Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-01-29
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without the live stock department at
! cost Of approximately $500, and that
about $500 can be raised for fair pur-
poses.
Your committee learns that there
is a strong sentiment here favoring
the display of live stock exhibits on
Main street, thereby avoiding the ex-
pense of erecting buildings. Those
favoring this plan contend that
horses, cattle and hogs could be tied
or penned in FROM OF the door OF the
merchant or ether business man offer
ing prizes for such exhibits, the oWn
ers to be responsible for the care of
their stock Those favoring this plan
think it we'll TO charge no admission
fee to any part of the fair.
Realizing that the question of live
stock departments is one of the most
important in connection with a fair.
your committee does mot think 1t adj
Yisable to make recommendations in
this respect in that the Greater Hen
Jacksonville club is in a better position
than your committee to know what is
desired and what expenses can bemet
along this line.
While midway concessions will add
to the gaiety OF the fair and furnish
amusement for many persons seeking
such and assist in aefraying the ex-
penses of holding the fair your corr
mittee finds that there is a sentiment
against a midway for the reason thar.
such takes money away from this
section when it should be expended
at home for more substantial pur-
poses. Your committee feels that the
question of a midway and the tone and
character of such should be decided by
the club.
While your committee is aware of
the fact that fairs are sometimes held
strictly for educational purposes while
others are held for educational pur-
poses with the idea of making them
self-supporting, it believes that it
would not be advisable to charge n
try fees on exhibits as such might
prove p~rDhihitive, but that it would be
advisable to charge small admission
fees, which it is estimated would to-
tai between $500 and $500, thus con-
siderably reducing the expense of
holding the fair.
In the opinion of yeur committee,
the merchants and other business men
OF the city would heartily cooperate
IN the fair work by giving merchan-
disc for premiums.
With some additional expense the
fair could depart from the usual meth
DDS and greatly increase its useful
ness by giving premiums for best
acreage crops, such as tomatoes, po-
tatoes, cabbage, corn, beans, etc.; but
as the prize-winners could not be de-
teTmined at the fair for the reason
that some or perhaps ali the crops
would be out Of season, the beneficial
results of this work would not be so
apparent as in cases in which exhibit
tors have produce ON exhibit at the
fair.
Before the fair a be made "a sue
cess, whether or not it conducts live
stock departments, your committee
believes that by reason of widely vary
ing opinions as to how the fair
should be held, It will be necessary
for the Greater Hendersonvile club to
c~entra1ize authority in this matter by
appointing an efficient president or
secretary, o both, who can dexote
considerable time to the detailed or.
ganization and clerical work incident
to getting out the premium lists, this
person or persons to have the author.
Hy to select members Of the commit
tee to serve with them,t the department
directors and other necessary co-work-
ers such selection to be subject to the
approval of the club. The chairman
and his committee should then be Civ
en- full power to act on all questions
coming before them after the club has
once outlined its policies for the 1914
fair,
In order to perfect a good-workng
organization it has been suggested
that the county be divided into pre-
cincts, a progressive farmer to be
elected as the leader of each precinct
with the power to select his CO.
workers.
Your committee is of the opinion
that a fair can be successfully CON
Quoted along the plans outlined here
In and that as a result sentiment would
he such as to justify the organization
OF a stock company for the purpose of
conducting annual fairs in Hender-