58 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



The committee instructed the superiutendent of grounds to em- 

 ploy a night watchman commencing August 3rd; he to go on duty 

 at 1 o'clock p. m. and remain on duty until 12 o'clock midnight. 



The committee instructed the superintendent of grounds to en- 

 close the grounds available by the removal of Power Hall and tlie 

 plot of ground east of where Power Hall stood with a six foot 

 fence and to put in a division fence and streets, so that the grounds 

 could be used for parking automobiles. 



Secretary was instructed to make arrangements with the su- 

 perintendent of public safety for a fire team and three men in the 

 grounds during the period of the fair. Also to make arrangements 

 with the police judge to hold police court at the fair grounds each 

 day of the fair, and to arrange with the attorney general's office 

 to have an assistant attorney general present during sessions of 

 the court to act as prosecutor. 



Committee also closed contract with Lincoln Beachey to put on 

 three aeroplane flights each day, to consist of one trick flight, one 

 known as the death dive and upside down flight, and one flight 

 known as the loop-the-loop. Consideration for seven days to be 

 $5,000, and on any day Beachey fails to loop-the-loop and make 

 the death dive he to receive no pay. 



Committee also closed contract with the Philharmonic choir of 

 Des Moines for one hundred and fifty voices to put on a sacred 

 concert in the live stock pavilion on Sunday'- evening, August 30th, 

 for the sum of $500. 



Committee also negotiated wdth F. S. Dusenberg for his three 

 racing cars, one to be driven by Mr. Rickenbacher, who won the 

 three hundred mile automobile race at Sioux City on July 4th. 



Committee took up the matter of granting request of the Wo- 

 men's Suffragist association for a room in the Women and Chil- 

 dren's building. The committee decided that inasmuch as this 

 building was built for the women and children of the state of Iowa 

 and the plans of the building did not anticipate taking care o£ 

 organizations of this kind, that their request be not granted. 



The secretary was instructed to order 120 rods of 58 inch Elwood 

 fencing for the purpose of enclosing the auto parking ground. 

 Also to order one twenty-five ton car of calcium chloride to be 

 used on the race track and in the aisles of the horse, cattle , and 

 swine barns and the aisles of Machinery Hall for keeping down 

 dust. The secretary was also instructed to purchase one car load 



