Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-26
SHAPING FOR THE FAIR.
HARD AT WORK on AFFAIRS AT
PARK AND PAVILION.
How the Two Big Purses Filled With
Five Entries in Each-The Race
for Named Horses Not Yet
Ready to Publish.

Everybody connected with the eixth
district agricultural fair association and
its most potent auxiliary, the chamber OF
commerce, is busy. Hazards pavilion
has been secured for the interior portion
OF the great show; and the display will
rot only be larger and more varied than
in any previous year, but the auxiliary
attractions will be more numerous.
Among these will be an acrobatic con-
test, baby show, a dancing attraction
and musical contest. This, together
with an unusually large art display, 4
both of paintings and statuary, will
make the after-dark portion of the fair
very attractive.
THE PROGRAMME PRIZE.
Several weeks ago prize of $40 was
offered by the chamber Of commerce for
the best programme of entertainment
outside OF the livestock show and racing
department. There we're several COM
petitors for this prize, and, strange to
say, all from persons connected with
newspapers hereabouts. Alter some
deliberation, the prize was awarded to
Miss Annie M. Pittenger, OF Ventura.
She is the daughter of clergyman re-
siding in that county, and is frequent
published in this city.
IN LOCAL INDUSTRIES.
There will be much to amuse and in
struct. There will be turning lathes for
workers in wood, ivory, iron and brass;
there will be pottery factory at work,
making flower pots and molasses Jugs;
fret saws cutting brackets and every
other Imaginable kinds of work and
generally good display of local indus
tries, showing casual visitors the growth
and progress the city is making in man
ufactures of all sorts. Los Angeles now
keeps a great deal of money at home,
through her local manufactures, which
used to go to San Francisco and the
east. Conspicuous among the attractive
features in this department, is a silk
apring loom that will unreel the silk
from the cocoons and spin itinto thread
right before your eyes. You will see the
hair of the Angora goat also worked up
into q cloth which is used for lining
coat collars, etc. Indeed, there will be
many novel features in the pavilion de-
partment of the great chow which will
pay for minute inspection.
OTHER PRIZE CONTESTS.
There is to be type-writing contest,
in two branches. The contestants in
the first branch are to be students only,
and the first prize is to be diploma,
which, although it has no intrinsic
value, will be nevertheless priced by
the winner. The other is for experts,
the first prize being $40 and the second
IS. These contests are to be conducted
according to rules prescribed by the
board, which will be furnished to con-
testants in time for them to familiarize
themselves with them before they be-
gin work. AS there are several hundred
men and women employed here in that
capacity, there should be an additional
lot of prizes given by the stationery
stores, in order to make an interesting
competition out of the affair.
THE PRIZE BEAUTY SHOW.
| The beauty show is open to all young
ladies residing within the Sixth Agri-
cultural district over Is years of age,
providing, OF course, that they are of
moral character. The prizes in this de-
| partment are $25 and SIS for first and
second prizes respectively, but. up to
date, there have been only six young
ladies' nominated. The conditions un-
der which the entries are to be made re-
quire 10 nominations to be made or the
above prizes will not be given. The
HERALD suggests that third prize OF
| $40 be given, in order to stimulate the
contest.
OLD TIME COOKING.
1t also has suggestion to make of an
old-fashioned Spanish kitchen, wherein
| the eastern visitor can regale his interior
hombre with all the red hot cookery for
which the Castilian cuisine is so justly
| famous; and at which the average
1 Yankee can learn something new about
the manifold culinary uses Of Indian
corn.
AT THE DIRECTORS ROOM.
Within the Offices OF the agricultural
society all is hustle and hurrah. The
two big purses offered by the society in
the free-for-all classes have already borne
fruit in the shape Of five entries in each
class. The great free for all of last year,
won by the Los Angeles stallion Nc
Kinney, drew such crowd as nearly
paid the whole weeks purses; and the
only thing to regret is that the large and
liberal purses now offered by them were
not advertised in the first place, as q
larger number of entries might have
been had in each class, trotting and
pacing. The great sidewheel contest
takes place on the third day of the fair.
THE FREE FoR-ALL PACE.
This race takes place on the third day
for purse of $500, divided $3.50 to the
first, and so on into four moneys. Fol
lowing are the entries:
1 w. H. McCartney's bl. m. Princess
Alice, :16, by Dexter Prince McC Clellar
mare.
Oakwood Park FARMS b. g. w. Wood
2:1114, by Steinway.
r. III. Mentions br. G. Tom Ryder
2:17I, by Alexander Button-BlacE
Ralph mare.
Il E. Willet's bl. h. Silkwood, 2:181a, BY
Blackwood Mambrino- Luck Woodruff
Thos. Keating's b. g. Our Dick, 2 :15
bv Gibraltar--David Hill mare.
This is hot field and ought to maxi
a good race.
THE FREE-FoR- ALL TRoT.
This includes still better lot of "ter
, ribly high bred cattle, if such thin
) were possible. The entries are four i