The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-13
Every Possible Arrangement Provfd.
ed for Comfort I'm the Great
Horse show Arena.
FESTIVAL WEEK FESTIVITIES
NUMEROUS AND COSTLY ATTRAC-
TIONs HAVE BEEN SECURED.
Members of the Association Have .
Right to Believe Their Efforts
Will He Appreciated.


o'Clock-Opening parade. Starts from
Washington street and Senate avenue,
marching east on Washington street 10 ILL
nois, north to Market, east to Monument
place. around the northwest segment OF
Monument place to Meridian. north TO Ohio.
east to Pennsylvania. south TO Washington.
Capitol avenue. where II will disband.
D. m.-ODening OF the gates OF Festival
Field and its attractions. Programme OF
free attractions: Temple OF Music. o'clock:
English Zouave drills, o'clock: diving
horses, 10 o'clock; Canary's midair cycle
whrl, 1880.
sp. m.-Opening Of horse show. Order Of
events:
sp. m.-Class 9: Walk. trot and canter.
$50 p. m.-Class IL: Park horse (single)
$40 p. m.-Class %: Roadster (singie).
trotter.
s:O5 p. m.-Class 8: Park pair over fifteen
hands.
s:25 p m.-Class %: High school. mare or
gelding.
$50 p. m--Class 5: Park four. with ap-
1910 p. m-Class s: Hunting tandem.
1926 p. m.-Class z: Potato race (post
1855 D. m.-Drin by indianapolis Light
Artillery.
This is the beginning of festival week.
The ceremonies ushering In the events that
have been planned TO make the week men,
orable are equal to the magnificent scope
planned by the committee for the festival
and the horse show. This afternoon the
opening parade will be the preliminary
pageant and will in measure reveal TO the
public the character of the attractions that
have been provided. This measure, how
ever. will be but small part of the realiza-
tion of the plans of the association What
the parade displays will be the portable
material without reference whole to
the functions. There will be horses and
vehicles that will in no adequate way indi-
cate what the horse show means. There
will be types and characters from the festi-
val that will be only part OF the great
group, a mere index of the abundance that
has been selected. In this the opening will
be largely explanatory. suggestive, indica-
tive
The night opening at Festival Field and
the horse show arena will be more formal
and more auspicious. The spectators Will
be welcomed TO a scene of electric brilliancy
SURPRISING anything ever witnessed here
before. Their welcome will come from Gov
ernor Durbin. on behalf OF the State OF Indi-
ana, and Mayor Bookwalter on behalf OF
the city of indianapolis. Their welcome
will be in the boxes and in the grand stands.
where the citys elite will display itself I'm
it's most ostentatious manner; In the per-
fectly prepared and beautifully decorated
arena; in the handsome animals and mag
nificent equpages that will be exhibited: In
the sweet strains of music that will come
from the band stand; in the completeness.
the enthusiasm, the spirit of the whole oc-
casion. 1t will be a welcome spontaneous
and consistent, saying TO all that Indianap-
oils is rroud of the work of the Festival
Association in making its first horse show
the greatest in the country except at Mad
ison-square Garden. The elaborate prep
arations and the extraordinary display Of
horses assured. the apparent comfort and
happiness for all, is the invitation. and,
Judging from the sections already reserved.
the people will accept the invitation with
hearty good Wills
Festival Field is no less inviting Its
comforts are carefully made and its pleas
ures selected with a care for the moral and
educational effect, as well as the transient
amusement. The fourteen acres In this
field are lighted with completeness. thou
sands of electric lights. many Of them high
power arc lamps. being used to illuminate
every nook and Granny. IL Is not a tumble
of ugly fronts" but an assembly Of good
shows presented with satisfactory intro
ductory canvas to the visitors. Its free at
fractions are designed to satisfy the sew
! eral kinds of popular desire. each one. how
ever. representing an entirely different
form. Festival Field is built for popular
enjoyment. and its patrons will be men
! and women in every walk Of life. all seeking
recreation, amusement and information.
which are to be found In profuse quantity.