The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-09-14
AT THE STOCK PAVILION
AWARDING OF PREMIUMS FOR
LIVE STOCK EXHIBITS.

Center of Attraction to worlds
Fair Visitors-The Northwestern
states Come in for u Good Share of
the Premiums.
jackson Park, Special Correspond
ence.-During the past week the event
which seemed to have absorbed all
OF the attention that visitors could
spare from West Point cadets and the
weather was the awarding of pre-
mlums for blooded stock and horses
In the immense tan bark arena Of the
worlds fair grounds, which is known
as the stock pavilion. This great struc-
ture resembles in plan in some degree
the old Coliseum at Rome, the measure
OF Roman permanence, containing as
it does rising tiers of seats around a
central arena, which affords ample
space for five rings of cattle and horses
to be ranged at one time for Judgment.
All Of the seats are comfortably COW
cred by roof so that the state of the
weather cuts no figure with the spec
tator. This arena furnishes sufficient
room for crack foot ball game to
be played, and this week picked team
of United States cadets tackled
Chicago eleven of old college
sphere kickers, and were van
pushed by, the score Of IA to 0. At
that time q large crowd viewed the
game from the benches, while the cat
tie arena was found to be admirably
suited to the requirements of the old
association game.
There are many reasons why this
cattle and horse show should attract
a great deal Of attention. In the first
place, there is the finest and largest
display of blooded animals here ever
gathered together before in. one COM
petition The United States has always
furnished the biggest animal shows in
so far as number is concerned even
if at times these shows might leave
many things to be desired in the mat
ter of quality. The live stock exhibit
here is very great from both of these
standpoints. It is noticeable that only
the very best stock has been brought
here, and the result is that horses
and cattle which have taken, all the
prizes at state and local fairs and
which have been considered as the very
best of their kind have been reduced
to the rear ranks when they come
into competition with the best that
the world can produce.
The show of heavy draught horses
is indeed q wonder. There are all
classes and varieties Of the equine
tribe, from the Shetland pony up to
the Clydesdale and Percheron Bull
horses, as Senator La Due terms them
because Of their unwieldliness. They
are nr:,rvels Of sickness and beauty,
although the common farm horse often
exhibits far more life and style than
many Of these imported stations. Be
sides the United States and Canada,
which make naturally the most extern
sive horse and cattle display, Germany
has sent here q most magnificent eX-
hibit Of coach horses from the kaiser's
stables, and the car of the Russias
exhibits nearly sixty head Of trotters,
carriage horses and saddle horses. OF
course Russia can show nothing in the
trotting line to equal the best Ameri-
can breed, nor have they any horses
with the intelligence and training of the
Kentucky saddle horses. Their best
trottng is one mile in over 2:2O, and
their best saddle horses from the cars
stables would require a years train
ing to do the dancing, fancy stepping,
prancing, double shuffling and other
marvellous tricks which all the Ken
lucky saddle horses apparently perform
with the intelligence of the German
species. Yet their drosky horse dry
ing, their peculiar manner Of harness
ing horses and the excellent movement,
of some of their trotters attract a
great deal of attention. The German
display of coach horses, however, has
apparently no rivalry in America in
their class to speak of. Americans
make an excellent display of French
coach horses, but the poor Hackney
seems to be left almost entirely in
the lurch There is a very large dis
play Of Morgan horses here, also of
Percheron, Clydesdale, Shetland ponies,
French coach and draft horses, asses,
mules, Arabians, Cleveland bays, etc.,
to the number of about 1000. The cat
tie display is still larger, reaching a
figure near the 1900 mark. The Jer-
seys, Short Horns and Herefords are
here in great force. Besides these
there are Galloways, Polied Anguses,
Red Polled cattle, Polled Durhams,
Belled Dutch Guernseys, Brown Swiss
and many other varieties. The Hol-
stein-Friesians, which used to be all
the rage a few years ago, like Percher-
on horses, seem now to be going out Of
fashion. There is apparently fad in
fine stock raising as well as in the
modes and styles of dress.
In this grand aggregation of the
best of the worlds domestic animal
raising, Minnesota lis in nowise last,
nor does she Turk far in the rear of
the front position. People all over the
country are opening their eyes to the
fact that Minnesota is sock raising
state of the first magnitude. Although
AS yet there have been only five days
of prize awarding, Minnesota exhibit
Ors have secured fifteen first prizes
and forty-tw0 premiums altogether,
which Outranks any state or country
with the exception Of Illinois. It is
strange, however, to relate that the