The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-11
MONSTER CROWDS
ucnntinued from l.age one.

show it.
AS early as 10 O'Clock this morning
there was a steady stream of people
heading thru the big gates. Automo-
biles from afar were unloading their
human cargoes at the gates because
the inside space that has been used
heretofore for parking automobiles
has been sold this year to exhibitors.
A little three-cornered lot down be-
hind the grandstand is all that is left
of the vacant place in which 10, 600
automobiles were parked in 1916.
Crowds on Railroads.
All the railroads leading to Topeka
are carrying extra equipment today for
the accommodation of Free fair
crowds. Today is Topeka day and the
immense crowds from outside that
come later in the week are not ex-
pected. The special trains go on We'd
nesday. Today the outside visitors will
have to be contented with merely extra
equipment attached to regular trains
Stock judging began at 9 o'clock
this morning and stockmen and farm
ers. in droves followed the judges
from one point to another where the
judging was in progress. There were
band concerts on the grounds during
the forenoon and there will be this af-
ternoon and tonight. There has been
a change from former years in the
handling of the banda Heretofore
they have seated themselves at some
the entire program. This year the
bands march around over the grounds
play selection or two at given
place, then march on to another. The
crowd likes it. Everyone gets
chance to see and hear band without
crowding around one of the stands
Races at 1880 Today.
The races today will begin at 1880
o'clock. The grandstand will be oben
before that. The famous Kansas Der
by will be run perhaps about o'clock.
Six horses have been entered and it
promises to be a real race. The best
time ever made in the Kansas Derby
was in 1911 when Jack Witt won it i'll
1:41. The next record was in 1907
when The Bear won it in 1:41 n
Besides the Kansas Derby there will
be a 2-year-old trot, and a 2:30 trot,
also two running races-a four-fuP-
long and six-furlong race. The purses
range from $500 to $500. The $500
purse is on the 2:30 trot.
Kennedy Shows Open.
The Kennedy Shows will be open
this afternoon and tonight They con-
stituted practically the only open
amusement on the grounds Monday
night and people knew it in advance
but there was an immense crowd at
the fair. The shows did 4 big bust
ness even tho Monday night was not
looked upon as one of the real fair
nights.
The carnival company of year
ago, the Johnny j. Jones Shows, es-
>tablished a record Which the fair
management wanted to retain. 1t has
done it with the Kennedy Shows. They
are clean and interesting. The Mir
acle,'' one of the best, is entirely out
of the ordinary. 1t is entirely differ
ent, with it's beautiful and artistic eff
fects, from the shows a carnival-goer
expects to find in u rusty tent fitted
with flat board seats.
The Garden Allah is another show
of beautiful effects, to which thou
sands of visitors are paying their adj
mission. Perhaps tne of the best
drawing cards the carnival company
has is a feature added only ten days
ago. 1t is "a "sea cow otherwise
known as manatee. That is all there
is to the show, just that on@ fish or
animal in a pool of water But the
space around it wa rille3 from the
time the crowds were admitted Mon
day night until the lights were turned
out.
The manatee with the Kennedy
Shows is the only one known to be
on exhibition. 1t was captured less
than a month ago off the coast of
Florida. The dictionaries and ency-
cIopaedias tell all about it but they
are uncommon to this part of the
world.
1t takes more than one afternoon
or one evening to see the different
Kennedy Shows and spend sufficient
time to take them all in. They, with
1.-THE Whip and other mechanical at
fractions in the enclosure, held most
of the crowd Monday night, except
those who We're scattered around at
the stands eating hot dogs" and hot
hamburger
Beginning This Evening.
At 7:30N O'Clock this evening the
great livestock display will be held
in the Sunfiower Trail in front of the
grandstand. The hundreds of valu-
grounds will be led past the stand on
parade.
Following that will be the big pa
trfotic program, in which Marshall's
band of fifty pieces and the Modoc
chorus of thirty voices will take part.
The patriotic program leads up to the
climax of each days events-the pyro-
technic display. Each evening follow
ing the patriotic band concert and
singing forty-three number program
will be given in the quarter stretch by
the company handling the fireworks.
There will be imitation battles be-
tween batt1eships and forts a battle
in the skies, the Fall of Verdun,''
summer storms and other big awe
inspiring pieces. besides dozens of
beautiful sets. such as flower gardens.
All this is on today's program.
What is not duplicated in reality each
day will be duplicated in interest,
with everything leading up to Satur-
day, which is the day Katherine Stin-
son, aviatrix. flies, and Fred Horey,
auto racer, challenges all corners.