The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
LARGE CROWDS
IN ATTENDANCE
AT FREE FAIR
People From All Over Kansas
Are Here Today.
Today Is Farm Bureau and
StOckmen's Day.
BIG NIGHT SHOW ARRANGED
Auto Polo Contest Will Feature
Offering Tonight.
Thursday Will Be Banner Day
at Exposition.
BIG NIGHT SHOW ARRANGED
Thursday VIII Be Banner Day
at Exposition.

With the sun shining from an al
most clear sky this afternoon, the
Kansas Free Fair blazed forth in all
its glory
After three days of rain the crowds
surged toward the Free Fair grounds
Every street car was filled to capacity.
By two o'clock-the hour for the races
to begin-automobiles were parked in
solid lines for two blocks away from
the grounds on all Sides. Inside the
grounds thousands wended their ways
thru the various buildings housing the
exhibits, took in the midway attrac-
tions, patronized the concessions and
filed into the grandstand for the six
big horse racing events. With two
day handicap, Kansas was trying to
make up for lost time.
Many Come Here by Auto.
Rapidly drying roads tempted hun
dreds of families to drive to Topeka
in their motor cars, as they had
planned to do earlier in the week.
Many were still coming in by train
today.
The Free Fair grounds are rapidly
drying up. Thousands of tramping
feet and automobile tires have packed
the cinder walks until they are almost
as hard as brick. The sun is rapidly
taking up the moisture and in such
low places as still remain wagon loads
of cinders are being dumped and
smoothed out.
Today is Farmers and Stockmen's
day. A meeting was held this after
noon in the Peoples pavilion, with the
farm bureau as host. Tonight the
amateur musicians contest will be
held in the Peoples Pavilion.
Big Night Show Arranged.
The big night show will be the main
attraction this evening. The auto
polo contests between the American
and Canadian teams will be more in
teresting because the track on which
they are played will be in better shape.
AL Sweets Singing band-and here's
saying they can sing and play-wil be
on hand to furnish music-jaZzy,
poppy, inspirational music to be re-
membered. There are dozen circus
and hippodrome acts, and everyone of
them are worth seeing. Comedy is
predominant At this show the farmer
and business man alike may watch
and forget their cares. As climax
to the program d grand pyrotechnical
display is given. At 1880 o'clock. just
the $1,000 900 livestock parade is held
"a parade that gladdens the heart Of
every lover of fine horses and cattle.
Cho Cho to Perform.
This afternoon at 4 o'clock-and to-
morrow and Friday afternoons at the
same hour-Cho Cho, the nationally
famous health clown, will perform for
the benefit of the children. Every
child in the city should see and hear
Cho Cho. His entf rtainment is gwen
in the tent in child-en's corner.
Thursday will be a banner day at
the exposition, so far as the program
is concerned, and if the weather holds
half way nice it should see the big
gest crowd so far this week in at
tendance. The day is dedicated to
/ the Native Sons and Daughters and
! the Old Settlers. and programs of in
terest to them will be held in the
Peoples pavilion in the afternoon.
Big Racing Program Thursday.
! A racing program equal to. II It
| does not exceed today's, will be held.
There will be the usual Mother and
! Daughter Canning club demonstra-
/ tions, the concerts by MARSHALL s
! band, the midway attractions and the
! hundreds of exhibits that every Kan
| san should inspect. The Old Fiddlers'
| contest will be held in the evening
as will the night show, the livestock
parade and the auto polo contests,
Many Attend Racing Program.
! One thousand venturesome visitors
/ witnessed the horse races Tuesday
afternoon while several thousand
more watched the various contests
/ inspected the exhibits and took in the
| midway attractions. Clear skies in
the evening restored confidence and
| courage and the Free Fair began tC
| take on something of its normal as
( pect. There was a fair crowd in the
grandstand for the night show and
several hundred out-of-town visitors
| arrived in the city.
/ Aviator Entertains Crowd.
| Mark Campbell. daredevil Cali
| fornia aviator, performed in front OF
| the grandstand in his speeding plane
and made a parachute drop. He
lighted, however, half a mile south OF
the grounds. a strong wind from
/ the south east was blowing at the
! elevation he was flying, but when he
/ had descended in his parachute e
short distance the air current ha6
/ changed and he came almost straight
/ down.
When two airmen mapped the Mohavs
desert recently. in California, they discov-