River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-12-16
$4,000 OFFERED
IN FAIR PREMIUMS
To Induce High Grade Attractions
for 1916 Show.
TWO NEW BUILDINGS PLANNED
Special Efforts vii! Re Made to I'm
prove Transportation Facilities
to Grounds-Exposition
September 11-15.

Madison.-The next Wisconsin state
fair will be held in Milwaukee Septem-
Der Ills. All departments will be
open to the world. Premiums and race
purses aggregating 100000 fine spe-
cial attractions and pike with
clean shows, will be the inducements
offered to the public to make it sue
cess worthy Of the state.
An addition to the gcandstand cost
ing $4,000 will be made, and a swine
and sheep barn at an expense Of $45,
900 is planned
Special efforts will be made to Sc
cure better transportation facilities
between Milwaukee and other points
In the state, as well as between Mil
waukee and West Allis from the Mil
waukee Electric Railway and Light
company
These were some of the things de-
cided at the conference of the state
fair advisory board and Commissioner
q. r. NOrgord.
Governor Philip told the board he
expects all members to do their ut
most to make the next state fair a
success, and he assured them that
their suggestions would be carried out
in a systematic and businesslike man
ner The people of Milwaukee, the
governor said, would literally support
the fair if a creditable show was given.
He believed that the transportation to
the fair grounds should be improved
and promised personally to request
the railroads to do everything possible
to that end.
1t was decided to open all depart
ments of the next fair to world cOmpe-
tition Owing to the foot-and-mouth
disease the entries for the last fair
were restricted to Wisconsin.
Architect A. G. Glass of Milwaukee
showed plans for the proposed addi-
ton to the grandstand, consisting OF
two sections. The board and the gov
ernor approved the plans. The Lulld-
ings will be erected as soon as the
Fleming tract of land, to be added to
the fair grounds, has been conveyed
to the state.
Representative of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway company APP
peared before the board and said their
company would run special passenger
trains between its station i'll Milwau-
kee and the fair grounds during the
week of the fair. Governor Philip was
presented to the board by Commits
sioner Norgord. The governor said:
Il want you to feel that you have not
been appointed to the advisory board
merely as ornaments / don't believe
in ornamental officers. Both myself
and Mr.. Norgord will be pleased to
have you take an active part in the
work that you have to do.
There has been considerable cOnfu-
sion as to just who was manager of
the state fair. In the past there have
been a great many managers, and
don't like that system. In fact it is
no system at all / think you should
thoroughly consider the interests Of
the fair.
Il think all fairs are useful. | saw
a great deal of the county and district
fairs Of Wisconsin last fall The state
fair, OF course, is the strongest and
largest effort of the kind we make in
the state. People go there and see the
best of everything in agriculture, hor-
ticulture, manufacturing and other in
dustries.'