The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-11-05
Attendance Is More Than;
Doubled That of Amy Day
Since the Opening.
FIREWORKS DISPLAY
FEATURES TONIGHT
An Excellent Program Pre-
pared for School Children
During the Day.

Great crowds thronged the Escan-
bia Fair grounds all day long yes
terday and last night witnessed per-
haps twice as many paid admissions
as at any previous evenings enter
tainment. The midway was a blaze
of light and continuous round of
excitement until nearly midnight and
the Metropolitan Shows, now holding
forth there, did splendid business.
Every department of the fair pre-
sented scene of great activity yes
.terday from before noon until the
gates closed last night. The great
crowds surged here and there about
the fair grounds and merriment was
the order of the day everywhere.
Today special effort VIII be made
to please both old and young and it is
expected that the attendance will be
much larger than on any previous
day. The school children will be out
in great numbers together with their
teachers and parents. These alone
| ought to increase the attendance by
several thousand over any previous
| day.
FIREWORKS TONIGHT.
There will be another display of
fireworks in front Of the grand stand
tonight at 8 o'clock. This will be the
second fireworks display provided by
the fair management for the week. II
Will no doubt be witnessed by large
crowd. These displays are pronounced
a great success wherever shown and
they constitute one of the costly fea-
lures provided by the management of
the exhibition at Kupfrian's park.
BUSINESS EXHIBITS.
Down on the main avenue NAV be
seen the well-arranged exhibits of
several Pensacola business firms. To
is at several of these exhibits that
the great crowds are continually be-
ing served with free coffee, cocoa. tea
of several celebrated brands, hot bis
cults, crackers, cut cake, grape juice,
fruit punch, etc.
| The w. A. Ray Hardware Co. have
on exhibition splendid display of
farm implements, International Har-
vester Co. pumps, trucks, traction en-
gines, etc.
4 Next comes the exhibit of the West
Florida Grocery Co., where Oceana
canned goods, Cafe du Monde coffee.
Bengalee tea, Banner, Stayrite, Big
Mule and other feeds, Swans Down
flour, Electric -four, Barrett's roofing.
Banner scratching grain, fishing
tackle, ETC., are especially exploited.
Then comes the costly exhibit Of
the Louis Bear Co., where MANY of
this popular firms specialties are ex-
plotted, among them being Nepopset
roofing, Como stock and poultry
feet, Positive seed oats, Griffin &,
Sicily brand Of canned goods, Welch's
grape juice, Tetley's tea, Sunshine
brand OF cakes, crackers and pastries
Van Houton's cocoa, Surnore coffee
3 National oats and Morris & Co.'S "Su-
preme" brand of meats.
The McHugh Grocery Co. have =
! well-arranged booth where a special
, effort has been made to push the sale
i and consumption of Dewey coffee.
Kuglenan & Co. have one of the
best displays on the avenue. This
, firm is pushing the sale of Blue WING
self-rising -four both by the distribu.
I ton of printed matter and biscuits
RunkePs cocoa, Tokay tea, Red Wing
grape juice, Lookout brand Of crack.
, ers, cakes and pastries, as well al
, several brands of cigars.
, DIR. Wilson's Hog Cholera Remed,
, has been well advertised and dis.
. tributed from the booth of the West
f Florida Grocery Co., Mr.. e. P. Wilson
; of Gull Point has been distributing
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