The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-09-20
MARKED INCREASE IN AT
TENDANCE AT FAIR.
RACES PROVE INTERESTING
Absorokees Entertain Crowd With
Highly Exciting Contests
More Exhibits Placed.
From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.

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yesterday and the usual ba~ckwardness
of the public to attend the first day
of any exposition conspired to make
the attendance on the opening day of
large as might have been. Still the
number that passed through the
gates was fair and if the elements will
only refrain from cutting didos during
the rest of the week the management
will be satisfied that the people will
do their share toward making the
thing a success. Many who failed
to attend yesterday may be expected
today and judging from past expert
ence the attendance will grow with
eace succeeding day. ,
Never in the history of the Fair as
ISOLATION has horticultural hall been
Is well filled nor never has it been as
artistically arranged. The dome
shaped ceiling is prettily draped With
yards and yards Of flmy bunting.
The central music stand and the
balcony overhead are decorated en-
tirely with grasses, grains and veg
etables. The rich green of the alfalfa
forms an artistic setting for the scar
let tomatoes and golden hued pump
kins.
The ladies' departments were never
SO well filled, and the quality of the
work is a marked improvement over
any previous exhibits and would we'll
grace the walls of any exhibition in
the country.
The farm exhibit does not in any
way show the effects of the past dry
season, owing to the splendid system
OF irrigation in this vicinity. The fruit
exhibit will be a surprise to any who
think that Montana is not a fruit
growing state. Olney Taylor, veteran
fruit grower of the Yellowstone val
ley, has on exhibition Is varieties of
apples; pears, three varieties of
peaches; two of crab apples, Della
ware grapes; two varieties of plums
and two of currants, besides a large
exhibit of vegetables. The Bitter
Root valley, which has always been
considered the fruit growing section
OF Montana, also has a fine exhibit
in charge of A. l.. Stone and Samuel
Dinsmore. Their object is "a friendly
visit with the farmers of the Yellow
stone county. A similar courtesy was
extended by l. D. O'Donnel, two years
ago, when he exhibited fruit from
this county at the fair at Missoula.
The exhibit includes AZ different va
rieties of apples; peaches; eight of
pears; 20 of plums; eight of prunes,
and n of late cherries. The apples
include a number of early varieties
which have been kept in cold storage.
q. S. Chilcott of Rockvale, also has
a fine exhibit of apples, among which
are three full grown trees laden with
the juicy fruit.
Besides these large exhibits there
are a number of smaller ones, all of
which show the excellent quality of
the fruit of this state.
The vegetables shown include
pumpkins, squashes, beets, turnips,
cabbage, r%utabagas, potatoes, sweet
potatoes, water melons, musk melons,
cucumbers, onions, tomatoes, egg
plant. kohl rabbi, peppers, in fact al
most every variety of garden vegeta-
BILE known. There is also a splendid
display of grains and grasses.
Jesse Davis of this city has a fine
exhibit of honey. 1t is shown in the
natural state, in boxes, and also in
cans. Among those who. are exhib-
iting in the vegetable department are,
Jesse Davis, ]. Dover, Palmer MUIR,
Adolph Delphia, Jesse Van Wagner,
Jesse Marsh, M. Flanagan, Mrs. Dud-
ley Jones, Mrs. w. H. Heffner. A..
number of others have small exhibits.
The ladies' department will not all
be in place until this forenoon, neither
will the flowers, canned fruits and
pastry.
The ace programme opened with
a n mile trot, best three in five, for
a purse of 5000. Four horses were
entered: Umatilla by McCalley,
Glide-Away, Jr, by Matheson, Bill
ings by w. B. George, Monte-Eagle
by Clark Bros. Umatilla won the
first and second heats with Glide |
Away second, Billings third and
Monte Eagle in fourth place.
In the third and deciding heat only
the two horses taking first and Sec
ond positions in the previous heats
were started. In this heat the race
was decided by Umatilla holding the