The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-08-12
TEXAS STATE FAIR.

"The twentieth annual entertain
ment of the State Fair of Texas said
President g. A. Heating, will begin on
saturday. September 30, and run for
sixteen days. Since the last fair this
enterprise has been reorganized with
fifteen hundred of the leading citizens
of Dallas as stockholders. A hand
some concrete-stone auditorium and
exposition building has been erected at
a cost of 800, 900, upon the site of the
hall destroyed by fire in 1902. The old
buildings on the grounds have been re-
paired and reprinted, and the park,
embracing III acres, greatly beautified,
and adorned by number of classical
statues of heroic size, which were part
of the decoration of the Belgium build
ing at the st. Louis fair.
The association is expanding 500, 900
in premiums, purses and attractions
for the coming fair. Seymour's fam
will give three concerts daily in the
band stand. Hella Temple band and
the Exposition Orchestra are other
first-class musical organizations en-
gagged. The Olympia Musical Comedy
Company, of seventy-five members,
and with orchestra, will give two
high-class operate productions every
day, put on with gorgeous scenery and
costumes. In our continuous free show
the leading vaudeville artists of the
country will appear in the latest and
best specialties. Our Midway will con-
sist of eighteen of the best and cleanest
shows to be had for money. A carous-
sci figure eight, a toboggan and an old
mill now being placed on the grounds
will be in operation during the fair.
The indications now are that we
shall have between six and seven hun
dred race horses on the grounds when
the fair opens. Our racing program
calls for six races day for thirteen
days. The purses offered in this de-
partment aggregate $4,000. The open
book system, required by law, is at.
tracing horsemen and bookmakers
from all over the country, and at the
same time appears to be quite satisfac-
tory to the public, 1t is estimated that
the horses which will participate in
our races will represent value of more
than million dollars, Several hun
dred of these flyers are now on the
grounds and in training for the APP
preaching races.
"The demand for space in the vari-
Gus exhibition departments has been
greater than ever known before. We
have very little room left in the live
stock and poultry or the implement
and vehicle departments, or in exposi-
ton hall. The displays in exposition
hall, especially, promise to be very
beautiful. The exhibitors have up a
frienely rivalry in arranging their dis
plays and are sparing no expenses in
the effort each to excel all competitors.
"The illumination of the buildings
and grounds will amount to an electric
display-a brilliant after-piece, as it
were, to the festivities of each day.
at is conseratively estimated that
when our twentieth annual entertain
ment opens, the fair grounds and what
is in them will represent value of
nearly four millions of dollars. In
other words, we are preparing for the
people the finest entertainment ever
given by any State Fair. The railroads
approaching the social and industrial
Importance of our enterprise. will put
on low round-trip excursion rates from
all points, and we have every conf
dence of record-breaking attendance
since we are giving show of such ex-
cellence that every visitor, after seeing
it, will go away advertising it far and
and wide"