The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-05-17
IMPROVEMENTS MADE ON
The FAIR GROUNDS,
1906 County Show Expected To Be a
Big Success.

Extensive improvements are being
made on the fair grounds by the new
management of the Manitowoc County
Industrial association. A water works
system has been put in, with numerous
drinking places and several dry wells
have been constructed for drainage pur.
poses. The track will be made the best
half mile oval race course in the state.
The grounds will be leyeled by grading,
or filling, all low places. The fence has
been repaired. The old grand stands
have been torn down and removed, and
a new, up.to- date grand stand, $50 feet
in length and having a seating capacity
for 3, 600, is being built on the site of the
old structures. The old barroom build
ing has been removed and a new bar
room structure will be erected, the as
sociation having decided not to accept
state aid hereafter in order to be enabled
to return to a wideopen policy com
pretending the privilege of dispensing
the foamy amber beverage upon the
grounds during the fair and the right of
providing variety of attractions, such
as are forbidden by the state law to all
county fair associations accepting state
aid By cutting off from state aid the
fair association here will lose from $500
to $1,000 per year; but this loss will be
more than offset by other gains that
will probably amount to sum ranging
from 81 600 to 81 800 per year.
The old ticket Office has been removed
and converted into blacksmith shop,
upon the grounds. A new, neat, spacious
ticket Office has been erected. The new
Office building is twice as large as the
old structure. 1t contains two rooms
an office for the secretary and one for
the treasurer. A cement walk has been
laid around the new building; that is
along the east and the south side of it.
A new dining hall will be built. The
management of the association also CON
template erecting either new floral hall
and fine arts building" or a new poultry
house The live stock stalls will be re-
built and renovated. All the buildings
on the grounds, as we'll as the fence
surrounding the grounds, will be paint
ed white, so as to convert the scene of
the fair into an attractive White City.
The Manitovoc County Fair fer 1906
will be held September 12, 49, IA, and
10 If the weather proves to be favor
able, the 1906 Manitowoc county fair
will be the banner one in the history of
the local industrial association. 1t is
also expected that it will be superior to
any county fair heretofore held any
where in the state of Wisconsin.
s.? 500 will be given in purses for horse
races Purses paid at the wire. Aaron
J. Torrison, superintendent of speed, has
offered a special cash prize of 800 to the
horse breaking the local mile track re-
cord. which is 2:14 and fraction.
Mr.. Charles F. Fechter, secretary of
the association, is now corresponding
with New York and Chicago amusement
associations or companies with n view
to securing a great variety of taking
attractions. The association expect to
spend at least $500 for attractions for
this years fair.
Following is the speed program for
the 1906 fair:
Thursday, September l3.
No. 1-2:3O Trot, purse $3.50 90
No. 2-2:24 Pace. purse $50. 90
Friday, September IA.
No. 3-2:30 Pace Stake coo oo
Manufacturers purse ''''''
No. 4-2:20 Trot, purse 400. 90
No. Colt Race, 4-year.o and
under $50 90
open to Manitowoc and
adjoining counties.)
Saturday, September ID.
No. 6-2:16, Trot (Stake) coo M
Business Mems Purse ''''''
No. 1-2:19 Pace, purse 4OO. 90
No. S-Free for All, purse 900 90
Mixed Race
Entries Close September 4.
Record made after August q no bar