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Show UTAH'S GREATEST STATE FAIR WILL OPEN MONDAY MORNING as tf H g GROUNDS EILLED WITH MULTITUDE OF ATTRACTIVE EXHIBITS VIEWS AND SCENES AT THE UTAH STATE FAIR. grandstand each afternoon, the management man-agement has again secured the Trwin wild west shows with more than 250 head of livestock and 150 performers. These cowbovs, cowgirls and Indians will ride some of the most famous outlaw out-law horses in the world, and the programme pro-gramme will consist of bucking contests, con-tests, roping contests, cowgirl bucking contests, cowgirls' relay race, wild steer bulldogging. roping longhorns, a maverick mav-erick race, an Indian roundup, trick and fancy riding, and dozens of other sports dear' to the hearts of true western people. peo-ple. Such men as Boe-Ho-Gray. p.arnie Greene, Plovd Irwin, Blackie Yas and other noted' riders and ropers will be seen. Such outlaw horses as Hnake River, Hut Shot, the famous Red Bird, old Steamboat and dozens of others will be seen in action. Among the cowgirls who will ride will be Gnl. lie St. Clair, champion lady rider of tlio world, who will go up on Bed Sandy, a famous outlaw horse. The Irwin shows will begin Monday night in the coliseum, and be given each night of the fair except Sunday. The Irwin wild west shows will begin in the afternoon on Thursday, September 30, aud continue each afternoon in front of the grandstand the remaining flays nt the fair, except Sunday. The automobile races will take up practi-oaJly practi-oaJly Ihe 'entire time on the race track the' first three days of the fair, Monday, Mon-day, Tuesday and Wednesday. Beauty in Balloon. Another big free attraction will be' Lucielle Belmont's ascension in her balloon. "The Belmont,'' 'each afternoon after-noon of the ten days of the fair. Miss Belmont is a daring lady aerinlist, who goes aloft in her great balloon and returns re-turns to earth by means of three separate sepa-rate parachutes,' dropping from one to auother. It is a dangerous, thrilling and sensational exhibition of human uourage and daring. Then will come, as one of the greatest great-est free attractions ever secured by any fair, the exhibitions each afternoon of Greiida and Fedora, this man and woman wom-an on a wire sixty feet in the air, supported sup-ported by two great poles, and producing produc-ing "the elephant on the wire," another an-other hazardous feat. A single misstep mis-step would send both of them to the ground and to their death. President J. G. McDonald personally secured this attraction from the Joy-Zone Joy-Zone of the Panama-Pacific exposition, where it. plaved for months and attracted at-tracted thousands of people daily by its daring and originality. "Motor madness" is another sensational sensa-tional thriller that the crowds will see dailv. This is a death-defying motorcycle motor-cycle race on an apparatus towering high in the. air, and directly beneath this whirring maze of death an aerial performance will be given that introduces intro-duces sensational aerial iron-jaw gymnastics gym-nastics that stand alone for hazard, skill and originality. Many Feats of Daring. The Four Flying Valintinos; ' the three Leonards, ' Roman ring experts; the Fisher sisters, lady aerialists; the Real quartette, harmony jubilee singers sing-ers and Mons De Carno, the man who takes a pole 100 feet long, stands it upright and climbs to its top, where he balances both himself and the pole, will comprise some of the other free attractions on the grounds, aud attractions attrac-tions that will be seen in front of the grandstand during the afternoon performances per-formances and in the coliseum at night. A number of horse races have been arrauged by Speed Supervisor Ziemer, and the details of these will be announced an-nounced later. From the moment spectators enter the grounds this year, surprises will greet them on every hand. Automobile Automo-bile row is represented by most of the prominent dealers in town, with nearly $1,000,000 worth of automobiles on display. dis-play. Machinery street is larger and liner than ever before, and the electrical electri-cal pavilion, erected by the Utah- Power & Light company last year will this season house not only the Utah Power & Light company's exhibit, but splendid splen-did exhibits by the Western lilectric companv, the Capital Electric company and the Intermountain Electric company com-pany of Salt Lake. Electrical cooking will be done each day of the fair, and the cooking served to the spectators. The Hawaiian troubadours will furnish ; l v,n olortcnl navilion throueh- Knndson oBrita'il Zienier of Ogdeu. j tf. Richmond, and FnS Heads of Departments ! visors, are as fnk ' t!,: A bricks., cattle fcj . . and swine; .1 E t J- BttU Ham C. Winder,1 SS Kmidson. hortienQ floriculture and 6W ' .V J- Hewlett. maufa 7nrc"' chants' department" ::' berger. fie art ffUC tional; Mrs. Loui' UItc;.J women's works; p, H agricultural machir?" A and minerals; Charle, i"!1 department. A' 2K5c, The enormous amount i , that each year devolve? f K , of Horace Ensign. fair association, h. hi. r ,r A t-ously handled'th?', of the assfia?io,f ' ' : rhenpervisio,,,,,'-..;:., Monday, Gates open 12 o'clock ne., 2 P. m.