San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-03

MUSICAL PROGRAMME.
This evenings Spanish Students pro-
gramme is:
/. Glorias de Washington. -. Paso Doble
2. Lallo in Machera. ............ Fantasia
3. Won Walzde concerts. DANA
After which q number or two by the
military band.
saturdays programme for the military
band is arranged with special reference TO
the ears of American listeners and in
cludes the following numbers.
!. LIBERTY. .:........''..'..''' March
.. Light Cavalry ................ Overture
3. Hail Columbia. Our National Air
4. Trez Jollie. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Waltz
). The Huguenots......... FANTASIA
b. Your Eyes. ................. SnOttlScn
Z. Mexican Dances. ..:..........,..;,..
At IL o'clock everything upon the
ground wears an air of expectation.
Many more people are upon the grounds
than at this time yesterday. Many more
are expected when the military band,
which has gone up town, returns at noon.
The morning upon the grounds is deli
cious. A distinct view of the city is OBJ
tanned. from the upper windows of the
main hall, the adjoining country, and the
electric railway approach to the grounds.
De Witt county has placed on exhibit
some fine cotton bales, one by way OF con-
trast, in q snowy cotton covering, show
ing cleanly beside the coarser and darker
jute bagglng.
A wOOlLY SUBJECT.
The wool exhibit, arranged for the
Board of Trade by Jean Arnold, shows
great skill in preparing the various, pro-
ducts for inspection. For wool exhibit,
like handsome woman, is all the more
attractive for being we'll dressed. There
are about 100 specimens in this collection
and they are drawn from every wool
growing section of the known world.
Among the finer woods are those from
Australia and the Cape OF Good Hope:
showing great tineneSs and sickness OF
texture. Among domestic woods, the
Ohio merino shows very fayorably as 90
Kentucky products. The Asiatic woods,
from India and Persia principally,
are coarser, and class as
carpet woods. Some beautiful
specimens of combed woods, Australian
and American, prepared in France, are
also i'm the exhibit. This collection has
been obtained only by a voluminous cor
reSpondence and world wide acquaint-
ance with the wool growers of two hemi-
spheres.
Adjoining this wool exhibit in the east
gallery of the Main building is the eX-
hibit of Val Verde county. The corn and
melon growth of this exhibit is the finest
in the hall, and the products of this
county as far as here collected compare
most faVorably with those of any other
section. They include wheat, corn, oats,
barley, potatoes, yams, wool, cucumbers,
pepper, tomatoes, SQuaSheS, apples, quin-
ceS, tomatoes, pumpkins, pecans, walnuts,
sorghum, syrup, peanuts, pears and MIN
eral specimens.
POULTRY DEPARTMENT.
The poultry department under Super
intendent Leach, contains large variety
of barnyard fowls. We have chickens of
every species, size and color. There are
BrahmaS, COchinS, Plymouth rock, Leg
horns, WyandOttes, COchns, white faced
Spanish, black Polish, spangled Ham
burg, game chickens of every kind, white
and pearl guineaS, and bantams OF every
shade, by the dozens. Some geese, but
not as many or as varied as there might
have been, are also on exhibit. We have
here the beautiful white China, the lou
louise and the plain good old wild goose.
OF the turkeys we find species of
the white Holland, turkeys that are
brown, bronze, slate and almost every
color, though these are not as largely
represented as in the former years,
Some of the fine large ducks that we
find, are of the Ashbury; the Pekin and
and complete exhibit of pigeons. We find
the pretty fantails by the dozens, of the
most diverse colors, the magpies too are
there, and there is no end of the neat,
yellow, silver and red owl pigeons. Rab-
bits, white, pink-eyed rats and pet dogs
are also found in this department.
Altogether, the poultry exhibit is a pretty
good one, even If the famous red bats do
not form part of it.
STOCK DEPARTMENT.
A large crowd of ladies and gentlemen
hung around the stock pens and horse
stalls all afternoon, admiring the beaut1-.
full animals on exhibit. A number OF
stockmen inspected the exhibit with q
view of making some selections for their
ranches, and quite number OF sales are
pending, while few good ones for fine
graded stock, have already been closed.
There were considerable comments
passed upon the days awards in the
arena, and on the actions OF the Red
River company in withdrawing from the
contest, by friends of both parties, which
added considerable interest to this depart
ment.
The arena continued to be the gather
ing place for large lot of interested
stockmen, who had assembled TO watch
the awarding of prizes to the competing
stock. In addition to what has been Civ
en- in yesterdays LIGHT the following
awards were made: