The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-08-31
A GREAT EVENT.
Cincinnati is Preparing for One for
the Fall-Many Strong Features
That will Attract Hundreds of
Thousands.

Cincinnati evidently expects to revive
the Exposition Era, when crowds OF
people from all over the Middle States
attended her Annual Exhibitions, and
made them the most successful events OF
the kind held in the country.
Arrangements are now being carried
out to hold at Oakley Park, from Sep.
tember 25th to October 7th the Mid-Oon-
tinental Agricultural Exhibition and
Harvest Festival, which will include, in
addition to the ordinary Exposition and
Fair features, National Horse Show,
from October End to 5th inclusive, for
which many of the best Show Horses
in the United States and Canada have
already been entered. 1t will be the
finest outdoor Horse Show that has 80
far occurred, and the prize list is so at
tractive, that the contests in all the
classes will doubtless be very lively.
Stablipg has been provided for eight
hundred horses. The Superintendent
of the Horse Show is Mr.. E. ]. Snyder,
who has successfully managed number
of our leading Horse Shows.
There will be two days pacing and
trotting races, October 9th and 7th, and
apart from the ordinary events, an effort
is being made to secure John R Gentry,
Joe Patchen and Star Pointer, to beat
the worlds pacing record, which is now
held by Star Pointer. As the Oakley
track is doubtless one of the fastest in
the country, it is possible this record
may be broken.
Three large Exhibition buildings are
being built, viz: Industrial Hall, Agri-
cultural Hall and Floral Hall, and the
space in these buildings is being rapidly
taken up, 80 that the indications are
favorable for most interesting collec-
ton of exhibits. The Live Stock De-
partments are in competent hands, and
the divisions of Horses, Cattle, Sheep
and Swine will all be very largely repre-
sented. The prize list for these classes
is liberal one.
A leading special feature of the Exhi.
bition will be the Harvest Festival,
which will open on Cincinnati Day, and
the program for which is in charge of q
committee OF business men, who intend
making it very notable adjunct. There
will be National Agricultural Congress-
to which all classes interested in farming
industries will be invited, and it is hoped
that resident Mckinley and President
Diaz, of Mexico, will accept the Com.
mittee's invitation to attend this Con
gress and Exhibition.
Special days have been assigned tc
Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville
Indianapolis, etc., also Elks' Day, Work
mems Day, Children's Day, etc.
A feature possibly as interesting tc
the masses as any other, will be Grand
Midway Carnival and Old English Fair
under the direction of Mr.. Frank G
Bostock, whose reputation in the sue
cessful production of such Carnival ex
tends over two continents. This Mid
way Carnival will present quite mum
Der of the features that made the Mid
way at the Worlds Fair at Chicago &c
successful, and without having any fea
lures that could be objected to by ths
most refined persons, will afford ample
amusement to all visitors to the Exhi
bition.
Railroad companies entering in Gin
cinnati will give cheap rates during ths
entire term of the Exhibition, from al
points within radius of one hundred
miles, and the Exhibition is so varied
extensive, and affords so many novel at
fractions, that it should be, and doubt
less will be, visited by hundreds of thou
sands.
Headquarters of the management il
the Burnet House, Cincinnati. Tn,
Manager is John w. Ryckman, and tn,
Secretary, Edward M. Posey.