The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-02
LOOKS LIKE SUCCESS.
Preparations for the Fair Are
Nearly Completed.
Every Indication Points TO Most Pleasing
and Profitable Exkibii-The
Programme of Exercises.

Last night was the last directors meet
ing to be held prior to the fair and it was
well attended, there being present Presl-
dent Mason and Directors Wells. Rowe,
Empey, Park, Thomas. Bnmberger, Parker,
Holloway ana Lsngsdorf.
w. A. Corey was appointed assistant
supervisor of the educational department.
in place of Mr.. Stewart, who is sick.
John Robinson was appointed assistant
supervisor in the department OF manufac-
lures.
1t was decided that the judges for baby
show and pretty girl contest be chosen
from the directors and the matter OF select
ing judges for the musical contest was left
with the assistant secretary.
The programme for the week was de-
cided upon as follows:
TUESDAY, OCT. 4.
Opening exercises at 10 o'clock noon as
follows:
Music by Logan band.
Prayer.
Address by Governor Thomas
Formal declaration of the opening Of the
exhibition by Curtis P Mason, president
Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing
society.
Music.
Up. m.-Grand exhibition of the Pompier
life saving crew.
p. m.-Repetition of life saving exhibit
ton, with representation of confagration
and life saving drill.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5-scHooL DAY.
p. MILITARY drills.
$3.50 D. m.-Grand balloon ascension and
parachute jump by Professor Leonard, who
asceEds to dizzy height and drops to the
earth by means of the parachute.
Afternoon exercises-School chorus, dec
lamation, calisthenics.
p. m.-Pretty girl contest.
THURSDAY, OCT. 6-PRovo DAY.
Up. m.-Sheep- shearing contest.
7:30-Grand colored Quartette contest, in
which number of quartettes will appear
in competition singing "Old Virginia."
"Massa's in the Cold Ground,n and My
Old kentucky Home.'
S:90-Pompier life saving exhibition.
FRIDAY, OCT. 7-oGDEN DAY.
2p. m.-Grand public wedding.
s p. m.-Grand concert in pavilion, in
Guiding Comrades in Arms.n Chorus by
Professor Thomas prize organization and
glees by Union Glee club and the Harmony
boys.
SATURDAY, OCT. SLOGAN DAY.
10 a. m.-Grand parade of all the stock
exhibits and attaching of ribbons on prize
animals.
p. m.-Baby show for $50 offered in
prizes by the society and many other valu-
able contributions by merchants.
Afternoon-Horse pulling matches. for
two prizes of SIS each.
P. m.-Grand promenade concert, by
Logan band.
The entries now number about fifteen
hundred.
Wagons are only allowed entrance at the
east gate, but exhibitors on foot can gain
entrance at the west gate from now on.
Owing to the crowded condition of the
building it was found necessary to omit
the Deseret museum from the fair exhibits,
but as the building will be full to overflow
ing the visitors will be amply paid for this
the disappoint ment.
The pictures of the Pompier Life Saving
corps are in the windows and are attract
ing much attention. 1t gives exhibitions
Tuesday afternoon and night and Thurs
day night. Master Charles Hooker, the
12-year-old son of Drillmaster Hooker, will
positively appear at each exhibition There
are nine in the company, including the boy
The old printing press to be exhibited at
the fair by Charlie Johnson is the one
bought in 1S4S by Orson Hyde, who
printed the Frontier Guardian, at Kanes-
vile. now Council Bluffs, Ia. Joseph E.
johnson afterwards purchased the Office,
and upon the destruction by fire of the
press of the Council Bluffs Bugle, again
brought it into use, publishing at various
times the Omaha ArrolC, the Crescent City
oracle, the Rock Bottom, the Emigrdnrs
Guide, and then moving forward
to WOOD River Centre, where he
published the HuntSmdn'S Echo. Later
it was brought 10 Utah at cost of
% cents a pound for freight by mule teams,
and taken to Spring Lake Villa where the
Farmers Oracle was published. The next
move was TO ST George, where the press
printed in succession Our Dirie Times, then
the Rio Virgin Times, The Cactus. taen the
Utah Pomologist, then Siluer Reef Echo, then
the SuUer Reef Miner, The present proprie-
tor bought it back to rest upon It's laurels.
What tales. of early western life its pres
sure has told Its cold and sombre iron
now merely testifes to it's former day of
usefulness, when it helped to make 1.-The
desert blossom as the rose" 1t was in
tended TO tx it for printing a souvenir, but
for the breaking of a part of it by the rail-
way carriers.