CENTRAL CAROLINA FAIR EDITION.
The News and Observer.
VOL. LI. NO. 21.
Leads aUNopth'CaFolma Dailies in WewsandCirenlatien
THE GREAT CENTRAL CAROLINA FAIR
GREENSBORO THE MECCA OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
TO VIEW THE GREAT DISPLAY NOW
AT HAND.
THIS IS TIB CIEATVEEE OF GREENSBORO
Begins on Tuesday and for Four Days There Will
be an Uninterrupted Round of Pleasure
and Qayety.
BIG HORSE RACING EVERY DAY
Six .Free Shows Daily Making Sport and
Mirth For Young and Old.
MIDWAY FINEST EVER SEEN IN THE STATE
Increased Premiums and Enlarged Purses Have Been
Offered, Thus Insuring a Great Display.
Excursion Rates on All Rail
roads is Another Great
Attraction,
Splendid Music Throughout the Hours
of Each and Every Day Will
Make Happy All.
So Come Early and Stay Late is the Rule That
Will Work to Your Interests. Bring Your
Families, Ccm 3 With Your Neigh
boro and All Will Have
a Good Time.
Beginning Tuesday and lasting for
four days, October 8,9, 10 and 11th, the
Second Annual Central Carolina-Fair at
Greensboro, North Carolina, will be the
magnetic attraction which will bring
thousands of visitors to the city and
will provide amusement, instruction and
entertainment for old and young alike.
On Tuesday morning the gates of the
Fair grounds will be tthrown open for
the reception of visitors. The manage
ment has spared neither money nor labor
in arranging for the exhibits and splen
did attractions, and it is needless to say
that the fair- will be a complete success
in every particular. In addition to the
exhibits usually made special pains have
been taken f.o secure exhibits from manu
facturing enterprises. The Collins Car
nival Company and other amusement con
cerns have been engaged to give free
performances and shows on each of the
four days of the Fair. The horse racing
will be as exciting and interesting as
was ever seen on a North Carolina track.
Liberal purses have been offered and
some of the best horses on the turf will
bo here.
The following is the program for the
four days:
The Fair will be formally opened with
an address by Gen. Julian S. Carr, of
Durham. He is the vice-president of the
Fair Association, and it is certain that
the speech will be worth hearing. This
will be followed by the announcement of
the attractions and the premiums.
The racing will begin at noon, there
being three races on the first day. The
following are the purses offered for the
three races: Trotting and pacing, 2:27
class, $300; trotting, 2:40 class, $250;
running, SIOO. These races are already
billed and the sport will be of intense
excitement.
Between the heats there will be trick
bicycle riding. The races will be fol
lowed by a balloon ascension and high
tower diving.
Wednesday morning a game of football
will be played between the Agricultural
and Mechanical College, of Raleigh, and
the Guilford College teams. In the af
ternoon there will be trick bicycle riding,
a feature of which will be the perilous
descent down a forty foot stairway.
On Thursday the attractions of Wednes
day will be repeated, and in addition, the
most exciting horse race of the Fair will
he pulled off. This is the free-for-all,
trotting and pacing, for a purse of SSOO.
The other races on this day will be:
Trotting, 2:30 class, for a purse of $250;
one mile dash for a purse of S2OO. Dur
ing the afternoon the slow mule race will
be pulled off. The riders will exchange
mules during the race and the owner of
the slowest mule will receive a $lO suit
of clothes, giveu by the Vanstory Clothing
Company.
During the races there will be a bal
loon ascension and a dog show, to be
followed by the slide-for-life and tra
peze acts.
Friday will be the last day, and every
thing will be in full blast. All the open
air performances given on the other days
will be repeated.
The “midway,” which will be under
the control of the Elks, will be equal to
the best. A Ferris wheel, the only one
ever brought to North Carolina, and a
great many other attractions have been
secured.
The Free Carnival consists of six dis
tinct features: A fifty-foot high tower
dive; a slide for life performance; high
stair bicycle ride down steps 40 feet;
novel trapeze acts; balloon ascension; a
30 minutes ttrick bicycle performance,
and will come off each day, with as much
display as any day following. The races
will be the finest to be seen in North
Carolina this year, as they are paying
more for them than anyone else, conse
quently they have secured some of the
finest horses that will stop between Bal
timore aud Atlanta.
Besides the free attractions and races
cn Wednesday there will be the game of
foot ball between the teams of A. and M.
College of Raleigh, and Guilford
College alraedy mentioned, a feat«
ure in itself that will draw a large
crowd. The only thing that will give
Thursday an advantage over the other
days will be the slow mule race, but the
football game of Wednesday will rival it.
