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was impossible for me to get anything in tliat line, and the way I 

 did those signs, I afterwards took some hard pine and had it 

 ripped about the same size as a common lath, and I put four laths 

 on each banner and put about. I think, eight penny nails — two 

 eight penny nails in them and they stayed there until they were 

 torn down. The elements did not seem to affect them a particle. 

 I had five different kinds, five different kinds of reading matter on 

 the dift'ereut styles of banner. 



A Delegate : Mr. Chairman. I represent the ]\Ionroe County Fair 

 at Albia. I find that these signs are no good at all unless you nail 

 them up good and strong. The wind Avill roll them up and they 

 are no good at all. 



A Delegate : We have used cloth banners for about five yeai*s. 

 We get them from the American Show Printing Co.. of ^Milwaukee, 

 Wis., and some other company. 



The Secretary : ^Ir. President and Gentlemen : In connection 

 with this matter of the treatment of horsemen that was referred to 

 in the paper we have just listened to, I wish to make a remark. We 

 have a number of coming horsemen trained at our track at Inde- 

 pendence, and I have been more or less interested in horses all my 

 life, and I think I know how the horsemen feel about this matter 

 of kind and courteous treatment. We Avill hear more of it later. 

 but right at this point, while it is in my mind. I want to make one 

 remark that I think will meet the approval. I know, of the horse- 

 men, and I know it will of some secretaries. And that is this: 

 When the horsemen come into a town, so often they are at the 

 mercy of the local draymen and feed men, and they are subject to 

 extortion. I do think it is the duty of the fair secretary to protect 

 them in this matter as much as possible. I know one horseman 

 from my town who told me that one of the best places he ever 

 reached in his life he was treated all right by the fair management, 

 and that was at Sioux City. But he said it cost $8.00 for he and 

 the other fellow to get their stuff moved out of the depot. Those 

 are things, of course, that the secretary is not responsible for, but, 

 at the same time, the secretary of the fair has not very much to do 

 and he can ju.st as well look after those things as not. But, in all 

 seriousness, I think that it is something that fair secretaries ought 

 to take cognizance of and protect the horsemen as much as they 

 can. And right when I am speaking along this line I want to 

 repeat an incident that happened at Eldora. One of the men from 

 our town, when he got into Eldora, piled the stuff into a wagon, 



