The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-01

Busy all the time in Utah and the bust
est man at Utahs fair was one j. e. Nc
Donald. He worked all day long and last
night ne left a fair well done where yes
terday morning there was only the frame
work The most interesting part OF the
dav at the fair was the process OF COM
pletjng the exhibits. 1t was the prize eX-
hibit of all There were good many
early visitors who demurred and sdl9 4
that the fair should have been completed
before il was opened. That IT would
be a nice fair when it was finished, put
those who stayed were convinced that the
greatest exhibit of them all was the NC
Donald hustling apparatus Whlch helu
fair and made it at the same time.
The speeches in the morning saw great
disorganized hodge podge OF room WIN
people on step ladders hammerlng ana
bounding all over the arena. There was a
large windmill dotted with green and red
lights which had to turn during the
speeches because they were getuhs II III
working trim; there were graphapnone Ell
fects. of Love Me and The World IS
Mine" getting the range as it We're; people
experimenting and people working ana
neople running around. When the Rabbi
Freund started his benediction everything
was confusion: When the day cI9Seo ctie
fair which hadn't been given at all a fair
show in the matter of time was running
smoothly. The hodge podge and disorder
had all disappeared. When the fireworks
exhibit started at O'Clock, or0OV people
had visited the grounds. larger number
by % per cent than on the first day last
year. One Mcdonald, however. was a ut
subject for the neuritis ward OF the hos
pital.
counted there was not a due proportion
from the country. The majority OF the
opening audience were the culls and left
overs from the Saltair, Salt Palace and
Lagoon crowds, left homeless by the close
of the season three weeks ago. Just
people who wanted somewhere to go to
be amused They all liked II although
some of them bemoaned the absence of a
dancing pavilion and roller skating rink
They will all come back The first excur-
sion train of out of town people arrived
in from the south just In time for Sanpete
county to open its eyes at the balloon as
cension at o'clock. The other excursions
will begin to arrive tomorrow and the
sheep and cattle and FLOODED horse pens.
which were more or less deserted yestef-
day, will begin to attract the crowd and
tn vie with the more citified exhibits of
the great pavilion. The partisans Of one
I'D country horse at least were glad that
they had come early
The great attention of the day was at
tracted to the trotting races. The crowd
obviously came to see horses land not TO
bet on them. There were three betting
booths at which were well known faces
on Second South street. but they were not
well patronized although the grand stand
and bleachers were so crowded that the
attendants had to bunch the crowd from
time to time to make room for the new
Corners. As an example of the fact that
the crowd was horse crowd and not a
gambling crowd the names of the horses
entered were so familiar to those present
that each was applauded by name by a
considerable contingent as 1t went to the
post. and yet the total betting at the most
popular booth on the favorite was only
SIP in the first race, the system being
the Paris Mutual.
The center of interest for the Salt LAX
ers who as usual, formed the bulk of the
first day crowd was In the exhibits in the
general manufactures and arts building,
wherein most Of the trades people who