The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-06
The EXPOSITION.
Fair Grounds the Scene of Gay
ETY. Next Week.
Entertainment for Every Morn
ing, Afternoon and Night.
THE FINE STOCK SHOW.
Magnificent Display of Horses,
Cattle and Sheep.
Largest Firms in the Country
Will Exhibit.
THE RACES A FEATURE.
Kansas Derby Will Be the
Track Event.
Something About the Hopes OF
the Promoters.
Largest Firms in the Country
Will Exhibit.
THE RACES A FEATURE.
Kansas Derby Will Be the
Track Event.
Something About the Hopes OF
the Promoters.

Monday the gates of the fair grounds
will swing open and the Kansas EXPOSE
ton will begin. There Will be no stop
until Saturday night for the programme
includes special features for each morn
ing, afternoon and night of the entire
week.
The features of the exposition will be
the races, the fine stock exhibits, the
vaudeville and the midway There will
be no displays of fine fruits and big
vegetables The usual pumpkins and
sQuashes which are generally lined up
IN military precision behind the glass
jars of home made preserves and picked
cucumbers, will be absent Not that
they have outgrown their usefulness as
Interesting objects for the slgnIseers
but because there are not sufficient
buildings at the fair grounds to accom-
inodate all this. The incendiary fires
which have, in the last few years,swept
two grand stands, have left the EXPOSE
ton company with practically nothing
but the grounds and few horse barns
and buildings to start with.
The Exposition company has accom-
p1ished a great deal in time for the first
show. New horse barns have been
built, the racing stables have been put
in first class condition, the exposition
building has been converted into
mammoth horse and cattle stable, sheep
and swine pens have been built, the
grand stand. with seating capacity
for 1000 people, has been completed,
grounds have been improved generally
The Kansas Exposition is the first
step toward an annual state fa1r TO De
held in Topeka. 1t is the hope of the
farmers and stock and fruit raisers of
the state that a large fair may be held
every year where stock and farm pro-
ducts from all parts of the country will
be exhibited. For several years the
Kansas Improved Stock Breeders as
ISOLATION has had a standing committee
on state fairs, instructed at each annual
meeting to keep everlastingly at work
and keep up the agitation until state
fair is an accomplished fact. At each
annual meeting the subject of state ex-
positions or fairs has received earnest
consideration Other state Industrial
organizations, notably the State Agri-
cultural society, State Horticultural so.
ciety, and the Kansas State Dairy as
ISOLATION. have been similarly engaged
along this line. Their standing commit
tees have heartily co-operated with the
stock breeders and together have en-
deavored to get the legislature to grant
state aid and put this much-needed
state enterprise upon substantial and
permanent basis. similar to that enjoyed
by all other western states. But SO far
as tangible results have been concerned,
their rts have been fruitless- How
ever, these public-spirited representa-
tiyeS of the industrial resources of the
state have never weakened or become
discouraged in their determine ion to
succeed. 1t was agreed by the active
workers or this enterprise that 1Opeka
was the proper place for a state fair,
and that pending the action of the legis-
lature to get behind the enterprise, To-
peka and Shawnee county should make
the start and do their part to inaugu-
rate the state fair. In response to the
wishes of the friends of this enterprise
throughout the state, there was or
ganized last year the Kansas State Ex-
position company, chartered with cap
ital stock of $4,000, the stockholders OF
which comprise the leading business
men and farmers of Shawnee county.
The hope of the exposition managers
IS that the legislature, which meets this
winter, will give state aid to the enter
prise and make it possible for large
state fair to be held annually. The Des
Moines fair the ANNUAL event in Iowa,
is fostered by the state legislature, ana
this year s45.000 was appropriated for
one building to be used for exhibiting
stock. Kansas ought to do as we'll as
Iowa. The Kansas exposition has made
the start, and a good one, and now the
state should come to the aid of the en-
terprise so that Kansas with her bump
err wheat crops, record breaking corn
yields, fast horses, fine cattle and sheep
can show to the people of the state and
abroad what the resources of the COM
monwea1th are.
The members of the association have
worked hard to make the first show a
success. The officers of the exposition