Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-12

An ideal day, ideal for the aviator,
races, the crowds, and everybody and
everything concerned, came to make
the real opening of the Marshall coun-
~ fair as suspicious as could be de-
sired. No better day could have been
chosen had the fair directors them
selves ordered the weather. The re-
suit was that it brought thousands to
town for "tMarshalltoWn day" at the
| fair
! 1t was predicted early in the day.
and the prediction will undoubtedly
prove to be good. that all previous
Tuesday records for attendance will ne
shattered by the crowd that passed in
| at the fair gates.
Crowd Gathers Early.
! BY late in the forenoon the attend
ance at the grounds even so early in
the day was far ahead of the same
! time a year ago. The attendance fig
ures of Tuesday last year were 3,2SS,
but it is probable that this mark will
| be doubled and perhaps trebled.
| The exhibition flights of Hugh Rob
inson, the Curtiss aviator, was the one
! chief attraction which brought the
! people to the city and took them to
! the grounds.
All Of the morning trains coming in
to the city were crowded or we'll filled
and some of them could have used adj
| ditional passenger equipment had j,
been furnished by the railroads.
Exhibits Put in Shape.
The thousand and one articles en-
tered for exhibition purposes in the
n a
were practically ali in readiness for in
spection of the people. The superin-
tendents and scores Of assistants have
been busy continuously since early
Monday morning attempting to bring
systematic order out of the chaos OF
exhibits that has poured in upon them
/ Aided by six assistants Secretary w
NJ. Clark has been making every eff
fort possible to get the entries all
booked and the books closed ready for
the judges. Early in the forenoon the
secretary refused to receive exhibits
any longer AT that time 1t was not
expected that the secretary's force
would have the entry books written
up before afternoon.
Merchants Displays Ready.
! Greater speed was made by the
merchants manufacturers. wholesalers
and jobbers who have erected scores
Of tents and booths and show places
on the grounds. All these exhibits
were in readiness before noon and
were visited by hundreds.
Try Out Vaudeville.
| A small audience, numbering some
thing over 100 paid admissions, at
tended the Monday evening perform
ance at the grounds. 1t saw a high
grade vaudeville performance. in many
respects the best that the fair man
agement has ever secured Evening
performances will be given at 7:30
o'clock each evening excepting Friday
night The evening program includes
a running race under a searchlight
Wednesdays Program.
The program for Wednesday after
noon includes the $3.50 trot and the
1910 pace. with eleven entries in the
first and nine in the second race. In
addition TO the vaudeville perform
ances. there will be running races for
county horses and automobile and
motorcycle races. The State Center
band furnished the music for the day
No Increase in Admission.
| For some reason or another, altho
the price has been advertised repeated
| ~ in advance, a rumor has become cir
| cuiated to the effect that the admission
| charge at the main entrance gates at
the fair had been increased from 25 to
| so cents This is not true, however
and the price is as advertised, % cents
| to the main gates, and Is cents for
amphitheater. The rumor probably
arose from the fact that an increase
in amphitheater admission Of 10 cents
was authorized by the directors last
winter. When it is considered that
other county fairs in Iowa, not nearly
so pretentious in size or general char
acter of excellence in display or at
| fractions, charge So cents for admission
| to the grounds, besides the amphi-
theater charge, patrons Of the fair here
can not reasonably make any complaint
on the value of their money at the Mar
shall county fair. There is probably
no one annual event in the state OF
Iowa where more is given for ones
money than at the Marshall county
fair.