| Show t r FORTY FORTY THOUSAND I'S IS hAY DAY 1 Attendance at State Fair Fail is i r Far in Excess of Anything Anything Any- Any thing on Record BiG TIME FOR YOUNGSTERS j t r They Gain Gaul Experience by i i Seeing and Hearing Everything EveryL Every- Every tl thing ing on Grounds L I In S n 1 1 L X T J T J J J I J T S. S J 4 1 11 1 un AT THU PA 10 IK It I 1 4 4 y- y T- T Sanpete Sanpete- County Count day 1 rI t Davis ls Count County day a 4 1 l S' S i 4 iK K da day a of oC fair all all' f 1 ff x r f Horse Hors races 1311 p. p m. m f 4 J S 4 Balloon ascension 30 p. p m. m f p ff f troupe exhibition t 4 Sy 30 p i in 4 S. S f I Lion ion Tl Turner Tamer exhibition f t ff f S p m. m f t tuto ff f fAuto Auto uto followIng horse 4 44 4 races f ff f Fireworks 10 V i. i in rn 4 f Music lu lc f 4 4 Hand It 4 44 f 4 Overture Poet nn and Peasant f 1 1 U Suppo f Caprices I La i Palonia Paloma f 4 4 La Costa Spanish dance ance 4 Lit r 1 f 4 Grand Grau selection George Georgef f ff f Washington Jr Jr'S Cohan 4 f 4 Waltz n It z Wedding of ot the Ow 4 45 5 f 4 Winds In s. s Hall lIall 4 Grand Gran descriptive The Hunt Hunt- 4 Ing- Ing Scene ing 1 4 44 4 Woodland POI Popular selection t 1 Lu Luders crl f Caprice Golden GoIden en llod 4 4 Overture O Jn In lri der 4 44 4 I Offenbach ch cht t 1 4 44 4 44 4 r School da day at the fair Call That's what Friday ny was and it meant a whole lot lot to lo the children of oC Utah particularly of or Salt Sail Lake Lak to their parents an and to the exhibitors and everybody e else The children of oC the county were given a holiday holida an and a admitted to the tIie fairgrounds for 10 cents each They camo came In hordes innumerable The They w c everything ery cry thing too an and saw aw it with new eyes eyes eyes-eyes eyes fresh to lo the scenes offered 1 by state fairs fair'S and wide wille open read ready to sec Bea co everything that was 1 to be seen SeCle Secretary Horace Romee S. S Ensign said salti he wanted to be QC conservative and he placed d his estimate of oC the total atS attendance at- at S at people John Q Critchlow who has direct charge of or the tho department of oC admissions at the tile clos of tho the days day's work announced If that that full fully tickets were sold or passes passes used This It was announced was WIlS almost equal to the total attendance at the tate state fair of 1905 Nothing like me It has hascel ever el been known in iii Utah an and 1 It Il almost al- al 1 most equals the record ma made at tho the S biggest day ay of or the the Lewis and Clark c. c 0 t rJ In r In Portland Jn lin 1905 Ft l thIrd to tile the tickets sold were elo at lie tho cent 10 rate I Then all children under tinder f C G years of or orae age ae were ec admitted 1 free of or charge and there were enough to have hn stocked an any baby show ever e dreamed of oC It ItIs ItIs Is Is estimated there must have been be tween OOOO and 2 2000 children alone at the tho state stale fair Frida Friday Ticket ct Solids Sellers Swamped S The management of the fair thought there was a crowd on the grou grounds Wednesday a and cacti man in charge wore a happy happ smile Thursday the smile grew Into a gaze of ot wonder wonder- ment Frida Friday there was nothing to it The They simply ha had 1 to throw up their hands In amazement order every gate to the fairgrounds thrown wide open enlist about phout a score of ot ticket sellers and collectors at each and do the best the they could Provisions at the thc gate were far from adequate to lo handle the crow crowds s that came Anyone could see that an and anda a a afew few Irate people took the trouble to try to Inform the managers of or something something some some- thing of which they were already alread too well weIl aware But Dut then there never neverS S was such uch a a. crowd at a state fair in Utah an and there never zever was anything like c it expected We Ve e mu must l simply Imply have forgotten for forthe forthe forthe the moment sal said President James G. G McDonald I D nal that hat we wo belonged belonge 1 to a greater Salt Lake lIe He might have said a greater Utah I not only all aU Salt Lake Liko but taut all Utah was represented in tho the throngs tl that t teemed endlessly ly m hi vcr e-vcr every part of oJ 1 the grounds s. s It was announce announced Friday ay ui night ht that extra provision IHO had already been mado made to tal take e caro care of ot the erow crowd on Saturday when almost as large an attendance as ast t that lat of oC Friday is 15 expected l Children's Childrens Da Day In iii But most mast of or all it was childrens children's da day and what a. a time those children dl did have They were here everywhere in everybody's everybody's every every- body's O S 'S road an and everybody was glad gla t to o han havu little tots tot in bno baby carriages sonic some 0 of ot them two and three deep led There were others other Just u t able to navigate atc for fOI on an afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon with time Iho aid of mother mothel or big r to U support Vit Int times limes Then there was 38 the young oung boy or Ol girl who for foe forthe forthe the fist first time enJo enjoyed c the liberty of or seeing u n fair fall without the thc guidance of oC an eI elder cr You YU can cami bet betho betho ho m o the most of that liberty And Amid so they ranged ell upward in proportion on as skirls 01 or trousers legs ranged dow dow- OW- OW war ward 1 School children were not vot tho the only ones one either cither For FOI there thero was the time lover JO and his In lass las the tho married man mall and ancl hl his wife and grandpa nu and and so scull mo who looked a as If H tho they luCy might bo be grandpas nn and gran grandmas ma twice over oel I Thc They all sa saw el c everything evem but the children saw sair the most niost dif D t make e any difference whether it was ivas a I Little Lord TOI Fauntleroy dressed in velvet or 01 some little ra raga raga- a.