San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-11-15
THE BALL ROLLING.
THE SAN ANTONIO FAIR AND
EXPOSITION STILL IN PROG
RESS--THE CROWDS STILL
THRONG THE TURN
STiLE.

Attraction--The Races More In
teresting Than Ever
Firemen's Day.
The weather clerk seemed to have
repented him of his good behavior
yesterday, and there were evidences
that break in the superb weather
which has been afforded us was
about to occur. This morning the
indications for continued fair wealth
er are by no means satisfactory, but
even if the rains should descend and
the floods come and the winds blow,
San Antonio has had one unbroken
week of model fair weather and there
will be no kicking against the wealth
or clerk.
The drill yesterday was variation
of the military programme, the infant.
nv beiug substituted TO the cavalry.
Six companies of the Nineteenth U. 5.
infantry, the same regiment whose
magnificent band adds such an at
traction to the grounds and makes an
hour i'm the grand stand a musical de-
light outside of the race attractions,
were detailed for drill yesterday
They We're on the grounds at 1890
and the drill opened half hour later.
bIOopo
ing on the drill ground formed col
| umns of companies, closed in mass
and stacking arms waited until / ID.
IN. They then fell in, deployed,
wheeled into column by companies
thence into line and continued their
| march. After executing several mill
! tary movements in a very mastery
manner the whole closed with dress
ra1n Fant I I.l
command of the battalion, assisted by
Capt. Chas. B. Hall, First Lieutenant
! e.. Gardener, First Lieutenant A. H.
NJ. Taylor, First Lieutenant Francis
III. French, Second Lieutenant III. l..
Roberts, Second Lieutenant Charles
Fowler, Second Lieutenant Frank Nc
Intyre, Second Lieutenant w. Will
der, and FIRST Lieutenant and Regi-
mental Adjutant G. G. Hewitt. The
maneuvers were splendidly executed,
with spirit and precision, and gave
unqualified pleasure to the thousands
who witnessed the gallant spectacle.
The Terry rangers, disappointed
| in not meeting their orator. Hon
| Gustav Cook took the matter kindly
and wandered over the grounds at
will shaking hands with old friends
| c'hNt vi IIlS
| stirring times when as members OF
one band they became for a season as
! brothers united by mutual bond of
| danger.
The grounds presented the same
! general features during the day that
| have characterized them all week.
| Only the faces were changed. Every
| day sees an accession of hundreds
and hundreds OF new faces and one
who observes closely will note that
! those who were here a day or two
ago have most OF them gone. Yester-
| day afternoon trains came in loaded
as though it was the opening instead
of the closing days of the great expo
! sition.
This fair has demonstrated in part
what Texas can do in the way OF
agricultural product, not by quanti-
| ty but in quality. The fruit and
Vegetable display in the Arkansas
Pass exhibit and in the Denver and
Rio Grande exhibit, and in the ex-
hibit under Mr.. Knox care up stairs
all show alike the great fertility OF
our soil, the wide range of our pro-
ducts and the perfection to which
they grow
AS the necessity for demonstrating
our agricultural possibilities grows
upon US there will be seen from year
to year at the International fair and
exposition such exhibits of our cerials
our vegetables our fruits and our
fibrous plants as will convince the
most skeptical that the very garden
of the world is Texas and that South
West Texas is the richest spot in it.
The mineral exhibits, no less, and
the exhibits OF our 1--we stock keep
pace with our soil productions and
show nothing wanting save manu-
featuring appliances to center in
this highly favored section of the
south all that can minister to the
necessity or comfort of her people.
The live stock exhibits beng we'll
under way, breeders and dealers are
taking advantage OF the present OPP
portunity to buy, sell and exchange
for the benefit Of their herds, The
prices paid, as rule, have been good
and considerable number of animals
have changed hands. Fhe tendency
to finer grades of cattle is very potice-
able, and in few years Texas will
be looked to as the recruiting ground
for the purest herds of popular breeds.
In the ring yesterday Daniel Coul-
son was awarded SIS and blue rib
bon, for the finest Holstein cow over
years old, and John Wilkins $3.50
and red ribbon, for finest Holstein
heifer, years old and under 3.
Ben +. CaOle took all that offered
for Texas bred Polied breeds, being
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