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COUNTY FAIREST STAY.Syracmaaoe Meet f .t fclse Chamber of Commerce to Protest A«raiaat the Bill that W oxikl Kill It.In tiiu raom» of the Chamber of com-mctvo lust evening w l» held a. meeting. ,af the cxocutlvp comn Ittoe oil the? Onoti-^dnga county fair asst ciutioh,, neveral oftn© larger stockholder-and lb© board of director*. A.s»i*mblytt -•*» Boody and X«-luney wore also pru;*lt; nt. The purpo©** «£ tt^ sn«dtiuff wus t consider the billthat 'hu» bet*u UurocTujed la tho* legislature by Assemblymen X* P. Taylor oC Oswego regarding dw appropriation of stftio money* for th * country agricultural sock* ties.A copy of tho bill w« s obtained by Sec-rotnry N. II. CLmpini a and laid before the meeting. If this bill tocrcombs a law it will virtually kill th Onondaga county fair KNsocJaMoii, by c tUifcitf off’all atate aid, Tho bill provide « that state money shall bo given to. bu! one county association holding fairs a any one county ami favors the older tt snclutJon. la this county that would b*, of course, the Phoenix fair associate or which holds Its fairs just Inside the county Hnt, . The Oswego Full» fair la t \e oidy one held la (ijjwi’go county, alth iuirh ibo Phoenix fair in virtually an t-awe«o concern,Tho bill was quietly .ntrodueed and was quietly passing thruu ?h th© legislature, j. If. Durkeo of SatidHill, president of tho New York state i asoclatlon of county agricultural twofold a, called attention to the bill, and Btror *ly objected to It. Those present wore ^ery pronounced In their opposition to th»i measure, and will fight It, tooth and rut i, wd. mo all honorable means to havt-'lt killed. To this ojwi tho following w* r© appointed m a committee to take charge of the matter with power: Dr. J. Wilts!© Knapp,Goovtf? M. Barnes, W B, Kirk imd John H, Moftit*. They w 11 go to Albany if j necessary to appear before the agrlcul-r tn rut committee in op position to the bill.The matter is of g.-eat Importance toL tbi* county, o» the fair brlngt* thousands of dollars into the city every year, and the ofittctmout of the proposed law wouldhu a great Injury to tho idty. The On-:rmdagai county fair a mortal ton possesses about |«,WH worth « t property again*t about 11,000 owned b’ tk« Phoenix fair us«ociation. It has a.b mt $30 stockholders and drives prims value i nt tlvo time* those given at the Phoenix /aU\
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Syracuse Standard

Syracuse, New York, US

Sun, Feb 27, 1898

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