Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-23
Iowa
BUSY ON STATE FAIR GROUNDS
WOrkmen in Night and Day Shifts
Prepare for Opening.
MODEL COTTAGES A FEATURE
state Agricultural school win Also
Have Exhibits showing How
Instruction f. Given
Young People.
CFrom a Staff Correspondent

DIES MONIES, Aug. 2a.-(specisl)-work-
men will be busy every night. as well as
day, till next Friday to complete the build
ings undar way In time for the state fair.
A big army Of workmen are on the grounds
and s2JO.OOO Is being spent this year In
buildings and improvements. The new
amphitheater. which is the chief improve
nitnt, is not completed and VIM not be till
the last minute before the fair opens. The
steel framework is completed and the
chairs are being installed. The briekwork
n now in course Of construction and the
iron fence about the whole IL being erected.
The cattle and horse barns now being put
up will not be finished a minute too soon
for the opening.
There are many new features OF the fair
this year. The usual order Of judging
horses in the forenoon and cattle in the
afternoon will be followed. The races will
be held each afternoon, with vaudeville
performances between heats. There will
be the hippodrome and vaudeville In the
stock pavilion at night and Pains battle
of the clouds In front Of the amphitheater
each evening. There viii be bands galore
playing everywhere, with more cattle, more
horses, more farm machinery, more sheep
and poultry and hogs and more attractions
than the fair has ever known.
Some Of the chief attractions this year
will consist Of two model 500 cottages, in
GLIDING furnace heating plants, one Of them
Just west Of the amphitheater and the
other just west Of the fire station. There
will be an xhibi by the State Agricultural
college, never before attempted, In which
classes will be conducted for both girls
and boys, Just as they are conducted al
the college, so that the fathers and mothers
can see just how their sons and daughters
are handled. There will be personally con-
ers and their wives will make UP the
parties, and students from the college will
take the gray beards about the grounds and
tell them the fine points OF the blooded
stock and farm machinery.
There will be an agricultural exhibit in
the agricultural building that cost S2,o0
and is worth anyone's time to see.
Every year the Iowa state fair beats all
its former records and this year 1t is
counted, will be no exception to the rule.
II ere is already assurance Of more and
better exhibits. The only question OF
record breaking remains in that Of attend.
ance.
Rules on whisky.
State Food and Dairy Commissioner II
r. Wright will hold that whisky is whisky
till President Taft rules otherwise, whether
the whisky is "straight"S or Scotch
blend. President Taft is expected to make
a ruling soon on the matter which has
been left TO him. 1t was left to Roose.
welt once and he decided that straight
whisky was the only whisky. The blend
people objected and it is claimed just be-
fore Roosevelt left the office he changed
his opinion, but the ruling remains. Presi.
dent Taft now has the matter before hin
to decide.
Byers to Council Bluffs.
Attorney General Byers will go TO Coun,
ell Bluffs next week to look into the mat
ter of the street car franchise with Coun
ty Attorney Kimball. Some months age
at the request of the Council Bluffs PEG
pie the attorney general started an inves
tigation that disclosed that the company
had never paid the filing fee as a corpor
alton and had no right to do business
The company then promptly paid $4,000 Al
the fee. Now It is claimed that the fran
chise is still In a muddle because thu
company has been granted different fran
chises in the course of time. To s~trsightei
this out is the object Of Mr.. Byers' visit
Enlarge Soldiers Home.
The state board Of control will ask 70
bids on the work Of enlarging the men
building of the soldiers home so as L
provide more apartments for Marie,
couples. Tho last legislature appropriate,
5000 for the work. The board is ais
asking bids on two boilers for the Ana
mosa reformatory and one for the Boys
Industrial school at Bldora.
More Beautiful City.
Des Moines has employed an artist L
make the city more beautiful. The cit!
council voted S1,1OO and engaged Charlie
Milford Robinson, Who is expected t
reach the city in a few days to make o.
investigation and a report on how tn
town can be made really attractive.