Show FINEST OF FAIRS COMES CO MES TO A CLOSE Greatest and an Most Successful Dis Display Display is isay play ay of o Home Products Ever Evere Held e Comes to an End n ESTIMATED DAILY ATTENDANCE Monday 2500 Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Total FEATURES OF FAIR Most successful fair held in years Proceeds may be sufficient to wipe out deficit One of best collections of exhibits in the west Livestock show compares with best in country Weather ideal throughout week for good attendance Races success without selling of pools loots Accidents and untoward happenings exceptionally few I Greater Greate fair already planned for the coming year yearS i I As S n U fitting end to the greatest and ana most successful ful display of home prod products I acts and home Industry 01 ever er shown In n the intermountain country 1 the th last hist curtain was run nUl rung down over oer the tho exhibition of the I I Utah tah State Pair Fair association in ht a n blaze blazo of pyrotechnic lire fire last night and anti toda today the Ito scene of festivities where o over er persons lime have celebrated the neck creel are closed and nd deserted for another not her year With ith Montgomery lout band baud pouring out the strains of stirring music I while n u corps cors of or experts literally kept kep t the tho hem heavens ens burning with rockets i aerial arla bombs unman Human candles and set pieces the crowds that visited the I grounds to see the grand looked on in wonder when Professor i Wayne ane Abbott dived died from front an oot platform of blazing fireworks into a tank of water only four feet deep Just before the dive dhe one of oC Professor I ISOl SOl scar Abbotts poured a bucket i tor of if kerosene over the water and touched it afire With the flames leap leaping leaping ing several veral feet teet into the air and the entire platform and iU th construction work ablaze with fireworks Abbott spread out his arms and fell tell headlong Into the flames How he managed to I get out of ot the tank alive 1 it if not terri terribly terri bly burned was a mystery to the hun huni hundreds hundreds i who saw the daring perform performance ance Immediately afterward a Meat great relit piece of ot wire netting cov With I fireworks burst buret forth in the e a w ds Good Go d night I I Prior to the climax x a large lar l number u ber bert Of t b YM r 11 I b large a Ro n a v w era re r sot let et OK t H g g th Cron 6 aS the set pieces were a walking ele elephant le gl pliant a kicking mule mula a giant merry mrry widow hat and a n great American flag flagIn g gin In colors that brought the crowd to toita its ita feet teet with cheers FOr Next Year I IJames I James Janice G McDonald president of ot the association o said last night I We Va have hava already begun preparations preparations for tor next years exhibition and our plans are more elaborate and ex extensive extensive extensive than ever The enthusiasm of ot the exhibitors and the crowds has been most encouraging and we are looking forward to a celebration cele I bration oration in 1911 that will even surpass I Ithe the things that this year were ero consid considered j jered 1 ered the very finest If U we succeed in getting our plans properly before the legislature the grounds 8 will wUl be extended over oer the th twenty acres west of or the present en enclosure enclosure closure clo ure and several new ne buildings and livestock sheds will be erected In ad addition addition ditton to th there the e improvements the tho old buildings will be remodelled and put In excellent ex shape We Ve are hopeful of oC planting flower gardens and establishing lishing cool and pleasant places where the th crowds may ma rest and listen to band concerts Such Su h a place will make an ideal spot pot for Cor visitors to eat their luncheons if It they the do not care to togo togo togo go to he th restaurants on the grounds It was impossible to have a plaza on the grounds this year on account of ot the limited amount of space put 1 we e Continued Continual on Page Three FINEST OF FAIRS I COMES TO A CLOSE Continued from Page Inse One thInk this will be a great drawing card next year especially for tor picnic parties and private families tam Illes Exhibitors The directors headed by President J oJ G McDonald and Vice President R RR RR RR R Irvine spent the entire evening visiting the many exhibitors thanking them tor for their splendid display and inviting In Inviting Inviting them to come again next year with even better and larger showings Everywhere Ee Where the directors went they were wre greeted by pleasant expressions from the exhibitors practically pra every everyone ono one of ot whom promised to bring his hia wares to the tho fair fall again next year This was the Ule first step toward the 1911 fair tall taken before the 1910 Closed sed Ita its gates gate That the great number of ot patrons of at the Utah state fair together with the exceptionally largA larg number of ot ex exhibitors exhibitors has demonstrated the fact tact that the annual celebration is essen esen essential essential is the belief bellet of ot Horace S B Ensign secretary of ot the tho board of ot directors and the man to whom much credit for tor forthe forthe the success SS of ot