Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-01-17
Preparations Being Made to
Handle Big Crowds.
THREE TIMES BETTER THAN EVER
Bureau of information is Hustling
and Every Department is
Getting Ready for the
Grand Opening Day.

Three times better In every feature,
three times the attendance and even
larger increase recorded from other
States, $4,000 in premiums for pro.
ducts exhibited and larger number OF
individual exhibitors than ever before;
three times as much spent on d higher
class Of amusement features, including
the great circus and hippodrome, the
cost of which will be more than $4,000
without payment Tor music by magnifi-
cent band and building OF immense
amphitheater seating 5000 people;
three times more given in purses for
horse races than ever before, purses
aggregating $4,000, and four times
more fast running horses than ever ap.
peared in Florida before is the way
the great Florida State Fair, which
will be held from February 5 to p, viii
compare with even the highly success.
fol fairs held in Tampa In former
years The opening is but three
weeks OF. Determined that the com.
ing fair should eclipse all state fairs
hitherto held in the South, this being
deemed necessary in order to favorably
impress tine thousands Of wealthy visi-
tors who viii come TO Florida from
the other states, the Fair Association,
composed Of leading business men from
Of the state, having not hes
Sta5e9 ~ sny e4peuses, alleged hard.
b tb4. eoz traSy 7ota lhstaadipg,
hid the fsif win be 4 gfAnd suFprise 10
all. Floridians who visited the James
town exposition declared thai the Flor
ida State Fair of November, l9OS, was
better than that Exposition The con-.
ing Fair will BET surprise ia every
feature, and no Floridian can AFFORD 70
stay away.
Realizing from the reports and i'm.
perative demands OF Railroad officials
that the attendance from other states
would be unprecedented, and that the
visitors must be properly cared for who
attend the great Florida State Fair,
which occurs at Tampa, February to
%, the bureau of information, organic
ed several weeks ago, has already OPEN
ed headquarters. and were the fair TO
open today, instead Of three weeks
hence, could house and feed not less
than 10000 people daily in the homes
of private citizens only, aud tne big no.
tells, boarding houses aud restaurants of
the city can accommodate en- even
greater number Fully three-fourths ,
OF The citizens Of Tampa have agreed
to throw open their homes to visitors
and there win ba absolutely no cause
for complaint on account Of accommo-
datlons or charges made sheretor.
Tampans are unanimous in the inten.
ton Of making an unprecedented re-
cord in this highly important matter.
From beginning TO close of the Fair
there will be grand conventions and
special features daily, which will call
to Tampa many distinguished Aneri-
cans and statesman Of foreign lands
Among those who will visit the Fair
and deliver addresses are Governor
John B. Johnston, the gaeat democrat
of Minnesota; Governor Hoke Smith.
the noted refortner of Georgia; Post
master General Meyer and other Of
fcials from Washington; the German,
Spanish, Italian and Cuban Anbassa-
doris. Col. Henry watterson, the noted
Democrat and editor of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, aid many others.