Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 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 Sjtate Fair, opening on Day, Sept. 2, will be the most pretentious of any given by a state fair in the I nlted 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 cf 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, s4’605; Blue Grass fair, $2,685; lowa, $5,310; Minnesota, $4,060; Illinois $5415.

The Indiana fair’s horse shows have steadily gained in quality and in popular favor every year since the Coliseum was built. A careful 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 to attract many more horses from Kentucky, 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 Patrick Conway’s Band, of New York, a band that has never been heard in Indiana, and Miss Josephine Dunfee, soprano, will be the soloist. The horse show will close in ample time for visitors from out in the state to get interurban cars for home.

Tn 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” sjiows 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 of Sept. 2, made up of the Mazeppa, and Greater .United Shows, which offer as one feature a horse which rescues a child from a burning house;"a hippodrome show, including high school horses, Indian and acrobatic riders; performing elephants, donkeys and dogs, are on the list, as well as eight open dens of lions, tigers, bears and monkeys. A monkey circus and a wild west show, exhibition drills by a zouave company, daring automobile feats in mid-air, and a number qf other atractions will furnish amusement for sight-seers. The “midway” will also have a large cdnceivband.

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 9 each morning, and with all of the important buildings open at night,