The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-28
ON TO NORFOLK
Great Fair And Horse
Show at Hand.
II Will Draw Thousands, For the At
fractions Are Great And the
Amusements Are
Many.
(special to News and Observer

and are going to be lively dates
| in Norfolk for at that time the great
Norfolk Horse Show and Fair are to
come off.
! one of the great attractions that is
| going to draw thousands of people
| here is the big steeple chase run.
| 1t is the first time in Norfolk, and
there has not been such an event in
North Carolina. SO the visitors from
| your State will see something real
hot and new in the way of amuse-
ment. 1t is the most expensive of all
race meets to run, but expense is not
being considered here, though the
cost of the show is enormous. Inc
horses will be ridden py gentlemen
riders, in hunting colorS, and IL is
rarely the case in a STAPLE chase Oh
! this character that there is not d
| horse killed or a rider injured.
The excursion rate of $500 from
| Charlotte and $3.50 from Raleigh
| should attract q great crowd, ana the
! rate is so low that business people
can take this opportunity to come
down to Norfolk and witness the
| Fair
| On Wednesday at five o'clock, the
committees of the Board of Trade
land Chamber of Commerce, together
with the press of the city, Will leave
on a special car for the Fair grounds
to inspect the property.
The Dog Exhibit.
The dog exhibit promises to be a
most interesting one, and many en-
| tries have already been MADE.
| Sheriff Lawler will exhibit Rex
and two of his puppies. Mrs. G. II.
Levy will exhibit a kennel OF st.
Bernards and Fox terriers.
Some Trade Exhibits.
In the big Coliseum building the
following we'll known firms will make
trade exhibits:
George TAFT & Sons, thoroughbred
seeds" A. Wrenn & Sons, carriages;
III B. Goodridge Company, wholesale
grocers; Ferrobee Jones & Co., hab-
erdashers and clothiers; Ames d
Burk, pianos; Garrett & Co., wine
distilers, Newton Floral Company,
| flowers; Pen IIar Dist. Company, dis
tillers of liquors; Stieff Company,
pianos; Frank Lindsay, mattresses
and pillows; John Willis, Jr., furni-
ture; f. w. Mccullough. motor boats;
| H. p. Ball & Co, liquor dealers; The
| w. S. Thomason Company office f1X-
lures; w. +. Grail, furniture; Norfolk
Farm Supply Company, agricultural
| implements; w. J. Borum, carriages
e. c. Moulton, manufacturers of BIZ
cycles; Consumers Brewery Company,
brewers and bottiers; j. M. Gwaltney
& Co, hay and feed; II. Steiger,
trunks and satchels; Norfolk Railway
and Light Company, gas stoves; Phil
/ lip Levy q Co, furniture; Wallece
Bros, motor boats; Wilson & Drum
mond hay and feed; Benninger, Hotel
Dairy; w. II. Coffey & Co.
The gates for the big Fair will open
Monday, August list at 10 O'Clock.
The racing will commence Tuesday
| August md at 1:30. and continue
through the week 1t will not do to
miss a single event
Wonderful Collection.
Special Commissioner J. Lyman
| Board of Virginia Commissioners to
arrange an exhibit of the agricultural
products and sea foods Of Underwater.
| Virginia, for the Worlds Fair at st.
Louis. has SraCiously consented with
the permission of the Southern Pro
duce Company to give the people OF
| Virginia and the Carolinas an oppor-
Itunity to witness the wonderful eX-
hibitlon Of these products represented
in wax and paper mache at the big
State Fair. This wonderful collec-
ton will be shown at the Fair before
being sent on to st. Louis.
| Never before in the history of Vir-
| ginia has such an opportunity been
offered to witness such a collection,
which has cost thousands of dollars
to reproduce. The exhibit will in
clude nearly the entire range OF
truck crops Strawberries of twelve
different varities. also plate Of
| Lynnhaven oysters will be shown, re-
| produced in wax.
The Norfolk Horse Show and Fair
Association may congratulate them
selves uron procuring this collection
of wax reproductions before going or
to the st. Louis Worlds Fair. This
collection has Just been received from
the National Museum at Washington
ID. c., and with the highest endorsa-
ton of Col. Bracket the United
States Pomologist.
i 1t is impossible to distinguish these
magnificent reproductions from the
original life specimens, and in fact
| thousands of specimens are made and
refused before a single perfect speci-
men is accepted.
These specimens are prepared by
II. s. Warmbath, the naturalist of the
National Museum. Commissioner
Babcock Will also exhibit the rarest
specimen of wild fowl ever secured
on the American shore. This is a
hybred of the American Mallard and
the Oriental MuScovey Duck.