The Jersey City news., 1906-09-07
Extensive Preparations Are
Made for the Exhibition
This Year To Be Greatest
OF It's Kind East of the
Mississippi River
MANY NEW ATTRACTIONS
KNABENSHUE AND HIS AIR SHIP
WILL ENTERTAIN, AND THERE
WILL BE. SOME GOOD RACING
MANY IMPROVEMENTS HAVE
BEEN MADE TO THE GROUNDS.

The Interstate Fair will be held at
Trenton, \. J.. September "a to 2S, in
elusive, and at this time all of the ar
rangements for this exhibition, the great
est of its kind this side of the Mississip-
pi river, are we'll under way. By the
close of this week al of the work of Sc
curing special attractions will have been
completed and, beginning with Monday
of next week, the exhibition buildings
will be prepared for the exhibits, which
are now being entered in numbers far in
excess of any preceding year.
The grand-stand seats, to prevent
scalping, will be sold by mail this year,
the same as last year. All orders for
tickets must be accompanied by cash,
certified check or money order. The sale
of seats will open September IL, and all
orders should be mailed September 10 to
oHlmes e. La Rue, agent, Trenton,
n. ].
The Fair of 1906 will be an extension
in every department over that of 1905,
which was a record breaker in every par
ticular. During the past year, many inn
provements have been made to the eX-
tensiye grounds, and at this time several
new buildings are being given the finish
ing touches. Thousands of dollars have
been spent TO make the grounds more at
tractive and many more thousands have
been expended to increase the standard
of the exhibitions of all kinds
The management has provided for this
year many special and expensive attrac
tions. which will be in addition TO great
er displays in all of the departments,
which are SO we'll known TO thousands
and tens of thousands of persons in this
State and in all of the neighboring
States
One of the most notable abtra ctions
will be the famous Knabenshue and his
air ship. This is the same man and the
same ship which so recently startled New
York and Washington by sensational and
successful flights which demonstrated to
the general and scientific world the posi-
bilitles of aerial navigation.
The speed program this year will pre-
sent better class of racing than can be
seen at any other fair in the United
States. All of the greatest horses of
the East have been attracted to Trenton
because of the extensive improvements to
the track, including raising of the curves
and resurfacing, and the big purses winch
have been put up for every day of the
week, beginning September "a and end
ing September 2S.
Special features this year will be the
Dog Show and the exhibition of Poultry
pigeons and Pets. These departments
are in charge of special MEN who have
made lifelong study of dogs and mem
bers of the family of feathers.
The department for Show Horses has
been greatly enlarged this year, and
some of the very best animals in this
section of the country have been entele t..
and scores more are coming before the
CENTRES close. The departments for cat
tie, sheep swine and all classes of liv
stock will present dozens of more exhlb-
its than in any former year
The departments for the display of
fancy and art work, products of the
home, agricultural and dairy implements
farm products and horticultural products
will be the very uest ever presented by
the Interstate Fair.
A vaudeville program of exceptional
merit has been provided. All of the best
acts for the openair stage have been Sc
cured, and these include balloon ascen-
Sions with parachute leaps, trained seals,
comedy acrobats, sensational high-wire
acts, a musical act presenting Forty
Black Huzzars, and other high-class at
fractions, showing the very pest which
money can get.