- a. I with his clothe all in patches or just an ordinary youngster not too go good 1 and not too o bad JI dressed cd nut not without an c eye to beauty but with more consi consideration for fOI convenience convenience- no no matter mailer whether It was KHa gHa or Johnnie they the they all v i athe the fair full I Arc Aie Good Spenders 5 the of They saw exhibits every C one omie S them em but hut particularly Ulal the eX ro there was ivas something making th something moving or em something good oo to fo o eat cat They saw aw the Hie Midway an and listened open oyed in credulous Wonder wonder wonder won won- der to all nil the said Many a dime was spent pent In the thc belief of or the fine hue promises ma made mado o by the barkers and no more more- satisfied d audience could the Midway have than these children Many a child too turned awa away albeit with eyes full of longing For childIsh childish child child- ish experience xI had soon found that a n two bit piece picc will vill not go er very far at al a anil fal fair nil r. r The Time men who d deal al In novelties no reaped a harvest The Tho squa a of ot the rubber balloons could be vu heart heard i Incessantly 1 in every 01 part of the grounds Then there as yas as the colored balloon tI tied lied d to lo a string or straw that tha was ivas constantly being lost lost vanishing far ar into the tle air or 01 under horses' horses feet to o the time accompaniment of loud Joud cries of or distress from the one limp owner See t rr the flue The Icen teeny little Shetland ponies ponte divided e the admiration of or the youngsters young young- st r with the sleepy looking lun long bug eared mules tummies or 01 the tic pretty little lambs in the lie stables g. g The Tue calves too tao and anel time the colts coils running loose camo caine In lii for fOI their share of or attention while admiring ad all miring crowds watched the time moro more bold of oC it Ua Its numbers t tease of or tho playful play play- ful Cui iii hOl- hOl horses hOles es with heads beads over O the tIme doOr of or the stalls until warne warned hy some worked over attendant of the tue stables In the dog show bull building there was wa plenty for a young oun boy 10 or ur girl to see ec Each animal was Patted palled in turn from the huge St. St Bernards pleased for all nil th they appeared stolid stoll as statues tues to the Iho little poodles le want wanted 1 to tu overwhelm overwhelm overwhelm over over- whelm ouch each visitor In fn turn tl with its Us kisses cs TIme The collies looked Just too loo nice nicefor for Tor or anyone anono to heed the time warning of lie Dan Danger er Hands Off posted conspicuously near their thell boxes One youngster was ro ar rewarded for his bis advances by hy a 0 snap that be lie just barel barely escaped Even Evena a i goo natured good collie dog bog ha has nerves after aeter being leing in that nois noisy building ln four foul days n You can never be bo sure from his bits looks was the r k mall that showed the tho I bo boy W was g learning the bessins hard lessons of r experience I x j I T nJ waB bo hot hot- so 60 ready ta try his J lue luck on the time next clo dog Its It's a Soo good timing thInS that Childrens Children's cIa day comes on Friday For oven en young nature nature na na- na ture turc may not miot be able to recover at once from Crom the tIme strain of that ca day at the tIme fair fall grounds In the time first place lunch bunch baskets were ware brought b by many Then there thero W wOve lO candles and Ice Ico cream cones comics I an and amid orangeade and amid lemonade in fro- fro fusion rid And n refused man many to go ro homo homont ut nt C G They hud had come to see seo seethe the time fair and the they were going to wait walt until the tIme last spark of or the fireworks ha had bad died out And they did ld It IL would have been hard to enforce tho curfew fer law lair a w there Saturday papa will have to run hi his own orran errands s an and mother do the tho dishes without help from Mary for Nature willbo will willbo bo ho busy making making- amends for ono day of oC wU wild enjoyment Sat Saturday II n Welt Well Nevertheless the time last day a of oC the time fair will be one ono of or the tho be best t. t If Ir tho program program pro pro- gram and the tho promises of or the weather weatherman m man mn tn count for tor anything In a addition to a n. racing acing program of or exceptional merit and including t two o races between automobiles in the roadster ster an and tourist tour tom 1st classes it will ivill be the last ast day da of or orthe the fair fall proper and the Saturday afternoon afternoon after after- noon and amid evening crow crowd is expected to tobo ho bo w well vell 11 up to the time remarkable standards u s sI set b by time the three days preceding |
