Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-08-10


ateur Athletic Union of the United
States; to decide the national cham
pionship. A cross-country champion
ship will he given. Bicycling viii
given the national interschOlastic
championship in which all the prepar-
atory schools and high schools through
out the country will take part. The
national swimming championship of
America, which will include plunging.
short and long distance racing, diving,
and water polo, as well as college
aquatic championships, will take place.
Lawn tennis will be we'll taken care
of and the tournaments will last two
weeks. Many crack foreign teams will
compete in the latter contests. ]. E.
Sullivan, secretary of the American
athletic union, has been appointed
chief of physical culture.
An automobile service, carrying Wis
itors to the grounds, will add to the
transportation facilities. AT least 200
machines will carry passengers along
the fine residence streets and parks
and discharge them at points Of van
tage within the grounds. A. company
has been organized for this purpose.
The machines TO be used will carry
from two to forty passengers each, and
steam. gasoline and electricity will be
the motive power Large machines
will be in the style of tally-hos. These
vehicles will collect passengers at the
hotels, union station and other points
in the downtown district. Coupon
tickets will be sold emitting the pas
senger to a ride and admission to the
grounds. Automobiles will also be op-
Grated within the grounds over certain
routes at a specified rate of speed.
This service will be of great advant-
age to visitors, taking them practically
from their hotels, saving them the
trouble of buying tickets in the crush
at the gates and the crowds at the
turnstiles, and landing them within the
grounds thoroughly rested and ready
for sightseeing.
Unusual methods are being pursued
by contractors on the grounds to OBJ
tain the delivery of building mater
ials. Representatives are sent east on
passenger trains and return on the
freight trains carrying the coveted ma
terial. The function of these agents is
to shorten as much as possible the
time consumed in transferring cars
between connecting lines. AS soon as
q car reaches the terminus of one road
the proper officials are asked to obtain
the speedy handling of the car. In all
cases these cars contain material the
lack of which prevents the use of large
quantities of other materials.
Modern WOodmen and their allied
fraternities are making preparations
for the proposed encampment at the
fair in September of next year. The
Woodmen number about 100000 men,
bers in America. Gen. John H. Mitch
ell. commander of the organization,
says that 10000 will be at st. Louis
during the week closing Sept. 5. The
Foresters. a semi-military organization
allied with the Woodmen, has $4,000
uniformed members and it is said that
1000 of these will attend. Many or
the Forester companies are said to be
drilled as well as any organization in
the United States. The Royal Neigh
bors of America, also auxiliary to the
Woodmen, has a membership of 100000
lady members. and Gen. Mitchell esti-
mates that 10000 of these will be at
the fair.
Prof w. ]. MCGEE, chief of the de-
partment of anthropology for the fair,
is quoted as saying that the aim Of
the department will be to represent
human progress from the darkness of
the earliest ages to the highest en-
lightment, from savagery to civic or
ganiza5ion, from egoism to altruism.
Special attention will be devoted to
Indian school work, Americas best eff
fort to elevate the lower races. The
method will be to use living peoples in
their accustomed avocatiOns as OBJ
ject lessons. Failing these in some
cases. human products will be used to
illustrate human progress.
Belgian hare fanciers will make