The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-09
RIGHT FOR The FAIR
Glorious Weather Helps to Make
1t Success.
The Grandstand Is Filled to
Overlooking.
IN LIVE STOCK TENTS.
They Were Crowded From Early
Morning Hours.
Fruit Display One of Which
Kansas May Be Proud.
Program for Thursday.

| Merchants 6 furlong race, purse $3.50.
Three-year-old trot, $500 purse, Is en-
tries.
2:22 trot. $500 purse, II entries
2:1S pace. $500 purse, 8 entries.
Commercial club, furlong race,
purse $3.50.
General Funston will witness races
| from box in the grandstand.
Sham battle following race pro-
gramme.
Mulhalrs free exhibition in front of
| grandstand.
Smoker for members of Twentieth
Kansas regiment at Copeland hotel at
| o'clock.
Pinafore at the Auditorium in the
evening.
Another day Of glorious weather
greeted the state fair management to-
day, and as there was no worlds
greatest circus as a counter attraction
the crowd in attendance at the fair
| was much larger than that of yester-
day. The people went to the grounds
early in the morning to see the exhib-
its and stayed to see the races in the
afternoon. The grounds are large
enough to care for the crowds in COM
Portable fashion, as the exhibits are
arranged so that there is a large open
space in the center of the grounds
with a. wide midway past the booths
and entertainment tents, but the grand
stand with it's seating capacity of s.
600. is too small for such a fair as this
one. 1t was filled to overfowing yes
terday and hundreds crowded along
the race track fence. Today the stand
was filled as quiskly as though it was
a doll house. and the size of the crowd
on the grounds had not noticeably di-
minished.
There has been no disorder on the
far, except the incident of a visiting
horseman taking a fall out of r. I.
Lee of Topeka. through thy medium of
few pokes in the face. Through
some misplaced conception of the pro-
priety of things, Lee was placed in
charge of the grounds. He is too offi-
cious for the job. Lee refused tickets
to reporters detailed to write up the
fair yesterday, on the excuse of some
technicality or other. The Topeka pa
pers have given thousands of dollars
worth of free advertising to the state
fair. and were entitled to liberal treat
ment.
Fireworks Tonight.
Wednesday was one of the big days
of the fair. The Twentieth Kansas
held their reunion on the grounds to-
day and Gen. Funston was an interest
ed spectator at the afternoon races.
The battle of Marilo will be fought
over again tomorrow. The fire.
works display at the grounds tonight
by the Lincoln Post club will be an
unusual and interesting feature of the
fair. The club announces some novel
ties in the way of illumination and
fancy displays.
The Mulhalls Again.
'Ill stay here and see that girl rope
steer if 1 have to wait all night
said prominent Topeka business man
to his wife in the afternoon as they
sat in their auto in the quarterstretch
watching the Kansas Derby race. The
man saw Lucille MulhaH rope a steer
and he saw a roping and riding exhib-
ition worth waiting for. The Mulhall
girl made good with the crowd and
she proved a star attraction again to-
day.
The Exhibits.
While the grandstand was crowded
today and the fences two-thirds around
the race track were lined with specta-
tors yet fully as many people throng
ed the passage ways in the exhibit
tents. The fruit display is thing of
pride and beauty. This has been
good fruit year in Kansas and the
| Jayhawker state has 200 varieties of
apples in the big tent at the northwest
| corner of the grounds. They are taste
| fully displayed, too, in that tent. On
the partition walls of the agricultural
| tent has been placed a picture grander
than any artist can paint. Not in the
Louvre in Paris or the Buckingham
palace in England can such a beauti-
full picture be found. ]. P. Morgan has
spent millions for his art display in
New York but he has secured nothing
in the way of a picture that approach
es the one the farmers wives have
placed on the board walls of the tent
in the fair grounds of Topeka. The
products of the Kansas farm, wheat,
millet, oats, corn, clover, alfalfa have
been woven together in strands and
pinned to the wall. That's all. But
taste and ingenuity were shown in the
placing and mother nature painted the
cOlOrS. The picture is a masterpiece.
The fear of the management that the
agricultural exhibit would be light was
not well founded The big circus tent
used for the exhibit is too small, if
anything, for the wealth of fruit and
vegetables and grains that were ship
ped here by the farmers to help make
the fair success. Town and country
people can all find something worth
while in the agricultural tent.
There is tent in the space set aside
for the machinery exhibit that has the
appearance of an implement factory
into which some one has thrown a
bunch of frecrackers. A dozen or more
gas engines spit and splutter there all
day long. The gas engine is all the
works nowadays. 1t is used for every
thing that requires power from milking
a COW to running a thresher or a
steamboat.
There is a little gas engine fastened
to the beam of we'll drill on the
grounds and this outfit is drilling a
we'll while you wait. Two horses could
haul the whole contrivance about with
ease.
The fair managers are congratulate
ing themselves on the size and quality
of the cattle and swine exhibits. These
alone are we'll worth the time and mon
ey any Kansas farmer may spend in
coming TO the fair The kings and