Valentine Democrat., 1906-08-16
IowA's INTERSTATE FAIR.
VIII Be Bigger and Better This Year
Good Races-Eine Exhibits.

VIII be Bigger and Better InlS Year
Good Races-Fine Exhibits.
Never in the history of all the Corn
Palaces, carnivals, and fairs given in
Sioux City has anything on so colossal
a scale as that of the great Interstate
Fair of 1906 been attempted. The
Fair which this year will be given
Sept. 10 to Is at the beautiful Wood
land Park, Riverside. Sioux City, by
the Interstate Live Stock Fair Asso-
citation will be bigger than ever in
every way than in previous years. The
Fair Association has taken the profits
of former years and placed them in
betterments Twenty additional acres
of ground lying between the park and
the Big Sioux River have been partial
ly cleared Of trees and this space will
be utilized in making room for farm
machinery and like exhibits. New
cattle barns and horse barns and pens
for swine have been built this sum-
mer, and in few places Of the country
will the housing accommodations of
fine stock on exhibition be Htter than
at Woodland.
While wonderful success in the
number and quality of fine cattle,
horses. sheep and hogs has crowned
the efforts of the association in pre-
vious years, never before were so
many head of princely stock entered
at this time for exhibition. OF course,
from the very name it bears, the In
terstate Live Stock Fair Association
makes the exhibition of stock in the
heart of this great stock raising re-
gion its crowning feature, neverthe-
less while the stock on exhibition at
the Interstate Fair will compare most
fayorabIy with that of the exclusive
international show of Chicago, and
American Royal in Kansas City, still,
as a race meeting the fair of 1906
could stand alone.
For the harness events 240 animals
will compete for purses aggregatins
$4,000. Already 175 running horses
have been entered for the jumping
events From the horseman's point Of
view, the star attraction of the week
will be the wonderful speed eXhlb1-
tion of the worlds champions, Dan
Patch, 1:55A, and Cresceus, 2:O2A,
respectively the king of PAGERS and
the king of trotters, which will take
place Wednesday, the 18th. Dan
Patch, alone, last year, at the Mime
sofa state fair, drew crowd of lO3,-
600 people. This is the first time IN
the history of race tracks when the
kings of the two speeds have peen
seen upon a track at one time, and
the horsemen regard it as the great
est and most thrilling sight in horse
history.
Among other races will be the cow
boy relay race which will be run in
sections of five miles each day with
change of horses each mile.
The Western Brew Derby for a dis
tance of one and one-sixteenth miles,
which is one Of the society events Of
the year in Sioux City, will be run on
"Wednesday.
In front of the grand stand will be
more free attractions than ever before.
The association has contracted at
great expense for the twelve Nelson's,
Rice and Elmer, The Buckeye Trio,
Lisette's Whirl of Death, Martinette
& Sylvester, and the thrilling spectacle
of Leaping the Volcanic Gap. This
constitutes in reality a circus in itself
At night the great fireworks spec
tacle Moscow" which gives graphic
picture of the destruction of the Rus
sian city, will be produced. At every
night performance of Moscow" three
hundred people will take part and
$4,000 worth of fireworks will be
consumed.
Sioux City is making preparations
to take care of the great crowds Of
people which will be visitors within
, the gates during the festal week. Ar
rangements have been made with all
railroad companies for reduced rates
of fare and for special excursions.
Particulars as to the points from
which the trains will be run and the
days upon which they will run, will be
made public as soon as the general
passenger agents conclude their sched-
ules, which will be with in week or
two.