456 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



POLICE SEBVICE. 



The security of the articles entered and committed to the care of the 

 fair association by the exhibitor must be as nearly complete as possible. 

 This requires a faithful and efficient corps of police to be on duty day 

 and night until the articles are returned to their owners. Every mem- 

 ber on the force should be well recommended before employment, and 

 explicit instuctions should be given to each respecting his particular 

 duties. The chief of the police force should be a man thoroughly in- 

 terested in the fair and identified with its management and not be an 

 outsider hired temporarily for the purpose. Part of the force should be 

 in citizen's clothes, with no outward badge or insignia to show their 

 position or authority. A guardhouse should be on the grounds, with 

 a room for the confinement of offenders, and the house should be fitted 

 also with sleeping rooms for the accommodation of the police force. 

 They should go on duty in reliefs of two to four hours, similar to the 

 guard in military service. One or two competent detectives should also 

 be on hand to identify professional crooks, and see that they are arrested 

 and shipped away promptly on arrival. 



Good order on the grounds is a necessity if the fair is to be a place 

 where visitors shall be free from annoyance or insult. Prompt action 

 therefore should be taken in the arrest of intoxicated people, the quar- 

 relsome, the profane, or otherwise misbehaved. Their immediate arrest 

 and subsequent punishment will insure a clean fair and go very far 

 also toward making it a financial success. A patrol wagon, which may 

 also serve as a hospital ambulance, should be at hand to transport 

 offenders to the lockup or general prison. The local justice of the peace 

 bhould have an office on the grounds and be accessible at all hours of 

 Ahe day. 



FIRE APPAEATUS. 



The police should be provided with fire apparatus to be ready for 

 prompt use in case of need. A chemical outfit and hand grenades for 

 extinguishing fires should be in all of the buildings and be readily 

 accessible and the police be instructed in their use. 



SANITABY BEGULATIONS. 



The police force should also see that all unsanitary practices are pre- 

 vented, and that the public-comfort buildings are kept in good condi- 

 tion; that littering the grounds and buildings with paper, shavings, or 

 other unsightly material is prevented. To aid in keeping the grounds 

 clean, receptacles convenient for the deposit of waste paper, banana 

 skins, and other rubbish should be provided. 



ADVEBTISINQ. 



Much of the success of the fair will be dependent upon the good judg- 

 ment exercsed in advertising it. Circus managers appreciate the im- 

 portance of this and have reduced their methods in this respect to a 

 system that is complete and insures profitable returns. Failure to make 

 the fair known, or to make it known in an attractive way, will seniously 