-Openin? 7mZ grandstand; muslc h -, invocation; Introduction n?r'"! by President J. G iXl f '' ' Governor William fSS1 tiorr of the opening of,' A1" (J annual Utah-state f,r Jh'' C. McDonald r' f': ,.'ca3,0es?'spneeT,Er"'b' trecuon. onP crmv,:fI?roTr"x Carno lofty percf J' , tors. America's grMtf gj J Three Leonards. Romiui ? Four Flying Valentlnta ! L' est comedy casting net' i .,V'I death-defying :uotorcyci, Z j the air; Grenada and Fedora ,.' on a wire sixty feet Belmont, triple parachute V,,, 1 balloon; Real Quartette, h,, TSran T. Maronev K ' and hazardous aeroplane fllihli of bombs, etc., and racing ai.i,,.', S p. m. In the Coliseum- w'.J era' Real Wild West shoir cry known feature In the Km '. 1 music by Held's tiand and Qi erts s Military band, from .--. 11 p. m. Tuesday. Gates open 10 a, m. 2 p. m. Auto races; auto in',,, race. 3 p. m. All free attraction-grounds; attraction-grounds; aeroplane flights hj , slon. triple drop; Real Qmrin.. , singers. In grandstand and j hand concerts all day and svenlitTl 7:30 p. m. Free sttfsctlon, val grounds. 8 p. m. Irwlif Brothers' BeiUl-show, BeiUl-show, In Coliseum. Wsdnesdiy. Gates open 10 a. m. 2 p. in. Auto races; atilo i-,; plane race. 3 p. m. All free attraclloni grounds; aeroplane flights: tullyii slon. triple drop; Real Quarts1. singers. In grandstand and bul concerts all day and ovenlni 7:30 p. m. Free attracilotn ct -i ground. 8 p; m. Irwin Brothers' West show in Coliseum. Thursday. Gates open 10 a. m. 2 p. m. Horse races and Inc- J ers' Real Wild West show on i-i 3 p. m. Free attractions oi u grounds. 3:30 p. m. Lucielle Belmont n ascension, triple paiachute rirf-; Band concerts all day. Jubilee singers In building a: e stand afternoon and evening. 7:30 p. m. Free attractions oi fl grounds. 8 p. m. Irwin Brothen' West show in Coliseum. Friday. School day; gates open at In Special features for the chll'h-i long. Balloon ascension In the iflemos light fireworks early in the iwls "Buster Brown" with "Hp. 2 p. m. Horse races and - show. 3 p. m. Free attractions on 1 val grounds. 3:30 p. m. Balloon ascemioni . parachute drop. 7 p. m. Free attrsctlona 8 p. m. Wild West ehow in .: Band concerts sll day. Saturday. Boy Scouts' day; ! 2 p. nv-Rsoes and wild w 1 on racetrack. , . 3 p. m. Free attractions cn'ounds. 3:30 p. m.-Balloon tsesr-i'. 4 p. m. Special eiercleel bl B 300 participating. 7 m. Free attractions. 8 p. m.-lrwin Brotte" ' West show In Coliseum. 8und7 Gates ojlen at 12 nooj. Exhibits only open tolmr Sacred concert by comblti! einoon and evening. Mondsj. n,em.-PHor1sec,esand."' '"T'C' ; grouiids: balloot. ascen on. drop; band concert alter" ,nf'n m Fiec attractiona , kl m.-WIld west she " Tuesday- -rHolse'race. - cident in 1914 at Indianapolis in the 500-mile race. This is the car that has been upholding America's honors against the Sunbeam, the Peugeot, the Darazq and other foreign cars. Eddie Hearne, the Chicago boy. and former world speed champion, will be seen at the wheel of his 120-horsepower Case car. In 1911 Hearne was ruuner-up ruuner-up to David Brown in the America grand prize race at Savannah, Ga. He was a member of the Benz and Fiat teams several .years, and has won the T'lcvclaml Home race hug VJU-mile eveut in St. Paul. Hoarne is the last of the ?"iffinal millionaire quartette of drivers. Bruce Brown was killed at Milwaukee Hi iy Hi; bpencer Wish art at Elgin in L9 14 ; and Caleb Bragg h as quit th e dangerous pastime. Hearne is a millionaire mil-lionaire in his own right, and drives for tbe sport of the game. Tommy Milton of St. Paul is holder of the Minnesota light car . championship, champion-ship, and will drive his Mercer. This is the car in which Eddie Pulleu made the world "s road race record of 87.8 Display Surpasses All Others Oth-ers in Scope, Variety and Beauty. WITH flags whipping in the breeze, with thousands of lights aglow, with buildings and grounds filled to overflowing over-flowing with an inspiring and imposing arra3r of fruits of men's work on farm and orchard, in mine and mil and fac-tor- and in the schools and homes of the 6tate, Utah js great state fair is ready for its formal opening tomorrow, Monday, September 27. Never before in the history of Utah has there been assembled for Utah's annual harvest-carnival so pretentious and beautiful an array of exhibits; never before has the livestock department depart-ment of Utah 's state fair held so many splendid blooded animals; never in years past has tho annual fair offered its thousands of visitors so varied aud sensational a programme of sports and amusements as this year. Opens at 10 o'Clock. The gates of the thirty -seventh annual an-nual state exposition swing open tomorrow to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock, and at 2 -o 'clock in the afternoon, before thousands thou-sands of spectators. Governor William Sprv of