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Mr. ]\IcLaiiglilin : Could they get in to see the vaudeville free, 

 or did they have to pay extra for that ? 



Delegate from Chicago: They did not have to pay to go into 

 the educational building. 



Mr. ]\IcLaughlin : What do you suppose would have happened 

 if the price had been the same? 



Mr. Culbertson : I would like to hear someone give some good 

 plausible excuse for paying entrance fees. I have heard none yet. 



Mr. McLaughlin : For the benefit of the gentlemen, I believe 

 I can tell about the only excuse. We have the American Trotting 

 Association. In other words, they are the collecting agency for 

 the different fair associations from the horsemen. They are the 

 ones that formulate all the rules, l)y-laws and things that we race 

 by. They charge 10 per cent, to collect the entrance fees from 

 myself or Mr. Wods, or any of us that happen to be delinquent 

 or failed to get there. That is the main reason why we have the 

 entrance fees, through the American Trotting Association, a col- 

 lection agency at Chicago. 



Mr. Culbertson : As far as that is concerned, our fair associa- 

 tion has never used the American Trotting Association as a 

 medium for collecting anything of that kind. As long as I am 

 the secretary of our association we never will. 



Mr. Woods: I would like to ask the secretary how many secre- 

 taries are like him. 



Mr. Culbertson : I am giving my advice. 



Mr. Baker: The free entrance, I think, would be out of order 

 entirely. If he didn 't have to pay an entrance fee the racer could 

 enter at half a dozen other fairs, but if he has to pay an entrance 

 fee he will not enter at half a dozen other fairs, and we would 

 have some assurance that he would show up, and I don't think 

 free entrance would do that. 



Mr. Culbertson: I would like to have an expression from this 

 body as to how many secretaries here, or representatives of their 

 home associations charge stall rent during fair time or any other 

 time during the year? I see there are seven. 



How many charge rent after the fair is over and during any 

 other time of the year? 



A Delegate: The state fair is tlic only one. 



Mr. Harvey Woods: Gentlemen, a few days ago I received a 

 letter from Mr. Rigby asking me to appear here before you and 

 tell, as best I could, what will insure better i*acing. 



