Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1912 — FAIR'S NIGHT SHOW [ARTICLE]

FAIR'S NIGHT SHOW

BLOODED HARNESS AND SADDLE HORSES IN RICH SPECTACLES. Indiana Leads All State Fairs in Horse Show Prizes—Concerts by New York Band and Singer. If a rich prize list can be taken as an indication, the night horse shows at the Indiana State Fair, opening oq Dqy, Sept. 2, will be the most pretentious of any given by a state fair in the United States. A comparison of the Indiana premium list with the lists from nine of the largest state fair horse shows, places Indiana far in the" lead of any of them in amount of premiums offered. The horse show prizes at the Hoosier fair amount to $7,280; Ohio fair, $2,590: Texas, $5,000; Michigan, $2,360; Kentucky, $4,605; Blue Grass fair, $2,685; lowa, $6,210; Minnesota, $4,060; Illinois, $5,415. Tffie Indiana fair’s horse shows have steadily gained in quality and in poyalar favor every year since the Coliseum was built. A oareful revision of the premium list for the coming horse show will make It more popular with the public than ever, for there are few classes which will permit a horse to appear in the arena more than once, and the wealth of prizes is expected attract many more horses from Kentuoky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and other states. The horse show will open with parades of horses and cattle—a spectacle that is not equaled for splendor by any other state fair, and each evening there will be ribbon contests for high steppers, tandems, unicorns, four-in-hands, business teams, saddle and,high school horses and special equestrian events. The night concert will be by Patriok Conway’s Band, of New York, a band that has never been heard in Indiana, and Miss Josephine Duafee, soprano, will be the soloist. The hone show will close in ample time for visitors from out In the state to get interurban cars for home. In addition to the Coliseum, where the horse show will be held, all of the important buildings of the fair will be open and illuminated at night, including the barn for show horses, the art hall, horticultural, poultry and agricultural buildings. This will enable sightseers from over Indiana to go to the fair early in the morning and spend a day and evening in all divisions of the big exposition. Visitors to the fair always find the “midway” shows one of the chief attractions in lighter entertainment, many thousand people every day and evening spending some time in this division of the exposition. An entirely new list of clean midway attractions has been engaged for the week ot Sept. 3, made up of the Maseppa and Greater United Shows, which offer as one feature a horse whioh rescues a ohild from a burning" house; a hippodrome show, including Msb school horses, Indian and acrobatic rldere; performing elephants, donkeys and dogs, are on the list, as well as eight opea deas of lions, tigers, bears and monkeys. A monkey circus and a" wild west show, exhibition drills by a souave company, daring automobile feats in mid-air, and a number of other atractlons will furnish amusement for sight-seers. The “midway” will also have a large concert band. The regular program and the extraordinary features which will mark the coming fair will so crowd the activities of each day and evening that it will not be possible for a visitor to exhaust the attractive resources. The programs will begin at • each morning, and with all of the important bao4taas ones at nlsht - 3*