Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-23
STEEDS OF THE BLUEST BLOOD
Horses of High Degree Placed on Exhibition
at the Bic Worlds Fair.

WORLD FsAIR GROUNDS, CHICAGO, TIL,
Aug. 21.-Horses, proud-stepping and
high-spirited, selected from the choice
stables of the world, pranced around
the arena in the big live stock pavilion
in the presence Of 10000 people from
ali parts of the earth at the
Worlds Fair to-day. There were
great ponderous stations of shaggy
name that almost made the
earth tremble as they moved, and along
with them came the heet-footed Ken
lucky steeds with shiny satin-like coats.
There were horses from every state in
the Union, of every grade and variety.
1t was the opening of the live stock
show at the White City, and it is
said to be the largest and most
held on the American continent.
Horses were not the only animals shown
in the big arena. There was an aggre-
cation Of cattle quite as great and varied
as that Of the horses. The exhibition
of live stock opened to-day and will
close October % and each day in the
meantime there will be grand display
of horses and cattle in the live stock
pavilion.
The attendance at the opening to-day
was all that the management could have
desired. 1t shows that the live stock
feature of the fair is a popular one.
Besides the 1,2O5 head Of cattle and
1,017 horses, there will be over 1,S00
head of sheep and 800 head of hogs.
In the south end of the grounds are
forty stables, each 200 feet long and AZ
feet wide, equipped with everything
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for the aristocratic competitors.
With their stalls occupied by the choic-
est possessions of stock raisers, the live
stock stables promise to become the
center of attraction. Every morning
a cavalcade will proceed to the live
stock pavilion where the judges Will
make the awards. This was what the
pavilion was built for, and Chief Bucha-
nan expects every seat of the vast amphi-
theater to be filled every morning.
There will be leaping and hur-
die contests and the Southern
mule will bid for honors against
the western jack The mule question
was serious one for q time. Judge
Jones, of Columbia, Tenn, wanted the
great Southern product entered under a
separate classification, and he wrote to
every Southern congressman urging
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the mule chance Finally that animal
was placed in a separate class and Judge
Jones felt happy.
The Car of Russia has sent twenty
one horses to the fair. Some of them
have pedigrees that run back 125 years
and there are stations III the group that
$100,000 cannot buy. The guard, Captain
of Cavalry F. n. Imailoff, was sent as Il
special delegate to look after the horses
which were from the stables of His
Highness, the Grand Duke Dimitri.
The horses are classed as standard Or
loft trotters, heavy and light types, Or
loft half-bred saddle or weight carriers
for heavy cavalry service. A great feat
ure of attraction at the exposition will
be the parade of these stables and also
those of the imperial stables Germany.
Ninety-twO newspaper men from
South Carolina are doing the fair to-
day. They were treated like royal fell
lows on the road, but they scattered
when they reached the city like SEN
sible fellows and have made no attempt
to command attention since. Some
! friends are out hunting them up SO as to
extend due cOurteSieS