The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-29
Up TO The COUNTY
Commissioners Will Act on State
Fair Bond Vote.
NO Reason Why Question Should
Not Go on Ballots.
LAW NOT IN CONFLICT.
Lux Sees Greater Show if Plan
Goes Through.
Says Grounds Should Be Made
More Beautiful.
LAW NOT IN CONFLICT.

IL is now up to the county commits
sloners to decide whether the people
OF Shawnee county will be given an
opportunity at the next election to
vote $4,000 in bonds for the state fair
| or turn down the proposition. The
opinion of leading lawyers of the city
is that from a legal standpoint there is
nothing in the way of the voting OF
bonds by the people for fair purposes.
The petition which was placed in the
hands Of County Attorney J. J. Schenck
by the board of managers of the fair
association will be considered tomor-
row. Mr.. Schenck has already stated
that upon looking up the law he could
find no reason for the county to refuse
to vote on the bond issue.
His decision was based on the
grounds that the fair grounds are the
property of the county and there is a
law to the effect that bonds can be
voted at any time to improve county
property. Another law allows bonds to
be voted to help out any semlpubllc
corporation that is working for the
good of the county.
I'VE want the county commission
ers,'' said Samuel e. Lux of the state
fair board of managers, Ito grant the
people of the county the privilege of
voting yes or mo- on the question #
the bonds. They will in this way ex-
to have a great show next year or a
comparatively insignificant one.
when the petition was presented on
Tuesday by a committee composed OF
J. w Going, H. A. Auerbach and my
self. Judge Dana said he favored the
idea. although he said that this would
not have been the case if the condi-
lions of former years had maintained
this fall.
ST have spoken to five or six repre-
sentatives of the oranges of the county
and to fifty or seyenty-five farmers,
and not one of them was opposed to
the plan of voting bonds. If we abso-
Iutely know we can get $4,000 we can
go ahead and plan for the improve
ments that must be made
1--WE need a new fence. Th1s year
we had to employ an extra force of
men for guard purposes and this was
expensive and did not keep many per
sons from slipping into the grounds
without paying the admission price.
1--WE should have new walks and
drives, and the grounds should be
beautified A tile drainage system
should be put in. =
sHThen we promised the exhibitors a
new horse barn similar to the cattle
barn, and Senator H. w. Avery, super
intendent of the department, told me
before the petitions were signed by the
exhibitors expressing themselves as be-
ing highly pleased with the Topeka
fair that if such a building were erect
ed he could guarantee that every stall
would be filled next year.
1--WE ought to have a new swine and
sheep barn. Had it rained fair week
the hogs would have been in water:
Then the agricultural building should
be improved by putting on steel lath-
ing and giving it stucco or pebble
dash finish"
President J. w. Going, in speaking
al
which it is proposed to have in con-
nection with the fair next fall, declared
that memorial building should be
put up.
at would be a, building" said Mr.
Going, f'that could be used at any
time for large gatherings that come to
Topeka While the fairs are in prog
ress it could be used for general ex
hibits. 1t would be fitting for the
building to contain the busts of grea
men of Kansas, and in this way i
would be made a real memorial build
| ing"