, 1888-09-25
ALL is READY.
Everything Arranged for the First
Day of the Fair.
A Stroll Through the Halls and
Around the Stables.
The Great Club Cup Race and Other
Speed Contests To-Day.

The attendance during the preliminary
day of the fair was not small. AT one
time yesterday there we're fully 1000
people IN the ground. The majority were
exhibitors, but a large number drove out
simply for the sake of seeing things gratis
and before others.
The art hall was thronged with ladies
the entire day, and Mrs. Richie found the
task of receiving entries in this depart
ment no sinecure, while the ~gallants who
volunteered TO assist in arranging the
displays were sadly overworked.
In the merchants hall all the spare
clerks in town were decorating spaces,
quarrelling over stepladders and bandying
jokes. 1t was a merry crowd of hard
workers. Nearly every firm of any prom
inence in the city will be represented in
merchants hall.
The vegetables seemed to come rather
slowly, but Pumpkin Dell will be quite
well filed before the gates are thrown
open this morning, and the displays of
prize c%abbages, etc, will open the eyes
of those who do not keep pace with the
agricultural development of the terri
tory.
The tip hunters, stable boys, rubbers,
trainers and owners about the stables
made quite a crowd and everyone seemed
busy. Stalls were being repaired and re-
modelled in exhibitors rows and spirited
animals were arriving every minute.
Once in a while a headstrong stallion
created some excitement and there were
several stampedes when diminutive Jocks
came galloping up on hard mouthed
flyers. With pardonable pride the horse
men exhibited their animals to callers
whom they fancied.
There a large number of cattle on
the grounds, several focks of sheep, a
few pens of hogs, some Angora goats and
a bunch OF blooded mules.
Farm machinery will be quite a feature
of the exposition. A self binder was
placed in shape yesterday morning and
several other large implements arrived in
the afternoon.
A restaurant was ready for bu ,iness
last evening. A cane rack was being ar
ranged and the voice of the fakir will
blend with that Of the strong lunged
juvenile who assures you that his lemon
ade is seven times colder than the frozen
ocean.
The poultry department should not be
overlooked. There will be some fine
birds in the cages to-day.
Interest in to-day's exhibition centers
on the races for the reason that the mag
niicent club cup will be captured, for a
year at least, by some territorial horse
man.
Blood will surely tell in the Cheyenne
stakes for y~earllng trotters, foal of 1887.
1t will be a half mile dash between G.. B.
Goodelrs Heron and Pulsee, the prop
erty of Du Bots Bros, Denver horse
men.
A. Martins Wapsie Chief, F. [. Gun
nel's Jim Page and Chas. Quits Grover
G., are the nominees for the $50 trot,
mile meats, pest thlee In I'VE.
There are five entries in the 2:33 trot
and there will be some rapid travelling for
that class. The candidates are: Magnet,
Du Bots Bros. Bunyon, Dan Meek; Ned
Biddle, \. Martin; Spartan, G. B.
Goodell; Louette, Chas. Dutt. With
the exception OF Spartan and Biddle all
are Denver animals.
For the much talked of club cup race
the entries, colors and riders are gwen as
follows:
G. B. Goodell's Deronda; c%olors, cream
and cardinal; rider, Mr.. Scoville.
j. d. Freeborn's Frederick; colors,
black and orange; rider, Mr.. Watson.
T.W. Brooks Nellie Bly,; %colors, brown
and orange; rider, Mr.. Adams.
n. R Davis St. Halma; %colors, purple
and old gold; rider, Mr.. KuykendalI.
n. R. Davis Little Owl; colors. purple
and old gold; rider, Mr.. Teschemacher.
Post-Percheron Horse Associations
Trouble; %colors, canary and cherry; rider,
Mr.. Iselin.
Arthur Stokes Endebar; colors, white
and salmon cap; rider, Mr.. Stokes.
The conditions of this great race, which
is entirely under the management Of the
Cheyenne club, follow:
Cup to be run for annually at tie fall
meeting of the Wyoming Fair A~-.cla-
ton. Distance, one and one eighth niles.
Horses to carry not less than $50 pounds.
Horses to be eligible to start for the Chey-
enne club cup must have been fOalcd in
Wyoming or so close to the lint Of the
territory as TO be acceptable to the com
mittee. Riders must be members or
guests of the CHEYENNE or Laramie clubs