San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-16

ON THE FAIR GROUNDS.

How the Work for the international
Progresses.
+, The LIGHT representative visited
the fair grounds yesterday with Man
ager Workman and spent two busy
hours in looking over the work IN
revealed no sign of any symptom OF
grading or travelling on that thor
Oughfare, and it looks now as though
nothing would be accomplished this
fall. On entering the grounds, almost
in front of the sally port but little
to the right were some forty me-
chanics busy erecting the grand
stand. The frame was about COM
pleted and it will not be more than a
few days before the stand will be
ready for it's thrOngs. 1t is very judi
ciously placed both for convenience
and view, angling to the track suffi-
GENTLY to give every spectator view
of the horses as they come down the
home stretch.
The main exhibition hall shows
signs of immediate occupation. One
half of the space below stairs is al
ready allotted and exhibitors are pre-
pairing frames and decorating. Sew
eral unallotted applications are in the
managers hands and every square foot
of space above and below will be util-
lied, with applications still unmet.
Machinery Hall is being enlarged
to double the dimensions of last year,
and for this enlargement the frame is
already up and building will be COM
pleted next week. The building as it
will be occupied is 304 feet by GA and
every square foot Of it will be 10 de-
mand.
The poultry house has been rebuilt
and is now one-third larger than one
year ago, with no open passageways
to let the northers blow through at
will. The new building is furnished
with good doors like the main build
ing aud can be closed up and made
quite comfortable.
house good gravelled road is being
constructed to the stock pens and Wis
itors will find it a very different road
to travel from the ungravelled, shaggy
paths of last year.
The open stock pens are being
heightened, four feet added to the
roof, which will not only perfectly
shelter the animals, but admit of a
covered walk in the rear of the pens
along which visitors can make their
way despite the mud and rain should
We be SO unfortunate as to have any
rainy days during the fair. The low
pens in the eastern row have all been
raised and rebuilt.
The closed stables remain as they
were and are as complete as will be
found on any ground. Some forty
INNING and trotting horses are air
ready on the grounds, among them
two stables of running horses. APP
plicatiOns for entries are being con-
made and allotments for a
racing stable of five head was made
yesterday while the LIGHTS inspec-
ton was going on.
Arrangements for watering stock
are made. Two large troughs with a
constant supply of running water will
be placed centrally between each row
of stables and pens, and every stock
man accommodated.
The grounds are being cleared of
weeds and rubbish; the moving ma
CHI ne, horse--ake and fire brand are
doing duty and a whole army of me-
chanics and workingmen are driving
matters as rapidly as possible.
Parties DESTROYS of visiting the
grounds by rail will find the trip very
readily made by the Arkansas Pass
which drops passengers at the
grounds and takes them up on all
trains, going and coming. From the
city, S:45 a. m. and l:45 p. M; from
the grounds, 1:40and GAO p. NJ; round
trip tickets, % cents.