The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-06
AT OUR GREAT FAIR.
Yesterday the Biggest Day of
the Season.
EXPOSITION CLOSES To- DAY.
che Beauty Show the Feature of To-
days session-An Overwheim.
ing Success.

Yesterday was day of triumph for
the directors of tie Fair, day wifi h
should have bean one OF unalloyed
pleasure to them. for at such time,
every scintilla of doubt as to the sue
cess OF the undertaking having been
dispelled, and nothing left but the
sight of ten Thousand souls, filing
through the broad doors and surging
to and fro in the eagerness of anticipa-
ton and delight-there was nothing
for the instigators of this grand affair
TO do, but to sit and indulge themselves
in the just pride which must have
forced itself up1n them. 1t was q
veritable day of days, an1 leaves the
directors the assurance of most pro-
nounced success. The weather was
clearly made for the occasion. and the
brief downpour in the afternoon was an
undeniab!e blessing.
1t was manifest that the bIby show
and contest was the great atJrac ion of
the day, for at 2 O'Clock, the hour
when the show was annuuuce ed to take
place, was also the hour when the rush
for tickets was greatest. Men w<re
selling tickets outside and the genial
Burton at the window had to have q
corps of assistants helping him handle
the money, and the wonder was, and
still the wonder grew" where all the
people came from. The praise of the
fair from all quarters was even more
pronounced than on the day prec ding,
and the appreciation which the efJrts
OF the Directors has met with from the
public has inspired them with a de-
termination to lay the present exhi-
bition in the shade when compared WI b
what will follow year hence.
THE EXHIBITION OF HORNED STOCK
is certainly the biggest feature of the
fair, and yet there are many very noted
strains of blood wanting, and several
herds that are unrepresented. Mr.. L..
6. Hardy has on exhibition four Gal
loways-all of III N imported directly
from Scotland, save one calf They
have singular coats, The hair being
black. curry and thick, so that they are
practically lmpervious 10 cold, and are
fitted to thrive in this climate
perhaps beyond any othar strains
of blood. Mr.. Hardy has ha3
them out in the moua tains, and they
eat lucere wet or dry and are not IN
juriously affected by it in either condi-
ton, and they are in mos. excellent
shape, though they have had no grain
whatever. They are both beef and milk
r., hoe oil
finely bred Jerseys, two heifers and a
bull, which he bought of c. e. Hill Of
Denver, and which have be- here but
two weeks One OF them, "Rloter's Easter
Lily" took the first prize at The Denver
exposition in 1887.
The opinion in favor 0! the horses eX-
hibited is also growing in favor, though
it is conceded several weil-known aud
welI-bred ANIMALS are missing. Doc
Faust displays with paternal pride his
Baby" an English Shire, with
q leg that would have made Phsn-
drick Crahorre's famous look like a
match in comparison. Mr.. Davidson
has thoroughbred from Canada and
an English carriage horse of recent
importation. Mr.. Hardy has an Eng
lish coach horse, Utah bred, but
brought here in the dam; and so on
thorough trotters, draft horses and
thoroughbreds.
GENERAL GLIMPsEs.
MRS N. E. CUMMINGS. whose wholly
Utah made dress was referred w yes
terdsy morning, was awarded the
special prize offered by Sowl.s & Miller,
$40 White sewing ma chine.
THERE WERE no. a few 1owdy boys in
the building yesterday who were dis
posed to be mischievous, but the order
preserved, mastering the number in
the building during the fair, was re-
markedly good.
THE ILLUMINATION last night was all
that could be desired. For time the
effect was heightened by the placing of
between 300 and 400 candles along the |
top of the railing that eL clo' e the GAL
lery and lighting them. They made
very pretty appearance.
H. ]. GRANT & Co. offered a gold |
medal for the best design of a fire
escape. The Only design competing was
not deemed practicable By the commit
tee of awards so H. ]. Grant 81 Co. gave
to the directors to bestow
the medal wherever they should dt eide.
The directors, acting upon special
of the committee of
awards in the baby show, gave the
medal to Mrs. Lizzie Griggs, of Salt
Lake City, mother of the only pair of
twins entered in the competition for
the baby show prizes.
The HERALD sewing machine exhibit
vas surrounded the whole day long.
Souvenirs in the shape of ames writ
ZEN by the machine operator in the
presence of the visitor. and of Cleve-
and and Thurman badges were plenti-
ully in demand. The wonder is how
10 admirabl. machine can be offered
1t such very low rates. We want our
friends to know that we are not giving
{ away, and that, while the machine is
/ frst-class one, we are not losing any
hing in selling it so cheap. We are
Iaving money for the purchaser-,hat is
Ill; but it is enough.
For TIME it was thought the eques-
rian contest and that for sped and
lrawiug pow. RS of horses would have to
,e abandoned for the time being, as it
vas feared tue rain would materially
Interfere But the temperance of the
nm made the contests possible, There |