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free attractions and your races and make money from the grand 

 stand and quarter stretch. 



Mr. Lauer: I will answer in this way: Our race people there 

 have no expense. They keep no buildings up ; they have no ex- 

 pense in putting up and taking care of the buildings. They have 

 no expense in regard to the electric light; we keep that up. This 

 year they gave us $100.00 and they are in debt right now. 



A Delegate from Marshalltown : I am not talking about the 

 racing association, but simply your fair. They have helped put a 

 live fair on the map. Cedar Valley has helped you wonderfully 

 and you ought to appreciate that. 



Mr. Lauer: You ask me for a comparison of what the races 

 did for our fair. This is what the races did for the fair: They 

 didn't pay out after the fair. That is what the races did. 



A Delegate : They are going to give races without the fair next 

 year? 



Mr. Lauer: Yes, sir ; but they do not pay out. It cost us $1,400 

 as a free attraction. I am not in favor of eliminating them. 



A Delegate : When you said this cost you $1,400 this grand 

 stand more than paid for anything that was seen out of the grand 

 stand. Without these races and free attractions you would have 

 had nothing in the grand stand. 



Mr. Lauer: We had a race meet, and we had a fair with the 

 race meet, and the race in itself did not pay out, and they had no 

 expense. 



Delegate from West Liberty: Mr. President: I did not come 

 here to hear discussed whether it was going to pay to have races 

 without a fair or fairs without races. What I would like to hear 

 is the best way to have a race program. That is what I want, and 

 now I would like to ask some of these horsemen here their idea 

 of a good race program, and how you are to go at it to make it a 

 satisfactory proposition. 



Delegate from Marshalltown : I can answer this whole proposi- 

 tion : Give these race horse inen the money that it is worth to 

 come to your fair. 



Mr. Joe McLaughlin : It may be that we get what we are worth 

 or what we are not worth; but I think that if every fair association 

 would notify us before we go wlictlicr our races are tilled or not 

 it would help a great deal. 



I think the fair managers assembled here will agi'ee with me that 

 racing and vaudeville and amusements of all sorts are the features 



