212 TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III 



Air. Bacon: I will try to answer that for you. Attraction people 

 cannot travel over the country like Chautauqua people, they could 

 not go from fair to fair from day to day or every night with all their 

 trappings and paraphernalia. All of you who have had attractions 

 know they come in a day or two in advance of the fair, and they have 

 rigging and apparatus it takes them some time to get set up, it would 

 be impossible to try to have attractions, something different traveling 

 from fair to fair each day. 



A Member : I am asking that question and I ask it because we 

 have purely an agricultural fair, have no races, and our free enter- 

 tainment is practically all our attendance. They see the stock at the 

 fair one day they have seen it for the whole week. I was in Chicago 

 recently and talked with the manager of the Western Vaudeville 

 agency and talked with others. They say it would be possible to put 

 on a middle of the week engagement, two in a week, but not change 

 every day. I asked that to start a discussion. We are open for some 

 fair that we could make connection close enough with. 



A Member : Mr. Chairman, I don't see where the changing every 

 day would benefit the fair. I think we all ought to know we are buy- 

 ing acts that are drawing crowds and doing us some good. They are 

 only free attractions and if they are not drawing attendance what 

 are they good for? 1 had an attraction this year, I don't want to 

 mention the name, but it w'as a real attraction ; I know of people 

 coming back the next day and the next day to see that attraction 

 just as much as they came to see anything else. I think we ought to 

 buy attractions that are going to draw the crowds. I believe we can 

 do it if we use our head a little bit. I don't see why changing every 

 day would do a bit of good. I know people came for miles to see 

 this one attraction I had this year. I know it brought good crowds 

 just the same as the races. I think possibly it brought more crowds 

 than the races. 



President Estell : It seems to me that the solution of that problem 

 is to get good acts, advertise them and draw the crowds in there. 

 We will have the next question. 



Mr. Bacon : The next question, ''There is $100 held back by the 

 state if a fair does not have the secretary at the agricultural conven- 

 tion, said fair loses the $100. Would it be possible to have this 

 money divided among the fairs that do attend ?" 



Mr. Corey: I may say that this law I believe has been in eff'ect 



