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Show GKEAT WESTERN CARNIVAL HERE' Midway Established on the Fair Grounds and Each Afternoon and Evening a Grand Free Exhibition Will Be Given Balloon Ascension and High Dive Cannibal Show Arrives. The Great Western CnrnLal company com-pany made its appearance on Hie Fair gnmuds this morning and will give their first show this evening. TIip first balloon ascension will he made this evening at 5 o'clock and the high dive will he made just prev.ous to tbo IJighL A second high dive will be made at Iho close of the evening's performance. The addition of the big carnival company to the other attractions reallv crowds the Inlr grounds wIMi entertainment, and the people who are attending are getting more for their money than at any other fair ever held in Ogden or anywhere within with-in the state. The crowd vislilng tho grounds todav was larger than that of yesterday, and it is expected that tomorrow to-morrow will show r big increase in attendance over that of today. The carnival because of its late arrival ar-rival made strenuous efforts to get Us exhibitions Into shape, and de- oted Its llrst efforts l Iho free attractions at-tractions which it carries with U. The paraphernalia for Die high dive has litcn placed In position for Hie dhor. Mr. Miller, tin. man who will make the dives through eighty feet of atmosphere, decided to use a noi In this city, h" being able lo use either a net or a t;ui!c of water. He decided upiu the net because of the coldness of the nights. During the summer he made use of n water tank. Daredevil Dick, to whom l.fe seems a mere bagatelle, will make his first p.'.achute leap at .r o'clock this evening, even-ing, and will repeat lh leaps every evening at about the same time. Tho aeronaut used a small-sized parachute and ha.-? on a n umber of occasions dropped a distance of several hundred f"et before tin." spreading of the can vass slackened ms downward Hpeed. I-ote tod iv the Cannibal show arrived ar-rived and the man-eaters will be seen at the Fair grouuds iu their free ex-h.Utou ex-h.Utou tongbt. |