The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-23
THE BIG STATE FAIR.
Everything is Hummlng at Narra-
gansett Park.
THE WILD WEST SHOW ADDED
The Entries Are to be Made Very Cum
ningly by Means OF Numbers-"Lots''
OF Horses on Hand, and Many Bright
Additions-BiI Rhode Island.

All is activity and life at Narragansett
Park in preparation for the great State
Fair.
When the public next steps within the
gates, the grounds will present an appear
ance very different from that Of last year.
The new association has spared neither
money nor labor to make the coming fair
the grandest ever held. In fact to one
who has not taken part in such enterprises
no conception of the amount Of work
being done can DO formed.
There are now at work fifty-four men,
twenty-one horses and yoke OF cattle.
At present the track is receiving most of
the attention, being spread with clay,
narrowed and levelied. A force OF men
are employed here night and day, and it
is expected that by tonight the operation
OF pudding and packing will be com
menced aud in ten days the track should
be in very good condition.
in front of the new stalls which have been
built, and a large number OF carpenters,
fence builders, painters and shinglers are
all employed in their special lines.
The association Is advertising this year
more extensively than ever before, al
ready having two men on wagons and
one man following the railroads. 10000
pieces of paper have been used already
and more will be employed.
|. One of the advertising men reports an
amusing experience in southern RHODE
ISLAND. He found man who was so
races. ETC., that he wanted to buy some,
and finally when the agent offered to
cover the front OF his house, the man not
only accepted but offered 70 pay for the
same. The scene Is very striking, aud the
house, the whole front of which Is
covered with posters for the State Fair, Is
the talk of the whole region.
During the next two weeks bulletin
OF the fair will be issued containing a full
account Of all the proposed attractions.
I his is an entirely new feature aud Is ex-
pected to be a great assistance
A new system OF taking entries has
been adopted this year.
An index book, in which are kept tho
names of all the exhibitors, is under the
care of one clerk. Each exhibitor Is
given a number by which his exhibit will
be known, and no names Will appear so
that the judges will be entirely unbiased
in forming their estimate OF the merits Of
the various articles.
The system of numbers furthermore
does away with bast amount of labor in
recopyinging the names and varieties.
The plats for space have gone very fast
and the whole thing has been reduced to
a perfect system 50 that all get the
amount 70 space contracted for. no more,
no less.
In the line Of attractions several addi-
tions have been made since TO those which
were announced in the NEWS "a few weeks
ago. Cassinl will give exhibitions of
riding upon her trained stallion Leperello,
ana the Mohawk Indians now ut Crescent
Park will give their Wild West perform
ance.
A higher class of entries in the horse
races has been the natural result of the
time should be made IN all the events
Trainers and their horses occupy all the
available barn space now, aud as soon as
prepared the new stalls will be occupied.