544 
The Plymouth Meeting. 
Plymouth that Wednesday wa3 a customary half-holiday in the 
Three Towns, when many workpeople and others who would 
otherwise be unable to visit the Show would ba at liberty, it was 
resolved by the Council that a third shilling day should be tried 
this year as an experiment. The results were not such as to 
warrant a continuance of the plan, for the two shilling days on 
Wednesday and Thursday caused the attendance on the final 
day to drop to fourteen thousand, which is the lowest figure of 
the last ten years. 
Taken as a whole, however, the attendance, considering the 
comparatively scanty population of the district and the absence 
of any large centres of industrial activity, cannot be considered 
unsatisfactory. The subjoined Table shows the number of persons 
who paid for admission on each day during the last eight Shows, 
including Plymouth, and also, for comparison, the figures at the 
last Plymouth Show a quarter of a century ago : — 
Shrews- 
Pres- 
Nor- 
New- 
Xottiug- 
Wind- 
Ply- 
Ply- 
Day of Show 
York, 
1863 
bury, 
ton, 
wich, 
castle, 
ham, 
sor, 
mouth, 
mnith, 
1884 
1833 
1886 
1887 
1838 
1889 
1890 
1365 
Implement day 
300 
194 
394 
148 
1,203 
1,826 
493 
194 
25 
First day . . 
3,012 
2,183 
3,357 
623 
1,097 
1,G71 
6,223 
1,231 
1,063 
Second day 
15,7G8 
11.211 
21,713 
8,074 
11,331 
11,103 
18,809 
10,008 
4,767 
Third day . . 
21,820 
13,471 
13,318 
10 894 
12,020 
9,057 
24,690 
83,308 
17,269 
Fourth day 
63,037 
49,374 
34,302 
42,774 
77,410 
88,832 
32,965 
32.371 
■12,943 
Fifth day . . 
24,120 
17,630 
14,308 
42,334 
24,305 
35,433 
44,493 
14,026 
21,969 
Total . . 
128,117 
94,126 
94,192 
104,909 
127,372 
147,927 
155,707' 
97,141 
38 036 
' Including 28,034 on sixth day (Saturday). 
Much disappointment was expressed when it became under- 
stood that the numerous engagements of the Prince of Wales 
would prevent His Royal Highness from attending the Show. In 
1865 both the Prince and the Princess graced the Meeting with 
their presence, and the recollection of that auspicious occasion 
is still vivid in the minds of the loyal West-country folk. But 
though the Prince was not present in person, various entries in 
the live-stock sections had come from distant Sandringhan'. 
The support accorded to the Show by the two Royal past 
Presidents of the Society was, indeed, of a most gratifying 
character. Her Majesty the Queen was represented by no Jess 
than 12 entries, all from Windsor. These comprised a Clydes- 
dale filly and three Hereford bulls and two heifers from the 
Flemish Farm, and four Shorthorn bulls and two heifers from 
the Prince Consort's Shaw Farm. The Prince of Wales enter© 
three Shorthorn bulls and seven pens of Southdown sheep from 
Sandringham. 
The genuinely hearty welcome accorded to the Society and it* 
members by the good people of the Three Towns will always be 
