The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-05
MULHALL is HERE
Old Plainsman Arrives for State
Wide Fair.
His Accomplished Daughters
Will Be Here Sunday.
HORSES POURING IN.
Cream of the Land Here to
Take Part in Races.
Exhibits Are Being Put in
Place Rapidly.

Iopeka is entertaining an aggrega-
ton of strange horses and stranger
men and boys today and every small
boy in that section of the city under
stands what is meant by the combina-
ton. The streets have been turned
into walks for the aristocrats of the
horse kingdom who receive more at
tention during the racing season than
the men and boys who drive or ride
them.
Among the equine visitors present at
the fair grounds are the long 1.-the
bodied horses who will contest in the
running races and the kings and queens
who are being groomed for the Derby
day event. Walking along peacefully
in the rear of the proud stable boy may
be seen an animal of this description
with his legs to the knees wrapped in
bright red flannel his eyes hooded to
protect them from strange sights and
the roadway dust and blanketed with
a robe which cost more than the suit
of clothes worn by the man who han
die him.
There are dozens of the entries in
the harness events to be seen in their
pajamas and bath robes contentedly
following their handlers or drivers
about the streets as they take their
daily constitutional It's a sight that
the small boy halls with delight for the
handlers of the horses pause now and
then to let their charges nip at the
tender blue grass along the roadways.
1t is then and there that these same
boys get the dope which enables them
to pick the winners before the races
are won.
OF course their dope" is in accord
ance with the story told by the hand
Ter of the animal but some one of them
is sure to have received the dope" on
the winner and he has won a place as
1.-The candy kid" among the boys of
the neighborhood who ever afterwards
look upon him as a sure enough judge
of horse flesh. It's the treat of the
season to the boys of South Topeka and
for that matter the small boys of all
parts of the city. It's not just exactly
as important event as though a circus
was being unloaded but mighty nearly
SO.
If Johnnie or Charlie or Willie
failed to come home to dinner today
and slips in the back way some time
between dark and dawn. at any rate
is in his bed late in the morning, for
give him and forget it all for he did
not remember about his meal hours
and time for retiring and Will unfold
wonderful story of the horses and
horsemen at the fair grounds, i prop
erTy encouraged. If you were ever
the same kind which occurred when
you were young and the anxiety of
mother and the anger of father and
the smarting effects which you eX-
perienced after it was all over and
the family were satisfied that you
were safe and uninjured.
But coming back to the story of the
state wide fair which opens at the
| fair grounds Monday, rain or shine, as
the circus literature states; everything
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| left undone. The enclosure is studded
with tents of all kinds and de-
scriptionS which were not there last
| week and will not be there next week.
A snorting little switch engine is
| wheeling and putting as it ShoveS
strings Of cars into the fair grounds
| from which the blooded stock of the
| west is being unlOaded- Royalty of all
| classes and kinds will hold a weeks
reception commencing Monday morn
| ing. The Little Brown brothers are
represented by the Duroc Jersey with
! his we'll groomed coat of brown. The
| Caucasian by the poultry departm emit,
the Ethiopian by the clustering racer
| entered in the harness class and every
| other race is represented in some de-
| partment or other as far as color is
| concerned.
Exhibits for the state wide fair
have been arriving continually during
| Z
big rush Sunday and perhaps the
Sunday closing ordinance will be
| violated. Who knows. Two fire
hydrants have been installed at the
fair grounds. one about one hundred
yards north of the grand stand and
| another near the cattle barn, just
| west of the entrance. Fifteen arc
lights have been distributed about the
grounds where they will do the most
| good in case the moon fails in its
duty. Most of these lights have been
hung in the space devoted to the con-
| cessions, though the grand stand will
be we'll lighted as well as all parts of
the grounds during fair week.
The Woman's Kansas Day club will
| have a rest room at the fair grounds
and the tent which will be used for
| that purpose was raised today as was
| the press tent and a tent to pc used
by the Red Cross aggregation. The
THEY WILL GET TIL