The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-12-04
The Coming International.

The Coming International.
The tenth and greatest live stock
show will be held in the international
amphitheater. which is $40 by GOO 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 i'll 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 first
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, Of nf hr wi
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 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 !
S's 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 five |
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 |
and many foreign lands We're in at
tendance to the number Of 100000.
These figures will undoubtedly be sur |
passed at the coming show. which as |
a 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 tat bull
locks in the United Kingdom, has been
invited to judge the grade and cross
bred cattle as wen as to select the blue
pibbon grand championship steers. He |
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 its kind ever held In the Unit
ed States-perhaps the greatest ever
held in the world. To any one it should |
prove a liberal education, and to those |
directly interested IN live stock it win |
be profitable as well. Held in the |
worlds chief meat packing center and |
in the midst Of the earth's greatest |
agricultural district, IT cannot but ex- |
hibit the fnrthest advance in all lines |
Of live stock raising.
1t will write one more chapter in the |
book OF progress Of this epoch making |
year.