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Lerplises (UoL lucluding the tanama bxposiuon) DLauduld duvw wal LICE 15 14 LAC wlal ib uds lug lccduCd——al appropriate ouwdle Ldll, WHCLC LIC PeupIc ul dlls aud Olner Collllivii- wldlllld tay 1OICgdiuler Lo sce dl a glalice dll ad 4 Clusylvaludlly ude, 1miue and grow. Ul wil gauier tue products ol L'cuusylvaunia homes, oI Lcuusylvalla lars, ol fennsylvania waters, Ol der nues aud der mdustries all within the bound- alles UL a greal +4U acre park, fitted with immense ureproot, concreie and steel buildings, a two-and- a-lall-llle auto speedway, a one-mile race Course, also a hali-mile course, and varied and interesting aliusements. the rar and Ikxposition will surpass any- tug ot 1ts kind 1 the United States. A plot of ideally situated land, of 410 acres in extent and one and one-half miles along the front of the tamous Susquehanna River, with beautiful rising hills on the opposite side, which give to the eye a great view of Nature's picturesque scenery. The site lies along the main line of the Penn- sylvania Railroad, just outside of Harrisburg. In iact, the main line tracks cut across the land ot the [Fair Company near the public road, and it is here that it is proposed to erect a passenger sta- Bn ¢specially tor the Keystone State Fair. Near- y will be sidings and freight sheds adequate to handle the vast number of exhibits that will go to make up the annual Fair. Along the entire one and one-half miles of land run the lines of the Harrisburg Street Rail- ways Company, with through cars from the Fair Grounds to Harrisburg, Middletown, Highspire, Steelton, Oberlin, Enhaut, Paxtang, Hummels- town, Hershey, Lebanon, Progress, Penbrook, Carlisle, New Cumberland, Mechanicsburg and dozens of smaller communities that make up the intensely settled community of which the Key- stone State Fair is the very center. Within a radius of three hundred miles of Harrisburg 18,000,000 people reside, according to the United States census bureau, and to bring this vast population to the Keystone State Fair there is centered in Harrisburg the great Pennsylvania Railroad Company with its subsidiary lines, the Philadelphia and Erie, the Northern Central and the Cumberland Valley Railroads. Then comes the Philadelphia & Reading road with its subsidiaries, the Susquehanna and Schuyl- kill, the Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, and the Gettysburg and Harrisburg. These rail- roads form a net work to all parts of the State. Harrisburg is one of the most centrally lo- cated and easily reached points in Pennsylvania. Tt is a great manufacturing and farming center, and its advantages as a shipping point are recog- nized by no less than sixty-seven of the biggest manufacturing, concerns of the United States. . Tt is the capital city of Pennsylvania, and its $13.000,000 capital, with rare paintings and world- famous schilpture is a show place in itself to which men #d women from all over the world come, a¥ the gfsitors’ record at the capital shows. NEED OF A STATE FAIR The need of a State Fair for Pennsylvania has been felt for years. Time after time leading agriculturists and stockbreeders have gathered in Harrisburg to discuss ways and means to attain this desired object. A three days’ conference was held in Harris- burg on January 21, 22 and 23, 1913, in which an effort was made to get a State Fair proposition under way. It was attended by Governor john K. Tener; State Secretary of Agriculture, N. B. Critchfield;: W. C. Norton of Waymart, Pa., Presi- loll it YWennsylvgpia Livestock Breeders’ As- Sociation; CHester T. Tyson, Secretary of the State Horti¢ultural Association; G. G. Tyson, a noted feeding expert of Warrior's Mark, Pa., and bv farmers. fruitgrowers, stockbeeders and agri- cultural implement people from all parts of Penn- svlvania. It was the unanimous conviction of this oathering that a State Fair is an absolute neces- sitv to the future growth and development of Pennsylvania. GOVERNOR FAVORS STATE FAIR Governor Tener said: “1 am in hearty accord with the proposition to establish a great State Fair br Pennsylvania.” : y'. C. Norton said: “I am heartily in favor of a Stae Fair, and let it be understood that by a State Fair is not meant simply a place for exhibit 2nd discussion of what pertains to the agricultur- 1 cevelopment of the State alone; not by any sans. Everything that is of an educational, sci- tific, mechanical or other economic character ould be included. Not only farm products, nd you, but machinery of all kinds” and exhibits ‘how the development and improvement of the te ought to have a place.” Secretary Sandles of the State Agricultural ciety, took up an entire hour discussing Ohio’s at State Fair, telling of what it has meant to L development not only of the farming pursuits he Buckeye State but of its untold advantages bther States. «The Ohio State Fair,” he said, “not only its own expenses but yields a substantial Let Pennsylvania people see what Pennsyl- can do. A State Fair would do more to farming more of a science and a profitable ss than any other factor. But don’t be stin- oy mited Number Shares ock still to be had 00 per share. | df 0: 0. 0. 