The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-28
BIGGER Than EVER
Topeka Free State Fair Will
Eclipse Previous Shows.
More Than $4,000 Is Offered in
Premiums This Year.
THERE ARE 1896 CLASSES
Horse Show VIII Be a PrOml-
nent Feature of the Week.
A Taste of Coney Island Is
Promised on "The Trail.o

More than $4,000 in premiums will
be offered TO Kansas exhibitors IN the
big free state fair beginning Septem-
Der H. in amounts ranging from the
$1,000 purses in the horse show TO
the $3.50 offered for the best goose
berry pie.
Several thousand dollars will be
given in addition in the horse races
and there will be many special prizes,
making it the most liberal fair in the
matter of purses, prizes and pre-
miums'' that has ever been held in
the state There are 1,946 different
classes of premium events and over
1000 awards will be made in them.
according to the premium list which
is just off the press
The fair starts Monday, September
II. with the completion of the final
arrangement of exhibits at a. m. But
the real opening fireworks are touched
off with the opening of the Sun
flower Trail The Johnny J. Jones
Exhibition company. the largest car
nival concern in the United States, will
provide the entertainment on the
Trail This is no bunk about the
company" Secretary Phil Eastman
says. ut is unquestionably the best
this will be its first appearance west
of Chicago.
Taste of Coney Island.
Topeka will get a taste of Coney
Island in one of their attractions The
Whip This amusement feature took
Coney Island by storm last year and
this is its first appearance in the
west"
The horse show commencing Tues
day evening will be the most popular
feature as usual. According to our
big exhibitors we have the most sue
cessful horse show west of Chicago"
Secretary Eastman says. I'VE have
more entries to date than ever before.
We will get the same horses that take
the prizes in Madison Square garden
and the Coliseum" Complete entries
will be sent from the Moore stables at
Sedalia, Mo-, and those of Miss Loula
Long at Kansas City. The horse show
will last till Friday night.
Four days of fast racing events will
commence Tuesday. A feature of this
years schedule is the introduction of
more running races. The Kansas
Derby will be run Tuesday afternoon.
A new entertainment will be offered
in the State Firemen's tournament
which will conclude the fair. The
crack fire companies of the entire
state will be on hand. A small village
will be erected and set on fire and the
companies will have an opportunity to
display their efficiency in actual fire
fighting. All of the prominent fac
tories in the east will send exhibits of
fire fighting apparatus.
Proving that Kansas is stepping in
the ranks of the foremost fairs in the
country is the early demand from
people out of the state for concessions,
according to Secretary Eastman ITO
peka concessionaires should get in
their applications early if they wish
choice locations" is the advice Of
fered
Of special interest to the Kansas
farmer will be the Tractor Demon
stration" held on Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday afternoons. Accord
ing to H. H. Pugh, secretary of ma
chinery in the Free Fair, this will be
the largest exhibit of tractors and
tractor devices ever held in this part
of the country.