Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-10-22
PLANS ANOTHER BIG FAIR.
Secretary Harris of Western Carolina
Fair Laying Big Plans.

II -
Although the Western North Carroll
ma fair at Asheville last week suffer
he'd greatly by reason of the heavy
rains, cutting the gate receipts down
to about equal to one day for the
whole week, Secretary D. Harris says
that a bigger exhibition will be held
next year than ever. Il have a big
thing up my sleeve that will be pulled
of early next summer. 1t will be of
much greater Importance to Western
tCarolina than any event in our his
tory said Mr.. Harris, who has con-
Quoted the fair for two years n who
was closely identified with it the two
years previous to his assuming the
management.
Mr. Harris stated to a representa-
tive of the Democrat Monday that al
though the fair association suffered
extremely by reason of the short gate
l~receipts, the premiums would be paid
With reasonable promptness. He is
now shaping information with the
view to ascertaining the exact inan-
cial status of the association.
As to the character of the fair and
the rains, the Asheville Gazette News
had the following to say Monday:
The Western North Carolina fair is
a permanent thing for Ashev1lle and
Notwithstanding the fact that five
days of bad weather played havoc with
the gate receipts, still renewed efforts
are to be made to make the show more
| attractive year after year. The fair
this veal was all that could have
| 6o1- oeI~0I for ~ tho urou IF ovhihifc
and amusements of all kinds. A bet
ter aggregation of attractions for a
fair midway we're never before assem-
bled in the Old North state. Every
body connected with the 1914 show
went into the proposition heart and
soul and it certainly was not the fault
oil the exhibitors, the newspapers. tie
officials and attaches of the fair asso-
citation, nor anyone else that The fair
Of this year was not a success in
every detail.
After a beautiful Indian summer
| season, clouds commenced to gather
in the west a searly as noon DE- The
very first day of the 1914 ANIMAL fair
at Riverside park-last Tuesday. A
short while later there was a down.
pour of rain and everyone within the
enclosure of the fairgrounds had 10
seek shelter or get soaked. Imme-
diately the grounds became almost
deserted. The rain did not step.
From Tuesday afternoon until early
Friday there was almost an incessant
downpour. Jupiter PIuvius had no
mercy and as a result Asheville saw
the heaviest downpour of rain on
Ht,,0e1o- UTnlno11o- o~l TIr,-1dar,
morning, noon and night-all the
time-that has been recorded since
the establishment of the weather bu-
reau here by Uncle Sam years ago.
The rainfall was really remarkable.
Set programs of entertainment
planned by Secretary d. Harris of the
association, months and months ago
was necessarily abandoned due to the
weather elements. Several thousand
dollars had been stipulated as the price
which was to be paid for giving every
night during the fair perhaps the best
display of fireworks ever attempted
in this section. Gigantic set pieces
of pyrotechnics were arranged just
beyond the lake so that all would be
ready for the touch-of of the match
at night, only to be hurriedly taken
town when the rain commenced t o
come down harder. Never was an
entire program of fireworks given,
much to the disappointment of the
~pyrotechnic producers, Secretary Har-
ris and others interested.
With Saturday as a special added
Gay on the fair program, it was hoped
flat the association could at least re-
coup a part of the great previous f.
nancial losses from non-attendance. |
The weather, however, on Saturday !
was one too inviting and when it |
commenced to rain steadily at the
grounds Saturday night all set pro-
grams were cancelled.