The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-15
NEXT WEEKS FAIR
Novel and Varied Program OF
Entertainment.
GREAT CROWDS EXPECTED
Railroads Put the Rate Down
to One Fare.

No entertainment that Wichita has ever
given will approach the fair to take place
next week.
| This year the management. profting by
past experience, made up its mind that the
| talr should not be conferred around one
great attraction. The one attraction idea
| entertained the people for an hour. The
rest of the day they wandered aimlessy
around trying to entertain themselves.
This year it Will be different. There will
not be one big attraction, but there will
be what is infinitely better, an attrac-
ton for every minute in the day. No man
Will ba able to see it all in a day. He can
start in at 10 o'clock in the morning and
! until sunset he will be kept on the top
| notch of kelight and pleasure. The fair
will De a great number OF shows within d
show. Open air vaudeville performances.
high-class trapeze work in open air, the
best of tumblng, specialties without num-
Der, may attract him one hour. A complete
circus free to all and under canvas may
next attract his attention. The high-diving
horses, jumping from a great heighth into
a tank of water; fancy and perilous bicycle
riding; the delicacies and mysteries OF
glass blowing; everything which wins the
eye and charms the mind, proper for fair
grounds, will be there.
H C. Toler said yesterday that the
crowds would exceed those OF last year.
There is no question but that the people
will be entertained in a greacer measure
this year than ever before.
Tn list of attractions exceeds anything
offered at any county or district fair in
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado or Missouri,
outside the st. Louis and Kansas City
fall expositions, lasting ten or twelve days.
There will be some arrangement made
this year to furnish sleeping epartments
for the crowds that come in and remain
over two or three nights. The street car
line to the grounds will be repaired, and
every facility will be arranged for taking
care of the crowds.
The first thing that the crowds will re-
quire, however, will be entertainment, of
which they want to be assured before they
come.
1t is a great and novel program Of en-
tertainment arranged by the managers Tor
the coming meeting. Prominent in the
list of attractions are two pur5 white
Arabian horses that will make the leap
from platform forty feet high into pool
of water. This is something en:,reiy new.
l. has been secured at great expense and
is a rare novelty. 1t alone will be worth
a trip hundred miles to see. The scene
will be witnessed upon tn9 grounds every
day of the fair, absolutely free.
Under an immense canvas will be given
daily high-grade, chaste vaudeville en-
tertainment consisting OF novel back cor
tortions, acrobatic feats, nigh bar snd
aerial flights etc.
Another feature Of entertainment, ard
one that will prove especially pleasing to
the people, will be the music for the grand
stand. This will consist of vocal and in
strumental music-mainly singing-by
company Of jubilee singers, accredited the
best and finest artists and the only COM
pany that continue on the boards all the
year around.
Other points of especial interest to the
public are railroad fares and accommoda-
tons, and admission fee at the gates. All
the railroads entering Wichita will make
a e-for-the-round-trip rate, extend
ing all over Kansas Including Kansas
City and St Joseph, Mo-, Oklahoma and
Indian Territory, with arrangements for
trains to arrive in the forenoon in ample
time for the exercises at the fair, and
leaving after the close in the evening, thus
giving out-of-town visitors opportunity TO
attend the fair and return home the same
day if they choose.
The price of admission to the fair has
been reduced to Is cents; children under
10 free This is a decided innovation upon
the Uniform rule elsewhere and in Wichita
heretofore. This radical change has been
made by the management solely with TIE
view to accommodate the public; that
everybody shall be able and be induced to
lay dull care and the daily routine Of life
aside and devote the week to enjoyment
and recreation.