The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-30
STATE FAIR WILL
Be OPEN AT NIGHT
Placing of Hundreds of Arc
Lights in Buildings a
Unique Idea.
MANY FEATURES ARRANGED
THERE WILL BE ONE CONTINUED
ROUND OF SIGHTSEEING AND
AMUSEMENT EVENT BEGINS
SEPT 9TH.

The Indiana State Fair will this fall
be open at night, for the first time in
it's history. Arrangements for bril-
liantly Illuminating several of the
buildings and the streets in the main
part of the ground are being carried
out, and special programs have been
arranged for each evening Of the fair,
beginning with Monday, September Z.
Eighty-seven arc lights, as many as re-
quired by city of 5000 people. will be
placed in the buildings, and about the
ground, and, in addition. a large num-
Der of clustered incandescent lights
will be used.
For about two hours each evening
the art building will be open as well
as the Womens Rest building But
the center of the fairs night activities
will be the big live stock pavilion. In
the arena of this structure. around
which 10000 people may gather, the
night horse shows, as well as those of
the day, and the hippodrome program
will be given, beginning at SO o'clock
The night shows in the pavilion will
begin with parades of cattle and horses
which have been day features for sew
eral years, and which have won the IA
vor of thousands of spectators. Fancy
turnouts. jumpers, saddle horses and
similar exhibitions will make up the
horse show Webers band of Cincin-
natl, which has played at the state fair
for several years. will give concerts
and two singers will be heard Char
lot and Roman standing races will
make up another feature, and hippo
drome races, with twenty thorough
breds running over the tanbark arena,
will be another. Acrobatic bears and
a trained pony, the Heras family of
ten performers. a troupe of trained
dogs and horses, a high-wire walker
and a high diver will be some of the
other attractions.
Features Of the Week.
From early morning until late at
night the coming state fair will be rich
in it's attractions for visitors from the
city md country. The day programs
as followed in recent years will be Civ
en-. The fair is to be opened at 8
o'clock on Monday morning and the
first races will be given in the after
noon of that day. The band concert
and vaudeville will also start at 1 p.
nj.
Old soldiers and children's day will
be on Tuesday, and early in the morn
ing the judges will begin work in all
departments of the expedition. In the
pavilion the draft horses and mules
will be shown, as will :lso the cattle.
The show of light harness and sad
die horses will begin on Wednesday
morning. and the band concerts will
start at a. m. The first parade OF
horses and cattle will be given before
the grandstand at l p. m, preceding
the races and vaudeville.
The fair always reaches it's height on
Thursdays, and it will this fall. with
the cattle and horse shows, the ring
contests in the swine and sheep de-
partments, and special displays OF
flowers in horticultural hall. In the
afternoon the live stock parade3 and
races, the vaudeville, poultry show and
all departments of the exposition will
be in full swing. During the races
each afternoon, the indianapolis Mil
| itary Band will give a concert in the
grandstand, while Weber's band will
! play in the pavilion.
The final day of tie fair, Friday
will be marked by the close of the ring
/ Oh
/ deville throughout the day, with 6
horse show and hippodrome program
in the pavilion at night.
For One Price of Admission.
During several fairs the state board
of agriculture has given band con
certs at the grandstand at night. bu
not until the coming fair will the light
! ing Of the buildings and grounds b.
! tried, and the programs will be much
more elaborate than in other years
Under the new order. out-of-town Wis
itars may spend q long day at the ex
position, from early in the mornin;
until the last cars for home at night
! taking their meals on the grounds ant
seeing the features of tho day ant
evening for one price of admission.
1T has always been the purpose o
the state fair" said Mr.. Downing, IL
make the exposition not only larger
but of better quality year after year
and there has been wonderful expan
sion along these lines in the last eigh
or ten years. Exhibitors have beel
coming with better live stock and nor
of it, the state board has been improy
ing its facilities for giving a fair, an,
better yet, the people of Indiana hav
been pouring through the fair gates il
much greater numbers. In no diree
ton has the Indiana fair grown NOR
than in attendance, and the state boar
is anxious to have the fair win sti
greater favor all along the line"