Arizona republican., 1909-11-09

Let Ile Oetu past NShN at least for few minutes until some thing is said about what will happen today. Yesterday is gone but it will be referred to further down the col umn. This is Dan Patch day, or more properly speaking Champion day. with Dan Patch heading the list. for at least four performers of world wide reputation will be seen in harness and in action at the territorial fair grounds. Dan Patch and Minor Heir will start to beat the worlds record in a racing mile.
 But that is only part of it. Copa de Ora, a now famous horse which has been seen on this track before, during the present season has won a record of 2:02 and will start an exhibition mile today, in an effort to break it. And Margin. an odd looking off color mare half brindle, half gray, that has picked up more money on the track this sea- son than any horse in the world will demonstrate what can be done in the 2:l9 copper stake trot It is suspected that several horses entered in that race can do better now than the class calls for and it promises to be an ex- citing number. All the four aristocrats mentioned were Daraded before the grandstand yesterday just to be looked at.
 These are the big features but there will be other all worth while There are numerous minor matters that re- quire attention for today's readers but they must come at the end of the story.
 
 day the Arizona fair ever had. But one criticism can tlstily be made and that is that the commissioners tried to give everybody too much for his money. There was just a little bit too much program to crowd into one day but it had to be crowded somewhere. The management has got just so much amusement up its sleeve and it has all got to be crowded into a week so the public must stand for it. Visitors may go home when they get all they can assimilate, but if they are really pa- triotic and game they will stay all day every day. Dr. F. E. Stone. the start ing judge. said he never saw a more exciting. interesting and altogether satisfactory day~at a fair any where. The management reports that the ad- missions amounted to considerably more yesterday than on the opening day a year ago. And it was children's day with all the youngsters passed in free
 The Exhibits.
 The exhibits in all departments are more numerous and complete than year ago. They cannot be described here, only referred to The woman's building is the first one to be found on entering the grounds and one might add that there may be no mistake, that it is the last one most visitors see on leaving the grounds. It is fine in all sections, fancy work of all kinds. art, culinary, etc, etc. It even interests the men and that is the highest praise that can be paid display of this kind.
 Passing on to the adjoining structure one finds the educational display on the left and cannot help but express surprise at the evidence that the rising generation is up and doing even if it was only born yesterday.
 And the agricultural department! It covers twice the space it did last year even if Maricopa county is limp ing very noticeably in the running
  county and a lot of them from else- where, notably old Yavapai famed only for gold. silver, and copper, but that comes from the subsoil and what Yav apai is beginning to do by scratching the surface, can be found out only by looking over thedisplay at the fair ground. Not only the Verde apples but general garden truck. Then there are other departments, the apiary, the dairy, etc. all of which make visitor hungry if he stops long enough to look. word must be said about the mer- chants and manufacturers who have been enterprising enough to make dis plays, and there are a good many of them, though not as many as thereI should be. In the center of the big tent pitched for their accommodation is the biggest vehicle on the ground, the Elks Los Angeles float donated to the fair by the Elks of all Arizona. It is worthy of all that has been said about 1t. Passing across a long street of re- freshment stands and souvenir peddlers and the aeroplane display of Gates Fowler. one comes to the stock pens. Never has there been such a display of cattle horses, sheep and swine. i'm this part of the country, to say noth- ing of the monster poultry show with it's bench show auxiliary. Anybody who likes to hear dogs bark and cats and turkeys gobblers, roosters and geese all singing in one grand chorus, must not fail to look through the hen coop. There are all kinds of Scotch collie bullets and Leghorn setters and bronze terriers to be seen. 1 But it is noon now. in the story. and the reader has seated himself in the grandstand to see the live stock parade headed by little girl riding the smali- est shetland pony on the grounds. fol- lowed by the biggest and blackest stall lion in all the southwest. He in turn f.ln faH aVfc fo