The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-10-22
SUCCESS OF FAIR
SEEN FIRST DAY
Exhibits Win High Praise, Entertain
meRt Features Hold Large Crowd
and Attendance Exceeds Expecta-
ton of the Management.

Ci0n OF the management.
Without blare Of band instruments
or beating of drums and with no
speech making or other ceremonies,
the gates of Maui Fair Grounds swung
open TO visitors to the Third Fair at
o'clock yesterday morning. The first
| to arrive were exhibitors and their
| representatives who wanted TO put the
| final touches on heir booths, many of
them having worked until long after
midnight the night before. SO when the
sightseers began TO file in they found
surprising state of readiness.
First singly, then in pairs, then in
groups they came. Some brought with
them exhibits of fruits and flowers.
| And the crowd grew and grew through
the morning, grew still larger in the
afternoon and assumed its largest pro-
portions in the evening when the
grounds and buildings presented
brilliant and beautiful sight, their
| lighting drawing forth frequent COM
mendations and no small admiration.
Before the opening the army had
arrived and their tents were pitched
out back of the grand stand in true
camp style. Three army planes had
beyond the Paia hospital. Submarines
were moored off the Claudine dock
and blue jackets were enjoying shore
Ileave. The undersea craft are to sub
merge Saturday morning at 10 o'clock
| it was announced yesterday.
Army's Part Big
1t was army day, was the opening
day, but it would be more appropriate
| to say the Army furnished the even
| ing program Its baseball team was
contestant in the morning game, sol
diers rode in the Roman race, planes
scared above the Fair grounds and
splendid military band discoursed
| from time to time, but it was after
| Inner that the Army visitors became
| the entertainers. There were hun
dreds who had never seen what the
| Army can do and there were hundreds
more who were delighted to see again
something like what they had enjoyed
before by the men who came from
Oahu under the command OF Major
| IHaZeltine.
| After dinner the crowds flowed into
| the grounds steadily and made their
way to the grandstand which became
filled almost to capacity While the
tug-of-war was in progress the 17th
| Cavalry band, led by Tito Lipartiti,
rendered a concert that was real
treat to Mauiies, for the band is one
of genuine excellence.
Drill Really Circus
Meantime there came a parade OF
some of the winners in the saddle
horse classes and then the real enter
tanment of the evening. 1t was cali
ed monkey drill' but circus would
better describe it. The cavalrymen'
some dressed in fieshlings, some at
tired as women bareback riders, one
Imade up as a hula dancer and another
as a clown, did some thrilling riding
and tumbling. 1t is a troop which has
seldom if ever been equalled by any
grol n of performers in any mainland
Icircus. even the great Barnum and
bailey shows. Many a big city or the
mainland has never seen anything
like il. A pyramid was formed by the
men with horses for the base that was
a marvelously fine piece of balancing.
The little son of Captain Smoot also
gave a performance of riding that was
remarkable for youngster OF his
lyears.
After nearly an hour of entertain
ing the soldier-riders trotted their
horses away, the band played Star
Spangled Banner" and the crowds
scattered through the grounds.
Up to seven o'clock there had been
about 5000 paid admissions during the
e day and it was estimated that the hrst
I DAYS attendance was nearly 5000.
Fair Wins Praise
Governor Mccarthy last evening
! Imas highly complimentary and enthus
| aistiC over the Maui Fair.
ITS splendid" said the Governor
1T shows. what Maui can do in sup
plying itself with foodstuffs, fruits
i vegetables, stock feed and Other
things we used to think we had tC
bring from the mainland and the ex
= ample set by Maui other islands car
! follow 1t shows that the small farm
er as well as the large agriculture
;; companies can do. is demonstration
y of the success of certain types o
{ thomesteading and all in all is one o
. the best things ever seen in the terri
tory" The Governor spent lonj
in the agricultural building last night
Professor True judge of livestocB
said that he noted a great improve
NEST in the class of stock exhibite'
. and that Ayrshire cattle especially
II and Herefords next, were better Il
y quality and larger in number than las
=, year. He also, spent a considerabl
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