Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-09-20
Splendid Program of Sports
Offered at the Fair Grounds
This Afternoon With Pros
peCt of Enormous Crowd.
TRADES DISPLAY PARADE
FEATURE OF THE MORNING
Banks, PoStoffice, Business
Houses Close All Day To-
day and Owners and EN-
pIOyeS Will Help Entertain,


This is the day Albuquerque cele-
brates. II is Albuquerque day at the
twenty sixth territorial fair, and IN
honor of the day nearly every bust
ness house in the city will close for
the day and all OF them will close
for the afternoon The postoffice
will shut down, the banks will quit
at noon, everybody will give over
work for one afternoon and go 10
the fair.
With the enormous crowd of vis-
tors in town and with the people
turning out en- masse to see the show
the attendance at the fair grounds
will break all previous records,
Buy Your Tickets Early,
In view of the big crowd sure to
be at the gates early in the after
noon, and in view of the fact that
all passes are cancelled for today
and that everybody pays from Pres
dent Luna to the last water carrler
for the elephant, ii will pay YOU To
take your tickets with YOU
For the convenience of the patrons
of the fair the management = has
placed both gate and grand Stand
/ tickets i'm all downtown drug stores.
where they may be had for the same
price as at the fair grounds and with
out the necessity of waiting for thenl.
This arrangement will aid materially
in handling the crowd and will stop
the crush at the gates.
The cars will run from o'clock
until o'clock only between First
street and the fair grounds so that
everyone will be able to go and come
| in comfort.
hA of In Fr,tt a.
will be of exceptional interest. The
two base ball games to be played
this afternoon will mark the turning
point of the tournament If Albu-
uuerque wins the game from Las
Vegas she will have four games
straight and will be IN q fair position
to win first money. If Clifton loses
her game with lei Paso she will have
lost -four games straight, ana will be
the first team To so out of the tour
namcnt.
AS for horse racing, there is the
Albuquerque derby, with seven en-
tries, all of them famous horses on
/ the western turf; the White Seal
stake race for $1,000, several other
running races and a relay race.
( The balloon race, one of the big
successes of Yesterday afternoon wlll
B
and the Indians will put on a new
stunt absolutely for the first time be-
fore an audience, that of the Indian
/ boxing contest with pillow gloves. 1t
Is said to be the richest, raciest cx-
hibition of the kind ever seen.
big Parade This Morning.
The trades display and flower pa-
rade will take place promptly at
II o'clock, the parade forming on
South First street ut 1890. II Will
cover the entire business district So
that everyone will have an opportun-
ity to see It all without crowding.
In the evening the Indians will
dance, Russll will do his high dive
and there will be the carnival IN
fun blast, with all the bands work
Ing. A wrestling watch in Elks' the
ater Will attract a good many OF the
visitors and as many of the home
people.
The attendance at the fair thus far
has been very satisfactory to the
management and today's crowd will
undoubtedly be the biggest In the
fairs history.
The crowd on the streets last night
was larger than on carnival night
last year and the streets at midnight
looked as II the carnival had come
off. Confetti was strewn thick from
| First street to Fifth and the street
was paved with II. The people who
have come to the fair thus far are
staying here and more are coming In
on every train. The excursion from
santa Fe which left on the return
trip at midnight carried only about
half of the people whom II brought
down in the morning.