The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04
NEWS OF THE CITY
HORSE SHOW NOW
A TOPIC FOR TALK
Event Promises to Be Best of
Kind Ever Witnessed
in Twin Cities

Red and white colors, marking the
advent of the horse show, will be much
IN evidence this week, appearing al
ready in the window displays of mer-
chants as indicating their interest in
the event.
The idea of holding a combined horse
show at the state fair grounds has
been well received. The shows of the
past have failed, it must be confessed,
to interest the public largely. The
plan adopted and the arrangements
that are being made are calculated to
greatly extend the horse show influence
and to inoculate the general public
with the spirit of the occasion.
The show, which is to be held We'd
nesday, Thursday Friday and sSatur-
day nights and on Thursday and Sat-
urday afternoons of next week, will be
located within the fair grounds. Five
minute car service and popular prices
for spectators should have the effect
of drawing large attendance.
Success Comes Slowly
1t is not surprising that horse shows
OF the past have not been altogether
successful. 1t is horse show history
in every city that the growth of inter-
est is gradual. 1t was with great anx-
iety the projectors of the first horse
show held at Madison Square Garden
score of years ago undertook the ven
ture. In Kansas City eight years ago
a modest effort was made Success in
creased gradually with each year until
that city today actually outdoes New
York in the display of equipments and
horses, although it cannot hope to vie
with the metropolis in a social way.
Exhibitors who follow the circuit
will be largely the same and the point
Of difference between the shows on the
circuit, which this year includes Oma-
ha, Louisville, Kansas City and Chi
cago, will lie in the amount of local
interest created. Arrangements at
none of these shows will be any more
perfect than those at the state fair
grounds. The largest horse show tent
ever used will provide an arena larger
even than that of Madison Square Gar
den, with driveway large enough for
several teams to pass abreast along it's
rectangular course. Bordering the
arena will be an eight-foot promenade
which will afford a passageway for
thousands of people. To the rear will
be the tiers of elevated seats for 5000
spectators. With the decorations in
gay colors and several thousand cleo
trio lights, a scene should be presented
which will be strikingly animated.
A Society Event
Society will be on dress parade as
well as the horse, and smart toilettes
of the ladies will rival the interest in
the appointments of the competing
turnouts in the tam bark covered arena.
There is no doubt of social interest
in the affair in both cities It lis not
the horse owners and dealers, the max
ers and owners of fine equipages and
smart harness alone, but the modistes,
milliners and haberdashers, who al e
taking keen commercial interest, real
izing what the building up of a sue
cessful horse show as an annual event
means to them.
The entries, which closed last week,
include double the number of local en-
tries ever made at a horse show held
in either city, which is the most sub
stantial testimonial of increased in
terest.
None of the foreign horses can enter
in the local classes, the number of
which is nine. This assures a fair pro-
portion of the $4,000 prize money re-
naming at home. The entries are be-
ing compiled for the official catalogue,
which will be issued within week,
when full particulars will be an
nOunced