Arizona republican., 1910-11-06
OPENING IF
 SIXTH FAIR Tomorrow USherS In Week
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 VISITORS ARE POURING IN All Attendance Records Are Likely to Be Broken - City's Preparations to Ac- commodate Guests - The Principal Events of Week
VISITORS ARE POURING IN

tomorrow. Monday ushers in the week which, for Phoenix, is the most inn portant week of the year. It is the week when all Arizonans who can pos sibly lay aside the duties and cares of | daily life come to Phoeix to see the horse races. the automobile races and the exhibits that are gathered with
 painstaking care from every nook and corner of the territory
 When the fifth annual fair was over the fair commission set about preparing ] for the sixth. Every fair which Ari zona has had so far has been better than the last. and it is certainty that this fair will eclipse that of 1909 even more than that of 1909 eclipsed that of 1908
 There will be more race horses here than ever before. The fair cOmmis
 sion has spared no expense to bring the kings-and some of the queens-of the race track. Since the best track in the world is at the Arizona fair grounds, horsemen like NJ W. Savage have formed the habit of sending their greatest racers here yearly, in the hope that they will lower their records. More than once their hopes have been full filled.
 This year the greatest harness event scheduled is a race between four horses of the Savage stabe-MnOr Heir, Lady Maude C, HedgeWOOd Boy and George Cano. This race will take place Tuesday. These horses are be- ing started for the express purpose of lowering the worlds harness record. There will be other close and eXcit- ing harness races every day of the
 week except Thursday, when the au tomObile races will be held. The most exciting automobile contests ever seen in the southwest will take place at the fair grounds on that day. Most Of the cars entered are the same ones | that are now racing over the desert 1 from Los Angeles to Phoenix. in com petition for The Republicans cup and added cash prizes.
 Monday will be school Children's day It is the annual custom of the fair commission to admit fire call school | children on the first day of the fOir. The most exciting event of the day will be the finish of the Los An | geles- Phoenix auto road race. Some 1 time during the day the winner of the I hardest automobile race in the world | will finish in front of the grandstand The finish of this race is regarded as
 the most important event of the entire week
 Aside from the windup of the auto
 mobile race, the most important event of the first day will be the 2:19 trot for the Copper Stake" of s3,0O0. The 2:12 Copper stake" pace, also for | S3,0OO, will be held Wednesday. Judging in tho various departments will be held throughout the week. as 1 announced in the fair program print | ed in The Republican Friday morn ing
 For many weeks large force of men | has been engaged in repairing the buildings at the fair grounds and put ! ting everything in order. The track | Ias received daily attention and a new | roof has been put on the women's
 building. Paint has been liberally ap- | oiled to make all look as spic and span l IS possible. In fact the fair grounds md the buildings therein never pre- ;ented better appearance.
 | Of course the attendance can only ! De estimated. but the attendance upon | each fair has been greater than upon | the last and it is only reasonable to | assdme that all records will again be | broken this year.
 | Phoenix has made ample provision | for the accommodation of her fair week visitors. Hundreds of rooms have 1 been listed with the board of trade. For several days handbills have been | distributed on all incoming trains, an nouncing that. the board has rooms to l rent and inviting all to call at the | boards quarters. corner Second ave | 1ue and Adams street. where they are | assigned to rooms that suit both taste l md pocketbook. Phoenicians have been unusually liberal this year in | throwing open their homes to fair wis tors Were it not for this liberality | he city could not entertain half as | many visitors during fair week, for the
 hotels and rooming houses are not | nearly large enough to accommodate l all who flock in to see the territOry's | big fair.
 Already several thousand persons have arrived, ready for the opening
 i day The greatest influx will come to-
 morrow. and they will continue to | come until Thursday or Friday. Not only has Phoenix made ample | provision for the accommodatiOn of her 1 guests but she has decked herself out l in beautiful colOrs for their approv- al. The streets are gaily decorated with | flags and in the fair cOlors, red and | yellow. In addition thousands of feet
 of electric wires have been strung i llong the streets, to furnish current to | thOusnds upon thousands of bulbs | which will light the city by night, mak- l ing it as bright as day. The lights were )n last night and the decorating will 1 be cnmnleted tndaN-