The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-19
Friday AT STATE FAIR
EXHIBITORS BEGAN MOVING, AND
ALL WILL BE OUT BY TONIGHT.
Heayy Track Caused Postpon ement of
To-Day-Begins at IL O'Clock.

Most of the people on the grounds felt a
greater interest in the races than in the
exhibits and they fiocked to the grand
stand when it was learned that no admis-
sion fee was being charged. When the
races We're postponed until to-day on &C
count of the muddy track, however, they-
scattered about over the grounds. The
great moral shows which almost monop-
oized the west end of the grounds had
been doing very slim business during the
day and when the crowd poured out of
the grand stand there a mighty eff
fort on the part of the outcriers for these
shows to steer" the people their way. 1t
was their last chance to get even on the
week and, as an extra inducement to get
the peoples patronage, most of them cut
the price of admission down to cents.
Some of them charged so cents when they
occupied places in the Midway Plaisance
at the worlds fair or when they were
the chief attraction at the Cotton States
Exposition when they turned thou
sands away daily at Atlantic City They
were all imported combinations of the
highest class and which nobody could af-
ford to miss
just south of the agricultural building was
the Algerian and Turkish" show. Here
a ''spieler," a clown and two young women
of olive complexion dressed in alleged
Turkish costume of the 'couchee-couchee"
order stood upon platform and shouted
for the people to come their way. black
negro and Irishman stood upon the
ground blowing a bazoo and beating a bass
drum. The ''spieler'' informed the crowd
that the young women, Madam Fatima and
Freda, were the original Turkish and Al
gerian women seen in the Moorish Palace
fair Ha gay he npODlP
impression that by paying the price of .
cents they would get to see the real
thing which was so loudly condemned at
the fair last year and which the State
Board of Agriculture declared would not be
permitted this year What the people did
see when they went inside could not have
been much, il the young women exhlblted
on the outside furnished the entertainment,
for sooner had the show people induced
a crowd to follow them inside than they
again appeared and took up their stands
on the stage to beguile other crowds TO
the last day and what the people who en-
tered yesterday might say about the show
could not injure next days crop of VIC
Tins.
The other fakirs, from the patent medi-
cine men i'm carriages to the woman with
the Circassian wig, who had mysterious
secret by which she could produce the pic
ture of victims future wife or husband
upon piece of blank paper, showed an in
creased activity. They worked hard as
long there was anybody to work and
then rapidly began the tearing away of
their tents and pharaphernalia. The latter
did not require much effort, for the aver
age State fair show this year had few ac-
cessories to the glib tongue of the man
on the outside.
Not the least among those who made
money off the credulity of the patrons of
the State fair was bright young lad who
sells newspapers. Yesterday afternoon he
stood at the gate Che was outside and had
no sanction from the management of the
fair), and informed the people in a loud
a a
full account of the escape of Jackson and
Walling." He imposed upon two hundred
people, as he himself testified.
A few of the exhibitors will remain on the
ground to-day owing to the races. which
begin at-11 o'clock, The fair is over. with
the exception of the races and the stray
exhibitions, which may not be removed UNI
til this evening. The race programme for
the day is good one and ought to draw
good attendance. No admission will be
charged to the grand stand.
AWARD OF PREMIUMS.
There was a long line of exhibitors await
ing their turns at the secretary's office to
receive their premium money. Awards in
the different departments were made as
follows:
Horses
Light Harnass-A c. Turner Ross. O..
five firsts, one second four thirds; III. L.
Hare, city, three frsts, one third: J. r.
PeeK q SON WImchester, Ind, two seconds,
TWO thlrds; n. I. Kirby, Jacksonville, H.,
two firsts, one second.
Coach and Carriage Teams-Horace F.
Turner; city, one first, one third; John
Connolly. Madison, Ind, two firsts; George
W Pohies e5 oRnt s%o difH one first
Gilray, city, one first; Blair & Baker, one
first Miss Grace Christian, city. one first.
one first; J. B. Newman, one first: Pine &,
Devay. one. first Thompson & Bland,
Charlottesville. one first; Horace F. Woods,
city, three seconds. two thirds.
French and German Coach-Louis Young.
Crawfordsville, one first. one second.
Heavy HarneSS-ThompSon Il Bland two
f1rsts, one second, one third.
Cattle
Aberdeen Angus-Goodw:n & Judy West
Lebanon, Ind, four firsts. one second. four
Cedarville. o., seven firsts. six seconds
four thirds. one sweepstake.
Polled Durham-J. H. Miller Mexico,
Short Horns-W. f. Brown, Minneapolis,
two firsts. four seconds. two thirds: Aaron
three thirds, one sweepstake; w. F. Miller.
Carlos City. Ind, one second, one third.
Jerseys-Miller, & Sibley, Franklin. Pa.
twelve frsts, three seconds, two sweep
stakes; Mrs. A. NJ. Hallock, Columbus, O..
six seconds. five thirds.
Galloway-Chapman Bros, South Rock
wood, Mich, three seconds. one third two
sweepstakes: G.. w. Gillum. Winchester,
Ind. one first. eleven seconds, three thirds
Guernseys-Joe Defrees. Piqua. O., five
firsts. two seconds two sweepstakes.
-Ayrshire-J. F. Converse, Woodvile N.
l., lHftS HfSlS, Ilree SECONDS, one third,
one sweepstake.
observation-disclosures Clarke. Beecher. ILL.,.
five frsts. three seconds, one third, two
sweepstakes.
Sheep
Cheviots-W. s. Crodian Fincastle. Ind
five firsts. four seconds
Tunis = Charles Rountree. TOWNSVILLE
Ind, seven firsts, three seconds, two sweep
stakes.
Oxfords and Southdowns-George McKer-
row, Sussex, Wis, eleven hrsts. ten sec
onds, one third. three sweepstakes; Uriah
Privett, Greenshurg, Ind. eight seconds
Rambouillet-O. z. Lincoln, Milford Cen
ter, O., three firsts, four seconds. six
thirds one sweepstake.
Hampshires- Foster & Guthrie. Deputy,
Ind, two thirds
Shropshire-I J. Williams & Sons. Mum
Gle, Ind, two f1rsts, two seconds, three
thirds.
Merino-R; d. Williamson. Xenia. O.,
two firsts. five seconds. one third
otswold-George Harding & Son Wau-
kesha. Wis. nine firsts. three thirds three
seconds.
Stockmen say that the fair in their de-
rartments has been a great success A
New York cattle dealer considered the
show of cattle the best lie had seen in MANY
years