Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-13
CONTRACTORS HERE
TO SEE FAIR SITE
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be done preliminary to beginning work
on the speedway and buildings.
letter from Graham, Burnham d
Co, the Chicago architects who are
preparing complete plans for the
speedway and buildings. announces
that these plans and specifications Will
be in the HANDS of the contractors by
January ! and that bids will be let in
ample time for construction to be
started with the coming of open
weather in the Spring. BY that time,
it is expected all of the necessary
grading will be done and the ground in
shape for the putting down of sidings,
the plans of which have been approved
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany.
Brown Coming january
Albert f. Brown. secretary OF the
State Fair Association of New York,
with headquarters at Syracuse, where
he has made a great success, is now
clearing up his work there in order
to take up his duties rs secretary of
the Keystone company after January'1.
Mr.. Browns life work has been
along the lines of promoting and en-
couraging stock breeding, horticulture,
poultry and agriculture In general. His
coming here gives the farmers and
others interested in those pursuits
ample assurance that the automobile
racing feature of the exposition will
not be permitted to obscure the origi-
nal intent of the company. which is to
give PENNSYLVANIA State fair equal in
size and importance 10 the place the
commonwealth holds among farm
States.
Mr.. Brown will have charge of MAX
ing up the prize lists, arranging for
the exhibits and of general prepa-
rations for the fair itself, while a
skilled automobile race expert will be
engaged to look after that end of the
enterprise. He will begin this work
even in advance of the erection of the
buildings in order to have everything
in readiness for the opening of the fair
at the earliest possible time after the
completion Of the eXnosiiion's home.
Plans On Exhibit
Outline plans OF the speedway and
exposition buildings are on exhibition
at the offices of the company and
scores of visitors call there daily to
of the company, said to-day that he
and the others in charge are glad to
have those interested call, that the
books and the whole proposition OF
the corporation are open for inspec-
ton.
The fact that the fair site lies right
in the midst of a great agricultural
section. in the center of a great popu-
lation and with unsurpassed railroad
and trolley connections, is one of the
tectS and contractors who have visited
ii in the making of plans and the
preparation of bids for grading. The
very large attendance at the smaller
fairs all through this section, these
men say, guarantees tremendous at
tendance at the keystone fair, which,
it is promised will be the largest thing
of it's kind ever attempted in PENN
sylvania.
The farm, stock and poultry build
ings will all be models of their kind
and are being planned by Graham,
Burnham & Co. after a careful study
of similar buildings used by the big
State fairs of the East and Middle
West. Mr.. Brown, the new secretary.
was in Chicago recently giving the
architects ideas OH size, capacity and
kind of structures necessary. The fact
that all of them are to be erected at
one time under plans prepared by one
firm of architects insures that they
will harmonic in design and be suit
able for the purposes for which they
are designed.
Adjoining the speedway will be
shops and garages ample for the ac-
rommodation of racing cars, and plans
Tor these, too. are included in the COM
prehensive scheme being worked out
by Graham. Burnham & Co. at their
Chicago offices.
Mr.. Hawthorne said to-day that
prospects grow brighter every week
and that the improvement in business
and industrial conditions has brought
with il renewed interest all over the
State in the Keystone project. Every
body connected with the headquarters
of the company here is enthusiastic
over the manner in which the plans
are being carried to completion.
NEW YORK BANK STATEMENT
New York. Nov. 10. - The statement
of the actual condition of Clearing
House Banks and Trust Companies for
the week shows that they hold $193,-
S45.37O reserve in excess of legal re-
uurements. This is an increase of
SiT44.SIO oVCer last week.