River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-09-08
GREAT ACTIVITY
MEANS BIG FAIR
Speed Barns Are Filled With
Racing Stock.
GROUNDS NOW HAS PARK
Process Of Identification Is Trans
forming Into Beauty Spots on
All Sides-True Will
Leave Madison.

Madison.-The speed barns at the
state fair grounds are already begin
ming to fill with trotters and PAGERS
that will be seen in the $4,000 dis
tribution of purses during fair week.
Nearly 100 horses have been stalled
at the track. These are some OF those
who have been campaigning hard on
the Great Western circuit and come
here for recuperation and to make
ready for strenuous contests. Train
ers and drivers occupy the track daily
from sunrise to sunset, there being
now more than fifty entries on the
grounds.
The work of identifying the plaza
and the greensward between the main
entrance and the grand stand is well
under way and the plaza will be
known this year as "Wylie park,
named after Superintendent George
w. Wylie, who has arranged several
beautiful flower beds, in addition to
those planted by competing florists
and gardeners. superintendent Wylie
is arranging to turn the big grove
south of the executive, educational
and publicity buildings into a monster
picnic grounds, and hundreds of Ia
bles and benches are being distributed
in the forty-acre grove.
Members of the Merchants and
Manufacturers association, Citizens
Business league and Manufacturers
and Jobbers' association began cam
paign of advertising the state fair,
and nearly 100000 pieces of mail, con-
tanning inserts calling attention to the
concessions made by the railroads of
Il fare and half for the round trip,
good for eight days, were sent out.
These tickets will be sold commencing
September 10, and the time limit ex-
pires September 10.
Secretary John ]. True and his Of
flee staff, with all records and blanks
required during the fair, will leave
Madison i'm special car, and there
after until the fair closes, Mr.. True
and the working staff of the secre-
tary.s office will be located in the ex-
ecutive building at the fair grounds.
Six carloads of scenery and other
paraphernalia, including costumes for
the production of the Last Days of
Pompeii," left Chicago on Wednesday
in charge Of the Pain company's stage
director Frank Cakes Rose, and ar
rived at the fair grounds. Fifty more
carpenters and artisans will be re-
quired to transform the infield of the
track for the reproduction of the his
torical catastrophe, based upon Ed
ward Bulwer Lytton's novel.
superintendent of Grounds Wylie
has erected a temporary band stand in
the grove between the educational
and the publicity building, and here
will be stationed a band of music
every day to entertain visitors in this
section of the grounds. Music will be
provided at four points every day of
the fair-the grand stand, plaza, stock
Judging pavilion and the grove.
Exhibitors are beginning to arrive,
booths are being built, tents being
erected and the whole state fair
grounds are assuming an exposition
aspect Wagons loaded with timber
and building material pass in and out
through the gates all the day. There
is a continual stream of people visit
ing the offices on the grounds, and the
officials are having their hands full.