Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1911 — coil SYSTEM IT FAIR [ARTICLE]

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NO TICKETS WILL BE 80LD AT INDIANA EXPOSITION. f • ■ 1 •' -- : Visitors Will Provids Themselves With Coins to Open Turnstiles at the Gates.

The coin system of paying admissions to the Indiana State Fair is to be tried for the first time the week of Sept. 4. It is to be tried to the end of making it more convenient for visitors to get within the gates and avoid the usual crowds which flock about the ticket windows. It is thought that every person in Indiana knows that the admission fee for an adult to the Fair Is fifty cents, and for a boy or girl under twelve years the price is 25 cents. Heretofore it has been the practice for the street cars to unload thousands of people at the Fair gates, followed by a rnsh for the ticket windows.

It is now the purpose of the fair management to do away with this inconvenience to visitors by asking each person to provide himself with the exact change. A man or woman is asked to leave home for the Fair with a fifty cent piece to pay the gate admission, but instead -of buying a ticket at the Fair, the visitor will proceed from the street car to the gate and deposit the coin in the turnstile. These mechanical devices will register, or count, coins as readily as they will receive and count tickets, and the visitor will avoid the rush for tickets.

All of the admission gates around the Fair grounds are provided with turnstiles and the coin system will be tried at all of them. The coin system will be followed at the race track grandstand. Where a visitor arrives at the gates without the exact change, money changers will be on duty to supply them. The coin system will be so generally followed by visitors that the selling of tickets will be entirely done away with, not only for the convenience of visitors, but it will do away with the counting of tickets, which requires all the time of a clerical force while the Fair is in progress.