The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-03
FL LIGHTS At FAIR
State Fair Managers Secure
Aeroplane Flights as One
of the Big Features
MANY NEW THINGS PROMISED

Secretary of the state board of agri
culture, r. w. Rowlands, has moved
the state fair headquarters from Madi-
son to the executive building on the
state fair grounds and his office staff
will follow on Monday. This action
of the board in locating the secretary
in Milwaukee during the month of
August and September, is progress.
sive step in the management of the
fair and exhibitors in the machinery.
horticulture, cattle, horse, poultry and
other departments can secure direct
information and select space any day
until the opening of the fair.
| The publicity and promotion of the
state fair is located in Milwaukee this
| year in the offices of the Citizen s
Business League and the advertising
campaign is being conducted by Viii
liam MacLaren, one of the Milwaukee
members of the board, assisted by Bart
j. Ruddle. A sixteen sheet, four color
poster, and an eight sheet, four color
poster have been designed and will
find their way to the cities and cross ,
roads of the state early in August.
The sixteen sheet poster shows a birds
eye view of the state fair grounds and
shows the location of every building,
grandstand, race track, machinery field
and the general landscape of the park.
The eight sheet is a view of the race
track IN front of the grandstand TAX
en-, on the day President Taft visited
the fair two years ago.
The state highway commission, at its
meeting in Madison last week, decided
to build section of good road on their
grounds during fair week and the en-
gineers of the department have been
Instructed to prepare this exhibit and
force of men viii give practical
demonstrations to farmers and road
masters in surfacing, grading and lev
cling roads every day of fair week.
James j. Nelson, Amherst; 4. w.
Prehn, Wausau; and William MacLar-
en-, Milwaukee, the special attraction
committee of the fair, have engaged
two of Glen B. Curtiss aeroplanes for
daily exhibitions during the fair. The
committee is endeavoring to secure
Lincoln Beachey, who recently flew
over Niagara Falls and j. A. D. Nc
Curdy who flew from Key West to
Havana. The contract for these avia-
tors calls for three flights of not less
than fifteen minutes duration, every
Afternoon, and that they will also CO.
operate with the military authorities
in the war maneuvers on Saturday.
September 18th, when detachments of
artillery, cavalry and infantry from
At. Sheridan and Fl. Smelling will bat.
tie with the three arms of the Wis
consin National Guard in the sham
battle.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the pageant of all nations
which will be one of the night features
of the fair. 1t is intended that this
spectacle shall be illustrated by fifteen
magnifcently Illuminated floats, each
float to be drawn by four or six horses
and from 100 to 80 representatives
of the fifteen nations will take part
in the pageant The same company
who built the Hud5on-Fulton celebra-
ton and New Orleans Mardi Gras
floats and decorations, the Chicago
sane Fourth of July pageant and the
Philadelphia By Centennial, are plan
ming the night spectacle.