Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05
THE EXPOSTTION'S CHIEF ASSET
A Little Talk of a Great Event.

was booking its main attractions in
connection with the management OF
| the Cedar Rapids exposition, it was
necessary 10 make the week later.
AS it happened, luck was with
Cedar Rapids as far as the weather
was concerned, although the exposi-
ton there met with flood in the end.
which killed the Saturday business. Mr..
Barton of the Cedar Rapids Exposition
association. who spent three DAYS at
the Rock Island Exposition. said Sat
| urday night: The weather is a gam.
bic at best. No real Snowman grum-
Oles if he loses because of the
weather, because he knows he cannot
help it. You might choose this same
week for 10 successive years and win
every time, and you might move it a
week ahead OF two weeks or a month
ahead next year and run into worse
weather than you have had this year.
But the proposition you have estab-
lished here cannot fail to be big
| money maker in the end. You are
bound to get good weather once in a
"
make such big winner that it will
wipe out all that is past The money
lost one year because of the weather
will come back the next with loads
on its back. You did as we'll here
| this week as the Cedar Rapids car
| nival did the first year of its exist
| ence at that, and l never saw such
| 0fl
| ments in my life as you have just
experienced. You have got splendid
layout, and an exposition was never
BITTER advertised or more attractive
This proposition has got a future that
WI make everybody connected with
| it happy before they get through"
Mr.. WEIGH of the Parker shows. al
| though going away from Rock Island
a loser. remarked to a group of the
directors: This is one of the best
conducted, most promising enterprises
of this sort l have ever seen. The
location is ideal The grounds are
| ideal. I would like to have a night
photograph of the Illumination. It
cannot be beaten anywhere. And
just one word more. Any time the
Rock Island stockholders want to let
go of what they have here. let me
know, and l will snap the control of
| it pretty quick and run it each year.
1t looks mighty good to me. We all
have to contend with the weather. but
if we quit when he had a bad week.
We would all be out of the business
Mr.. Koon, representing Koon broth
ers of Libertyville, Iowa, breeders,
dealers and educators of saddle horses
and who participated in the track
events and furnished the jumpers, was
full of praise of the Rock Island Expo
sition today, and promised not only to
offer $50 prize on his own account
next year. but to bring 10 carloads of
| high bred horses for the horse exhibit.
! A. so happened that out of the en-
| tire week Rock Island had but two,
what could be called big days as far
as the attendance is concerned. Moth
irg but the weather could have pre-
vented immense crowds had the con-
ditions been favorable. Sundays cold
rain at the very outset put the first
damper on the whole affair 1t dis
couraged everybody. 1t settled the
mind of the farmer to large extent.
AS cool afternoons and cold nights
followed along until Thursday, the at
tendance gradually increased Even
then the chill of Thursday evening
after a pleasant afternoon cut down
the evening attendance. Friday saw
a big attendance. So did Saturday
afternoon, when it was summerlike
but at evening down came the cold
wave again and it was all off, al
though the attendance was fair. 1t
would have been the banner night but
for that meddIesome cold wave.
But altogether the promoters of the