The race track is now as smooth as a
dancing floor. A large black board
on the grand stand, which is four by
six feet, will mark the races the names
of the horses, drivers aud owners, and
will score the heats as they are made,
which will make the races very interest
ing to every one after one or two heats
have been made. The races will begin
very promptly at one o'clock each day.
and will be sandwiched so that there will
not be five minutes delay at any time.
The poultry exhibit has been mention
ed, but very little, but the probability is
that there will be five or six hundred
chickens, ducks, goose and turkeys, as
the entry books indicate about this num
ber at the present writing and, of
course, Monday will m.ke it considerably
larger.
There are three or four herds of sheep
already entered. Greensboro is not at
all hoggish, but she is going to show
some of the finest specimens ever ex
hibited in the Swine Department. Mr.
John A. Young being one of the largest
exhibitors.
The Pomona Terra Cotta Works will
have a pyramid, showing their manu
factures.
Thomasville, N. C., will make an ex
hibit of her manufactures and other in
dustries, and the farm exhibits will be
entered aloDg with their other goods, and
RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA. SNUDAY MORNING. OCTOBER fi. 1901.
all will represent Thomasville. There
will be about three exhibits of traction
engines, threshers, gasoline engines,
agricultural machinery in profusion.
The merchants of Greensboro are al
ready arranging their merchandise dis-
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plays. Whitsett Institute will be repre
sented along with the other colleges aud
educational exhibits.
The Elks of the State are supposed 4a
attend to the men, as very elaborate ar
rangements are being made for their en
tertainment. A temple is being built in
which they are to be entertained. They
have charge of the amusements, and this
in itself assures that it will be a grand
success. They have secured a large
number of side shows, and there will be
"a circus and parade going on all the
time, so that a man that likes a clown and
circus will be entertained just as much
so as lie who comes to see the real ex
hibits. There is fun and interesting
for'every man that goes. Go
early and stay late. Make a day of it.
Enjoy the sights aud mingle with your
friends.
Greensboro being the educational center
of the State, especially for young ladies,
there is a great many attractions for
them in the way of friends and relatives.
The college will attend in a body on Wed
nesday or Thursday, and they will be
pleased to see their friends from their
respective sections of the State. There
are a good many art and music exhibits
that will interest the minds of the lov
ers of these arts. To see from five to
seven hundred and fifty or these college
girls in a body will be a fair in itself as
they are all fair young women.
The cotton mills and manufacturers
and wood working mills of Greensboro,
also adjoining counties will close down
Thursday, 10th, so there is bound to be
a large crowd, and these people will all
be glad to meet their friends during this
Fair.
The Gate City Band will furnish the
music every day. This is one of the best
equipped bands in the State. There will
be a grand conglomeration of the pro
ducts of art, industry and nature. Take
your whole family and see this hustling
city of Greensboro and her resources.
Something to interest all classes and
ages. Profit by the experience of others.
A day at this Fair will do you more
good than medicine and doctors. It will
drive away the blues. Minglo with your
friends.
We had forgotten to mention the Horti
cultural exhibit. The J. Van Lindley
Nursery Company will, of course, make
a fine exhibit in this line from their sev
eral acres of hot houses and they will
make a fine display.
The following items give a list of what
was done at the Fair last year. For the
improvement of the grounds the Associa
tion spent $14,743.18, and the gate receipts
show that about ten to fifteen thousand
people attended. The Association had
in its treasury after the settlement about
$750. This fair will place it in a position
so prominent that the fairs following will
be attended without advertising, as every
body that attends this fair will find more
shown them than they expected, and the
finances are such that nothing will be
done scantily.
All railroads in the State also lines
of the Southern and Lynchburg and Rich
mond have allowed one half faros on ac
count. of this Fair. Tickets on sale from
all stations October 5 to 11, good to re
turn until October 14th. ,
THE WAY THEY STARTED
THE GREAT CENTRAL FAIR
The Push and Progress of Greensboro Will
Make Any Prospect a Success.
To Messrs. J. Van Lindley, Fred N.
Taylor and J. A. Tomlinson belongs the
credit of putting on foot the movement
which culminated in the Central Caro
lina Fair. These gentlemen in 1900 can
vassed the city of Greensboro and raised
$7,000 for a Fair. With this they pur
chased thirty-five acres, one mile from
the corporate limits of the city on the
line of the Southern Railway and with
a whirl and a rush were ready for the
Big Fair of 1900, the association or
ganizing with J. Van Lindley as presi
dent, Julian S. Carr as vice-president, J.
