St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-09-19
A BIG HORSE SHOW.

society can bestow upon it, will be one
of the features of the Pan-Americar
Exposition at Buffalo next year.
1t is planned upon the lines observ
ed in those well known society events
of q like nature held annually in Mad.
ison Square Garden, New York city
Metropolitan society is regularly
thrown into a futter Of excitement as
the time approaches each season fol-
these picturesque events, and the
great Garden takes on a festive air
that is not rivaled again throughout
the year
Society then shines respondent,
Popular conversation is upon the com
parative merits Of favorite animals.
The decorations Of the person and Of
the building and the attire of devotees
suggest the horse. The newspapers
talk horse and the whole metropolis
pays homage to the high bred animals
whose proud pedigrees become as IA
milar as the biographies of statesmen
at election time.
1t is expected to make the great
horse show to be held in the fall of
next year at this Exposition quite as
spectacular and interesting as those
held in New York On this occasion
the finest bred animals of the Ameri-
cas- will be brought together to COM
pete for honors and the favor Of the
public.
The show will be held In the
Stadium, which is to be the great
show place of the Exposition, having
seats for more than 10000 and a track
a quarter Of a mile in circumference.
While a general display of horses
will be made at this show, of particular
interest will be the animals adapted to
the uses of fashionable society, such as
saddle horses and ponies tandem driv-
ers, hunters, jumpers polo ponies, cou-
pc and coach horses, fourth hands,
trotters and runners. The show will
include many costly equipages and
novel turnouts that are used with the
finely bred animals that will be
brought forward to delight the public
eye.
Superintendent f. A. Converse of the
Live Stock division has planned to ac-
commodate 1000 horses in the exhibit
of American bred animals. The breeds
that will be recognized are Standard
bred, Thoroughbred, French coach,
French trotters, Cleveland bay, Olden-
burg, etc, Belgian, Hackney, Morgan,
Arabs, Percheron, Clydesdale, English
shire, French draft, Suffolk, Punch,
Shetland ponies, Jacks and Jennets.
This will be the occasion for bringing
together the finest animals bred on the
western continent While the trolley
car and the automobile have relieved
the horse of much of his drudgery, he
continues to occupy distinctive field
of work in the general economy. The
tendency of the times, too, is to pro-
duce better animals.
The cheap car horse has to a large
extent gone out, and scientific breed.
Ing is replacing the common stock
with horses of higher intelligence and
efficiency. The experience of many
breeders during the Introduction of the
trolley car and the flooding of the mar
ket with cheap horses was discourag-
ing, and a large number turned their
attention to other lines of work.
The situation, however, is coDsidera-
bly, improved, and prices are again
more nearly what they should be. The
interest in breeding is regulated by the
pecuniary reward, and the improved
demand lends a new attractiveness to
the breeding and training of horses,
The demand for horses in cities contin.
ues brisk, particularly for draft ami,
mails such as the Clydesdale and the
Percheron, and for gentlemen's driving
and coach horses.
The Live Stock division of the Pan
American Exposition will offer Il
breeders an opportunity to place be
fore the public high bred, stylish, goo,
acting horses with a view Of showing
what particular crosses are advan
tageous in producing such animals
Experiments have been made with
view of producing large standard bred
suits.
Another feature will be an exhibi
Of horses adapted for cavalry purposes
The extraordinary demand for cavalr.
nit in 1u hoI
brought to the attention of breeder
the wisdom of producing a type o
animals having the qualities that tn
cavalry service requires. Not only ha
the demand been very large for tn
United States army, but foreign buy
ers have frequented the America
markets and purchased many animal
for the armies of other countries. Sey
eral large breeding establishments ar
already turning their attention to tn
raising Of cavalry horses. With tn
great number of horses that will b
brought together at the Pan-America
Exposition the visitor will have a
opportunity seldom equaled to make
particular study Of this line of breed
ing.
Superintendent Converse Is In co
respondence with the entire % Nj
tional Associations whose members al
engaged in sheep breeding and wo
growing. He reports that every ass
citation, without exception, is much Il
terested in the Pan-American Expos
ton and that II will cnntrdhllta O.