The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-09
MONSTER TRUCK
DEMONSTRATION
IN A FAIR PARADE
Two Hundred Loaded Motors
viii Be in City.
Fleet of 25 Coming to Topeka
From Kansas City.
FARMERS TO JOIN CARAVAN
Procession Starts 10 O'clock
Tomorrow Morning.
Everything Coming From
Honey to Passengers.
Two Hundred Loaded Motors
Will Be in City.
Fleet of 25 Coming to Topeka
From Kansas City.
FARMERS TO JOIN CARAVAN
Everything Coming From
Honey to Passengers.

One of the interesting features of
the Kansas Free Fair this year will
be the parade of more than 200 trucks
loaded with merchandise, which starts
from Eighth and Kansas avenues at
10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Fol-
lowing Governor Aliens proclamation
setting aside Wednesday as Motor
Transportation day, the local good
roads committee have left nothing un-
done to make the ship by-truck pa
rade genuine feature.
The Kansas City Motor Truck asso-
ciatiOn will send a fleet of twenty-five
trucks loaded with flour. print paper
and other staples They will come
here by way of Lawrence, where they
will be joined by the Lawrence dele
CATION and the Lawrence band. The
, Paige truck dealer of Topeka has en-
tered twenty-eight trucks and the
Trefry Motor company has entered a
fleet of Ford trucks. Other local
dealers have entered a number of
trucks and the Topeka delegation
alone probably will number more than
200.
The entries from the farms within
a radius Of 100 miles from Topeka will
be the real feature of the parade,
however. Everything from water
melons to loads of honey will be
hauled to the Free Fair. One man
will bring ST bushels of wheat dis
tance of 3s miles. Eight or ten farm
ers have entered truck loads of vege-
tables. Others will bring live stock.
alfalfa, corn, kafir and other farm
products.
To Bring Passengers.
The truck bringing the largest num-
| Der of persons the longest distance will
| be given free tickets to the races and
night shows. Cash prizes of $50, $25.
I -
| owned and operated trucks bringing
farm products. A motion picture film
which will probably have national dis
tribution will be taken of the event.
The entrants will gather on Eighth
/ street north of the state house.
| Promptly at 10 o'clock the parade will
\ move east to Kansas avenue, north TO
Fifth street, back on Kansas avenue
| to Seventeenth street, then west to the
main entrance to the fairgrounds. Ar
rived at the fair grounds. the trucks
will proceed southwest past poultry
! hail. turn east on the north side of
the grand stand and leave the fair
grounds at the east gate.
| After the parade is over. the good
roads program will begin at the Peo-
pies pavilion. where J. Frank Smith,
| of Kansas City, will deliver the ad-
dress of the morning on the subject
| of good roads. followed by Frank g
| O'DeH. who will talk of motor trans
portation.
H S. Putney, local good roads
booster, will head the parade. not or
| a horse, as is the immemoriai custom
but on a motorcycle, field marshal OF
the day. J. A. Fansler has inspected
the different routes by. which the
! trucks will come to Topeka and re-
ports that all marked highways lead.
ing to the city are in splendid condi-
| ton. Special markers have been put
up on all the well known trails.