H. Walsh as secretary, and Neill Elling
ton as treasurer.
The grounds were made ready and a
magnificent half mile race track, with
no grade and level stretches was a reality.
An exhibition hall, two stories high.
50x150 feet was erected as was a well
designed grand stand to seat 2.000 peo
ple giving to each a fine view' of the
races. At the south end of the park was
erected a stable for 80 head of horses and
at the north end stables for exhibition
horses, stalls for cattle and pens for
sheep and hogs were placed. From the
exhibition hall to the grand stand a
section was left for Midway attractions.
The Fair of 1900 was a great success,
the attendance being 12,000 for the week.
For racing purses $2,800 was paid out
and $3,000 went for catalogue premiums.
Payment was made on every obligation of
the association within five days of the
close of the Fair, all race premiums be
ing paid the night the Fair closed.
in addition to the $7,000 raised to be
gin the Fair, $4,000 had been borrowed
for the firjt year's expense. Os this
debt $2,000 was paid from the receipts
of the first year. The success of this and
the great interest evinced in the second
annual Fair, show that the people of
Greeusboro regard it as of jgreat value
to (he city.
Cf the Fair Capt. J. N. Walsh has
thus written:
The Central Carolina Fair is another
striking revelation of the push, the vim
and the grit which, for nearly a decade,
have marked the rapid strides with which
Greensboro has been cutting and forging
her way to the forefront of the South’s
most prosperous towns. A Fair in fact
and not simply in name, a Fair not alone
for Guilford county and the counties ad
joining. but a Fair worthy of the whole
State, is now no longer a dream, but a
living fact, assured and permanently set
tled beyond all cavil or doubt, as is evi
denced by the large, handsome and lib
eral list of premiums and attractions.
The Central Carolina Fair As
sociation is now a part of our history—
a fixed and established institutions, or
ganized, owrfed, manned and officered by
the pluckiest, most sagacious and suc
cessful of our citizens. Its spacious and
beautiful park of thirty acres on the
south side of the great Southern Rail
way, two miles from the county and
Federal court houses, just outside of
the corporate limits of Greensboro, vith
the finest race track in the South, a grand
stand and other necessary and commodi
ous buildings presents already a scene
cf life, activity and promise that will
surprise and captivate even those who
arc acquainted with the scope of the plans
of the enterprising and public spirited
citizens in whose brain, energy and capi
tal this Association bad its birth. On
every hand and at every point all indica
tions thus early furnish us with un
doubted evidence that the second Fair to
be held October Blh 10 llth, will be the
fullest, the most complete, the most at
tractive and the most successful Fair —in
the best and broadest meaning of the
term—ever held in North Carolina.
THE JOLLY ELKS.
Present Complimentary Tickets to Greensboro
and the Free Shows
As has been announced the Elks are
going to have charge of the Midway at
tractions and refreshments at the Great
Central Carolina Fair this week. The
committee is actively at work and is en
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thusiastic over the great prospects for a
week of jollity and lun. The members
are confident that the Midway will out
class anything ever seen in the State.
The following letter has been broad
casted among the horn herd. Let them
take heed and look not backward as they
journey to the Fair, remembering the
fate of Lot’s wife:
“Dear Brother: This is to notify you
that the Greensboro Elks have erected
on the grounds of the Central Carolina
Fair an Elks Temple, the doors of which
will be open to you and your friends du
ring the Fair, October Bth to 11th, in*
elusive.
“We extend to you a hearty welcome.
“The midway promises to be a brilliant
success —you can bank on this as the Elks
booked them.
“A complimentary ticket is herewith
enclosed admitting you to Gre'ensboro and
all the free shows, at which we hope to
have you present in person.
“The racing bids fair to be the finest
meet ever held in the State, all races
having from six to ten entries.
“We have purchased several car loads
of red lemons and a mill pond for the
thirsty.
“The green pastures upon which you
are invited to browse are being daily
watered by Mr. Schlitz. Come without
fail and bring your folks.
“If you don’t have a good time prefer
charges against yourself.
“Fraternally yours,
“JULIAN PRICE.
“GARLAND DANIEL.
“OSCAR M. GATES.
“JAS. M. WOODBURN,
“Committee.”
THE HORBEB ARE OFF.
There Will be Speedy Racing at the Fair
Grounds.
The programme of the races, the en
tries and the purses offered at the Cen-
tral Carolina Fair is as follows:
PURSE S3OO.
Class 2:27 —Orphan Boy, S. G., J. M.
Morrow.
Queen Bess, Ro. M., Blue Bird, Geo.
