San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 303, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 18, 1905 Page: 1 of 10
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Its room* are awept with Perolln
No dust on carpets floor or chest ’
The Bexar and Perolln are the
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Sole Agent
VOL. 24 NO. 3Q3.
▼. C. FROST J. T. WOODHULL NED M ILLHENNY
President. Vice President. Cashier.
FROST- —
NATIONAL BANK
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
Capital and Surplus - - $500000.00
EXCHANGE DRAWN ON PRINCIPAL CITIES IN EUROPE.
MEXICAN MONEY BOUGHT AND SOLD.
AL L Oppenheimer Pres't Harry Landa Vice/Pres't
A. M. Oppenheimer. Cashier.
American Bank & Trust Co.
We transact a General Banking Business. We buy Vendor's Lien Notes
and Loan Money on Real Estate.
All matters pertaining to a first*class Trust Company are solicited.
We pay Interest on Time Deposits
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i 1 Telephone orders for bottled goods promptly filled day or nighL
TOURIST TRADE SOLICITED. OI’EN ALL NIGHT. [
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P. O. BOX 393. BOTH PHONES NO. 253. Branch Yards at Kerrville. TexaC
and Vard*: West Commirea St. near the I £. G N. R R
GRAND OPERA HOUSE
Today—Matinee and Night
Henry W. Savage Offers George Ade’s
Masterpiece of Humor
THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN.
PRlCES—Matinee 50c 75c. $l.OO
Night 25c 50c 75c $l. $1.50
Sunday Matinee and Night
Great Melodramatic Triumph
HUMAN HEARTS.
PRICES —Matinee 25c. 50c 75c
Night...2sc 50c 75c. $l.OO
Monday—Matinee and Night
SOWING THE WIND
With Suzanne Santje.
~ WINCHESTER KELSO
Attorney-at-Law
Alamo National Bank Building.
Old Phone 1008. New Phone 889
Specialty the Corporation Land and
Mining Laws of the Republic of Mex-
ico. Twenty-five years Experience.
Highest References.
NOTICE.
Drs. Fairfield and Wagoner dentists
will be found on third floor Hick’s
hiiildlncr
I. Y° u Are Invited j
To make the I. <9 G. N. ex-
hibit a visit while seeing
G. Great G.
N International Fair N
Main Building.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
During the great San Antonio Inter-
national Fair we will run through
sleeper to Waco and through
chair car to Fort Worth on
special trains leaving San
Antonio at 7:00 p. m.
For Sleeping Accomodations See I. 4 6. N. Agents
City Office 122 Alamo Plaza.
W.C. REES C. HIGHTOWER
Asst. P. 6 T. A. P. 6 T. A.
San Antonia3ailn£iy Ijl
TEN PAGES.
Yale Dentists
HICKS BUILDING
22k Gold Crown $5. Full Set $5.
Bridge Work $5. Fillings 50c up.
Painless Extracting 50c.
Harvey L. Page
ARCHITECT.
Jas. F. Brook C. E.
Suite 528 Moore Building.
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MAJESTip
THEATRE V
Formerly Empire.
Modern Vaudeville
| TEN ALL-STAR ACTS
COMPLETE ORCHESTRA.
' Prosper Troupe Liquid Air Test
Rice Pony Circus Thos.J.Keogh 4 Co !
Josephine Jacoby Gardner& Stoddard
Jun e Perry Orgerita Arnold
Gus. Bruno Kinetograph
MATINEE DAILY 2:15 p. RI.
NIGHTS 8:15.
PRICES 15c 25c 35c 50c |
Box office open daily 10 a. m. to 1
9:30 p. m. Both phones—New 1614;
Old 1963.
sm mi raw io the big isiemob m
M Annual Ewilion Ops With Gay music. Itai fata nil
M Ruing H Oij Ends tail.
