Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05
a close margin over Chief stoltenberg

AT night the hurdle jumping exhibit
from the stables of A. w. Koon OF
Libertyville. The horses were not
used to jumping by artificial light
however. and no very good marks
We're made as compared with their
daylight jumping of the day before
when Honest Abe cleared the bar al
6 feet and 4 inches.
Gives a Pretty Drill.
fhe exhibition drill which was given
in the afternoon by the Foresters OF
Camp &c, NJ. w. A, was one of the
prettiest sights of the exposition. For
inearly half an hour the drill team oc-
cupied the attention of the crowd
which expressed considerable appre-
citation of its work. S. r. Davis is
captain of the team which is made
| up as follows:
w. H. Kelley. Marx Harder. George
Bleuer, John Holzhammer. Will Robb,
Carl Peters, Walter Kolloff, R. R.
Owens. Theodore Harder. Ray Sum
mers, Charles Sample, Morris briggs,
Harvey Golf, Albert Gutzwiller, Ed
Wilson, Roy Hansen E. F. Stamm.
Weather Hurts Again.
While the attendance at the eXposi-
ton Saturday evening was fair. it
did not reach nearly the figure it
would have done, had not the
weather turned cold again in the
evening.
The turnstile attendance at the ex-
position for the week is reported as
24,784. This includes the registration
of adults and children at the turnstile,
and does not include the admission by
passes OF various descriptions.
1t was not until nearly II o'clock
Saturday night that the lights were
turned out, and the first annual Rock
Island exposition came to a close.
shows Leave City.
The acts presented on the free pro.
gram during the week have departed
from the city, separating here for diff,
ferent points. The Novello trained
animal show goes to Cleveland for 9
weeks engagement, and will then be
taken abroad and be restaged in Ger
many for next years performances
! The Byrne company of marksmen goes
to Wheeling, W. Va. Captain Webbs
trained seals are to be shown next al
Milwaukee. The Sylvester trio of &C
robats has gone to Norfolk W Va,
troupe have gone to Chicago. The
| Igorrotes have been taken to Spokane.
The C. w. Parker railway shows that
were at the exposition grounds have
gone TO Grinnell. Iowa, and from there
they go to Atlantic Iowa, and later
to Kansas City and Leavenworth
Kan. and then to Georgia.
H. ]. Trevelick, the stage manager
of the free attractions for the expo
sition company during the week. has
gone to San Francisco.
Success But for Weather.
II every particular the exposition
was a great success. the only thing
that tended to make it anything bu'
success being the very unfavorabia
weather of the week The attractions
| were good, not only in the free vaude
vile program but those included in
the auto and motorcycle races and
| the horse exhibits, but in the Parke,
shows. The displays of fireworks or
the two political days were of a fins
| character and added much to the
weeks entertainment
Two elements that contributed
1 70 - IS he
the attitude of the Tri-City Railway
company and it's excellent handling O
the crowds, and The manner in which
the Rock Island police department
served the exposition company il
keeping the grounds free from OBJ
| jectionable characters. In crowds O
| the size that gathered at the eXposi
ton there are always to be founi
| crooks of one sort or another, anC
yet so far as can be learned there wa:
but single case of pocket picking
during the entire week. This wa!
due. in some measure, to the fact tina
the police department was we'll pre-
pared to meet the requirements of the
situation Chief Eckhart having hat
a special man on detail following thu
Parker attractions for two week.
prior to the time the attractions ar
rived here. Consequently the police
We're posted and able to prevent thu
Operations of any of those crooks VIII,
are to be found in the wake of ever
the cleanest travelling shows. Chic
Donovan of the exposition force o
special police kept the situation wei
in hand, and was given very valuable
assistance by Chief Eckhart, Detect
ives Cox and Gordon and the othe
members of the Rock Island police dc
partment The city police were o.
duty at all times at the grounds, tn
night force being on duty during tn
. day and tie day men relieving then
at night.
i, The Tri-City Railway company
service could hardly have been in
proved upon and was the subject Q
much favorable comment. The onl
| possible Improvement would be the e,
tension of the tracks in a loop direc
to the exposition grounds, but as ia
as the service itself goes, that fu
nished during the week was entirel
adequate.