Dyer, Greensboro, N. C.; Skyland Girl,
Br. M., Simmons, Geo. Dyet* Greens
boro, N. C.
J. S. Boy, Happy King and Greatna,
G. M. Harden, Raleigh, N. C.
Jesse L., Bile. M., Frank Buford, E.
Jacobs, Beech Grove, Tenn.
Eddie Hal, Ch. G., Frys Hall, Jas.
Greene, Cole, Tenn.
£line Dudley, B. M., Clement R. and
Maude L., L. G. Roper and Christian,
ltojxr, N. C.
Gyles Mebane, B. S. by John It. Gen
try, L. B. Holt, Graham, N. C.
PURSE $250.
Class 2:4o—Kate Nickleby, Ch. M.,
Sue Norfolk and Great Stakes, Roper
and Christian, Roper, N. C.; Sunol
Stakes, B. G., Roper and Christian,
Roper, N. C.
Willie H., B. G., Rubenstein and Mag
gie Repercl, J. C. Cochrane, Charlotte,
N. C.
Jay Boy, B. H., Wilkes Boy and Lena
Wilkes, A. R. Woodell, Danville, Ya.;
Diana, S. B. M., A. R. Woodell, Dan
ville, Va.
Eagle Boy, Ro. M., Eagle Ttird and
Annie, C. D. Carter, Meridian, Miss.
Maid of Alamance, S. M., by John It.
Gentry, L. B. Ilolt, Graham, N. C.
PURSE S3OO.
Class 2:23—Gallant C., B. G., Red
Wilkes and Bilia D., J. C. Cochrane,
Charlotte, N. C.
Orphan Boy, S. G., J. H. Morrow,
Washington, D. C.
Skyland Girl, B. M., Simmons and
Minnie Wood, Geo. Dyer, Winston,
N. C.
J. S. Boy, Happy King and Greatna,
G. M. Harden, Raleigh, N. C.
Mattie Holt, B. M., Baronette, Dr.
Battle, Greensboro, N. C.; Dug Thomas,
Blue Hall, Dr. Battle, Greensboro, N. C.
Alvina Wilkes, B. M. Constantine,
J. McCormick. Marietta, Ohio.
East Side, G. G. or Kate, Ch. Ml,
Brooksidc and Mercury, W. B. Brewer,
Pelaski ,Tenn.
Marion Scriggs, B. H. Unknown. Ben
Southern, Mt. Olive.
PURSE $250.
Class 2:30 Lady Thelma, C. F., Clem
ent R. and Sue Norfolk, Roper and
Christian, Roper, N. C.
Queen Bess, Ro. M.. Blue Bird, Geo.
Dyer, Greensboro, N. C.; Trib, G., Ce
cil ian, Geo. Dyer, Greensboro, N. C.
Roland G., B. M., Paminica, G. M.
Harden, Raleigh, N. C.
Francis Medium, B, M. Prince Med
ium, A. Z. Oberhaus, Mobile, Ala.
Jack Cook, C. H., Gil Wilkes, W. C.
Dyer, Roanoke, Va.
PURSE $350.
Class 2:20 —Orphan Boy. S. G., .T. M.
Morrow, Washington, D. C.
Skyland Girl, B. M., Stewart and
PRICE FIVE CENTS,
Mamie Wood, Geo. Dyer, Greensboro,
N. C.
J. S. Boy, Happy King and Greatna.
G. M. Harden, Raleigh, N. C.
Mattie Holt, B. M., Baronette, Dr.
Battle, Greensboro, N. C.; Dug Thomas,
B. G., Blue Hall, Dr. Battle, Greens
boro, N. C.
Alvina Wiles, B. M., Constantine, J.
McCormick, Marietta, Ohio.
Rochelle, B. M., Edgar James, A. Z.
Oberhaus. Mobile, Ala.
Frank Keenan, G. G., Nettle Keenan,
Jr., C. D. Carter, Meridian, Miss.
East Side, G. *G., or Kate, Oh. M.,
Brookside and Mercury, W. B. Brewer,
Pelaski, Tenn.
Yokely, G. G., Bay Geers, C. L.
Smith 4 Yokely, Tenn.
The running horses that will partici
pate in the races of the Central Caro
lina Fair Association, races No. 3,6, and
9 arc as follows:
Judge Gaynor, B. W. Baker, Raleigh,
N. C.
Queen Esther, J. L. Crist, Lynchburg,
Va.
My Vic, Ed. V. Denton, Raleigh, N. O.
Prospect, A. G. Denton, Raleigh, N. C.
Grandma and Miss Loving, ,E. Engle
kiDg, Richmond, Va.
