The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1912-09-13
A FAIR so DIFFERENT
With the Many Innovations to be Seen
at the Michigan State Fair Makes
This Fair so Different From
the Rest.

country due to the radical steps taken
this year by the promoters of the
Michigan State Fair which opens Sept.
16, and closes Sept Fl. Other fair
promoters are watching Michigan
closely for this state has inaugurated
so many innovations that attention has
been called to the fair on that ac-
count. Every one has been State Fair
visitor In some state Of the union in
the past and one gentleman voiced
the general sentiment when he said:
II have no use for state fairs as a
rule for each has its noisy midway, its
prize pumpkin and its fat stock and
races and that just about let's 1t out,
but, 1t is apparent that at the Michi-
gan State Fair there will be some
thing worth seeing and ! am going"
And there will be something worth
seeing for the agricultural interests
have made record breaking entry lists
for every department, the live stock
exhibits break all records and the
other well known departments have
all filled to overflowing, but this was
| to be expected at a fair which out
drew all others in attendance last
year and the year previous.
1t is with the new features at this
years great event that the interest
centers. Perhaps that which has at
tracted the greatest attention has
been the creation of the industrial
| building with every exhibit manu-
featuring plant in itself. The installa-
ton of an entire automobile plant in
this building with an even million dol
lars worth of machinery humming
merrily turning out cars in sight OF
the people is an innovation the like
of which was never seen before. The
Ford Motor Co. will move in sufficient
machinery to stock an average fac
tory and the Chalmers Motor Co., the
Warren Motor Car Co. and the RICH
| Corporation will each share in the
great exhibit. Automobiles will be
manufactured in plain sight of the
people. So will cigars, pianos, piano
players. binding Irvine, furniture, stoves
| and a score other articles. The old
main building, now the industrial
building, formerly held line of eX-
hibits comparing favorably to the
show windows along Woodward ave-
nue., but through the efforts of the
Board of Commerce the building now
becomes a bee hive of industry with
hundreds of workmen employed. The
| Interesting feature as here will be seen
modern dairying followed from the
| start to finish, from the very food
grown on the State Fair grounds to
the butter, cheese and ice cream, bot
tied milk, clarified, pasteurized and
bottled and in the dairy barn and
dairy building, just completed, there
will be seen all of the latest and most
approved dairying devices, cows
MIXED by electricity, fed electrically
and watered by new devices which
provide running water. The stalls will
be mechanically cleaned and the re-
cords of each COW in the contest in
the dairy barn and building will be
shown. Lectures upon dairying sub
iects will be given in the great lecture
hall.
Another new and interesting feat
ure never seen at STATE Fair is the
great land exhibit duplicate of the
land exhibits which draw hundreds
of thousands of people in large cities.
Here will be seen the products not
only of every state Of the United
States, east, west, south and north,
but also the products of Canada and
in competition with the entire coun-
try will be the state of Michigan with
four development bureaus, each rep
resenting a large number of coun-
tries, and displaying the very best
that is grown in their respective dis
tricts, the exhibit collectively the
most representative state exhibit ever
known.
To add to the interest in this Fair
there is the baby show, feature OF
the Michigan exposition and held In
building constructed for the purpose.
With complete and up-to-date nurs-
| cry, a premature ward, an incubator
plant and with electricity as the mod
ern heating and lighting adjuncts of
the successful nursery containing as
| this one will, a score or more babies,
the exhibit and contest will be both In
teresting and instructive to all, es-
pecially as the good sisters from the
House of Providence are there to in
struct mothers in the care of their
little ones and to care for those in
trouble at the fair This baby show
will naturally form a part of the chill
drens midway which will provide rid
ing ponies, dear little fellows accus-
toned to children, swings, merry-go-
rounds and OF er attraction for chill
dren, who will also find there a play
ground where they may enjoy them
selves.
For the great fireworks spectacle,
night and day, the management has
this year broken records by paying
out over 10000 There will be special
day fireworks, but the evening specta-
Gle will be memorable as there will be
depicted with cast of 800 characters
scenes in Old Mexico back in 1916 on
fete day and the great battle where
the United States troops under Gen.
erals Scott and Pillow captured Castle
Chapultepec. In this grand spectacle
the Mount Popocatapel erupts high in
the air, wonderful sight Addition
to the vaudeville program. the equal
of any high class theatrical attrac-
ton, there will be seen battle among
the clouds with airships playing the In
terestng part.
The naval exhibit, first seen at
State Fair here, will be a project OF