this years ears exhibition Is due Well Pleased I am exceedingly happy over the tho results of ot the 1910 fair said Mr Sir En s1 in last night The unlimited suo suc success cess we have met this year y nr proves beyond doubt that the organization organisation Is essential and brings forth the feasibility feas teas feasibility of ot increasing the size of ot our plant extending our space and con conveniences cont t erecting new buildings and stalls and modernizing the entire place The uThe judges of ot livestock who came hero here from the east and north have havea assured a us that we have the only real state fair lair in the intermountain coun cOlln country try and that we e had more livestock on exhibition this year than all the rest of ot the fairs in the west combined We appreciate the ness fleas of ot citizens and the thrift of ot our manufacturers We will m begin next week on the preparations for tor the 1911 celebration c which we hope will wm willbe willbe be even greater Teater than the one which Closed tonight As As secretary of at the association I 1 Ii i have been Invited to go east and visit the larger fairs and to be the guest of ot the judges who officiated here during dur during durIng ing the week and I propose to do so There is 18 nothing too good for the peo people people people of Utah if It It can be enjoyed enjo ed by bythe bythe bythe the citizens of other states and it is ismy Ismy ismy my desire and intention to make state fair one of the most fa famous famous famous in the country countr The directors of ot the fair tall have proven at least to their own satis satisfaction satisfaction faction and pleasure that horse rac racing racIng racing ing is a success without pools and and they are borne out in inthis Inthis inthis this belief bellet by the fact that the gate receipts to the race course have cov covered CO covered ered the entire expense of the speed department for tor the year To us this is very gratifying May rn Cover Coer Deficit While I am unable to say sa just yet whether the receipts receipt this year ear will overcome the deficit incurred last year we believe It will nearly nearl do so and it It will not we have no doubt that our legislative fathers will ap appreciate appreciate appreciate the efforts of ot the manage management management management ment and gladly glad meet the difference Many of the exhibits will be moved immediately to the Vermont building to be under the supervision of ot Dan F Collett secretary of the ers association Friday was the largest larg at day In the history of fairs both from the standpoint of Ot attendance and exhibits shown The gate receipts for that day show that a total of persons per persons persons sons paid their way into the grounds Counting the conces em plo es and passes it Is reasonable to toa assume a ume that more than people saw the fair on Friday The secretary and board of direct directors ors desire to extend their hearty thanks to the press of the state and especially to the Salt SnIt Lake newspapers newspapers newspapers pers without whose aid the tho fair could never nover have been the great success that it was When Mr Ensign made the fore foregoing foregoing foregoing going statement he voiced the sentiments senti sentiments sentiments ments of ot every ever member of 01 the board of ot directors From President J G McDonald down through the list of those who have guided gilded the destinies of ot the great exhibition the sante same tex ex expression expression was voiced by b all yesterday evening That the attendance was so large the exhibits so numerous and splendid In their displays the weather w ather ideal accidents so few and complaints practically practical unheard was a n source of ot great satisfaction to the directors Many Jinny Iun Tickets Sold So large was the demand for tickets at the front and side gates on Friday that President McDonald and Frank FrankJ J Hewlett one of ot the board of ot directors directors directors tors were called Into action to improvise Improvise vise another stand They secured the services of Joseph Nel Nelsons Nelsons Nelsons sons automobile and with hats and coats ott they the proceeded to dispense tickets by the hundred Votes of ot thanks to those tho e who have taken part in the fair in every ever de department department department were being exchanged at a alively alively lively rate last night Everybody It seemed was thanking everybody else for something Early In the afternoon a meeting of ot the exhibitors in the manufacturers building was held and anda a sincere and enthusiastic vote ten tendered tendered tendered dered to E H Davis assistant super supervisor supervisor supervisor visor of ot the building who has been one of ot the hardest workers on the grounds attending to the comfort and convenience of ot the exhibitors and newspaper men A vote of thanks was extended by the board of directors to John H Seely one of the members and a prominent livestock exhibitor for tor the three lambs and yearling steer he presented to the board to be eaten during the week Along with the vote of ot thanks went the old adage that the proof of ot the pudding is In the eating for tor there a vestige of ot any an of ot the animals left after supper last evening |