| Show F FAIR CLOSES IN III BLAZE OF GLORY GLORK Special Attractions on Closing Day Attract a Large 1 Crowd ANOTHER ONE NEXT YEAR i WEEKS AGGREGATE ATTEND ATTENDANCE ATTENDANCE I ANCE ABOUT 0 w w v v w v y w s r sr y y y y w ws s ATTENDANCE AND RECEIPTS s Total attendance for tor the S c week noc S Total cash receipts for the S week S I S Largest X daily attendance S S Friday 4 S S SS Yesterdays I attendance S The Utah state fair closed at mid midnight midnight midnight night last night The fair this year has proved to be the most successful of ot any fair ever held In the state mate The at attendance attendance was a Dur ing the week about people at attended attended attended tended This was over more than were at the fair two years ago The attendance yesterday surpassed that of ot any day during the week save Friday Frida The estimate of ot the total at yesterday was while on the day before It was The re of yesterday however were w re more than that of ot the day before be cause of ot the fact tact that there were not so many children and more adults Some of at the attractions of ot yesterday TV were tere ere the livestock parade the matched borse horse races and the automobile races The final awards were made on all of at the exhibits which had not been pre Judged In the evening the crowds saw the fireworks and the free tree attractions It was suggested by many of at the en that the fair be continued another week but at a meeting of ot the tho directors It was decided that the fair be closed while It was wag at the zenith of ot its ib success The proposition to con the race meet two days longer was also turned down Another Fair Next Year Arrangements have already begun to bold hold another fair next year This was definitely decided upon yesterday aft afternoon afternoon afternoon President McDonald has bas al already already a aready ready begun to make mak the preliminary plans for the fair next year A free attraction Daredevil with his act has already been contracted for The grand stand will wm be enlarged to twice its present ca capacity capacity the buildings will be remodeled and Improved and work begun at once to prepare for an attendance twice as great as this year The management so arranged that everything remained Intact until mid midnight midnight midnight night last night None of ot the livestock was taken away the exhibits remained In their places so that the last day would not be marred by the breaking up of ot the fair As soon as the last person had left the grounds hundreds of ot men commenced the work of ot tear Ing to pieces the gre gr greet t fair and within an hour much of It was on its way to town At the race track every seat in the grand stand was sold and the fence was crowded all the way around the therace therace therace race course The cause of ot the crowd at atthe atthe atthe the track was probably due to the au automobile automobile automobile race which was held there following the tho horse races racer The race was not fast enough to endanger the lives of at the spectators spectator Pickpocket Caught A pickpocket was caught on the grounds while attempting to rob one of the visitors to the fair The work of at atthe the criminal was clumsy however and the attention of the victim was attract attracted ed to him The fair visitor promptly collared the thief and turned him over overto overto overto to Patrolman Golding On the way In from the fair shortly after 6 last evening two men standing on the side of ot a street car were injured by coming in ii contact with witha a n trolley pole at Fifth West and North Temple streets They were D M 31 1 1 Hunter Bunter of ot Mackay Macka Ida and R V Hanson of 64 Second avenue They were clinging to the side of ot the car next the trolley poles In the center of ot the street and as the car passed one of them they were struck on the head and shoulders The Injury to Mr Sir Hanson was but slight and though Mr Hunters bruises were more painful they the are not con considered considered considered serious The car was stopped and the injured men taken to the side of ot the road where they were examined by Dr Musser 1 The accident delayed a dozen fair grounds cars about ten minutes The crowd that strolled about the grounds last night was obviously a last night throng The exhibits had re rere received re elved about all the attention due them and the tho confetti venders the elastic rubber ball dealers and the nov novelty novelty elty city peddlers held full sway It was a boisterous crowd bent on making the thelast thelast thelast last night of the fair as noisy as pos possible possible possible sible The free exhibitions were the fea tea features features I tures of ot the evening and particularly Adgie and her lions The Beasts seemed to know work for the week was over and all the prodding and Jabbing Adgie could do failed tailed to too provoke much agility agility ty In ip the animals Not so with Adgie however She danced as merrily as fearlessly tearlessly and as strenuously amongst her pets as on Monday ronday night The fire fireworks fireworks fireworks works were touched off of when her ac act was through and at 10 th the great gates swung open and the crow crowd poured out for the street cars All AU evening the owners of at the live livestock livestock livestock stock were busy taking away the their animals The grounds were emptied at 1030 and gradually the lights here her herand and there flickered away avay a ay and save fo for tor forthe the office the grounds were In darkness In the office four men sa sat counting money adding long columns o of figures and wrapping coins Into nea neat little packages Their work was still unfinished at midnight The work of ot dismantling the exhibits exhibit will start today I I |
