The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-19
This Years Program tho Best ET.s
GiVon.
BIG qR0TYING EVENTS IN II,
And Nothing That Can Lend Attractivss
ness to the Fair Has Been Left IN
done-Big Premium Lists. Nam moth
Displays and Great Exhibits Of sto X.

Persons visiting Narragansett park
during the third week in September will
witness the results OF a years work done
by the Rhode Island State Fair asso-
citation in its earnest endeavor
to make the state fair the
most complete of any In Americn
The fair now consists OF 26 sep rate de-
partments, each properly org ,nized aud
officered. / these departmeufs every
Industry Is Represented and encouraged.
The association Is in touch ith the pro-
gress of the century and Is quick to
rrcognize the neeus and wants of the
public.
Special attention has been given to the
live stock department $37, COO was APP
propriated early in the se son for the
trotting aud pacing events. There are
2si entries in the stakes. The largess
breeding farms will send their
fastest horses to compete for the
biz money offered, 5000 for 2.20 trotters,
eligible May 15, being tine largest stake.
There are to he twelve purse races, ra W
ing from free-for-all-class up to 236
class; -, The .., entry lee Is only
ance from horsemen is such that tue
association is low building eighty addi-
tional stalls to accommodate the horses
hat are coming. The twenty two trot-
ting aud pacing events are the largest in
number ever given on any track IN the
The attractions engaged possess the
highest merit. Charlie kiuzer of Woos.
ter. Ohio, Is coming with nis four famous
trotting dogs and In addition pack
Of .whippets will run races daily.
Mount will give balloon sscensions, and
twice during the week viii give an ascen-
sion with q balloon seventy-eight feet
high, a trapez performances and double
parachute leap. some hing never before
ATTIC pied in New England.
structcd for bench show OF doRs. The
OF the American Kennel club.
John Davidson Of Mouro, Mich,
aud James Mortimer OF New York
have been ensagcd Us judges. Jonn Rea q
Waiter j. Comstock OF Providence Is
chairman OF the bench sho committee.
he fiuest dogs in tue world will be "a
exhibition.
In the ponltry department $4,000 as
been offered for prem.uns without an
is superint ntendsn and Harmo
5. Babcock of Providence. is chalr.na a.
OF tue poultry 8 ow committee. The
quality OF cattle, sheep anu swine entered
for competition has never been exc.lled
by any previous fair. The horticultu al
eAulDtb Oc uciQ ia ~ n0tk 1VS
b. 40. The premiums have been
nearly doubled. Two halls are entirely
devoted to merchants display fashioned
after the Mechauics' far hel in Bos Oh.
Every inch OF available space ! these
halls is taken by the manufacturers and
merchants Of New England. THIS is
new feature and viii pr,ve
very Interesting to visitors. The
food and domestic science departm .nt is
another new eJnrture and CO ,les ia TIE
line of M. era education. Marioi A
Mcbride OF Boston is superintsn.. .ent AID
al be assisted by IL professional cooks.
Tn public schooi d partmen. Is new and
is destine 10 become tue FIRE nost deparS-
ment in the fairs II the future.
A number of permanent improvements
have been effected 10000 les Of new
roof has been built connecting five OF the
exhibition halls, and making oue Of the
larg st roof spaces for exhibition
purposes in the worlJ. The main carriage
entrance has been moved $50 feet south
Of its former position, where new pass
singer entrance, capable of admitting
vast crowds, has been constructed.
Now that the halls have been connected
aud are TO be lighted by electricity and
the exhibition kept open evenings. there
is an evideat increase of interest in the
State fair. which has reached in sizs an
exposition OF national Importance.