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<p>[QUOTE="leeg, post: 4609811, member: 17073"]Thanks again all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the early commemoratives have history such as this behind them. I love researching this also.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1141732[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1141733[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>“<b>Daily Program</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Monday, August 8</p><p><br /></p><p>Grand Opening – Press – Auto Race Day</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>8:00 AM – Gates open to the Public. Admission, Adults 50 cents. Children 25 cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>10:00 AM – Formal Grand Opening of the Missouri Centennial Exposition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Parade to Centennial Arch of Officials, escorted by Missouri National Guard.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aerial Patrol by Flying Circus.</p><p><br /></p><p>National Salute.</p><p><br /></p><p>Band Overture by Poepping’s, Scottish-Highlander, Kroencke’s Concert, Second Regiment and for Regimental bands from the Missouri National Guard encampment.</p><p><br /></p><p>Invocation by Rev. A.W. Kokendoffer, Sedalia.</p><p><br /></p><p>President Warren G. Harding’s message officially opening the Missouri Centennial Exposition, received by Governor Arthur M. Hyde.</p><p><br /></p><p>Song – ‘America’ by audience.</p><p><br /></p><p>Address of Welcome by Hon. Arthur M. Hyde, Governor of Missouri and President of Missouri Centennial Commission.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>11:30 AM – Johnny J. Jones Mammoth Exposition Shows on the Midway.</p><p><br /></p><p>Passenger-Carrying Service.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pioneer Games and Contests in Coliseum.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>2:00 PM – World’s Championship Professional Automobile Races sanctioned by the International Motor Contest Association.</p><p><br /></p><p>Event No. 1</p><p><br /></p><p>First elimination heat, four-cornered match race, distance five miles, rolling start. Drivers finishing 1st and 2nd eligible to start in event No. 4. Purse for this heat $300.00 60 percent 1st, 25 percent 2nd, 15 percent 3rd.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Car</u> <u>Driver</u></p><p><br /></p><p>Premocar Stone</p><p><br /></p><p>Essex Roundtree</p><p><br /></p><p>C.R.G. Burk</p><p><br /></p><p>Chalmers Costa</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Event No. 2</p><p><br /></p><p>Second elimination heat, four-cornered match race, distance five miles, rolling start. Drivers finishing 1st and 2nd eligible to start in event No. 4. Purse for this heat $300.00 60 percent 1st, 25 percent 2nd, 15 percent 3rd.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Car</u> <u>Driver</u></p><p><br /></p><p>Wyllis Scheibell</p><p><br /></p><p>Peugeot Robinson</p><p><br /></p><p>Severin Gray</p><p><br /></p><p>Cyclone Searles</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1141734[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Jimmy Costa in his Fiat.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Event No. 3</p><p><br /></p><p>Time trials for Missouri State Fair track records, distance one mile, flying start. Purse to driver making fastest time. $150.00 Entries to be announced at track.</p><p><br /></p><p>Event No. 4</p><p><br /></p><p>Third and final heat of events Nos. 1 and 2, drivers finishing 1st and 2nd in events 1 and 2 eligible to start in the final heat. Distance 5 miles, rolling start. Purse $600.00. 60 percent 1st, 25 percent 2nd, 15 percent, 3rd.</p><p><br /></p><p>Event No. 5</p><p><br /></p><p>Division ‘C’ light car class, cars eligible 200 cubic inches and under. Distance five miles, rolling start, purses $400.00. 60 percent 1st, 25 percent 2nd, 15 percent 3rd.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Car</u> <u>Driver</u></p><p><br /></p><p>Essex Roundtree</p><p><br /></p><p>Rajo Chatburn</p><p><br /></p><p>Cyclone Searles</p><p><br /></p><p>Chalmers Costa</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Event No. 6</p><p><br /></p><p>Missouri Centennial Free-for-all, irrespective of motor, classification or piston displacement. Distance 10 miles, speedway style rolling start. Purse $1,500. 50 per cent 1st, 25 per cent 2nd, 15 percent 3rd, 10 percent 4th.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Car</u> <u>Driver</u></p><p><br /></p><p>C.R.G. Burk</p><p><br /></p><p>Severin Gray</p><p><br /></p><p>Rajo Chatburn</p><p><br /></p><p>Premocar Stone</p><p><br /></p><p>Cyclone Searles</p><p><br /></p><p>Wyllis Scheibell</p><p><br /></p><p>Essex Roundtree</p><p><br /></p><p>Chalmers Costa</p><p><br /></p><p>Hudson Boyd</p><p><br /></p><p>Peugeot Robinson</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>4:00 PM – Louis James, fearless daredevil, will transfer himself from a fast driven Premocar machine to a Curtis Airplane driven by Ruth Law. Exhibition takes place on the race track directly in front of the Amphitheater.”