The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-04


outclasses All the others-Ezra A.
Wins the First Race in Straight
Heats, and Lucy Heyer Takes Sec
ond Event-Today's Card.
From staff Correspondent.
Dallas, Oct. 3.-In spite of the gloomy
skies and the raw, chilly atmosphere
there was q good attendance at the
fair grounds here today, 1t being the
formal opening day Of the exhibition
given by the Dallas Fair association.
Secretary Norton said 1t was the
largest crowd for the opening day OF
any fair yet held, and If this ratio IS
maintained for the next two days 1t
guarantees q successful meeting.
The trolley cars running between
here and Wilkes-Barr were we'll filed
all the morning and in the early after
noon. When the passengers on them
alighted in front of Raub's hotel they
found hacks of all kinds and all sizes
awaiting to convey them up the steep
hills to the grounds, nearly a mile
away.
There were large number Of Scran-
tonians visible about the grounds. most
of them more interested in the trotting
events than in the fair exhibits. al
though these latter deserve more than
a cursory mention.
No lack of music can be complained
of, for there is constantly heard either
the excellent melody dispensed by the
Citizens band, of Plymouth, under the
brilliant leadership of Conductor Nor
rell. or the strains of a negro COM
binaton in one of the tents given over
to vaudeville. When both Of these are
silent. and more often when they are
not, the machine-like. laborious tunes
turned out by the merry-go-round back
of the grand-stand strike heavily on
the already overburdened air.
The Citizens band is one Of the best
in this section of the state. 1t has
twenty men on the grounds and their
music is of a high-class order. They
occupied the grand-stand and enliv-
ened the tedious waiting between
heats.
Fakirs Galore.
There are more outside attractions
here today than yesterday. The fakirs
who have been following all the county
fairs in this part of the state have
flocked hither in great numbers, and
their hoarse cries as they eXtol the
merits of their particular wares or
games lend an added excitement to the
Stir and hustle that prevails.
Among the exhibits entered for pre-
miums the poultry department easily
outclasses all the others. 1t is full and
running over with fine specimens of
chicks, fowls, geese. ducks and feath-
cred animals of all kinds. The pigeons
are numbered by hundreds and there
is an endless variety. One cage that
attracts attention shelters more than
forty pure white pigeons. Another
cage holds u large collection of white
Wyandotte chicks. There lis a pet por-
cupine in this department, as well as
duck with white, green blue and
purple plumage and a distorted bill
that gives 1t the appearance of a hare
lip.
In the main exhibition building the
sides are utilized by merchants, and
there is enough variety In the wares
displayed to stock a good-szed town.
There are groceries and drugs, stoves
and sewing machines, and l.. B. Powell,
of Scranton, has a first-class display
OF pianos and organs and sheet music.
The manufacturers of agricultural
machinery have been liberal and have
sent large number of their products
here. Everything in this line from
cream separators to threshing machines
lie scattered about and farm wagons,
buggies and other wheeled articles are
numerous, some for sale and others
after premiums.
Cattle and sheep and swine have
been driven in in good numbers and
the quarters allotted to them are fire.
qucnted by bronzed bearded men and
buSom women, who estimate their
commercial value critically and talk
learnedly about fodder and silos and
other mysterious things.
Ladies Guido the Men.
The ladies of Luzerne county have
gone ahead of the men in doing their
part to make the exhibits attractive,
and the centre of the main building Is
completely taken up with samples of
their ingenuity in needlework, preserv-
ing and cooking.
About 23O o'clock the first event on
the track was called, the 2.22 trot and
pace FOR purse Of $3.50. The track Is
S''iosee ny lISu wire renee, With
gates to prevent the spectators from
osossing 1t, and this arrangement is an
Iamirable one. At the time the first
i's~v-s*es.ealled there were about 900
persons on the grounds and about a
third of that number We're in the
grand-stand.
The officials of the racing were:
Starter, William Moore, Wilkes Ba rre:
timers, James, Townsend, Wilkes
BarreS go Sterling, r., Catlin. Wilkes
Barre: Clerk of course, j. II. Ander-
son. The description and summary of
the two races follow:
- go. First Race.
2.22 class, trotting and pacing; purse $50;
mile heats best three in fpe--First heat-The
field OF three got the word at the third line up
and Ezra get going speedily, leaving the
other two IN quick time. At the quarter he
was ahead about u length, going steadily with
Major quite ways behind. At the half he
eontiusd his good work ami at the three quar-.
ters he was Hye lengths behind. The horses lin.
lshed in this order with Ezra half dozen
lengths in the van, coming under the wire un.
der pull, while Major s seemed to be out.
classed. The time by quarters: First, 03j; sec.
ond, Ill; third, lat milo, 2.25.
Second hcat-Ezra A had the pole, with Ma.
jor on the outside and Lord Middleton in
the center. The three starters got away aftei