The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-28
FEATURES FOR THE
SPOKANE FRUIT FAIR
The Greatest show OF the Kind Ever
Given i'm the Eastern Washing
ton Metropolis Next Week.

Special Dispatch 10 the Post-Intelligencer.
SPOKANE. Sept. 2.--Tuesday or next
week in Spokane, promptly at O'Clock,
the magnificent parade will start which is
to open the fifth annual fruit fair. The
railroads from all points within -ov miles
of Spokane nave given the low rate OF
cents a mile. This rate is good on the
Sd of October. the day before the fair
opens. and on every day thereafter III the
18th, on which day the fair closes. II per-
mits a stap-oyer Of 1--WE days or less In
This will give all a chance to see the fair
and all its attractions and not be crowded
to get home.
A great success beyond anything in the
past is already assured for the fruit fair.
The people all over the country see the
good such an institution does and they
are helping Spokane make success of 1t.
They are sending their products from all
sides for Notwithstanding them by the
carload-and they are going 10 the fair
themselves.
In the harves; festival parade there will
be fifteen or twenty of the finest floats
ever seen on the Pacific coast. special
artist has prepared them all. and he know
what he is about. They all cost from sloo
to $500 apiece. There will be nothing in
the nature of an advertisement permitted
on them. They are to be things OF beauty
only All Will be appropriate for a harvest
festival parade. There will be the swee.
berry float. and 50 on. Many of these floats,
with their attendants. heraldS etc. Will
each occupy a block in the parade They
VIII be filled with queens. fairies. god
desses. pages and attendants. Nearly 400
costumes for these occupants of the floats
have been sent for from special costum-
Ing house in Portland.
The chief parsonage in the parade. how
ever, Will be Miss Katherine Ridgeway
Hogan, whom Whitman county has chosen
as the goddess Of plenty. She will make
a most queenly appearance as she drives
her butterfly steeds. She will be the chief
figure IN the opening ceremony at the fair
and Will deliver the opening ode
The people &C Spokane are making every
possible arrangement for the entertainment,
or their visitors on the opening day OF the
fair. There VIII be no trouble about ac-
commodations fer the crowds. no matter
how large Trey may be. There will be no
eXorbitant Prices charged, either.
The fruit fair will open on tie ith and
VIII continue till Saturday night, the 18th.
The most marked feature of the fair this
year will be the entertainment which will
be furnished from the stage of the fruit
fair every afternoon and evening. There
will be the very finest music from the mil
itary state band under the leadership OF
Prof. Hoppe. This in itself will be we'll
worth going TO hear.
The moving and stereoptic0n pictures will
be one of me greatest attractions. These
Will he put on by one Of the best compa-
MES in America. This company had It's
agents on all the chief vessels in the re-
cent war with SPAIN and It is able TO show
such thrilling scenes as the destruction of
Cervera's fleet eff the harbor Of Santiago,
the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius throwing
its terrible shells into the forts OF that
harhor. and the flagship New York en-
gagged IN bonaarding the forts OF San
Juan. There will he many other scenes
inst as thrilling. The company will sup
ply the very latest slides and films as they
come from the manufacturers. 50 that Spo-
kane will he up 10 date along with Chicago
and New York in this great attraction
Another sight which will delight and as
tonish the people Will be the marvellous
work Of the japanese acr0bats tumbIers
and ladder performers. This troupe is said
- be the very hest in existence They
VIII TIE able 10 give A different perform
ance AZ each show. There viii b. many
other attractions OF almost equal merit.