<b>3</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>3. Official souvenir program Missouri 1821-1921 Centennial Exposition and Sate Fair held in Sedalia, Missouri on August 8-20. Soft cover book containing 109 pages.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1141735[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Ruth Law's Flying Circus.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>“Jefferson City, Feb. 25. – The Missouri state fair board is ‘broke’ and without available funds to carry on the 1922 fair, following the expenditure of a total of $486,891.00 in operating the Centennial exposition and state fair at Sedalia last August. Of the amount spent $269,361.11 came out of the taxpayers’ pockets, according to an audit completed Saturday by examiners for State Auditor George E. Hackmann.</p><p><br /></p><p>The examiners declared in their report that $121.60 was spent for cigars; that the practice of issuing passes was grossly abused, a total of 32,560 passes being issued; that the board received nothing from the ‘Duck Me Kid’ concession, which was operated by Don Davis, publicity man for the joint celebration, and called attention to an expenditure of $610 for stenographer hire for Lieut. Gov. Hiram Lloyd of St. Louis, chairman of the executive commission of the centennial commission.</p><p><br /></p><p>The report declared that ‘strict economy had not been adhered to in many instances.’</p><p><br /></p><p>The report of the examiners was taken to the office of Governor Hyde by auditor Hackmann. The governor, who returned to his office Saturday after an absence of a week, had no statement on the report early Saturday night.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fair board has a deficit of $1,281, which will be increased many thousands of dollars by outstanding obligations.</p><p><br /></p><p>The largest expenditure of the centennial commission was $44,883.83 paid to the North American Fireworks Company. Included in the large amount of money which was ‘shot up in the air,’ was the expense for the unusual feature of displaying the pictures of Governor Hyde and Lieutenant Governor Lloyd in burning fireworks nightly before the large pavilion for the benefit of the people.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gold badges, costing $25 each, were bought for members of the centennial commission.</p><p><br /></p><p>The commission bought 100,000 elaborate souvenirs of centennial at a cost of $12,164.96, to be retailed at 25 cents each.</p><p><br /></p><p>‘For some unknown reason,’ said the report of the examiners, ‘these programs did not sell ‘like hotcakes’ and consequently at the close of the fair, 93,324 copies were unsold and on the hands of the state fair board. As these programs contain some valuable historical information, we suggest copies on hand at the state fair office be offered to the school children throughout the state free of charge.’</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently the commission had difficulty in differentiating between the accounts of the centennial commission and the fair board because they made the following comment in the report:</p><p><br /></p><p><i> ‘There was so much shifting of funds from one organization to the other that it is physically impossible to ascertain from the books and records at the office just how the expenses should be divided or charged.’</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The examiners sharply criticized the practice of accepting notes of doubtful value in payment of concessions while the owners of many concessions apparently paid nothing.</p><p><br /></p><p>‘Every dollar lost on concessions,’ said the report, ‘will increase the deficit. In view of the fact that this department was under direct control of a supervisor and a force of clerks at a cost of $4,474.14, we cannot understand just why these concessionaires were allowed to get away without paying their obligations.’</p><p><br /></p><p>‘No one connected with the state fair, to our knowledge, has made an effort to ascertain the financial standing of these people. The loose methods practiced in handling this proposition does not appeal to us as the proper way of doing business and should be discontinued in the future.’</p><p><br /></p><p>Commenting on the ‘Duck Me Kid’ concession, the report said:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>‘So far as the books show, no money was ever collected for it by the state.’</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The examiners said that while the fair board was to receive a commission from all the concessions, only $21.32 was paid to it from the cigar and shoe shining concessions operated by Charles Arnold and Roy Hinkle, employes (<i>sic</i>) of the fair.</p><p><br /></p><p>A total paid admissions to the centennial and fair were 135,440, while a total of 52,560 passes were issued.</p><p><br /></p><p>The report of the examiners disclosed that it cost the state $2.62 to provide entertainment for each person who visited the celebration either by paid admission or with a ducat.