Utah will be introduced bv President .1. G. McDonald of the Utah state fair board, and will formally dedicate ded-icate this vear's fair. Tt is difficult for those who go to the fair once or twice during the ten days of its operations to realize or appreciate ap-preciate the immense amount of work, of planning and of execution that is necessary to assemble and department-ize department-ize the thousands of displays and exhibits ex-hibits that go to make up the fair. It is a tremendous task that requires months of earnest effort on the part of the men and woman who i-ompns the board of directors of the Ctah State Fair association. This year's fair is thf best, the biggest, big-gest, th"" finest in theihistory of Ftah. This is conceded b' e cryono who has had an opportunity of visiting the grounds the past, few days and witnessing witness-ing the preparations for the opening of the fair tomorrow. Space Fully Occupied. Every building is filled to overflowing overflow-ing and practically every available square foot of display space on the grounds is being utili.ed by exhibitors. The buildings are newly painted and decorated: thousands of additional lights hn vo been strung ovor the 1 grounds and through the buildings; the w promenades have been cindered and 4 graveled; private exhibitors have gone to far more expense than ever before in beautifying their booths, and from the main entrance to the grounds to the furtberest side of the property there is something interesting, something unusual un-usual or novel covering every foot of space. President J. G. McDonald of tbe state fair board is supervisor of grounds and buildings, in addition to his multitudinous multitud-inous duties as president; aud he has executed his own ideas this year in the beautification of the grounds. The main promenade leading from the entrance en-trance turnstiles to the heart of the grounds, instead of being a broad expanse ex-panse of ciuders, as in former years, now carries a beautiful center lawn, from which rise three rockeries crowned with flowers and hothouse plants. Pretentious and beautiful as are tbe 1 educational features of this year's fair, the amusement programme is even more noteworthy. Thrills in Abundance. Not in many years has President McDonald Mc-Donald and the directors of the fair association succeeded in bringing to the fair so remarkable an array of sensational sen-sational contests and exhibitions as will this year form the free attractions on the fair grounds and the aft ractions that will be given on the racetrack and in front of the grandstand afternoons, and in the arena of the big coliseum each evening the ten days of the fair. For Monday, Tuesday and Wednes day ten of the most famous drivers of racing automobiles in the world will compete in seven events eah afternoon after-noon for purses aggregating over $5000. That these automobile racs will be the fastest speed events run in the west this year is certain from tho examination examina-tion of the track by officials of the International In-ternational Motor Contest association, under whose auspices and with the sanction sanc-tion of which the three days' automobile automo-bile racing at the fair grounds will take place. Stars Have Arrived. Su''h men as Horey. Biauchi, Lecouq. Oarke. Eddie Hearne. Lee Gunning and Louis Disbrow are here with their giant speed creations, to help annihilate "time around t he mile track at tho fair grouuds. Jlorey will he seen with hie great Fiat racer; Bianchi is driving the Marmon oar; Disbrow is the world's track ohampion, and holder of twelve official world records, including the one. two. three, five and ten-mile distances, and he will be seen at the wheel of his Bristol speed creation, acknowledged bv experts to be the final word in a racing ear. At Cleveland ret-ently Disbrow drove tho Bristol oar the first time, and in spite of tbe stiffness of tho motor, lowered tho three -mile mark by revering rever-ing the distance iu 2:30, an average of fifty seconds to the mile. Bianchi. the Italian driver, with his Marmon ar. ic driving the car in which Joe Dalton sustained his noar-fatal ac- miles per hour for an average of 300 miles in the last Corona race. Another car that will be seen in these races is the famous Ohio 999, with Louis DeLuxe, the noted Freuch driver, at the wheel. This car was built by Bob Bur-man, Bur-man, who huped to wrest the dirt track championship from Louis Disbrow with it. .DeLuxe and LcCouq came to America Amer-ica with ooux when the latter won the Indianapolis 50U-mile event in 1912. Alfred Streigel of Kansas City will be seen at the wheel of bis Stafford racer, in which be made a, non-stop record of 200 miles in the Oklahoma City road race recently. Streigel holds numerous track and state records in Kansas, Missouri Mis-souri and Oklahoma. Ho qualified for the Indianapolis 500-iuiIe grind by making mak-ing a lap at the rate of eignty-four miles an hour. The exhibition drivers of this caliber will put up at the fair the first three days of next week may be better