0 0D 00 000.0 SOG 00 e300 00 eJ0 o gates present voted “aye.” THE KEYSTONE STATE FAIR And so it comes about that the Keystone State Fair and Industrial Exposition has been formed to give to the farming and manufacturing interests of Pennsylvania a great State Fair, and to the people of the cities a great amusement park. Every farmer, stock-raiser, fruitgrower, dairy- man, manufacturer, mine owner, and all business men in general, including all the citizens in the State, in fact everybody who is anxious to see Pennsylvania keep abreast of the times and apace with the accomplishments of her sister States, ought to be an earnest supporter of the Keystone State Fair. Pennsylvania is the second state of the Uni- on. She has farms, worth approximately $1,111, 894.800; her livestock is worth 180,498,000; her crops $168,770,000; and her fruit $9,754,000. She has the greatest steel mills in the world and her manufacturing wealth is conservatively estimated at $2,626,742,000 ins yearly products. According to the census of 1909 Pennsylvania had then 27,563 manufacturing plants in which were employed 1,. 002,171 persons. Surely it is not too much to expect that such a State could support a State Fair and make it earn profits on the investment, if Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, New York and a score of other states— including youthful Oklahoma—can operate Fairs and come out at the end of each season many thousands of dollars to the good. And it is pro- posed to make the Keystone State Fair greater than all of them, just as Pennsylvania stands in the front rank of States. Lhe neystone State rawr and Industrial bx- positon Company has a better plan than that. it 1s conceded, and the newspapers have been pro- testing tor years, that Harrisburg has no building large enough to house tile big expositions that are constantly seeikng show place here, thai while it has twice as many conventions as any other city in Pennsylvania, it has no large convention hall and that it has no building adequate for the 100d shows, fruit exhibits and poultry exhibitions that are becoming larger and larger each year. Neither has Central Pennsylvania—within street car ride of two score cities, towns and vil- lages—any amusement park large enough to draw picnics and outings that form so large a part of the life of the people. The fact that trainload af- ter trainload of people are hauled to Willow Grove, an amusement resort in Philadelphia, and to Washington, Atlantic City and even to New York, traversing hundreds of miles for a single days’ outing illustrates the possibilities of a big amuse- ment park within the boundaries of their own State. SUMMER OUTING PLACE All these needs the Keystone State Fair As- sociation proposes to fill, turning the large island situated in the center of the broad and pic- turesque Susquehanna, just opposite the Fair Grounds, into a summer outing spot and holding joa concerts and fireworks displays on the main and. Horse racing is to be fostered, the finest auto speedway in the country is being worked out and an annual Pennsylvania automobile meet will be developed. 7- omens Rest 2 Pon Entorxe 3 Ypoer Bord 3nd 23 Ermey Rr RADmOONS ST FNC 85 Lx . oe 25. 3nrape- 2 Loogas Stora 37 Timing Imre 26-Grangers But ano? 39: Canventian Hal € JesgveF ann, ji (3/2 — 52 ; . Zz TTT AT -— See — ee == [= HIGH COST OF LIVING + The Fair will bring together men and women from every walk of life. It is the intention of the management to conduct conferences at which ex- perts in all the varied branches of agriculture, horticulture, floraculture and stock-raising, indus- try and manufacture will speak. Minimum cost in production and marketing will be themes of dis- cussion, and “the high cost of living”—a very se- rious problem despite the jests that have been made concerning it—will be an ever-present theme in these discussions. The Fair will do its part in bringing the producer and the consumer into closer touch and greater harmony. That alone is a worthy mission. AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURERS’ BIG FEATURE The Keystone State Fair will have a powerful appeal to the automobile industry of the country; at an expense of many thousands of dollars, a two- and-a-half-mile automobile speedway is to be built, together with machine shops and storage fa- cilities for a large number of cars. It is the purpose of the Company thus to provide for the automobile manufacturers not on- ly a place where they may test out the mechan- ism of their machines, but where they come into closer touch one with another. Automobile racing will be one of the big features of the Fair. But it is not intended that the Keystone State Fair's million and a half dollar plant shall operate two weeks during the fair season of the year and then stand idle. THE MODERN PLAN No man would build a manufacturing plant, putting into it one and a half million dollars and then work it only two weeks out of the entire year. Just so it is unreasonable to let 410 acres of Fair ground, with its capacious buildings, its wa- enema FAIRS ARE PROFITABLE So counndent are those who are back of the Neystone State bar and Industrial Exposition ot the success oi the enterprise that they recognize the necessity ot awakening a state-wide interest m the tair, which is to be for all the people, and they know of no better way than submitting the proposition to the progressive and thriving popu- lace of the great State of Pennsylvania, thereby giving to its citizens the opportunity to share in its ownership and profits. It has therefore been decided to place on the market sufficient of the stock in the hands of the farmers, stock-raisers, fruitgrowers and manufac- turers of Pennsylvania, for whose benefit it has been formed and whose interests it will foster. IMMENSELY PROFITABLE Fairs properly managed have drawn thous- ands of people to them ever since the dawn of his- tory—and where they have been properly manag- ed they have not only fostered farming and in- dustry, but have been immensely profitable to those whose money made them possible. As far back as the “Bazar” of Babylon, the Fair of Jerusalem and the great Fairs of Greece, we find myriads of people wending their way to them and shrewd business men investing their money in them. 8 Profit for