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mrs. L. B. Higgins, private stenographer to Lieutenant Governor Lloyd, was paid $170 for 10 days work in preparing a report of the centennial. Forty dollars was paid to Wilbur Maring and $400 was paid to an office assistant to the lieutenant governor, according to the report.</p><p><br /></p><p>The charges for cigars were divided in two items.</p><p><br /></p><p>‘Your attention is directed to two items of expenses for cigars, $36.10, charged to general expense, and $85.50 charged to directors dining hall,’ according to the examiners.</p><p><br /></p><p>The examiners set out a comparison between the expenses of the 1920 and 1921 fair, showing that each of the items was increased thousands of dollars during the first year of the administration of Governor Hyude.</p><p><br /></p><p>The audit was made by Otto Lanfersicck, Joe W. Diel and John Bartholomaus.”<b>4</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>4. The Butler (MO) Weekly Times</i>, Pyro Photos of Governor help break State Fair. Fireworks display, picturing Hyde and Lloyd, cost Taxpayers huge sum. March 2, 1922.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1141736[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The End.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="leeg, post: 4609811, member: 17073"]Thanks again all. Most of the early commemoratives have history such as this behind them. I love researching this also. [ATTACH=full]1141732[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1141733[/ATTACH] “[B]Daily Program[/B] Monday, August 8 Grand Opening – Press – Auto Race Day 8:00 AM – Gates open to the Public. Admission, Adults 50 cents. Children 25 cents. 10:00 AM – Formal Grand Opening of the Missouri Centennial Exposition. Parade to Centennial Arch of Officials, escorted by Missouri National Guard. Aerial Patrol by Flying Circus. National Salute. Band Overture by Poepping’s, Scottish-Highlander, Kroencke’s Concert, Second Regiment and for Regimental bands from the Missouri National Guard encampment. Invocation by Rev. A.W. Kokendoffer, Sedalia. President Warren G. Harding’s message officially opening the Missouri Centennial Exposition, received by Governor Arthur M. Hyde. Song – ‘America’ by audience. Address of Welcome by Hon. Arthur M. Hyde, Governor of Missouri and President of Missouri Centennial Commission. 11:30 AM – Johnny J. Jones Mammoth Exposition Shows on the Midway. Passenger-Carrying Service. Pioneer Games and Contests in Coliseum. 2:00 PM – World’s Championship Professional Automobile Races sanctioned by the International Motor Contest Association. Event No. 1 First elimination heat, four-cornered match race, distance five miles, rolling start. Drivers finishing 1st and 2nd eligible to start in event No. 4. Purse for this heat $300.00 60 percent 1st, 25 percent 2nd, 15 percent 3rd. [U]Car[/U] [U]Driver[/U] Premocar Stone Essex Roundtree C.R.G. Burk Chalmers Costa Event No. 2 Second elimination heat, four-cornered match race, distance five miles, rolling start. Drivers finishing 1st and 2nd eligible to start in event No. 4. Purse for this heat $300.00 60 percent 1st, 25 percent 2nd, 15 percent 3rd. [U]Car[/U] [U]Driver[/U] Wyllis Scheibell Peugeot Robinson Severin Gray Cyclone Searles [ATTACH=full]1141734[/ATTACH] [B]Jimmy Costa in his Fiat.[/B] Event No. 3 Time trials for Missouri State Fair track records, distance one mile, flying start. Purse to driver making fastest time. $150.00 Entries to be announced at track. Event No. 4 Third and final heat of events Nos. 1 and 2, drivers finishing 1st and 2nd in events 1 and 2 eligible to start in the final heat. Distance 5 miles, rolling start. Purse $600.00. 60 percent 1st, 25 percent 2nd, 15 percent, 3rd. Event No. 5 Division ‘C’ light car class, cars eligible 200 cubic inches and under. Distance five miles, rolling start, purses $400.00. 60 percent 1st, 25 percent 2nd, 15 percent 3rd. [U]Car[/U] [U]Driver[/U] Essex Roundtree Rajo Chatburn Cyclone Searles Chalmers Costa Event No. 6 Missouri Centennial Free-for-all, irrespective of motor, classification or piston displacement. Distance 10 miles, speedway style rolling start. Purse $1,500. 50 per cent 1st, 25 per cent 2nd, 15 percent 3rd, 10 percent 4th. [U]Car[/U] [U]Driver[/U] C.R.G. Burk Severin Gray Rajo Chatburn Premocar Stone Cyclone Searles Wyllis Scheibell Essex Roundtree Chalmers Costa Hudson Boyd Peugeot Robinson 4:00 PM – Louis James, fearless daredevil, will transfer himself from a fast driven Premocar machine to a Curtis Airplane driven by Ruth Law. Exhibition takes place on the race track directly in front of the Amphitheater.”[B]3[/B] [B]3. Official souvenir program Missouri 1821-1921 Centennial Exposition and Sate Fair held in Sedalia, Missouri on August 8-20. Soft cover book containing 109 pages.[/B] [ATTACH=full]1141735[/ATTACH] [B]Ruth Law's Flying Circus.