The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-29
BIG STATE FAIR
| NOW DAILY TOPIC
Tension Increases as Opening.
Only One Week OF.
Draws Near.
| HUNDREDS OF CONCESSIONS
Churches Score Heavily as Food
Purveyors. and Sufragettes
Will Be There, Too.

The tension Of expectancy which
always precedes the opening OF the
State Fair has descended upon the city.
and the big carnival week is aow the
daily topic Of conversation. Only seven
days remain to the openinS-oass
which win be checked of one by one
on the calendar by every one OLD
enough to read the banners winch span
the streets and young enough 70 feei
the thrill Of the novel and exciting.
For the State Fair Association the
week will be the busiest since the cam.
paign was opened. Before another
week begins a magic city must De
erected in the big Enclosure west OF
the city. Many carloads OF horses cat
tie. swine. sheep. goats. poultry. guinea
pigs and what-nots must be Inioadeo'
placed in proper Enclosures and labeled
night to stock Industrial Hall with
the products Of soil and shop
Exhibits From Everywhere.
Only scattered shipments have been
received up to this time by the Fair
Association at its Offices in the Mutual
Building. These included novelties OF
home manufacture from widely scat
tered points in the State. UEder In.
structinos from headquarters, exhibitors
have withheld their products Until this
week, when all will arrive with rush.
Many OF the larger agricultural eno
stock exhibits will bring along with
them a complete force Of caretakers
and demonstrators. who will cooperate
with the large special force which the
Fair Association will put to work this
week IN placing the exhibits In order.
A carload OF fast horses arrived last
night and were taken to the racing
stables on the grounds. In the number
are included several trotters and pac-
ers Of Statewide fame. who will try
out on the track during the week to
get their running legs.
Hundreds Of Concessions.
The concessionaires for every 1mag-
Unable carnival enterprise number In
the hundreds. The past week In this
department has been one OF unusual
activity and has kept the executive
committee in session daily passing upon
applications for space. A rigid in
quiry has been conducted into every
proposed enterprise, with the result
that number were found to fall below
the standard and were refused conces-
sions.
First in this class fall, OF course. the
hundred and one separate attractions
Of the Midway. These include every
known thriller in fairdom and q few
that will be expolited for the first time.
They will stretch in a mighty crescent
near the turnstiles and will greet the
crowds with the pulsing medley which
makes fool OF the wisest and a spend
thrift OF every miser.
In accnrHanco uyi%h fha nnJfcxy FIJI :
lowed during the past three years. the
Fair association has drawn a dead
line against every exhibition of the
Streets of Cairo" type. The painted
girl In the Eastern dance is a type Of
yesterday and has been .apooed by
every large, representative fair IN the
country The Virginia State Fair, in
this respect. Is we'll abreast Of the
times
SuHragettes, Too.
In the local concessions are included
scores OF lunch counters. dairy restau.
rants. hot-dog stands, popcorn stations,
peanut depots. refreshment tables and
asylums for the weary. The churches
and religious and charitable organiza-
lions score heavily as concessionaires.
and will be prominent as feeders OF
the hungry. Members Of these organ
iHdtioHS Will oeSlu early TO prepare
the cakes and pies with which to still
the aching void At cents per cut.
And the suffragrettes will be there
with bells on-nguratively speaking
From booth on the Midway they will
distribute the literature OF their cause.
and from an adjacent platform the
leaders OF the band will stay the hur-
Tying mob long enough to plant the
revolutionary seed which they hope
will later blossom into the full fruits
Of equal suffrage