Gates to Big Negro Fair Wide Open To-Day

Gates to Big Negro Fair Wide Open To-DayGates to Big Negro Fair Wide Open To-Day

Richmond Times Dispatch, July 11, 1915
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Gates to Big Negro Fair Wide Open To-Day
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GATES TO BIG NEGRO FAIR WIDE OPEN TO-DAY
Impossible, Otherwise, Management Decides, for Many to See Evidences of Progress
ATTENDANCE SHOWS INCREASE
Baby Show Will Feature Exhibition This Week-Physical Development Alone Will
Count, and Experienced Nurses Will Have Charge.
The gates to the big negro fair will be wide open all day to-day. The
management, aware that it is impossible for thousands of people, who would like
to see the concrete evidence of the progress of the negro race in it's fifty
years of freedom, to attend the exposition on week days, has decided to take
this way of giving them an opportunity of doing so. It is expected that hundreds
of Richmonders who have not yet seen the exhibits will wind their way to the
Fair Grounds to-day.
With the abolition of the admission fee to the grounds, the attendance at the
fair is decidedly on the increase. Yesterday and last night the place took on a
real gala appearance, as the immense throngs pushed their way into the big
exposition building and along the Midway.
A baby show, consisting of babies of all sizes and ages, ranging from one month
to five years, will feature the exposition this week. These will be divided into
three classes, according to age, and two prizes awarded in each class. The
judges will be guided only by physical development.
Class No. 1 will be for babies ranging in age from one month to one year old.
These will be on exposition Monday and Tuesday, July 12 and 13, from 11 o'clock
to 4.
Class No. 2 of children from one to three years old, on exhibition Wednesday,
July 14, from 11 to 4.
Class No. 3 for children from three to five years old, on exhibition Thursday,
July 15, from 11 to 4.
On Friday evening between the hours of 3 and 4

, the children will be judged and
the prizes awarded. It is expected that more than 1000 babies and children will
compete. The contest will be under the supervision and management of the Colored
Visiting Nurses.
The vaudeville shows will continue to give two performances daily, one in the
afternoon and one in the evening. The entertainment is one of the best of the
kind ever seen in Richmond, and is well worth the visit to the Fair Grounds. The
races, too are good, and drawing well.