Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-24
BIG Day At The FAIR
Attendance Tuesday at State
Fair Estimated ALI the Way
From $4,000 to 10000
PAID ADMISSIONS WERE $4,000
Children and Old Soldier. Were Ad
n,itted Free-Receipts Have Exceed.
ed Last Years Receipts For First
Five Days BY About ,ooo-Already
On Easy Street.

On Easy Street.
Des Moines, Aug. 24.-Estimates on
.he attendance at the Iowa state fair
yesterday vary all the way from $4,000
to 10000.
1t was Des Moines, old soldiers and
childrens day all combined. The vet
Grams and the children went in free,
and the estimates OF attendance more
or less depend on the extent to which
the children were active in the imme.
date vicinity of the calculator.
As they lodged under the feet OF the
fast horses on. the race track and
clogged the streets in the main grounds
so that even automobiles had hard
time making Roadway. there were
those who would have put the number
at million. But whether there wers
5000 or $4,000 Of them, they had more
fun than a million, differently built
people could have had, tho the thous-
ands Of adults who visited the fair
were fairly tagged at the end of the
day. so much entertainment had they
been furnished and SO much had they
seen. but to enjoy.
The soldiers OF forty years ago held
their camp fire and reunions and saw
the soldiers of today in military mans
euvers. recalling the scenes OF their
militant youth before the khaki sup
planted the blue. The children inves>
tigated the entire 266 acres of the fair
grounds park and took home more in
formation than four weeks of school
could inject into them. The people
who tllronged the amphitheater saw
little the finest entertainment every
provided by the fair, continuing from
/ o'clock till 8 o'clock undated. The
thousands who did not go to the races
thronged the live stock pavilion to wit
ness the greatest cattle show ever seen
in the west. or visited $1,000 other ex>
hibits of the best that Iowa affords
The weather was perfect, and the
promise of as good weather today, IL
warmer did not detract from its en-
1oyment whit. The air was crisp and
the fairies OF pleasure. good humor and
content. floated thru 1t.
The paid admissions at the gates
numbered about $4,000. The total gate
and grand stand receipts for the day
were s14.s06.15. To the estimated paid
admissions must be added those rep
resented by passes and the soldiers
and children. Fully 5000 veterans and
their wives were given access to the
ground. and the number of children
was somewhere between 5000 and TO-
900.
A conservative estimate on the total
attendance, therefore, is between 35,-
600 and 10000. No turnstile count is
kept. In support of the theory that the
attendance exceeded $4,000 one of the
directors of the fair yesterday evening
called attention to the fact that when
the grand stand was thronged by the
most people it made no appreciabie
impression on the enormous crowds on
the ground outside.
The receipts Of the gates an amphi-
theater to date exceed the receipts
from the same source for the first five
days OF the fair by about $4,000. The
receipts from other sources are larger
than they were last year. The fair
the fair weather promised by the
belief that the fair of this year will far
exceed that of last In the matter of In
come as well as attractions and ex-
hibits.
On Tuesday Of last year. the gates
and amphitheater yielded the fair s12,-
1855; this year they yielded $14,5o6.15.
The increase is $1.s7o.60.
The total receipts of the fair last
year on Tuesday were $14.54S.S0. This
year they will exceed that figure by
fully $4,000.
The receipts of last year on Wednes-
day were sl5,900.S1. 1t is fondly hoped
by the fair management that today
will prove to be a record breaker. 1t
is believed also that Friday is going to
be ore OF the really big days.
1t has been arranged to have the
Eleventh cavalry of the Des Moines
army post repeat its drill that afternoon
before the grandstand.
The races will also be repeated. The
fair managers said yesterday that they
had ITO hesitaney in admitting that the
regulars furnished one Of the most en-
tertaining and attractive features Of
the days doings.
The management OF the fair Is elat-
ed. also. because of the fact that it
sees now that the expenses Of the
fair are bound to be paid by the re-
ceipts. There can be no deficit, and
money that can be used in improve
ments will be available and will not
have to go to paying expenses.