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Show I . Terrific Collision Between Auto Polo Teams at Fair Grounds . 7 ? " - ; -i " Tnc cars of the American and English auto polo teams who are to play at the state fair here next week, caught by the camera at the instant- of a sensational smashup. THREE prominent Salt Lake merchants mer-chants have been selected as judges of the exhibits in the manufactures department of the Ctah state fair, which opens next Saturday Sat-urday to run the ensuing eight days. Frank J. Hewlett, supervisor of the manufactures department of the state fair, a n no Liu ceil yesterday that Samuel c. Park, J. P. Gardner and George 1. Smith will act as judges of that department. depart-ment. W. S. McCarthy, traffic manager of the Salt Lake Hardware company, has already taken up his duties as traffic manager of the state fair this year, a'nd all stockmen entering the city with livestock live-stock exhibits for the fair are requested to call Mr. McCarthy at the traffic service bureau in the Keains building luring the daytime, upon their arrival, or at his residence at night. Mr. McCarthy Mc-Carthy has the hard work of arranging for the immediate disposition of livestock live-stock to be exhibited at the fair as soon as it arrives. W. C. Winder, supervisor of the poultry poul-try department, has so great an overflow over-flow of entries that additional space is being arranged for him. The last individual in-dividual entry of 700 birds brings this year's poultry show at the fajr up to a point that makes it the greatest poultry poul-try show ever jj'iven in any state west of . the Mississippi river, " except the poultry show of the Panama-Paciiie exposition. ex-position. Aviator on the Way. The directors of the fair have received re-ceived word from Louis Gertson that he will probably arrive in Salt Lake this week, preparatory to his afternoon and evening flights at the fair grounds next wedk. The most wonderful of all Gertson "s exhibitions of flying during the state fair will be his flights at night above the grounds. With thousands thou-sands of spectators banked on every part of the lighted grounds, Gertson will climb to the seat of his giant biplane; bi-plane; attendants will lash him fast, while other attaches tie grat strings of fireworks to the tail of the biplane. Suddenly comes the signal, ' Let go! " Like a white bird of the night, Gertson Gert-son drives the great aeroplane high up above the upturned faces of the throng below, and, circling like a hawk, climbs higher and highpr into the inky blackness black-ness of the night, until he is swallowed up in the darkness. Still the whirr of "his motor can be distinctly heard as the crowd holds its breath and waits. Thrilling Spectacle. Then there's a burst of flame high in the inky heavens, and for an instant a mass that seems to be a great ball of fire comes swirling earthward like a gigair.ie comet. Tt is Gertson his biplane a mass of fireworks and he is circling toward the earth from a hcightof 3000 feet. Suddenly the flaming tail of his biplane bi-plane swerves a bit. lie has stopped his downward plunge swims along on an even keel for an instant, then turns the nose of his biplane upward and stra iglit as an arrow, soars up and up until his biplane turns over backward and he hangs head down above the upturned up-turned faces of the spectators. .11 e comes roaring toward the earth in another an-other moment, only to turn his machine and soar upward again to loop the loop four times. |
