The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-11-25
The Coming International.


The Coming international.
The tenth and greatest live stock
show will be held in the international
amphitheater, which is 80 by 600 feet
and seats 10000 people, and about
twenty adjoining buildings at the I'm
ion stockyards, Chicago, added to
which will be the splendid prize car
load exhibits Of cattle, sheep and swine
in the Union stockyards proper, Sc
ries Of brilliant evening entertain
ments and the international horse show
OF Chicago, which was inaugurated
last year, embracing all classes of
horses, and which is again to be held
this year in conjunction with the In
ternational Live Stock exposition.
Horses whose lineage dates back into
the dark ages will be seen in the ring
beside the most splendid specimens of
the English and Scottish types, whose
equals have never before been brought
together in such numbers in the histo-
ry of the show ring.
One Of the most spectacular events
in the horse show will be the skin
hand contest Of heavy draft horses.
Among the competitors will be the
magnificent six horse team Of bays be-
longing to Morris & Co. that won Rrst
prize in the New York horse show and
the team of grays of Armour & Co.
that won second prize. The Armour
team was also prize winner at the
London horse show and was pictured
in double page of one of the British
illustrated weeklies. The six-in-hand
race at New York was one of the most
exciting events in that great exhibit
ton. The rules provided that the
wheel horses should weigh not less
than $500 pounds. The crowds were
aroused to the highest pitch of enthu-
siasm by the agility with which these
great teams of magnificent animals
dashed about the ring in a series of
brilliant evolutions. After the rib
bons were distributed by the judges
the winning team was put through
fancy PAGES like skaters cutting figure
SIS upon the ice, and so close were
the margins as they curveted back
and forth across the track at Madison
Square Garden that the liveried grooms
had to fee in wild disorder to keep
out of the way of their laundering
hoofs. Because of the keen rivalry
Of this race the coming contest in Chi
cago between the same teams will be
all the more exciting.
Scope of the Show.
The widespread scope and character
of the international Live Stock exposi-
ton are demonstrated by the fact that
twenty-five states, one territory and
four foreign countries contributed ex-
hibits to the last show Seventy-fiye
thousand dollars in cash premiums, be-
sides numerous valuable trophies and
medals of honor, were distributed
among hundreds of exhibitors. Nearly
5000 animals were on exhibition, and
visitors from all over the United States
and many foreign lands were in at
tendance to the number of 100000
These figures will undoubtedly be sur
passed at the coming show, which as
whole and in every department is ex-
pected to surpass anything Of the kind
ever held before.
William Heap, recently reelected
president of the British Meat Dealers
United Associations in London and the
best known judge of fancy and fat bull
locks in the United Kingdom, has been
invited to judge the grade and cross.
bred cattle as well as to select the blue
ribbon grand championship steers. BE
Is the first foreign judge to receive an
appointment.
Taken all in all, the coming live
stock show promises to be the greatest
event of it's kind ever held in the Unit
ed States perhaps the greatest ever
held in the world. To any one it should
prove liberal education, and to those
directly interested in live stock it will
be profitable as we'll Held in the
worlds chief meat packing center and
in the midst of the earth's greatest
agricultural district, 1t cannot but ex-
hibit the furthest advance In all lines
Of live stock raising.
It will write one more chapter in the
book Of progress of this epoch making
year.