Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1909 — EVENTS OF FIVE DAYS [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF FIVE DAYS

Program of Indiana Slate Fair Is Brimful of features For Week of September 6. FINE DAY AND NIGHT SHOWS Band Concerts, Parades, Vaudeville and Many Other Conspicuous Features Will Mark the Big Exposition. -—All Entry Lists Close on Aug. 24. —Acres of New Farm Machinery. The Indiana State Fair opens at Indianapolis on Monday (Labor day), Sept. 6, and, under a rigid rule fixed by the state board of agriculture a few years ago, the exposition will be on for five full days. All of the entry lists close on Aug. 24, and the exhibitors may enter the grounds on Sept. 2. That its rule may be enforced, the fair management will start the judges to work tying ribbons early Tuesday morning, and exhibits which are not in readiness at that time stand ajgood Chance of missing the prizes. The program shows that each day of the Fair will be filled to the brim with interesting features. The Fair will be .formally opened at 9 o’clock on ;Monday morning. The first day will be Labor day and practically , all the events of the week wljl be givep, including the concerts by Natlello’s band of the Indianapolis Military and the Indianapolis Newsboys’ bands, which will play every day. The vaudeville features, Including the most sensational open-air Show that -has yet l been given at the iFair, will each afternoon be given before the grandstand. The races will be started at 1:30 every afternoon, those for the first day being: Three-year-old, trot, purse 4600; the pacing division .of the Western Horseman stake No. J for three-year-olds, $2,000; 2:30 trot, |2,000; 2:06 pace, ssl,ooo. Hedgewood Boy, 2:02%, and Lady Maude C., 2:04*4, full brother and sister, will be driven by Dick Wilson to beat the world’s record for pacers to wagon. The night shows will start on Monday evening at 8 o’clock and an elaborate program of horse shows, vaudeville and band concerts will be given each evening. Tuesday will be Old Soldiers’ and Children’s day, and they, with teachers in charge of pupils, will be admitted free. The day horse and cattle shows in the coliseum will be marked by the awards of ribbons. Concerts will be given in the coliseum, grandstand and near the Administration building. The races for Tuesday include the 2:22- pace, purse, $1,000; 2:19.tr0t, $1,000; 2:15 pace, $5,000; 2:11 trot, SI,OOO. Wednesday’s program will be flavored by the show of coach, Hackney, saddle horses and ponies, as well as cattle. An outdoor parade of horses and cattle will be given at 1 p. m. An extra display of flowers will be made In Horticultural hall, the band concerts and vaudeville will be continued, and the races are: 2:25 pace, purse $2,000; 2:20 trot, $5,000; 2:13 pace. $1,000; 2:16 trot, SI,OOO. Thursday will see the Fair at its height. Light harness horses will be among the features of the coliseum program. .The grand champions in all livestock departments will receive ribbons. An extraordinary display of cut flowers will be made in Horticultural hall. The second parade of horses and cattle will be given outdoors, the band Concerts and vaudeville will be given, and the races will be as follows: Three-year-old pace, 2:25 class, purse $600; the trotting division of the Western Horseman stake No. 2 for three-year-olds, $4,000; 2:10 pace, $2,000; 2:07 trot, $1,200. Hedgewood Boy, 2:02%, will attempt to beat the world’s record for stallions. Friday will see the last ribbons tied in all departments. The band concerts will, as on previous days, begin at 9 a. m. and continue.through the afternoon and evening. With the exception of the outdoor livestock parades, Friday’s program will equal that of any other of the five days. The races will be a 2:09 pace, purse, $1,000; 2:24 trot, $1,000; free-for-all pace, $1,200; 2:13 trot, $2,000. Lady Maude C., 2:04%, will be driven to beat the world’s record for pacing mares. The Fair will close with the horse and cattle parades, vaudeville, band concerts and horse show on Friday night. The purses for the week amount to $37,600 and the total premiums $75,350. Year by year the mechanical department of the Fair keeps pace with the growth of other divisions of the exposition, and overshadows some of them. In the amount of ground room occupied, the machinery displays far outrank any other department, being literally measured by the acre. Before the snow was off the Fair grounds last spring the demand for space on the part of manufacturers began. Old exhibitors have asked for larger apace, and many new ones have entered the* lists. About twenty-five acres will be used for the mechanical displays, including every sort of machine which will lighten the work of men and women on the farm, and all will be of the newest designs which the manufacturers are producing. The newest ideas in engines, plows, wagons, windmills and other power pumps, harvesting machinery and dairy appliances will be shown for the enlightenment of the people from the farms, and all machinery pavilions will be crowded.