The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-03
CHILDREN jam
| Fairgrounds
/ ON FIRST DAY
State Opens Diamond Jubi-
lee Exposition, With 250,-
! 600 Expected to Attend.
OFFERS RICH PREMIUMS
Horse Show Races, Live
stock Exhibit and Radio
| Among Main Features.

AOutu IelSueu JOudy at Ufle SCaCe
Playground, when Indiana started
celebrating it's diamond jubilee of
State fairs. Following tine precedent
BET last year, opening day was chill
Hren's day, and hundreds were on
hand to watch the gates swing open
ht 6 o'clock this morning.
Children under IL were admitted
free and before noon thousands
were there, adding the spirit of
youth to the 75-year-old event.
Throngs Of adults also passed
through the turnstiles, and with
fair weather in prospect, officials
were confident that one of the larg-
est first day crowds would pass
Through the gates before they close
ht IL tonight.
Expect Quarter Million
A quarter million visitors are ex-
pected, according to Guy Cantwell,
State agricultural board president,
in charge of the fair.
This years premium list of $685.
19050, is approximately $4,000
higher than that of last year and
the highest ever to be offered to
fair exhibitors here. This has had
marked effect on entry lists, Can't
well said.
The four new buildings added to
the State Fair group have rounded
out the plant and make it one OF
the greatest State fair gorunds in
the country, Cantwell said.
: The new structures are: Admin
Istration, Red Cross, Better Babies"
and Poultry buildings.
Horse Show Is Feature
Whippet races will be held In
front Of the grandstand in the aft
ernoon.
One of the most pretentious horse
shows ever presented here will be
staged each night in the Coliseum,
There will be no Coliseum show of
any kind tonight however, in front
of the grandstand, fireworks and
vaudeville, bands and carnival at
fractions will keep up constant
round of activity.
Fairgrounds will be open all day
Sunday, but there will be no racing,
carnival, vaudeville or similar at
traction. All exhibits, however, will
be open.
Sundays program will be featured
by an address at 2:30 p. m. in the
Coliseum by G. G. Jordan, Pennsyl-
vania State board of agriculture sec
retary. Jordan will speak on Cash.
Character, Culture and Agriculture. :"
OId-Time Machinery Shown
Special exhibits, carrying out the
Diamond Jubilee theme and rem
aniscent of early day fairs, attracted
much attention at the opening.
Farm machinery manufacturers
have historical exhibits of pioneer
agricultural equipment that bear
little resemblance to modern day
tractors and combines. The wheat
cradle, handled threshing machine,
wooden beam breaking plow, hillside
plow and many other antiquated
appliances are on exhibit.
. In the Women's building, displays
y Of grandmother's needlework shame
many a. modern housewife who
wishes electric sewing machines
could be taught to darn socks.
Judging of the various classes OF
livestock began soon after the Mair
opened. Calf club entries are being
Judged in the Coliseum, pig entries
in the swine arena, and poultry
clubs in the new poultry building.
Boys Club Is Busy
2 The Boys State Fair Club, which
organized its camp at the grounds
Friday afternoon, started a busy day
ht $50 this morning.
The boys club program include
exhibition Of livestock, fiag-raisine
ceremonies, and calisthenics in the
morning. At $50 today a rep
Resentative of the State health de-
partment and M. L. Hall, of the
State Y. M. @. A., will speak to the
boys at supper.
Grand Circuit racing, popular
addition to the fairs program in re-
cent years, will start this afternoon
Today's card includes the 2:18 trot
p:20 pace, and the 2:14 trot, all fol
horses making their debut on mile
tracks.
FiddIers to Compete
Fifty oid-tirne fiddlers will par
ticipate in contests to be held every
afternoon of the fair, working ur
to the championship old fiddlers
contest the last night Of the fair
Starting Monday night. winners oi
district contests each afternoon will
hold further elimination contests.
One Of the special features is the
large radio exhibition, held for the
first time this year in permanent
building. The exhibit, in the manu-
facturers' building. is sponsored by
the indianapolis Radio Distributors