The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-03
FAIR WEARS
GALOSHES' IN
RAINY START
Boys and Girls of Al Club
and Their Friends Are
Days Honor Guests.
JUDGING is UNDER WAY
New |. u. Structure Is
Magnet to Opening SeS-
sion Visitors.

wearing galoshes and "sou'west-
ers" and Striding beneath a huge
umbrella, the Indiana state fair of
1882 opened today.
Rain that aimed a blow at the
fairs solar plexus - attendance
proved bounty to pens upon pens
OF pigs with their grunting great
stuff"
Inc COWS, horses and sleepy sheep
fairly basked in the days GOODNESS
while fair officials optimisticaI,v
brushed the wetness off of hats and
said, We'll make it up before the
weeks over"
First-comers through the turn
stiles were the honor guests of the
lar day-the boys and girls of All
CLUBS OF the State-and their friends
Daybrsak saw them currying en-
trants in the calf and sheep club
events in readiness for The Judging
arena
Open New 1. U. Building
AS one voice, they hopefully backed
their club entrants as judges walked
around and around the calves and
sheep led before them.
Each lead-rope with boy or girl
urging docile or balky animals into
the arena carried with it the vision
of the little blue ribbon that prints
victory smiles.
While the Midway and its hotdog
merchants, candy floss spinners and
orangeade purveyors, was silent I'M
der the early heavy skies, they took
their cash registers solemneSs as
part of the game of following the
fair year in and year out.
Now and then hardy soul would
dash in rain from the swine build
ing, Coliseum or the Administra-
ton building to grab a hamburger
with a lot of onion on it."
The Indiana university's new
structure with an auditorium as up
to-date as a modern neighborhood
movie show drew the webfooted ones
into its shelter as they watched the
university's stage show.
Days Races Postponed
In another division of the I. U.
building, the $4,000 in printing
equipment loaned by manufacturers
for the fair was being warmed up
for the printing of the first fair
edition of the Indiana Daily Stu
dent on Monday. Presses whirred
and linotype machines clicked their
song of news Of the states agrari-
ans.
A bemired racetrack caused post
ponement of the afternoons har-
ness races, and caused the follow
ers of the sulkies to dig into past
performance records for mudders
in the entrants at the opening of
grand circuit racing Labor day.
Children under IL were admitted
free today and that inducement,
coupled with adolescence's spirit of
not letting little thing like wealth
er keep them away, buoyed up the
gate-tenders.
Concerts Are Given
Outdoor concerts, with the lis
teners huddled under protecting
caves or friendly umbrellas, were
given by WKBF, WIS and WFBM
broadcasting stations.
The womans building, with it's
counters laden high with cakes, pies
and preserves, was a constant awe
to those who cook by can label.
Judges were busy tasting with
spoons and cutting with knives the
various entries. In fact, mother,
if she were there, found rigid COM
petition as she watched the blue,
red, and white ribbons affixed to
bread, doughnuts and pastries.
Reverence for the Deity will be
the highlight of the fairs Sabbath
with Washington bicentenniaI
pageant scheduled for the I. U.
building and a band concert in the
coliseum.
Ban Itinerant "Pit" Shows
Chief judging competitive events
will begin Labor day.
The Wild Man from Borneo and
the Fat Lady will not be seen at
the 1882 exhibition. The itinerant
pit" shows have been banned this
year for amusement rides.
Ample parking space for mo-
florists is afforded by adjustment
Of the sideshow tents.
Illinois-F Playground and College
avenue street cars will take visitors
to the fair. The automobile route
to agriculture's home for a week is
north on Meridian street to Thirty
eighth street and east on Thirty
eighth to the fairs gates.
The general admission charge is
so cents for adults.