664 Report of the Senior Steward oj Implements at Newcastle. 
we enjoyed at Norwich last year, the Town Moor of Newcastle, 
stretching as it does up to the very doors of its freemen burghers, 
with its immense extent of turf, its elevation and its compara- 
tive levelness of surface, offers, it must be admitted, an excep- 
tional situation for a Summer Show, where dry feet and cooling 
breezes for the brow are not the least of desiderata. Join to 
these advantages the contiguity to the Jubilee Exhibition, whose 
ground formed as it were a part of our own, and it will be 
understood why those whose previous experience in agricultural 
shows had given them an acquaintance with Newcastle and its 
capabilities, were disposed once again to link the fortunes of the 
Society with a city which had so many recommendations to 
offer. 
But, indeed, independently of the excellence of the site which 
was available for our Show, and of the advantages enjoyed by 
the city in the matter of railway accommodation, the efforts of 
the Society were, from the first, so ably seconded by the local 
authorities, and such eagerness was displayed by the Mayor and 
Corporation to grease the wheels (metaphorically) of our huge 
machine, that there could be no reason to anticipate a hitch ; and 
in some of the finest " Jubilee weather " which has characterized 
the summer of 1887, the Newcastle Show was held with every 
sign of perfect success. 
It must indeed be admitted that the attendance on the five 
shilling day was exceedingly small, and that the half-crown 
days did not come up to the expectations of the Finance 
Stewards : but these deficiencies were in some sense atoned for 
by the marvellous influx of visitors who poured into the 
ground on Thursday to greet the Prince of Wales and his 
sons, and to show their interest in agriculture. That was a 
sight to be seen, when the turnstiles and ordinary means of 
ingress to the yard proving wholly insufficient for the admission 
of the struggling crowd, a detachment of stewards stationed 
themselves at the remaining doors and filled their pockets with 
the shillings of the eager throng, whilst as far as the eye could 
see fresh multitudes pressed on, and the cry was " Still they 
come!" "Twelve miles of trains wait to enter the station," 
was the news by telephone in the morning, and not till 78,000 
people had paid their shillings did the press abate ! 
But if the presence of Royalty at the Show excited, as it 
never fails to do, the enthusiasm of the multitude, there was 
ample evidence also that the visit of the Prince of Wales, of 
Prince Albert Victor, and of Prince George of Wales, to the 
popular President-elect of the Society was a source of gratifica- 
tion to Northumbrians of all ranks; and the Society has much 
reason to be inspirited by the constant and unflagging interest 
