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Show ALL lil READINESS FOR STATE FAIR Utah's great Slate Fair i : r -a .; for its formal opening Monday. S ;i. ml -v 27th,. in Salt Lake. Wit-i tlu great grounds beautifully decorated, with Hags and buntings whipping in the breeze on every building, with thousands thous-ands of dollars worth of wonderful and beautiful exhibits housed in teaming? structures on the State Fair grounds, ' Utah's greatest annual exposition will swing open its gates on September27th under more auspicious circumstances than have ever before attended the opening of a State Fair' ;.. It will be the most remarkable and stirring assemblage of the products of Utah's mines, milb, fields, and schools, any western state has known in many years. The great horticultural building banked bank-ed high with the State's most beautiful fruits and vegetables and grain; the mineral building withits scores of booths boo-ths with throbbing, pulsing machinery; the woman's department; the fine arts and crafts diversion; and the great livestock live-stock show with its hundreds of blooded blood-ed horses, swine, cattle, and poultry offer ohe greatest educational attraction attract-ion in thehistory of Utah's State Fair. The automobile races on the mile dirt track on the Fair Grounds the first three daysof the Fair, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, will find ten of the hL'gest automobile racing drivers in the world behind the steering wheels of 3000 horse power automobiles. Irwin Ir-win Bros. Wild West Show, with 250-head 250-head of stock and over 150 cowboys, cowgirls, and Indians, is to show twice daily; Lucille Belmont, the daring aerial aer-ial wonder, will make a balloon ascension ascen-sion daily and return to earth. In addition addi-tion to these attractions, over a c'ozen other sensational shows have been secured se-cured for free oper.-air exhibition in the afternoon and for the big shows in the arena of the coliseum at night. Never in the history of Utah's state fairs have so many entries been received re-ceived in the livestock department. Salt Lake hotels, restaurants, and rooming houses have made unusual provision pro-vision for taking care of the crowds this year, and in addition to extra police protection by the Salt Lake City police force, the State Fair management has arranged for a Urge number of Pinker-ton Pinker-ton detectives to be constantly on the fair grounds throughout the ten days of the fair. |