Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-06


Young Utah invaded the fair at an
early hour this morning Today is chill
dren's day and they converged from
Mil Creek. North Salt Lake, Fort
Douglas and the west side to the com
mon center, The grand march started
soon after $3.50. and they have been
coming ever since. Those youngsters
who were given their car fare by dotng
parents apparently elected to walk and
spend their niokels in popcorn and diu-
bolical instruments of torture OF the
nerve racking and noise producing
class. Most of them brought their
lunches in shoe boxes and paper bags
with the ayowed intention of camping
on the grounds all day. The conse-
quence being that the happy voices or
children enjoying themselves to the
top of their bent has pervaded the at
mosphere In the region Of Agricultural
park the live long day.
The American boy, irrepressible and
omnipresent, Is king Of the fair today.
lie is there with his Ripper his pea,
nuts and his all-pervading animal
spirits, The attendants in consequence
have had strenuous tire keeping him
within bounds. From stunt on the
steiner Bros horizanal hars 70 n climb
TO the roof of the grHsdstand, he Is
there with the goods, providing the am.
bltion is not nippcd in the bud by a
hard hearted special officer who was
once boy himself, Early In
the lnvaslons IT became appar-
ent that nothing short of the domestic
shotgun would keep his busy little
hands OFF the fruit exhibits, The bear
, cubs, sleepy kline and somnulent pork
ers were early disguised with his in
quisitiveness and impish tricks. There
was no rest for either man or beast.
They overran everything, spent their
nickels like princes and then went on
piratical excursions among their kind
after fresh supplies,
The little girls were there, too in
all the finery OF their best bib and
tucker, the height of decorum. There
were also some mammas and papas, but
just sprinkliug The boys were the
main feature,
OF Conference visitors there were
many. The bright skies at noon had
the effect Of turning them Fairwards
and they came TO see the live stock,
the automobile and horse races and the
Fair generally and enjoyed themselves
TO the ton of their bent,
There was plenty to see before the
free attractions started. Promptly at
noon the prize winning stock was
paraded decked in all the glory Of the
ribbons captured from the less perfect
specimens Of bovine which had been
entered. Massive Herefords pouderous
Shorthorns and sleek Jerseys, one and
all believing defiance ~ all corners,
slowly circling around the judging ring
led by their owners. II was sight
calculated to arouse enthusiasm i'm the
breast of the most blase novice I'm
things pertaining to beef and breed.
THE BUTTER sQUABBLE.
The fair directors met in the Mid
way headquarters last night to consid-
er a number OF matters among them
being the keeping open Of the fair until
Saturday. No decision was arrived at,
however, as opinion rs to the advisable
ity Of the risk was divided. The other
question which was taken up was that
of awards that had been contested, In
the strife over the dairy butter award
the directors sustained the judges who
awarded the Faust Creamery Supply
company over the exhibit Of II. $. Grlf-
fin OF ogden,
Considerable talk on the part OF those
who failed to get a prize in this de-
partment has been circulated since
Saturday. especially on the part OF the
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