The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16
HORSE SHOW
COLORS POPULAR
Indianapolis People Are Enthusiastically Booming the
Coming Exhibition Of Equine Aristocrats.

Every place ono goes one sees small bows
Or red and white baby ribbon. Men,
women and MISUNDERSTANDING wear
ing these little bows of red and white rib
bon. In stores. street cars-everywhere
ones gaze is met by these bits OF red and
white.
Red and white are the Indianapolis horse
show colors and everybody is working TO
make the horse show. to be given the week
Of Sept. q. under a large tent at the cor
ner of Senate avenue and Sixteenth street.
the best horse show ever given in this part
or the country. The executive committee
In charge Of the show has sent out thou
sands Of these little bows of red and
white ribbon this week and thousands more
will be distributed.
The executive committee OF the Horse
Show Association and many others con-
nected with the affair are working might
and main every day. and there is not the
least doubt that the Indianapolis horse
show this foil will be tho biggest event of
the kind people of this city have ever seen
outside of New YORK and Chicago.
DIR. G.. L. Gray, who will direct the ar
rsngements for the show. has just issued
a letter to the merchants asking them to
cooperate with the executive committee in
the work of preparing for the event. In
a letter sent to the merchants DR.. Gray
asks them to help tine show along by using
its colors-red AND white-in their show
windows, in their advertisements. on their
bargain-day cards-in short to use red and
white wherever they can possibly do ii and
in every way they can think OF. 1t is ex-
pected that within "A week all OF the mer-
chants will have complied in some way
with the request of the horse show asso-
citation and that whenever people look into
a show window or go into a store TO see
what the bargain counters contain they
will be greeted with a profusion of red and
white ribbons and bunting and other deco
rative materials.
y FOOD ADVERTISEMENT.
The display OF the horse coIors is one
of the best ways 20 advertise the show"
said q member CT the executive commit
tee. 1--WE are working to have the colors
ispla yed in so many ways that people will
have TO see them and when they sec them
every day and every place they go they
will. of course. ask what they mean. And
I'm this way everybody who goes down town
will know that we are going to have a
horse show and will get interested in the
thing. If the people will do their share,
and they certainly are starting out well.
for thousands have put on the small lows
OF red and white ribbon we have sent out
this week, there is no question but what
we will have a successful show"
The merchants are to be interested in
the horse show again this year by the exec
utive cor,raittee offering boxes for all tie
performances for the best show windows
advertising the event. This plan. it is ex-
Tected. will have a tendency. if the mer-
chants are not incIi,ed to do so simply for
the good of the cause to make them go
To great pains i'm decorating their windows
with the horse show colors. This will not
be done to any extent for several weeks
yet. as the horse show is still more than
"a month away. There will be prizes for
the best three windows. The first prize
will be one box holding six people for all
performances. worth 800. The second prize
will be one of the $50 boxes. and the third
prize will be two season tickets, valued
at so.
Applications for the boxes have already
begun to be received by the executive COM
mittee in considerable numbers. There will
be about nifty boxes this year. The ones
holding six people will be sold for 500. the
ones holding four people for $50 and the
smaller boxes for $50. All applications for
boxes and reserved seats should be sent to
Secretary Saulter. of the Merchants Asso-
citation. who is assistant secretary of the
Horse Show Association. The applications
will be placed on file in the order In which
they are received. and when the boxes are
distributed the best boxes will go to those
whose applications were sent i'm first. Sea-
son reserved seats win be sold In advance
also.
ENTRIES COMING FAST.
The executive committee has already re-
oeived a number of entries. Among the
foreign exhibitors will be CoEoneI Pabst,
of Milwaukee. who took a leading part in
the recent Milwaukee show: i. h. Bull. of
Racine. Wis; y f. Ashbrook. of Kansas
City. Mo-. who will bring more than a dozen
fine animals. IL is expected: W.. G.. Claring.
OF Sc. Paul. who will bring a number OF
prize-winning light harness horses; w. b.
White. of Cleveland, with four-in-hands
and rupabouts. and Frank Hogan. of St.
Louis. with horses for the heavy harness
classes. MIR. Ashbrook will exhibit. among
his other horses. a tandem team which has
taken prizes at a number OF shows in this
part OF the country.
The Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing
Company. of South Bend. has offered a
large gold and silver cup for the best pair
% horses for family use exhibited in the
Indianapolis show. The cup is valued at
SEQ. Following are the conditions under
which the contest will be given: Entries
shall b. best pair of horses mare or geld
ing) for family use. Must be owned three
successive years by the same owner. Must