EXCELLENT ARRAY OF EXHIBITS AHO A GOOD
RIICING PUI IS 01 THIS HHERNOBN
Grand Street Parade Marked the Inauguration oi
the Great Event and this Was Followed by a
Ringing Speech from Governor Lanham.
Stupendous Show for Which Prepara-
tions Have Been Making for the
Past Two Months Is Now Open
to the People oi the World. -
Today is the opening day of the
seventh great San Antonio Internation-
al fair and exposition. The fair was
scheduled to open October 21 but was
postponed on account of the atrict
quarantine regulations maintained
throughout the south owing to the
the prevalence of yellow fever in New
Orleans. Thousands of visitors from
all parts ef the state and Mexico be-
gan to arrive yesterday and today and
I when the line of march for the parade
wast taken up this morning San An-
tonio presented such a Jam of people
that has not been witnessed before in
her history.
Never before have the people of
Mexico taken such an interest in an
American fair as in this case and the
Mexican exhibit is of exceptional in-
terest and far superior to that shown
even at the St. I-ouis World’s fair.
President Diaz and the Mexican gov-
ernment have made liberal allowances
for the Mexican exhibit and have
sent a number of their representatives
to assume charge oi the exhibits.
The governor of the state and nearly
all the members of his staff as well
as many state officials and the mem-
bers of the municipal government of
this city took part in the opening
ceremonies. As it was also Press Day
and Children’s Day special efforts
have been made to receive and enter-
tain the large number of newspaper
men who came here from all parts of
the state and the thousands of child-
ren of the San Antonio public schools
who visitel the fair today. The fair will
close on November 29.
THE BIG FAIR IS ON.
Never In all the history of the San
Antonio International fair has that
celebrated institution opened under
| more auspicious circumstances. The
| weather is ideal. Sunny Italy or the
skies of the pleasant land of France
never spread over a landscape pret-
| tier brighter or more inspiring. While
Chicago New York and the north are
wrapped in their icy solitudes. San An-
tonio smiles radiant as a sunflower
blossoming gorgeous on a prairie of
supernal glory.
And the fair. Press into liberal com-
pass the most bewitching scenes
along the canyon rivers of west Texas:
extract and throw into beautiful array
the most impressive exhibits that
graced the world’s attractions in St.
Louis; select the superbest specimens
of stock that all Texas was able to lay
at the feet of the recent Dallas demon-
stration; mix and mingle and harmon-
ize the happiest sights and noblest
sounds that evar held entranced the
hitman heart; systematize Individual-
ize and comingle them all Into one
grand collection within the enclosure
of a single line of fence and the mind
is Just ready to begin to appreciate
the magnitude and brilliancy of the
conception and finished work of the
San Antonio International fair.
Hare and gorgeous indeed is the
wisdom of glory that lies outstretched
beyond the enchanted gates that mark
the entrance into the fnir grounds.
Flying flags and streaming banners
remind one of the olden time long
ago. when the entire country-side gath-
ered to hold high revel in honor of
the knights and ladies of medieval
Europe. There are gaily caparisoned
horses beautifully bedecked women
and handsomely attired men. These
are tents and greenswards and imple-
ments of war. There are scenes and
mementoes to recall a train of recol-
lections. splendid and glorious of the
old heroic time.
And yet amidst this vision of parad-
ed antiquity there are scenes innumer-
able and incidents galore to remind
BAN ANTONIO TEXAS SATURDAY NOVEMBER Is 1905.
the sight-seer that he is treading the
pathway of progress and actually
penetrating the veil of future inven-
tion. He has one foot as it were on
the middle round of the eighteenth
century while the other Is protruding
through open door of the twentieth.
Taken ins a whole a quick survey
of the main exposition building a
rapid glance through the machinery
and implement halls a brief inspec-
tion of the poultry and stock pens
together with the side attractions
along fun-loving merry-making ‘'Gig-
gle-Alley.” certifies that the manage-
ment has made good In every particu-
lar in its promise that this year’s
event should eclipse any previous de-
monstration that has ever been pulled
off in San Antonio.
