The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01
CROWDSFLOCK
To OPEN|NG OF
|ND|ANA'S FAIR
First Days Record Sure to
Fall as TurnStiIeS Click
Merry Tune.
AT THE FAIR
TOMORROW

free.
Sunday school, Indiana univers-
ity building, $50.
He'll Drivers performance,
grand stand, 1870 p. m.
Indiana university stage show,
I. U. building, day and night.
American Legion drum corps
contest, grand stand, afternoon
and night.
Purdue university exhibit open.
Cattle. hog, sheep and fowl ex-
hibits open.
Gooding's shows and rides on
Midway.
Breaking from the barrier for a
new opening day attendance record
the Indiana state fair gates swung
wide today.
Last years attendance was 1929
on opening day. Twelve thousand
persons are expected to go through
the turnstiles today.
One hundred thousand advance
sale tickets, placed in drug stores Of
the city and throughout the state,
had been sold out yesterday. Fair
officials estimated another $4,000
could have been sold, if they had
been available.
Money Is Plentiful
Before the week is out We'll have
24O,000 persons viewing the fair.
r7hat's 6000n more than last year"
forecast one fair official today as
the crowd poured through auto and
foot gates.
From early morning through the
noon hours cavalcade of trucks,
autos and township school BUSES
bore hopeful agricultural Hoosier-
dom through the fair gates.
While painters daubed final coats
on exhibit buildings and judges
began a round of All calf and pig
club entries in the Coliseum the
farms of Indiana brought their prize
corn, pumpkin pies, livestock, and
poultry to the fair.
Decked in their Sunday-beSts,
with overalls tucked in overnight
bags to wear in the prize ring, the
All club boys and girls held the
days spotlight while their elders
stood guard over their Blue Boys"
and "Nells' and NEEDS" of the four
footed world and groomed them for
ribbons.
1t was a cheerful opening day.
Money poured in on the conces-
SionaireS. Farmers, who in the lean
years of the depression we're froced
to pay their fare entrance with
two-bit corn and wheat, pulled ten
spots from pockets to pay for their
entrance.
No Arrests Are Made
The rst fair day was policeman's
holiday. Fifty patrolmen under
Captain Ed Helm did not make an
arrest up to noon and did not re-
ceive one call of a drunk or dis
turbance.
At the first-aid Red Gross build
ing a severe head cold forced upon
William Green. Swayzee, the doubt
full honor of being the fairs first
patient.
Right to being the first paid Wis
itors to the fair went to man and
wife and their baby, who arrived at
$40 a. m.
The eighty-seven-foot fire tower
of the conservation department
demonstrated the eagerness of the
crowd to visit new exhibits Within
forty-fve minutes this morning 166
persons walked the 100 steps to the
top of the tower to obtain a piano.
rama view of the grounds and the
distant business section.
Opening of the grand circuit
harness racing drew crowd shortly
before the first race, stimulated by
the report that Lord jim, HANDLE
tonian winner, would be among the
entries.
Log Schoolhouse Shown.
The vari-colored alphabet" build
ing, IMPLYING the New Deal, the
contrasting log schoolhouse and
modern building in the Century Of
Progress education exhibit, coupled
with the rock garden of the state
conservation department, were the
cynosure of all eyes.
Abundance of children under II
without charge served to swell
flrst-day attendance.
The L. S. Ayres g. Co. style show
drew farm and city women hunt
ing the latest in furbelows.
Tonight an old-style barn dance,
directed by WIS entertainers. will
draw fair visitors from pens and ex-
hibit buildings.
All Camp to Open
The boys All Club camp, with an
enrolment of 1875. opens tonight.
In the meantime All Club girls
were busy in the home economics
building trimming exhibits in dress
making, and cookery, for the eyes
of the judges.
House-w wives watched anxiously as
experienced arbiters tasted choice
mince meats. chow-chow, cuts Of
pies heavy with merangue. to deter
mine the winners in culinary pur-
suits.