imagined imag-ined than described. Monday's programme pro-gramme consists of seven events, tbe first of which will be-an exhibition and time trial for the state fair prixe tro-phv. tro-phv. The second race will be a five-mile five-mile race, in which Horey, Milton, Disbrow Dis-brow and LeConq are entered. The third race is for five miles, with prizes of $200 and $100, and Bianchi, Clarke, Milton, Buarne and Streigel are entered. For World Record. Event number four will be a one-mile dash by Louis Disbrow, track and beach champion of the world, driving bis 300-horsepower 300-horsepower Jay-Eve-See car, the largest and most powerful speed creation in America. The fifth event will be a ten-mile Australian pursuit race. The cars start at equalizer distances around the track and race until one car has overtake, ail the other cars. The sixth race will be a $500 prize race, and the distance will be announced later. The seventh event will be the first lap of the ' seventy-five-mile continua-" tion race.'' and each afternoon of the first three days of the fair the drivers will run twenty five miles of the seventy, five-mile endurance race, with prizes paid lor the first and second cars each day. The grand prize of $500 will be paid to th" entrant making the fastest total time for the throe days. The two great sensational free attractions at-tractions for the ton days of the fair will, of course, be the afternoon flights of Aviator Terah T. Maroney in hlfl aeroplanes. Marouoy's biplane is of his own construction, and ho is today one of the most daring and successful aviators aviat-ors in the world. He will soar into the clouds several times each at'fernoou that be is at tho fair, and the thousands ot spectators will be given a thrilling exhibition. ex-hibition. Maroney flies in the teeth of forty and fiftv-mile gales of wind, and his hangar will be erected on the fair grounds at a prominent spot, wbero the public may inspect the aeroplane. For the coliseum show each night and for the programme in front of th out tbe fair. Tbe Utah Power & Light company has made a large exhibit of appliances for the application of electric elec-tric energy to farm work, and this includes in-cludes the construction of a large practical prac-tical silo. Choice From the Gardens. The horticultural building is full to. overflowing with the most superb ar-rav ar-rav of fruits, vegetables and grains ever brought together in the " state. Mauv additional counties are exhibiting this "year and competing for the grand counfy prize. The Utah Agricultural collego leads the educational exhibits this vear with an entirely new display. The Salt Lake City schools and various other educational institutions have contributed con-tributed to the education department exhibits, uuder supervision of C. S. Burton, Bur-ton, one of tbe directors of the fair association. Supervisor Frank J. Hewlett of the manufacturers' and merchants' buildiug has a splendid lineup in his department, and in the fish and game building, the mineral building, the livestock pavillion and bams, the poultry department hundreds of additional exhibits will treat visitors to the fair. The livestock live-stock department is far ahead of any other livestock show ever held in a western state. Seven herds of thoroughbred thor-oughbred cattle that have been exhibited ex-hibited at the Panama-Pacific exposition exposi-tion are here, together with hundreds of blooded cattle entered fTonv Utah. Beauties in Contest. The state-wide beautv contest, originated orig-inated by President McDonald, is attracting at-tracting thousands of pretty girls from all the cities and towns aud rural communities com-munities of Utah. Mrs. William Spry? Mrs. Simon Bamberger, Mrs. Tra D. Travis, Mrs, Mary A. Troussen and Mrs. John R. i 'orey have been appointed appoint-ed a committee of five women, who meet at the office of the secretarv ot the state fair association in the Vermont Ver-mont building from 12 until 2 o 'clock Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of this week, and the girls who wish to enter the beauty contest will appear before this committee and. register their name-and name-and addresses. The committee at these sessions will pick the girls who are to compete in the final contest and appear on ''Beauty Contest Night" in the coliseum, col-iseum, where Governor Spry and his staff will head manv thousands of spectators spec-tators to witness the unusual sight of tbe selection of Utah's prettiest girl. Fridav of fair week will bo children 'a day and for this afternoon an elaborate display of daylight fireworks has been arranged. President McDonald has spent night and day at the fair gronnds the past tea davs and every director on the board has worked as never before to make this fair a success. "With Mr. McDonald nt its head the board of directors di-rectors of this yoar's fair is comprised of the following men and women: William Wil-liam C. Winder. Mrs. Simon Bamberger, Charles F. Burton. Mrs. Louise G. Mo-Cunc, Mo-Cunc, J. E. Langford, Sr., and Frank i |