The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-07-28
INTERSTATE FAIR
ENDS TODAY With
GREATEST CROWD
OF THE5BIG DAYS.
Thursdays Attendance 1O,-
300 Compared With g.
900 for Friday
AUTO RACES BIG
ATTRACTION TODAY
Expected "Wild Bill" En-
dicott Will Lower His
Own State Record

War, stress Of money and other
vital questions of high finance seem
ingly count for naught in the success
of the Interstate fair which prac-
tically closed this afternoon save for
the concert and the midway attrac-
tions to be offered this evening.
Attendance figures for the week
have shattered all former records
for any Interstate fair, and probably
for state fairs when the final count
is made this evening on the attend
ance for Saturday. the crowning day
of the six big days of the week.
Fargo Moorhead day brought out
a paid attendance OF 10000, accord
ing to figures given out by j. K.
Gaffney, and the attendance Friday,
automobile and livestock day was g.
900. At noon it was estimated that
more than 10000 people were on the
grounds to see the auto drivers
participate for state records and
prizes aggregating about $4,000.
Every reservation for the grandstand
was sold out an hour before the gates
opened.
Look For New State Record.
The 10000 people on the grounds
today are looking to Wild Bill"
Endicott, who yesterday stepped a
mile within 2 3-5 seconds Of the state
record for iii Us, to establish a
new record. Weather conditions are
ideal for the drivers and the cars,
the breeze not being stiff enough in
any way to make the track slow al
was the condition Friday after
noon.
The great livestock parade
scheduled for 1880 o'clock Friday
afternoon was not held until 1880 in
the evening, owing to the heat.
About 200 head Of cattle were in the
line, all tagged according to the
premiums which they won. The
parade started from the north end
of the grounds and moved about the
track once. The Fargo band played
the concert. This morning many of
the cattle were removed from the
barns and their exhibitors were busy |
in the railroad yards shipping them |
to their respective stations.
Big Event For Today.
The biggest event on the speed |
program for this afternoon is the |
scheduled race between wild Bill |
record. against Louis Gertson. the
army aviator. The event was post
poned Friday because OF the high
wind which would not permit low
flying. In the race between aero
plane and auto, or Miss Ruth Law
and Endicott, last year. Miss Law,
easily defeated the track king.
Gertson, the human night hawk,
will make his last flight for the Far
go fair crowds at 8 o'clock this
evening, and according to announce
nent made by Secretary McRoberts
early this afternoon. the regular
vaudeville program will be carried
out in full. The Workman shows
will run until midnight.
Much interest was centered early
today in the fnal or third heat OF
the three-mile free -foT-aA" the frst
two heats being captured by Wild
Bill" Endicott Friday, the first IN
1853 S-5, and the second heat in
4:00 S-5. The purse offered by the
fair association for this event
amounts to $780, the sum OF $4o0 go-
ing to the driver making the best
time; 5000 for second best and 500
for third. Additional prizes are the
trophy to the winner
OF the finaI heat, valued at $40O, and
also the offer by the fair of $1O0 to
the winner of this particular heat.
Crowd Swelters In Heat!
Crowds in attendance at the fair
on. livestock day sweltered in the
1
ord at Williston with an official
reading Of 106 degrees.
A hot wind from the south drove
the dust kicked up by the passing
over the midway
into the crowds in the bleachers and
the grandstand.
When the auto races started,
clouds and clouds of particles of
pulversized dust carried over the
spectators who lined the nortn
tracks. Fully thirty seconds after
the drivers had passed, the cars were I
from the grandstand.
When the hippodrome attractions
opened at Z o'clock the Thermometers
on the grounds registered 80 degrees
IA the shade. The maximum tenn
oerature for the day as officially 1
reported from the Moorhead office (
was s6 and resulted in the postpone
nent of the livestock parade.
Crowd Ordered Back.
Captain Colley of Company B, sta
ioned members of the company
along the race track early today to
xeep the autos and the people back
/ distance Of 80 feet from the fence I
Is a measure to prevent any accl-
tents should a car go crashing !
through the wooden fence encircling :
,oth sides Of the tack.
The sale Of flowers on the fair
grounds by the Moornead chapter OF !
he Red Cross, has resulted in the
Iurn of $255.90 being realized for the {
ast four days. The sale is in charge !
e Miss Edythe Grasse. The sale
tuesday amounted to $50; on :
$64; Thursday, $40, and
$3.50 on Friday. La
Woman Burned by Fireworks.
Mrs. Simon Houer, of Lacrosse,
Wis, one of the spectators In the
was painfully burned at
ne grounds last night during the dis
,lay of fireworks. One of the burst
ng pieces fell in the stand, lighting
.round were called and administered
Irst aid The injuries, IL was stated {
his afternoon, are not of serious 9
ature. \