Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-12

place where those who have something
to sell and those who have something
to buy meet and shake hands.
"A State fair is a battle ground of
breeds, speeds, and the products of
soil and toll. Contrast and COM
partson are educational factors.
Fair and Speedway
Thousands flock to county fairs. A
vast population is within easy reach
OF the proposed Keystone State Fair.
The world is crazy for speed and
rCd-blooded entertainment. Many
citizens of Pennsylvania annually at
tend the auto races of Indianapolis
Pennsylvania has the ability to make
Indiana folks travel eastward.
The Ohio State Fair has been a
is taxed to it's capacity 10 take care Of
the crowds. Special trains from all
directions bring thousands to our
Capital City. Every business is stlmu-
lated and hundreds of thousands of
outside money is left in Columbus.
Trainloads of exhibits from every
where show to the public the progress
os the world. Forty acres of ma
chinery, several thousand pure bred
animals products of farm and field,
brush and needle, contribute to make
up an exposition that compels a
tendency toward better things.
Pennsylvania people go to Lexing-
ton and elsewhere to see horse racing.
Home appreciation and home industry
are proper things to encourage.
"Gibbon, the historian, has said that
agriculture is the foundation or COM
nerce. Any enterprise THAI will en-
courage better agriculture and better
livestock is worthy the help and at
tention of all good citizens.
Ham and eggs, bread and butter,
will always be fashionable.
I'm the past fifteen years the popula-
ton of the United States increased 23
million. During this time the food
supply production did not increase a
pound or bushel. There is a red
light warning in these facts. The
high cost of living is no accident. Big
men must give attention. Increase
yield of fields is a command.
In Erie, Pa, the Chamber of Com
merce, this year. took hold of the
proposition of building an exposition
for Erie. 1t is now we'll under way.
Az exposition will be given this year.
Its success is assured.
"A State Fair for Pennsylvania must
be built on broad lines and by men
who have a vision of the future. Plant
the acorn and an oak will grow. Once
established, it will grow and endure.
IT, will become great educational
factor of your State. Those who blaze
the trail and become It's pioneers Will
have won honor for themselves ana
builded better than they knew"
w. NJ. Stewart, speaking for the fair
association, said:
Realizing the strength of the banks
and business men of Harrisburg, why
should we allow this organization to
fall into the hands OF a lot of pro-
noting leeches and allow them to take
away from our stockholders that
which rightfully belongs to them.
consider the hardest part of this work
mas been done, and If the good citizens
of Harrisburg and Dauphin county will
put their shoulders to the wheel and
help to support this proposition as
they should and through advertising
periodicals spread the news through
out the State OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1t will
be but a question of a short time until
you will see looming up before you on
the Keystone State Fair site speedway
and State fair buildings.
The company has been fortunate
in securing the services of such re-
nowned architects as Graham, Burn
ham & Co., of Chicago, who, with a
force of experienced designers, have
designed and laid out plans for one of
the greatest speedway and fair propo-
sitions of America.
The contract for grading the entire
site has been let and the work started
over two months ago with an equip
ment of three steam shoVels three
locom olives, thirty cars and about
twenty teams, with a large force of
men. and at this time the work of
grading the speedway is about two
thirds finished, while bids are being