The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-12
Arabs Take Their Cue
From Other Perform
ers Who Beat Them to
the Tent-Folding.
MIDWAY CROWDED
UNTIL. MIDNIGHT
Record Is Made When
Aviator Lights II, Tree
and Calmly Descends
to Ground Uninjured
With Passenger.

After the busiest. dygEFeat yyeek IN
fnetr history, the tux7asytfb-s Resdtng
into the Virginia State Fair grounas
ceased To click last night and en-
tered into their we'll earned rest of
almost a year. From esvnry stand -
point the fair was me b4egesst and
most sx7cysHeSEfui Of the Toug~t ecu
similar expositions staged since the
association WIS CrEan1zct
Manager Conway Saunders drag
cc3 chair from his pnIee and
viewed the iast 1T the FREQ perform
1Ge"S from he ruowy enclosure lu
front Of tho stands He had moth
ing hat praise Tor anything con
I"rtad with The week. THO attend
aHre exceeded our expec9s t1pr7ss'' aas
iti~ fTtotftyt ssfFrrtf53ss~tsp e4 tl4t> incest
successful week over experteEaea3 ny
thr a4ssoc1atiou-
''rFfe concerssus Of opinion seama
to 6e tfAat the fair is gs1a i,sass W.T.
have ever held be said reports
from All quarters cnncasntng evegy
department. and feature are mos
gratifying. We have, Of ccuc7e,
worked harder thar tn ANY r~s~.1erfss
fA3r week.
The safety FIRST record established
during tbs week was almost frac~
tured i1l th~ artarnssyn. onFy to fre
clBnched more firmly than ever Try a
Seesnirg miracle. The. paSssv rss'T
airpgane which h@ss fiftred sc, safely
among the c:Iosrss with dnsfsps. o.
tfTrfi i-seexsrs finally came ID syrfef,
some aSctdsssA tsDsffrsy Il tn take 6.
sudden dive into lars7e tree near
the wv1tnFnohile gn4ta. Tire fysw ssa-o
saw the occurrence. for aFr-1an1c3
excite 20 curiosity rrow. were horror
struck ard urai,ofi tn I've told az the
death or frightrui injury os both
pilot 1xsd Passenger. Tho t@a5a,
6rta1fy xssxyAed all ftars by es4rsrhing
slowly dssyvn from their SECURE
perch, the passenger with a bhoe1-
Ing nose CtheE-pVk sss yhs3AhsHs OF
them was injured The planes IN
pTrtcs have NOT been ascssrTainesd as
fl refuses TO come down for e&anii-
nation.
PACK THEIR TIsSTS
TTre popular quotation ~as re-
v~rsed when the various acts which
hold forth tn front of tlaSs grand
stand started to make their get
away during last nights perform
ance. 1t was the Arabs. the Booker
Ben All troupe of ttt1n blerS and
pyramidors. who folded their tents
like IAotte Mayors diving girls uh5
flying Codonas and the other acts
which proceeded and more or less
silently stoie away. The Arabs
could not sat the pace in fact as they
are commonly credited with doing
because the other acts hf~d much
more narapherna3ia Sc pack up and
the thoughtful Pop" DrtScol ar
ranged things with an eye to every
difficulty.
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ancient veterans were privileged to
witness the marvellous ssviftness
with which the gorgeous displays
were disgnantlod and reduced TO
mere baggaGe. Like al last days
II was very 3issf}usioring but hlGh
ly instructive. SIX days is enough
even of the best fair in history, but
the twinee of pain which accom-
panies the severance of ties win
that which is frivolous, hSht-hearted
the parting with the holiday spirit
would not DO escaped. The per
formers felt 1t. perhaps more keen
" than anyone else, notwithstand-
ing the fact that their lives are made
up of meetings quickly followed by
partings.
ANOTHER RECORD.
Not to be outdonc by the first I'VE
days of the week, yesterday was the
best Saturday on record. The grand
stand had large quota, even at the
night performance. and the midway
was crowded until almost midnight.
Never before have the holiday crowds
appeared so reluctant to see the last
of their professional entertainers or
SO eager to see the last Of their
dimes and quarters. CAS- WIS stated
exclusively in this paper several days
before the fair opened, the nickel had
no place in the festivities,l
The loyal ones who came out for
n last ride on lover the Falls" and
last shot at the lovely doh babies
were rewarded by the usual prodi-
Eaiity of the wheel men on saturday
night. The week had been SO sue
cessfn for all of them that they Just
opened up their hearts and gave two
dolls where they gave one before,
distributed large hams where pack
ages OF bacon had been deled out and
generally succeeded in loading ali Wis
itors with everything they could
carry. OF course, the desire to avoid
moving stocks from one town TO
another had nothing whatever to do
with it.
The freaks were the frst to vanish
from the shrinking midway. Deino
Fritz ate > couple Of swords at .
o'clock and cIosed up shop for tho
night The snakecharnaar cnneht bar
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