The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-10-15
KANSAS Fauws.
From the Real Estate Register.


suggestions on the subject, for the
consideration of the different asso-
Citations of the State. Few. II any
States now hold what are really
and truly State Fairs.
Kansas never had a State Fair.
They have always been composed
of very few counties near the
place where they were held, have
enta;led a burden of labor and eX-
pense on the citizens of the town
which bid highest for the honor,
and as expositioRs of the indus
tries of the State have uniformly |
been failures. The State is too
large, too thinly settled, and too
poor to successfully unite at one
point. That fairs, properly con
Quoted, are of immense benefit to
the country, scarcely admits of
doubt. Then let US sec if some
plan cannot be devised whereby
they may be made useful to the
whole people. We beg leave to
offer the following plan for our
own State:
Let there@be five strong money
ed corporations organized, one
near each corner of the settled
portion of the State. at some point
easy of access to several counties;
and one in the center. 1t takes
money, and plenty of it TO con-
duct successfully large and prof
liable fair. No association which
does not pay promptly and in full
it's premiums, can possibly sue
coed. Men cannot afford the time
and money necessary in preparing
and exhibiting their productions
with no surely of receiving the
premiums aW&Sded them. Let
associations already organized,
when their location - suitable, be
enlarged and strengthened. The
officers of these five ASSOCIATIONS
should consult with each other,
and decide, early in the season, on
the date of their respective faiEs
so as to assist each other. These
fairs would each be from one hun
dred TO two hundred miles from
any other, and tEo in opposite
portions of the State could be held
the same week without interfering
with each other. The following
week let the other opposite cor
ners hold theirs, and the third
week the center one. In this way
/ visitors and exhibitors at home
esd from abroad, could visit thre;
Iagge fairs. and thereby procure &
better knowledge of the capacities
OF the State, than in any Other
way.
Then let each county so dis.
posed, hold their county fairs just
before the district fair to which
they naturally helong- In this
way the best of everything in tie
State could be collected at the dis
trict fairs, they would be made
large and attractive, and we should
no longer play second fiddle to St
Joseph and Kansas City, and they
would be Left to exhibit jeff Davis
and ether hermaphrodites to q
small but admiring circle of sal
low faced, butternut breeched den.
. liens of the Missouri bottoms
This arrangement would give ar
average of fifteen counties to eacl
district, more than ever yet par
ticip&ted to any extent in a SO
called State fair. The points for
holding these fairs should be Sc
,, lccted with great care and with ref
f erence to present and prospective
means of easy and rapid conmuni
, cation.
/, We have no desire to assume
these locations, further than Il
! say that this city will be recog
!, nized on all hands as the onl,
suitable location for the Contra
e Kansas District Fair. In location
! easy and rapid transit, good, wei
!. improved grounds, and extensiv
:! Accommodations OF all kinds, "
t have no rival anywhere in the cen
+ tral part Of the State. The Asso
: citation here is composed of tn
best citizens of this and adjacen
/ counties, and is Differed by me
: of enterprise and sagacity, wit
! plenty of means to carry out sue
4 cessfully an enterprise of this kin
n on a large and liberal scale. 1t
the only association of the kind i
], the State which has had the coul
e age to keep extending its improv,
. ments and charging its facilities
!. regardless of the disasters of tn
e past three years.
We offer these suggestions t
!, the people of the State, hopiD
!. they may realize the great goo
9 that may be accomplished tor GU
: State by five great fairs each yea
). each supported By q cluster {
> counties Immediately surroundin
: it, and that this or some othe
e plan may be adopted, BY whic
the whole State may work tegeth
; er in harmony for the gener:
good.