The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-04
LIVE STOCK PARADE.

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fair of '94.
LIVE STOCK PARADE.
The live stock parade at 4 o'clock
CONSISTED of the exercising of the horses,
which were a splendid collection. The
| owners or grooms led their equine
property about the temporary enclosure
! west of the building and many of them
| had their hands full in managing their
spirited pets. Big Normans and Clydes-
dales pranced playfully and dangerous
| ly near tiny, meek-eyed Shetlands, and
sedate draught horses looked on rather
disapprovingly, never once forgetting
their own dignity. The grand stand
was filed with spectators and the fra
gile fence nearly collapsed under the
weight Of hundreds of lockers on.
THE WHEEL EXHIBIT.
There are three bicycle exhibits.
Faschers Overland Flyer is placed
at the right OF the secretary's Office.
| On the first landing is the display
made by the Salt Lake Cycle company,
with Oscar Groshell and Charlie
Emise in charge. Eight gayly berib-
boned Cleveland and Sterling wheels
are in evidence.
| On the landing above, George Odell
| is in charge of the exhibit Of the Fow-
Ter Cycle company, consisting of six
Fowler bicycles. Everybody who reg
listers receive a ticket with a coupon
attached. The coupons are deposited
| in a ballot box on the second floor of
the main building. Late Saturday
evening a coupon will be drawn from
! the box, and the lady holding the cor
responding number will be the posses
sor of a fine bicycle, specially enam-
elled and with a pneumatic seat. The
bicycle is valued at $685.
THE ART PRESERvATIvE
A new and interesting exhibit placed
yesterday was the type exhibit made
by J. S. McLaren. Mr.. McLaren pre-
sided over a molten metal connection
and illustrated the process of casting
type as it was done a hundred years
ago. At his right and under his di-
ERECTION, a youth showed the modern
improved method. There were electro
types and stereotypes on exhibition.
The gentleman in charge of the depart
ment is one of the pioneer typos of
the territory. In 1871 he used to look
for pieces of copper kettles on the old
camp grounds.
HANDSOME FURS. ~
r. Stencil has a splendid display of
| furs, all Utah products, except seal
Furs in the natural state, plucked and
dyed, are to be seen there. The skin.
| of the largest bear ever killed in the
| territory, also the largest buffalo, oc-
cupy conspicuous places in the display.
A curiosity is the head of a deer, whose
horns had been injured, and which
showed a curious malformation, nearly
a hundred tiny horns jutting out from
| the larger ones. In natures attempt
to heal the bruised horns she had COW
cred them with a soft, woolly SUBJ
stance.
SAM LEWIS CIGAR BOOTH.
Sam Levy's cigar booth is a good
showing, and that gentleman displayed
his lberality by inviting all on the
speakers stand at the close of the af-
ternoon addresses to test the quality
of the stock.
| c. F. Murray used the space allotted
to him to good advantage in the dis
play of some elegant nantes, chairs
and mirrors.
A photograph. an attachment to the
Everett piano, for the purpose of Civ
| ing the mandolin, guitar and banjo eff
| feet to selections, attracted much at
tention.
WASHING MADE EASY.
Jabez Taylor & Sons used the south
east corner of the main building for
the exhibition of their washboards. In
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and Timms, manufacturers of the
Utah washer, exhibited their wares.
Charles NewsoE has patented the ma
chine, which, he claims, has four times
as much rubbing surface as any other.
He has also secured patent for an
attachment to the Western washing
machine Melancthon Burgess, a
blind inventor of ST. George, exhibited
the Zenith washer. a recent invention
of his.
ELECTRICS.
SeIden Clawson's electrics, with
Heesch & Davis Sanitary company,
showed improved appliances of cleo
trio lighting.
AN INTERESTING COLLECTION.
S. Challer's collection of fossils,
shells and pressed flowers, as well as
tiny figures representing inhabitants
of every country of the globe, attrac-
| ted a crowd all day.
CAR COUPLER.
| A model of the Thompson-Knox au-
tomato car coupler is on exhibition in
one of the east alcoves on the upper
marvel of ingenuity and is withal ex-
tremely simple
Turning and scroll work, as well as
| the Monarch washer, another device
for Tightening the labors of the house
wife, were exhibited by William Wis
mar & Sons.
A NEW INDUSTRY.
The Utah Suspender company show
ed its wares in artistic fashion in the
northeast part of the building.
Grant and Curtis showed a fine line
| of shirts to please those with substan-
tial as well as aesthetic tastes.
IMPLEMENTS OF WAR.
Captain Gibbs explained with a great
deal of pardonable pride the action of
the two large Calling guns, owned by
| the artillery of the Utah National
Guard. The two guns We're mounted
| in the eastern part Of the grounds.
The four steel rifles were also on ex
hibition at that place. The rifle can
non can shoot a distance of nine miles
with accuracy, the ball, thirteen pounds
| in weight, breaking into 240 pieces
when they strike. Captain Gibbs had
good audience throughout the after
noon, and it was appreciative enough
| 10 satisfy even an enthusiast like
himself.
GRANT SOAP co. PRIZES.
At $50 it was announced that the
prizes to be awarded by the Grant
Soap company to its patrons would now
be assigned and Messrs. Nelson Empey,
Frank Jennings, J. II. White, G. NJ.
| Ottinger, Jacob Noritz and Professor
Metcalf were named by the audience
as judges. A Celestial by the name
of Joshua Davis turned a huge box on
crank. jostling the tickets in such a
way that the first should be last or at
least in distant position from its
original one in the box. A lad named
Joshua Phelps was chosen to draw the