Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-30

machinery son the ground was set IN
motion, and che buzz and whlrr was in-
Spiritlng in tho highest degree Some
ten portable and stationary engines were
employed In driving the shaiting to which
betting WAS attached and distributed the
power where desired. Reapers, mowers,
threshers, cotton gins, presses, cult
vators, sewing machines, etc, were all
at work, and this display attracted vass
crowds.
Beginning at IL O'Clock, the award of
premiums TO fine stock commenced.
Holsteips, Jerseys. Htrefords and Oar
hams were all entered, and many magnlfl
cent animals were exhibited. Tennessee
and Kentucky breeders took nearly all the
premiums.
IN EXPOSITION HALL.
There were many points OF attraction
here, but ptobably the chief one was the
ladies' department, where works Of art,
textile fabrics, quilts, tides, pin-cushions
and the innumerable articles dear to
woman's heart, were displayed. A paint
ing in oil, representing a cataract with
trees overhanging the cliffs on
either side was greatly admired
aud commented on because executed
by "a little girl, Helen Daniel Of Alvarado,
Johnson county, WHO'S only thirteen years
OF age, and who has never been instructed
in drawing or painting, so she can be
noted down as Texas genius.
Among the crazy quilts displayed in the
ladies' department is one through which
number OF fans are distributed, worked
with exquisite skill and beauty on the
body Of the quilt. This IS the work Of
lady living near Mexia, who was too
modest 70 permit her name to be used In
print
COTTON.
The feecJ staple, as /. appears In our
helds, is displayed to good advantage on
the stalk from that still green TO that in
fullest fruit, beautifully white. This dis
play was visited by thousands OF farmers,
who were anxious to buy of a seed which
had in Falls county produced bale Of
cotton 10 the acre and had suffered con-
siderably from drouth.
CORN AND THE CEREALS.
There is magnificent display OF corn
raised In Texas, shelled and In the ear;
there are over $50 exhibits neatly put up
in spotless white sacks, a hslf-bushel in
each,
Wheat, oats, rye and barley are also
nicely displayed In such manner as to
show strangers in Texas what we can do
in the grain line.
GRASS Is KING.
Some etockmau, doubtless, painted this
legend over display OF grasses, the
samples OF which measured from
thiTty-eight inches to one and
three-quarter Inches In length,
each variety being the best
grown 70 iatteu beef cattle and cause
milk cattle to yield more than abundant
ly, that at least is what the exhibitors say
Of these grasses.
Just opposite this exhibit IL display
which shows what
TuE MAN WITH THE HOE
can do In showing that he Is king. Cab
bage, potatoes, turnips, beets, melons
radishes, lettuce, apples, and ell the
vegetables not mentioned, but grown In
this climate, are exhibited and show wha'
can be done In this state.
rhK eLoGKs
One of the most interesting displays Il
people OF scientific turn OF mind Is thu
large cabinet, or combination of cabinets
allied with rare and beautiful specimens
labeled, ORTHODOXY, Zoology, Geology
Paleantology, Zoology, Mineralogy, Bot
any, etc All the birds, stones, petrliaC
lions, states, Goals, minerals and nora G
Texas may here be seen, not to forge
samples OF eggs from that OF robin to
turkey,
CHARIOT RACE,
After dinner, people generally straye
over 10 the grand stand and witnesse
with great enjoyment, the "showiug of
of Lady dc Jarnette, the famous Kentuch
mare, who ia as beautiful as q bird an
as proud as queen.
Envuan chariot race. fOur horses TO
chariot, between u man and a woman wi
also an attrsction. The lady, of cours'
won. Her name Is Signora Mile.
THR RACES.
The frst race was free for all paS
with three entries, Richball, Dan ID. or
Patsey Clinker. The result was
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Time, sass, 2;37A, 1926, 2;27a, a;s
2.2l There was considerable excit
ment over this race and great enthusiasts
when Richban won.
Second -Rive-eights OF mile heal
best two In three. Honest John won
Two straight heats Eva BrlttoD, secon
Time, ,Ol, / i02. This IL the lowest I'll
for a fye-tighths OF mile heat on recoi
A aye-eighths OF a mile dash was run
Chicago in 1883 10 l;ol by MeNeary, b
not heats.
Third race--Hopeiula stakes, consolati
nurse for non-winners, two mile dal
Idle Pat won easily in S'tsi Allie, secol
Fourth race Hopeful stakes for Tex
bred horses, which never beat ~
Doodle II. won In three straight hea
Alvin b., second Tom Moore, thi
Time, a.5l1, 7i44, 2it7a,
There will DO no speed programme
morrow, except an unfinished psc
race. 49, 49,.
The racing at the Texas state iair
daV was the finest of the week. one
the principal events was the fve-eigh
mile running race ia which Honest J'
hurried the record for that distance, q
ing under the pole In one minute ana
second, aud lowering the record made
Chicsgo In 1888. Eva Britton was
onf; Moonlight, third, and Bally, lou
GU me unfinished pacing race, ~
hill won tne two straight heats CIV