[/B] “Jefferson City, Feb. 25. – The Missouri state fair board is ‘broke’ and without available funds to carry on the 1922 fair, following the expenditure of a total of $486,891.00 in operating the Centennial exposition and state fair at Sedalia last August. Of the amount spent $269,361.11 came out of the taxpayers’ pockets, according to an audit completed Saturday by examiners for State Auditor George E. Hackmann. The examiners declared in their report that $121.60 was spent for cigars; that the practice of issuing passes was grossly abused, a total of 32,560 passes being issued; that the board received nothing from the ‘Duck Me Kid’ concession, which was operated by Don Davis, publicity man for the joint celebration, and called attention to an expenditure of $610 for stenographer hire for Lieut. Gov. Hiram Lloyd of St. Louis, chairman of the executive commission of the centennial commission. The report declared that ‘strict economy had not been adhered to in many instances.’ The report of the examiners was taken to the office of Governor Hyde by auditor Hackmann. The governor, who returned to his office Saturday after an absence of a week, had no statement on the report early Saturday night. The fair board has a deficit of $1,281, which will be increased many thousands of dollars by outstanding obligations. The largest expenditure of the centennial commission was $44,883.83 paid to the North American Fireworks Company. Included in the large amount of money which was ‘shot up in the air,’ was the expense for the unusual feature of displaying the pictures of Governor Hyde and Lieutenant Governor Lloyd in burning fireworks nightly before the large pavilion for the benefit of the people. Gold badges, costing $25 each, were bought for members of the centennial commission. The commission bought 100,000 elaborate souvenirs of centennial at a cost of $12,164.96, to be retailed at 25 cents each. ‘For some unknown reason,’ said the report of the examiners, ‘these programs did not sell ‘like hotcakes’ and consequently at the close of the fair, 93,324 copies were unsold and on the hands of the state fair board. As these programs contain some valuable historical information, we suggest copies on hand at the state fair office be offered to the school children throughout the state free of charge.’ Apparently the commission had difficulty in differentiating between the accounts of the centennial commission and the fair board because they made the following comment in the report: [I] ‘There was so much shifting of funds from one organization to the other that it is physically impossible to ascertain from the books and records at the office just how the expenses should be divided or charged.’[/I] The examiners sharply criticized the practice of accepting notes of doubtful value in payment of concessions while the owners of many concessions apparently paid nothing. ‘Every dollar lost on concessions,’ said the report, ‘will increase the deficit. In view of the fact that this department was under direct control of a supervisor and a force of clerks at a cost of $4,474.14, we cannot understand just why these concessionaires were allowed to get away without paying their obligations.’ ‘No one connected with the state fair, to our knowledge, has made an effort to ascertain the financial standing of these people. The loose methods practiced in handling this proposition does not appeal to us as the proper way of doing business and should be discontinued in the future.’ Commenting on the ‘Duck Me Kid’ concession, the report said: [I]‘So far as the books show, no money was ever collected for it by the state.’[/I] The examiners said that while the fair board was to receive a commission from all the concessions, only $21.32 was paid to it from the cigar and shoe shining concessions operated by Charles Arnold and Roy Hinkle, employes ([I]sic[/I]) of the fair. A total paid admissions to the centennial and fair were 135,440, while a total of 52,560 passes were issued. The report of the examiners disclosed that it cost the state $2.62 to provide entertainment for each person who visited the celebration either by paid admission or with a ducat. Mrs. L. B. Higgins, private stenographer to Lieutenant Governor Lloyd, was paid $170 for 10 days work in preparing a report of the centennial. Forty dollars was paid to Wilbur Maring and $400 was paid to an office assistant to the lieutenant governor, according to the report. The charges for cigars were divided in two items. ‘Your attention is directed to two items of expenses for cigars, $36.10, charged to general expense, and $85.50 charged to directors dining hall,’ according to the examiners. The examiners set out a comparison between the expenses of the 1920 and 1921 fair, showing that each of the items was increased thousands of dollars during the first year of the administration of Governor Hyude. The audit was made by Otto Lanfersicck, Joe W. Diel and John Bartholomaus.”[B]4[/B] [B][I]4. The Butler (MO) Weekly Times[/I], Pyro Photos of Governor help break State Fair. Fireworks display, picturing Hyde and Lloyd, cost Taxpayers huge sum. March 2, 1922.[/B] [ATTACH=full]1141736[/ATTACH] The End.[/QUOTE]
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