Imp. Potentate, W. W. Gill, Dan
ville, Va.
The Ferris Wheel with our Midway
attractions is row a sure go. You can
ride high in the air and see all over
Greensboro.
We are offering $250 for a 2:32 trot
and pace race that will fill, which we
feel, will bring new horses.
THE MARSHALS.
A List of Those Who Will Aid Chief Scott in
the Croat Fair.
The social features of the Fair will be
carefully looked after. The chief mar
shall and his aides are as follows:
Chief Dr. Chas. Scott.
Charlotte, N. C., —John Tate, Osmond
T. Barringer, Jim VanNess, Joe Garri
ba'ldi, Earl Pegram and Robert Creig.
Lynchburg, Va. —Howard B. Sterritt.
Durham, N. C.—Robert L. Carr, John
Lippscomb, Paul Sneed, Marvin Carr and
Dr. Graham.
Sanford, N. C.—S. Vance Scott.
Carthage, N. C. —W. C. Petty, Jr.
Burlington, N. C.—l* Banks William
son, Lyon B. Williamson, Joe Scott.
Mebane —J. Sam White, Will A. Mur
ray.
Wilson, N. C. —W. T. Clark, Graham
Woodard, Steve W. Anderson.
Rocky Mount.—John L. Arrington.
Littleton —H. H. Harrison, Chas. G.
Harrison.
Winston—Peter Gorrell, Robert Gcrrell,
Hubert Hannes, M. D. Bailey Winfield
Young, Carl Harry, Tom Glenn, Frank
Barnes, Hugh Brown, A. H. Galloway,
J. S. Dunn.
Tarboro—William Clark.
Hendersocf— Robert Lassiter, W. Brooks
Parham.
Fayetteville—R. H. Dye, H. M. Pember
ton.
Reidsville —C. M. Evans, S. H. Hubbard,
John R. Boyd, C. A. Penn, Dr. John A.
Williams.
Statesville —Col. J. F. Armfield. H. R.
Cowles
Baltimore, Md.—J. K. Bradley.
Washington, D. C.—H, S. Bradley.
High Point—Weseott Robertson, Claude
Barbee, W. P. Ragan.
Mt. Airy—George Faucett, Carl Gallo
way. Jesse Prather.
Raleigh—D. Stronach, Graham Andrews,
John Andrews, Stanley Faison.
Greensboro —W. D. McAdoo, Jr., George
Vanstory, Charles Vanstory. Harry Ser
geant, C. J. Limb, Moody Stroud, T. C.
Coffin. Lacy Rankin, Jesse Rankin, Wai
ter Roberson, W. C. Frazier, Marion Cobb,
T. J. Murphy, W. C. Fleming, Stanley
Shcjor, Paul C. indley, Paul Schcnck,
Dr. Chas. Roberson, B. G. Gilmer. W. T.
Poe, C. Carrlgan.
SOME SPECIAL RULES.
The Regulations Which Will be Observed
Rnring tho Fair.
I. The Executive Committee has au
thorized the letting of only such privi
leges as are required to satisfy the neces
sary wants of the people, or that may
add to their comfort, convenience and
pleasure, but under no circumstances will
privileges of a questionable nature or of
a demoralizing tendency be sold, or in
any manner tolerated on the grounds or
in the buildings, nor will any privilege
be sold cr permitted, where the business
is conducted in any other than a legiti
mate, decent manner.
11. All dining halls, lunch booths, re
freshment pavilions and other stands
must be kept neat and tasty in appear
ance, and supplied with wholesome food
and pure, honest goods, for sale to the
people at reasonable prices. The Execu
tive Committee will carefully guard
against extortion in any form being prac
ticed on the patrons of the Fair, and any
such attempts will forfeit to privilege
holders all rights to the grounds.
111. The Executive Committee will not
sell or grant to any person or persons
the privilege of selling, dealing or barter
ing in spirituous, vinous or malt liquors
on the Fair Grounds or in any of the
buildings or booths during the holding of
the Annual Fair.
IV. No privilege shall be sold, granted
or in any manner tolerated for the opera
tion or exhibition on the grounds or in
any of the halls, buildings or booths of
any gambling device, lottery or games of
chance of any character whatever.
Renters will note that any
trade or occupation that is in violation
of the above will be rigidly exeduded and
violation after admission will be punish
ed by forfeiture of privilege and eject
ment from grounds.
Renters who pay as much as ten dol
larsl for their privilege will be given one
admission ticket, good for the week, and
for each additional charge of ten dol
lars, or fraction not less than five dol
lars, one extra ticket and no more.