The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-14
Committee at Work Collecting
Fund Subscribed.
THE CALLS FOR SPACE.
Secretary Kreipe Is Hearing
From Exhibitors.
Machinery Exhibit Promises to
Be Largest on Record.

They are collecting the subscriptions
for the state fair this week. A few
months ago the local papers were
printing many columns of matter
about the Kansas state fair and boost
ing the work Of raising the $4,000 fund
with which to successfully carry out
the plans of a state wide fair, the
first for Kansas in many years. The
fund was raised here in Topeka, the
committees appointed and board of di-
rectors selected. Then so far as the
public was concerned, the matter was
dropped. The date of the opening of
the fair, September 7, is only three
weeks distant and the prospects for its
success and the scale upon which the
preparations are made might be of in
terest to the public at this time.
The first Kansas fair is going to be
one of the really big things of the
state. 1t will be bigger than was
promised last spring when promises
were free in the effort to raise the fair
fund. The old and successful state
fairs in Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska
will have nothing better to offer in the
way of attractions than will Kansas
this year at Topeka
The response from the farmers of the
state to the call of the fair is the real
measure by which its success is to be
tary, stated today that he is over
whelmed by calls for exhibit space.
entry applications and requests for
catalogues. In the past few days he
has received over 1000 such letters, and
they come, not only from all over Kan
sas, but from Missouri, Iowa, Texas
and Nebraska.
Topeka must handle the state fair
alone and unaided this year. The
county accnot help because of a tech
,f.ar.l ox~1 70 fc-fr
the legislature cannot help until next
year. But Topeka has stepped into the
breach and will give an exhibition in
every way worthy of the greatest ag-
ricultural state in the Union.
The leading business men of the
city and stockmen and agricultural ex-
perts are in the harness and are
working on grand scale, which wild
ems as the date of the fair approaches.
The machinery exhibit will surpass
anything ever seen in the west outside
of the worlds fair in St Louis, and
the horticultural exhibit will be a
feature worthy OF especial considera-
ton. The live stock entries already
received from three states will fill
every foot of available space for
horses, cattle, hogs and sheep on the
fair grounds and the committee is
figuring now on how to secure more
room. One man from Nebraska has
asked for twenty stalls for his stall
lions. Then the agricultural and pure
food exhibits will be on the order of
the old fashioned country fair and will
embrace the choicest products of the
west.
For attractions for the general public
the Kansas state wide fair will eclipse
them all, and with fair weather all
speculations on attendance will be
shattered. The Mulhall family of
riders and ropers form one of these
feature attractions that is sure to
prove a big winner. Lucille Mulhall
is the most famous lady rider and
roper in the world and her exhibition
is a real thriller.
The famous Twentieth Kansas