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Show CADETS WILL PARADE AT STATE FAIR TODAY 1 ALL RECORDS BEING BROKEN BY ATTENDANCE ! "MT EMBERS OF THE STATE FAIR BOARD. Standing, left to right Secretary Horace S. I Ensign, J. W. Hendricks, F. J. Hewlett, Charles J. Ziemer, W. R. Winder. J. H. Seely. Sitting, left to right Mrs. Louise G. McCune, President J. G. McDonald and Mrs. Simon Bam- I berger. day," when final .judgment will be passed on the scores of Utah beauties who have enrolled' for the competition. Many pretty girls i'rom various parts of the state have already appeared before be-fore the judges in the preliminary elimination elim-ination contests, but tomorrow the ",vin-ners ",vin-ners of the dozen or more prizes offered of-fered by Salt Lake merchants will be selected. Although everything was quiet at the fairgrounds yesterday, many persons chose the day to look at the exhibits of the state's resources. All shows were closed, but there were sacred concerts in the coliseum in the afternoon and evening and all exhibits were open for inspection. The owners and drivers of the thoroughbreds thor-oughbreds took, advantage of the vest to try out their horses, and throughout the clay the race track was a comparatively compar-atively busy place. Many visitors who tired of inspecting the exhibits, repaired to the grandstand and spent hours watching the trial performances of the thoroughbreds. Loses Six-shooter. Captain J. J. Roberts, in charge of the police station at the state fair, is mourning the loss of his six-shooter. Just when or how the gun got away IS not clear In the captain's mind; but he Is not Inclined to believe that anyone took It out of Ids pocket. He was busy helping help-ing load departing fair visitors on the street cars Saturday night and when he stopped to eat lunch he missed the weapon. wea-pon. He is of the opinion that it slipped out of the holster while he was loading passengers on the cars. The gun, the captain declares, may not be any better than lots of others, but inasmuch as it was an old friend, he will much appreciate its recovery. C. S. Burton, director and treasurer of the fair association, has been commissioned commis-sioned commissary general at the exposition, exposi-tion, succeeding T. F. Thomas, resigned, who held the position for a number of years. General Burton has proved himself him-self a worthy succespor to Mr. Thomas as "official host," In the opinion of those who have been fortunate enough to taste his hospitality. Gillham Is Busy Man. One of the busiest men on the exposition exposi-tion grounds is L. S. Gillham, publicity man for the association. From the time the gates open until the lights are extinguished extin-guished at night he is under constant bombardment from half a dozen newspaper newspa-per men, some score or more fair officials and directors and innumerable exhibitors whom he represents on and off the grounds. But Mr. Gillham Is equal to the occasion and always wears the "smile that won't come oft'." To his thoughtful-ness thoughtful-ness the representatives of the press owe the cozy new quarters in the old clubhouse club-house near the grandstand. Awards Will Be Made in the Beauty Contest Tomorrow. TODAY'S PROGRAMME. High School Cadets' Day. Gates Open 10 a. m. 2 p. m. Horse races and wild west show on race track. Exhibition drill on parade grounds by High school cadets. 3 p. m. Free attractions on carnival grounds. Balloon ascension and triple parachute drop. Band concerts afternoon and evening. 7 p. ra. Free attractions on carni val grounds. 8 p. m. Wild West and vaudeville features in coliseum. WITH three more daj's to go and thousands of conference viiitors in the city, officials and directors direc-tors of the Utah State Fair association freely predict that the 1915 exposition will be known aB the biggest and best in the history of the association. More than 75,000 persons per-sons have clicked their way through tho turnstiles this 3"ear, and as the average daily attendance has been high and three of the big days are yet to come, it is expected that the total attendance for the ten dayj will be in excess of 123,000. All th'at is needed is the same well knowD brand of weather that was present last week. To start the week off auspiciously, today has been designated "High School Cadets' day." The two battalions from the Salt iako high schools will assemble assem-ble this morning and parade through the grounds at 3 o'clock. Later they will pass in review and give an exhibition exhi-bition drill on the parado ground in front of the grandstand. Attractions Are Many. All the attractions of the past week except the motor races and the aeroplane aero-plane will be continued until the close of the fair Wednesday night. The association has spared no trouble or expense to give the state visitors the best line of feature attractions ever staged at any western state fair. Some of theui have been brought hero front the Panama-Pacific exposition, and the others have been brought here that proved tho most popular at other western state fairs. Every day the entertainment programme pro-gramme is changed. New nets are staged on the carnival grotinds as free attractions, as well as on the race track and in the coliseum. Amone those that hav proved especially popular with the visitors at the fair are the "Beal Quartette," "The Throe Leonards,''-"The Leonards,''-"The Fisher Sisters," "The Four Valentines," Val-entines," "Mons. De Carno, ' ' " Lucielle Belmont," the aeronaut; "Motor Marl-ness.'' Marl-ness.'' "Grenada and Fedora,'' and Irwin Ir-win Brothers' Wild West show, which is conceded by thousands who have seen the performances of the past week to be tho best wild west show in existence today. Races Are Feature. Another feature is the horse racps, without which no western state fair would be complete. Some of the best harness horses in. the country have been assembled at the Utah exposition, and every afternoon tho followers of the tnrf are given ft treat in the way of seven races. Tho races are run in connection con-nection with the wild west performance, which also includes a numncr of races between cow-boys, cowgirls and Indians. The feature of the wild west races this afternoon will he a harness race, in which "Prairip" Rose Henderson, champion woman bucking horse ridpr of tie world; Theone Hampshire of Salt Lake, and others will participate. In connection with the wild west and vaudeville performance in the coliseum tonight there will be a pageant of the prize-winning horses. As an added attraction at-traction at tonight 's show a number of wrestling .bouts will be staged under the direction of Ben Harker of the Deseret Des-eret gymnasium. Tomorrow will be " Beauty Contest |