The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-09-13
WILL GIVE ATTENTION
TO FAIRS APPEARANCE
State Fair Commissioners VIII In
sist on Ample Decorations
Some Attractions.

The state fair commissioners will
insist that this year the exhibits, con-
cessions and other booths be deco
rated and all ready by the opening
day of the fair, on Monday morning.
1t has been the custom to occupy the
first day in installing exhibits, deco
rating booths, ETC., and as a result
the grounds look like they had been
struck by lightning on that day.
People often, II not always, form
their opinions from first Impressions,
and when the visitor to the fair goes
down to the grounds on Monday and
finds everything topsy-turvy, he very
naturally concludes there will be but
| little Of interest to warrant second
trip. And when asked by others
what he saw at the fair, he will reply
that he saw nothing and that there
was nothing down there to pay any
one for going. The board Is going
| to considerable amount of expense
and lot of trouble to get some at
fractions that will draw crowd to
Tie fair on the first Coy this year.
| rfcy will be poorly rev a, ded If the
crowd hey succeed il drawing finds
nothing ready for its entertainment,
except the free attractions furnished
! by the fair management. The pro-
gram for the first day will be replete
with good things, several good races
being scheduled for the afternoon,
as. also the most marvellous free at
| traction that was ever presented on
a fair ground or elsewhere. This
will be fully announced at a later
date.
The apiary exhibit in the pavilion
will be the finest ever seen at fair
in this state. 1t is being arranged
| under the direct supervision of COM
petent committee appointed by the
state association of bee keepers.
There will be samples of honey of
the various sorts that are made in
this nectar-laden valley, with work
| ing hives of bees showing these indie
| fatigable little workers rendering the
nectar into honey and storing it into
the combs. All the different forms
of honey and honey comb will con-
stitute part Of the display, includ-
| ing honey in the comb. strained
honey, candied honey, honey comb.
yellow and white wax, and, what will
be of most absorbing interest," to
everybody, real live queen bees in
their little cages ready for shipment.
| The Washington Beekeepers' as
ISOLATION. which is the Official or
ganization of the state, Is enabled
to offer a number Of supplemental
prizes generously contributed by the
merchants Of the city, as follows:
Best exhibit of homemade foun-
dalton, pure wax, first premium SIS;
second A. B. c. of Bee culture, con-
tributed by F. A. Morgan & Co.
| Best and largest display of bees
wax, not less tnan ten pounds, first
premium. IS; second, foundation
fastener by Hartung Hardware & I'm
plement Co.
Best culnery product in which
honey Is used as foundation; sweet,
first premium, SIS: second, Cornell
bee-smoker, by E. 0. Keck.
Best display of queens various
races in mailing cages. First premi-
UNI, So; second, honey knife, by Cow
ing & Sprague.
Best display Of fruits preserved in
| honey, one latest improved dove
tailed hive, by Pioneer LUMBER Co.
Best exhibit yellow beeswax not
less than ten pounds, one Cornell
smoker, by Pioneer Lumber Co.
| The entire space occupied by this
display will be partitioned off and
covered with wire netting within
which the bees can he kept at liberty.
Provision will also be made to allow
the bees to go in and out through
openings in the wall of the building.
| Nothing that the management of
the fair is able to forsee at the pres
ent time can prevent the race meet
| ing held during the fair from be-
ing an unqualified success. There
will be good horses here to enter all
classes, and there will be many of
them. The track is without a su-
perior in the northwest, and 1t has
never been In finer shape than 1t is
today. VIM. Buckholtz has proved
to be wise choice for the position
or superintendent OF grounds, and he
has put forth his utmost efforts to
nave the track and everything con-
nected with 1t in the best condition
at the opening Of the fair. He has
co-operated with the commission in
endeavoring to fix things up SO that
no horseman could find cause for
complaint. Realizing or granting
the necessity OF a paddock, he took
advantage Of the changes made in
the grand stand, which provided new
quarters for the pool sellers, and
moved the small building formerly
used as pool room about hundred
feet south OF the grand stand, where
the paddock is located. This build
ing, remodeled and enlarged, has
been prepared for the use of Jockeys,
and will obviate the necessity of the
long wait between races that has
been complained Of in the past.
The paddock is provided with eight
box stalls, around which is a wide
walking ring. rhe little yard in
front, running down to the race track
fence, has been leveled ~, and IL
VIII accommodate q dozen or more
horses.
There are now about twenty horses
being boarded and worked out at the
fair grourds, and several more are
being boarded In town and trained
lon the track. Among the number
are Mark Hannabus and K,.e Alex
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