The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
SPOILED BY RAIN.
Todap's Fair Is Marred by the
Weather.
Largest Crowd of the Week in
Topeka.
HARNESS RACES OFF.
TOday'S Programme Will Be
Given Tomorrow.
The Other Features Come Off
as Advertised.
IARNESS RACES OFF.
Fridays Programme.

Fridays Programme.
Parade of prize winning stock in front
of grand stand. 9 to IL.
Awarding of prizes for live stock.
Awarding of prizes, agricultural de-
partment.
Last day of contest for farmers cows.
Dairy building.
Wild West parade Ii o'clock.
Demonstration with air ship.
Riding contest for COW girls.
Corn husking contest.
Cute, the guideless wonder, during
races.
Afternoon Races.
2-year-old trot, $500.
2:18 pace, $500.
2:25 trot, $500.
Three running races, SteeplechaSe and
hurdle races.
Races postponed from Thursday.
Burning of wagon train by Indians,
to 9.
Rescue of freighters by cowboys.
to 9.
Rife shooting contest.
Branding contest, to O.
With heavy clouds overhanging the
city and the ground already soaked
with rain which has been falling off
and on all morning, the harness races
this afternoon, excepting in the rum
ming class, were postponed. Nearly rs
hundredths of an inch of rain has fall
en- since early this morning and the
indications are that more will fall be-
fore the clouds disappear There is a
larger crowd of out of town people in
the city today than there has been
since the fair opened and the rain
came as a bitter disappointment to
them. All trains during the night and
h io1, l, have
been crowded with people anxious to
visit the state fair.
The harness races which have been
postponed will be placed on the pro-
gramme as extras tomorrow II the
track is in condition to permit racing
at all.
Not less than 10000 people attended
tn e races yesterday and strolled around
through the stalls of show stock and
toyed with the exhibits in the agr1cui-
tural building and the crowd was large
this afternoon. The grand stand was
packed to over flowing nearly all the
afternoon, the quarter stretch was
filled with carriages, and the renee
around the entire track was black with
a. seething mass of humanity seeking
an advantageous place from which to
view the races.
The balloon man who was advertised
to make an ascension and parachute
leap failed to materialize and as far as
the management of the fair knows ne
hs made an ascension somewhere and
is not down yet. The air ship was an
other bitter disappointment for the big
bag failed to fly on account of the vino
blowing too strong. 1t was announced
by the management of the fair that the
big ship would make a flight at go
in the evening if the wind had settled
by that time. At the time set for the
evening flight there was hardly a
breath of air stirring, but the man in
charge said that it would be 1mpossl-
Bile to get things in readiness for
flight before $50 o'clock and this die
not suit the management of the rail as
sociation. 1t looked for a time as
though small riot might ensue Wher
it was announced that the air shiI
would not sail and low and angry NUT
terings were heard on all sides. Cap
| tain Toilette, the man who is in charge
| of the air ship, says that it is all the
fault of the fair association, and thai
he told them that it would be impossl-
BILE to make a flight before S:SO on
8 o'clock and that they insisted on the
flight before the evening shows com
menced as it would detract from theil
attendance. He says that he Will sal
| today if the weather permits and VII
make any number of flights and dem
onstrate that his claims for his shiI
| are correct.
| The big feature yesterday was as i
has been every day, and will be unit
the end of the week, the exhibit IRON
the Miller Brothers 101 ranch. a
their evening performance the big
canvas was packed to overfow1ng anc
when the lights failed to show up tn'
Attendance was taken in a body across
to the grand stand. where the seatins
capacity was tested and found IN
adequate to accommodate the I'M
mense crowd. There must have peer
1000 people who witnessed the wile
west last evening. The horse show
which followed Immediately had
larger crowd than usual becaus'
| there was no further admission
charged.
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