The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-06
THOUSANDS SEE
UNFINISHED FAIR
IN SEA OF MUD
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are apparent Last year we erected sew
eral buildings. This year we have erected
more and still the cry from the super
Visors is that the spnce allotted to ex-
hibitors is inadequate. Hardly had We
built poor dog Tray sumptuous quarters
ere the supervisors of the horse depart
ment clamored for more room. We have
given them fifty additional stalls this
year, and they are still grumbling.
I'VE have expended $500 in giving Utah
artists a splendid diffusion Of Hight in new
quarters where the product OF their pen.
brush and chisel will not be skied in some
obscure corner. We hope the artists are
satisfied but at the same time conf
IDENTIFY predict that the present art build
ing will be inadequate TO take care of
their exhibits In years to come.
Cast your eyes around this building
wherein we now stand. | ask in all seri-
BUSINESS, can we crowd in any more ex-
hibits? We have moved the art section,
which through force of circumstances was
tucked away in yonder corner-and still
the building is growded. Yes. il is more
than crowded. for if you will step outside
and look around the grounds you will see
a number of exhibits which ought to be
under the shelter of these overarching
steel beams. l would blush if / told you
how many prospective exhibitors who on
taking in the situation declined to exhibit
at all,
ously the educational exhibit has no place
in this building, yet here it is occupying
cramped quarters.
The legislature has been kind to the
Utah State Fair association in the past
but our schools must be taken care of
better than they are now One Of the first
things the state fair management will ask
at the hands of the legislature will be an
appropriation whereby we can erect on
these grounds temple of education where
re who runs may read on all sides that
Utah as an educational state has but few
peers.
Governor Cutters Speech.
Governor Cutler. after accepting the
keys. spoke in reply as follows:
I'm the name of the state, l welcome
the visitors TO the thirtieth annual state
fair, and commend all the exhibits 10
their close inspection and study.
The educational part of the exhibit is
special feature that no one should miss.
And If the constitutional amendment pro-
posed for the voters this year is adopted
by popular vote. allowing p mill Of tax
that now goes for general state purposes
to be used for school industrial features
and the high schools. and if in these high
schools teaching of trades is added and
encourag ed, l expect the exhibits from
the high schools to be particularly at
tractive in the future
Great praise is due President Mcdonald
and the board of directors of the fair for
the interest they have taken and the time
they have spent in the excellent arrange
ments made for this ana previous fairs
and for their splendid work in making
the state fair so pronounced a success. I
wish to congratulate them on the gen
eral results of THEN efforts. From what
/ can see. and from what l have learned
regarding this years fair, the stock ex-
hibit is the finest We have ever had, and
fifty more stalls have had to be built TO
accommodate this feature, showing a
gratifying Increase in the exhibit. Other
improvements could be justly mentioned
specifically II time permitted.
Commanding the work of the ladies and
gentlemen in charge of the Utah state
fair and wishing them all success in fu-
ficially open.
John r Ninder. one of the Mormon
church presidents, who has often been
styled the father Of the fair" was also
called upon and spoke a few felicitous
words. Held's band wound up the cere-
mony by bursting forth with some ma
tional airs and the wheels OF the great
fair began TO revolve.