agricultural exhibitors.
The showing made by Richmond
merchants and manufacturers was
surprise to every one, even those who
thought they know. Enterprise and
excellence Of wares and products was
manifest in every detail 1t was not a
perfunctory compliment which the
Cincinnati men paid the business men
of Richmond-they really had no idea
of the scope and magnitude of the
business of the Quaker City. Besides
this the whole performance was of
substantial nature and the 1ooker-on
could not fail to see that these things
represented solid work and were not
the enterprises of night or the
SNOWY spectacle of boom town.
The crowd which has been attracted
to the city by the extensive adver-
Using, was conspicuous not only in re-
gard to numbers. but in regard to its
personnel Here were no rowdies. no
village cut-ups and none Of the vic
| ious elements which invade the coun-
| ty fair. The people who came to look
| on were prosperous owners of homes
| and farms. business men from other
| towns and none of the riff raft which
is too often present at such place.
AS an observer remarked TOO often
agricultural communities raise sleek
| pedigreed stock and spend hours in
grooming their animals and when the
family goes to the county fair their
wives and children are out at heels
and elbows--the crowd here showed
| that the people regard their families
as above their stock and every one
knows how fine that stock was"
That was a compliment worth while.
| Never before has Richmond been so
well or so systematically decorated.
The test came when the rain came up
on Wednesday-the winds blew and
the rain came and next morning the
| decorations were in as perfect condi-
| ton as before.
| All the foregoing. simply means that
those in charge Of the fall festival not
only knew their business but acted
on it. Every detail had been care
fully planned to the minutest detail
and the gigantic undertaking went
through without hitch or flaw. 1t
was evident that every thing which
human ingenuity and forethought
could accomplish, had already been
done before the event. No praise is
too high for those in charge and yet
| the satisfaction Of work successfully
accomplished will be more lasting
one than the well earned compliments
which are on eevryone's lips.
But with all the efforts of the com
mittees little could have been accom-
plished without the hearty co-opera
ton and the unselfish spirit with
which with few exceptions every one
has labored for the cause of a New
and Better Richmond
Perhaps the most important result
Of the fall festival is the single mo-
tive which has filled every man to
work with everyone else for the gen
eral improvement.
The movement should not and will
not stop here. The out of town PEG
pie are now almost as interested in
Richmond as our own peopIe-they
realize that the larger and more pros
porous Richmond is the be tier for al
concerned. We have seen what the
Real Richmond is. 1t is a mutua
benefit.
There should be no let up in the
new spirit and plans should be for
mulated now for the perpetuation Of
the fall festival while the experience
gathered from the first attempt is still
fresh in the minds Of every one.
Don't stop!
The game has just commenced.
The fall festival of next year cal
be made many times as good now tina
the wheels have been started.
> We stand for larger and create,
Richmond and greater fall festival
The two go together.
This is only the beginning.
A fine beginning.
MOTHER CLAIMS