the investors was back of the Mar- ket Fairs of the Middle Ages, which yet survive in Leipsig, New Novgorod and throughout the East. In some districts whole cities depend upon the Fairs for their livelihood. Within the past century local and national in- stitutions have grown numerous and have expand- ed and diversified until they have become among the most popular, useful and profitable institu- tions of the age. The first Fair in the United States was held in Washington in 1805, and the premium list was valued at $100. From this small 20030 ee efeade ded HO, 000004, Keystone State Fair & Industrial Expositio Executive Offices, Kunkel Building, HARRISBURG, PENNA. BPD DOOPDDPDIPONS dll duuudl alicudance oi over siIX milion people aud 4 otal prennum lst of about $1,000,000. Sure- ly lveswors aud tis to be a prontable investment. LOavdioan ALL THAN MERE PRUSLL DUL LIC CySWLE Dale Ld and industria LApUSILILL Lulupdiy ldd a WIgUer aim than merc Pluost—aluuougu 1s daualrs wil be conducted with al £ye wo giving the wuvestor 4 good rewurn ioi als otey. iL uas started out w nil the pig need lu Le ue OL feunsylvanla, Ais management ieels lldl 1 uo ollier way can such a poweriul intiu- cuce be wielded 1or the up-buillding ot the Com- wouwealiy, commercially or educauonally, at all culiparable with the State tair. ihe appucauon or the air was originally in- tended merely lor rural industries, but since that lar-oa ume ney have been aiversined and extend- ¢d su as to embrace all the industries, Science, art, and every branch of education. ‘The iunda- mental purpose as conceived by our forefathers has been largely tulnlled and old-time methods and plans are tast becoming of the past. Lhe heystone State fair management fully realizes this. It knows that the modern Fair must exploit the science of agriculture and that it must be also inspirational and educational, for those teatures which inspire and entertain are inevitably educational. Problems oi agriculture and mechan- ics are tor man and his betterment. The Fair should appeal to young and old. ln fact it should be a family affair and provide in a most generous way for the edification and pleasure of the women and children as well as the men. The Keystone State Fair will fulfill its mission by providing for the hundreds of thousands of patrons who will throng its grounds, ample means for the urban rural population to come and view the advance ment and progress made in divers industries, * Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Mechanics, Man- ufacture, Art and Science; to cheer and praise the victors in competitive awards, as well as to profit by their achievements, and to amuse and entertain by attractions of the highest moral plane from the largest amusement centers of the world. It makes of its Fair an irresistible mecca for the farmer af- ter the strenuous harvest days of mid-summer are over. AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE 460,000 square feet of space will be allotted Ln Linen pg OOTY, horticarcted and flora- | nature. The display of truit will be wor- f the great peach and apple growing sections of Pennsylvania which lie at the doors of the ex- position = grounds. Lancaster County, nearby, richest farm county in the United States, will ex- hibit their products, and the Cumberland Valley just across the river, and the Lebanon Valley on the other side, will all contribute, There will be a Grange building and it is hoped to have the various Granges make collective exhibits in competition for substantial cash prizes. Educational experiments from experimental sta- tions and agricultural colleges will also be ar- ranged and every agricultural implement dealer in the United States will be invited, and, it is ex- pected, will participate. « LIVE STOCK Live stock will naturally play an important part in the exhibits. Pennsylvania is showing in- creased interest in the growng of cattle and hogs and the development of fine cows and work-horses, especially, while pigs and sheep are also receiving attention. Pennsylvania's dairy interests are large and growing and every effort will be made to make this exhibit at the Fair worthy the import- ant place it holds in the industry of the State. READY IN 1916 Splendid progress has been made since the project was launched. The buildings to be erect- ed are to be of permanent character—concrete and steel—the grounds must be developed and beauti- fied and the million and one details necessary to such a gigantic enterprise will require the hearty co-operation of the people to make it possible. The management wants the first exhibition to be all that it has planned and no attempt will be made to open the Fair until 1916. Then the expo- sition will be inaugurated on a scale that will at once make it one of the noted show places of the country and a profitable investment for its stock- holders from the very start. The Keystone State Fair and Industrial Expo- sition is going to be the greatest and most talked of exhibition of its kind in the United States. It is up to you to co-operate for its success and to share in its profits, while stock may still be had at par. THE KEYSTONE STATE FAIR AND IN- DUSTRIAL EXPOSITION is bound to be the most profitable of all those in the United States. Get in line. Make a wise and dividend paying in- vestment and benefit the farming and manufac- turing interests of the State at one and the same time Write for free illustrated booklet. boae ade odeidradedd p j Co. oodeefr rrr dr drdndr Sr Sr Sr drdododedo dr PD SS PPS Dd ddd ddd aooge oof afoafeedridocdraoddr des 3o:63o ofr odo fe afocfootraloiotoddo ide lone fo ide dr docdoidrifafeocdoidriiddodds 9, ® ooo io ade oalbdr freed
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