The Bourbon news., 1912-08-09
FREE SHOWS Will
Be OF high Glass
Enormous. Expenditures for At
fractions At Kentucky State
Fair September s to IA
The FAMOUS LI8ERATI BAND
VIII Be Star Offering in This Line
Amusements Provided for Both
Day and Night-Autos viii
Loop the Lop in midAir.

Two things that are essential to the
success Of an educational and amuse-
ment institution, according to J. w.
Newman, Commissioner Of AgricUl-
ture, and James L. Dent, Secretary OF
the Kentucky State Fair, are induce
ments to draw exhibitors and attrac.
tons to draw the public. With this
idea in view, the officials have set out
to make it profitable to both exhibitors
and patrons, and to that end nothing
has been left undone that might add
to the drawing features both from the
standpoint of exhibitors and also from
the public generally. Rich prizes have
been named by the management to in
sure the greatest display of exhibits
ever seen in any section of the south
or west, more than $4,000 to be dis
tributed to the successful exhibitors
in the various departments.
As an evidence of their faith in the
people Of Kentucky to patronize an
institution such as the State Fair has
become, Commissioner Newman and
Secretary Dent have gone to great ex-
pense in securing the greatest line of
amusements ever provided for the
people Of Kentucky or the South
Liberati and his famous band, one of
the greatest musical organizations in
the country, composed of forty-two
musicians and six soloists, has been
secured at big expense, and the mu.
sic-loving public who attend the fair
this year will have no complaint to
register on this score. This noted
organization will be heard in concert
each afternoon and night in the big
pavilion. For those Of the visitors
who would rather patronize the racing
feature of the fair than the horse
show, the management has secured an
other noted musical organization in
the famous Day and Scally band, of
Louisville, which will furnish the mu-
sic at the race track on the grounds
each afternoon during the week.
For the free attractions for each aft
ernoon and evening the management
has provided some of the most sensa-
tional acts ever presented to the pub
lie. Who in this section Of the coun-
try has ever witnessed automobiles
passing through the air at a height of
sixty-fve feet? For the first time in
the South or Middle West, and one of
the few times in this country, such an
exhibition will be witnessed at the
State Fair this year when every aft
ernoon at 2 o'clock and each night at
$50 o'clock two 1,200-pound machinegl
will loop the loop from a tower at
heighth of sixty-fve feet. This is re-
garded as the most sensational act
ever contrived by the human mind.
and just as often as it is attempted
just that often the exhibitors daily
with death in mid-air
At no time during the entire day
will there be a dull minute for Wis
itors, it being the aim of the manage
ment to provide such a line of attrac-
tions in addition to the regular line of
exhibits that visitors for' one day
only can leave for their homes the
same night, expressing the belief that
they have been we'll repaid for the
time and money spent in coming to
Louisville for the one day. In order
to please the one-day visitor the man
agement has looked we'll to the day
light attractions, and the big 100000
livestock pavilion will be the scene of
much activity from early morning
until late in the afternoon. Among
the exhibits to be seen in the pavilion
will be the horse show, which will be
given from 10 o'clock each morning
until o'clock each afternoon, permit.
ting visitors to see the last ring of the
day and get to the depots in time to
catch their trains for home, none of
which leave the city earlier than 4:30
o'clock
This great exhibition of livestock in
the pavilion, coupled with the races
and open-air attractions in front of the
grand stand each afternoon, makes
the free attractions the biggest and
best ever presented to the people in