The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-02
BIG ADDITIONS TO
PENS AND STALLS
Fair Directors Are Making
More Room for Exhibits.
BUTTONS ARE DISTRIBUTED
Mr.. Parker Sends Partial List
of Attractions.

The fair association has put the car
penters at work repairing the grand stand
and enlarging the capacity of the stalls
and pens TO four times their present
size The secretary has received many
Inquiries about Accommodations for stock
during the fair this year and has received
take up every horse and cattle stall and
sheep and hog pen on the grounds and
the directors have decided that IL VIII
require three TO four times the present
capacity of the grounds to accommodate
the stock which the directors of the far
have received assurances Of being here
The fair from livestock and agricultural
standpoint viii be a great deal larger
than ever before, in fact two or three
times as large as any former fair and the
exhibit of livestock alone will be we'll
worth going a long distance to see.
Cresceus Will be here and viii do his
mile on the Wichita track In fast time
The wichita track is in the best condition
for fast time that it has ever been and
during the races it is expected that
some records will be broken. The owne-
and driver of Cresceus have announced
that the champion trotting stallion OF
the world will do his best to lower the
record of 2:2 IA and if the day on which
the race viii be made is still and fair the
great stallion viii not have a better
chance to lower his record than he will
have on the Wichita track.
The fair association has procured ten
thousand buttons and they were being
distributed about town yesterday. Every
travelling man in this city will be stocked
up with the buttons to give to their Gus
toners in Kansas and Oklahoma. The
buttons are the neatest ones ever pur-
chased for a fair in this city. In the
center is "A fac smile of the famous
painting Pharoh's horses and around this
is the place and date of the fair and
carnival.
The paper for the association was or
dered at the directors meeting Monday
evening and it viii be here WITHIN a few
days. Bill posters will be sent out i'm
mediately to put the lithos on bill boards.
barns and fences throughout southern
Kansas and Oklahoma. Advertisements
are being placed in a large number of
southern Kansas and Oklahoma papers
and this year the Wichita fair and carni-
val will be more widely advertised than
ever before and the fact that the bust
ness men have determined that the visi-
tors shall be entertained royalty at Wich-
ita's expense will also be brought out
prominently.
The directors have determined TO give
cash prizes for each of the divisions of
the flower parade. The first prize will be
cash and the others will be special
premiums.
Mr.. Parker. the owner and manager
of the shows which will appear on the
Pike and the free attractions has sent
partial list Of the attractions which
been secured and on this the Pike will be
located. A plat of the ground has been
sent to Mr.. Parker that ne may determine
on how the shows are to be arranged.
The list which he sent is as follows:
Plantation-Negro MINISTRIES, southern
scenes etc.
Electric theatre.
Thelma--Fire dancer.
Laughing Palace-An optical sensation.
(mirrors).
Alps-Electric moving figures showing
beautiful scenes as they appear in the
famous mountains
Willie, the Wonder-Boy without arms
or legs.
Colliseum-In which are the loop-the-
loop, the big ball. vaudeville, etc.
The Carry-Us-All
The Ferris Wheel.
The Miniature Train-Which is the same
as that which was used at the Omaha
exposition. q.
The electric fountain and many others.