, 1888-09-30

and Times. have given the news Of the
fair a great degree of prominene during
the whole week. They found nothing
within the bounds of truth too good to
say OF it. The fact that both used THE
LEADERS, report of the races is creditable
alike to their taste and good judgment
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1t is only natural hat a week Of fair
should be followed by a day of prayer.
1t is only Just and proper that the staid
Cheyenne citizen, male and female, should
simmer down after a season of unre-
strained hilarity and instead of buying
pools IN the ungodly field or t~avorite at
the fair grounds to enter heartily into the
great spiritual free-for-all and play for a
place in the hereafter.
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Once again the oft repeated remark re-
ours with unusual aptness: If the fore
sight of some people was only as good as
their hindsight what barrels of Doodle
they could have made last week, to be
sure.
Nv
Among the people who contributed
nightly to the success of the fair there is
no one deserving of more commentator
than w. H. Force, the energetic mana
ger of the POST ercheron Association.
As the manager of a horse breeding es-
Enlistment in which a million and a half
dollars are invested it is only natural that
he should take a good deal Of interest in
an exhibition which would bring his
stock conspicuously to the notice of a
great many people. But he was not con-
tent with simply making a showing Of
draft stock such as can be duplicated by
few, if any, establishments in the world.
He contributed in addition to his time,
his money, his experience, and height
ened the interest in the hurdle and
running events by entering horses, even
though he makes no p~retensions to rails
ing anything but draft stock. Mr.. Force
has done much to add to the interests of
the fair, and not only the officials of the
fair but people generally recognize and APP
preciate the TACT.
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Politics are only an incidental feature
of fair week, but those who kept an eye
on the bar in the quarter stretch might
have concluded that horse racing was not
the only occupation in which people were
engaged.
Nv
The truly good Deacon Hayford, of the
Laramie Sentinel, was a visitor during
fair week, and returned home not even
half satisfied with the extent and charac-
ter of the exhibits. Perhaps it would be
too much to expect a man of the critical
disposition of the good deecon to be salts
fed with anything short of heavenly
glory, although there were o great
many ungodly people who were alto
gether delighted with the brilliancy OF
the speed programmes. If he only had
the foresight to have bought a little 50
Paris mutual pool on the races the whole
face of nature might have been changed
for him. Nothing stimulates interest in
a horse race like a little money staked on
the result. We have no desire to i~nveigle
the truly good deacon from the straight
and narrow path of rigid rectitude but if
he wants to find out what a hilarious
abode this lovely footstool really is let
him buy some cheap horse in the pools
against heavy odds and then win. 1t
will compensate for the loss of a peck of
front teeth, deacon.
The bar receipts for the five days of the
fair were $l.l57.25, which, of course, in
cludt s the sale of lemonade and cigars.
1t also includes the sale OF some other
fluids of an at least equally deadly charac,
ter, and indicates pretty conclusively that
prohibition wasn't positively rampant in
the quarter stretch. The week, however.
WIS not married by a single disturbance.
On Wednesday and Friday the gate re
ceipts we're about equally large, being Il
little short OF $500 ON each occasion
Fridays attendance included IA great many
school children, which accounts for tie