The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-31
FESTIVAL FIELD PLANS
WILL DE A GREAT SPECTACLE IN
FANTASTIC EFFECTS.
Description of improvements Decided
on by the Committcc-Cntering To
Public Comfort and Amusement.

The Festival Field Is 10 be made n spec
tacle for the week OF Oct. 10 TO Is. II Will
be "A city OF canvas. electric illumination
and fantastic decorations. The twenty-ono
acres composing the field will bo inclosed
I'm a white canva fence, broken I'm two
points on Washington street with great en-
frances, and around the top OF which there
will be an abundant display of festival and
horse show colors and electric lights. The
executive committee has approved all the
plans OF the building and grounds commit
tee, OF which Mr.. n. l.. Block is chairman.
and contracts are being made TO carry
them out forthwith.
The picture OF the Festival Field, as
gained from the plans of Architect Il. o.
Hunter. who prepared them, reveals "A re-
markable assembly of effects. The Wash
ingston-street fence, which is to be set
back one hundred feet from the sidewalk,
will be twelve feet high; the fence at all
other points will be eight feet high, but
similar in construction to the Washington
street side. The canvas will be of unusual
weight, and will be suspended from a steel
cable running along the tops Of the posts.
These posts will be at intervals of ten
feet, and will be surmounted with fagstaffs
bearing festival pennants and electric
lights. The fence will be without decora-
lions. except at the entrances. where the
skill of the decorators will be given full
sway.
The main entrance to Festival Field will
be in Washington street, at the east side
Of the Festival Field. 1t will be a striking
architectural effect, seventy-fve feet long
and thirty feet high, including grotesque
and fantastic figures, Gaping the Egyptian
columns that will divide the three open
ings. The top of the gateway will be ar
boreal in effect, being composed of a trellis
over which the great urnS will rise and
from which an abundant display of natural
vines will drop to the tops of the arches.
The gateway will be decorated largely with
the festival colOrs, red and yellow, al
though in the details the decorators will do
all that may be proper to produce the fam
tastic effect desired. The entrance will be
brilliantly lighted. The interior of Festi-
val Field will be equally a revelation to
festival visitors. The promenade will be
oval in form, 100 feet wide, and will be COW
cred with thirty carloads of tanbark, this
being done to insure dry footing for the
great crowds. The form of the promenade
permits the distribution of all the pay at
fractions around it's outside, while the
free attractions occupy the space in the
center. In the center of the field there will
be a band stand, and near this a giant flag
pole will be placed. From the top of this
pole, to the corners and sides of the field,
there will be wires from which a great dis
play of festival colors will be suspended.
HORSE SHOW ENTRANCE.
The other main entrance will be at the
west end facing Washington street, and
will admit to the horse show. 1t will be a
Roman style OF architecture, perfectly
white, except at the top, where the only
decorations Will be remnants and banners
and the horse show cOlors, white and green.
To the right of the entrance, there will be a
driveway for vehicles, giving ready access
to the checking quarters beyond the club
house.
One of the first things to be noticed on
entering the horse show field, will be the
clubhouse. 1t is largely the idea of Chair
man Block, and is proving one of the
popular features of the horse show.
It will be a rustic design of bark
with a stout canvas roof, and will
be a comfortable place for visitors tC
loaf while at the horse show. According
TO the plan, the only way that admission
may be obtained to this clubhouse. the
privileges of which are desirable. is by the
purchase Of a membership ticket. COSTING
$40. This ticket not only entities one to al
the privileges of the clubhouse land In nc
other way may these privileges be securely
but also gives two admissions daily TO the