Away over in the first level stretch
that rises from the river's bank is
the broad plateau that marks the scene
of the race track. Here is where some
of the swiftest horses that ever broke
a record are billed to enact sensation-
al and spectacular stunts during the
coming week. Around the splendid
course that has been carefully pre-
pared for the occasion will be heard
the clatter of the hoofs that make
sweet music for the Jockey and the
horse enthusiast.
''They're off!” That will soon rever-
berate through the atmosphere as
though it were the bated breath of
a giant. Down the quarter drive the
horses bunched will struggle for pole
end lead. Past the grand stand the
Jockeys will charge amid a volley of
encouragement and cheers. Around the
track will the animals sweep and back
to the starting point as from the grand
stand the roar of maddened men and
the shrieks of women mingle in a
final yell.
Yes there will be horse racing and
then there will be automobile racing.
Within the enclosure of the track at
night there will be something better
still. For here is where the "Siege of
Port Arthur" will take place. This
pageantry of fireworks promises to be
the grandwest and most spectacular
demonstration that has ever been wit-
nessed in the Alamo City. By day in
addition to the horse and automobile
racing there will be pulled off several
fierce games of foot ball. These games
will occur in the middle of the
grounds In front of the grand stand
And. finally this plateau is the scene
of the widely advertised slugging
match that Is to take place between
two reavily charged steam locomo-
tives. Ten thousand dollars worth of
property is to be destroyed in less
than ten seconds in full view of not
less than one hundred thousand peo-
ple six hundred feet from where the
populace sits to witness the horse
and automobile racing. The engines
will be made to run together at the
rate of fifty miles an hour and they
mee t—those who have not the temer-
ity to view the crash can read Just
how the trick was done on the follow-
ing dav in the columns of The Daily
Light. '
AFTER THE RACE TRACK
COMES THE STOCK PENS.
There Is no better or handler equip-
ment for caring for the exhibitions of
the ranch and farm than Is afforded
by the pens and stalls near the ex-
treme southern portion of the fair
grounds. No expense has been spared
to make every arrangements for food
and water that can be made The stalls
are large clean commodious well
ventilated and excellently drained.
Horses cattle muels. goats sheep and
hogs placed in them are cared for
An Aqgrenate Detail.
nearly as well as though they were in
a hotel.
This year the ranchmen of south
and west Texas appeared to have
sfrained half a dozen points to make
the very best presentation they could
of their products. No finer exhibition
of horses and dogs cattle and sheep
was ever brought to San Antonio.
Many of the animals exhibited have
won triumphs not only at small coun-
ty fairs but they have carried aff
the prizes given at the Dallas fair.
There are porkers on exhibition of
astonishing weight. There are horses
to be seen that would evoke the envy
of the sons of Araby the Blest. Jer-
seys and Texas long-horns stand be-
side each other in one bewildering
display the like of which has not been
often given to the eye of man to see.
Poultry.
Talk of the cackle of the hens and
the squawking of the geese. Beneath
the roof given over to the poultry ex-
hibit might be heard the sounds of a
thousand barnyards. Hens and chick-
ens and ducks and geese of every
imaginable kind color and description
are to be seen here in indescribable
Brdfuslom At intervals ano hung
cages containing canarie birds of the
fairest and daintiest hue. Part of one
Rifle of the building is given over en-
tirely to birds of strrident wing. All
sorts of feathered songsters are
placed on exhibition. The poultry
Special at the Fa.in
SATURDAY NOV. 18.—Governor’s Day. Press Day Children’s Day.
SUNDAY NOV. 19—Band Concerts. Auto and Bicycle Races.
MONDAY NOV. 20. —A. O. IT. W. Day. Englishite. Goats. Standard
Bred Trotters Thoroughbreds. Beef Range Cattle. —Judged.
TUESDAY NOV. 21. —-U. C. V. Day. Mexico Day. I. & G. N. Day.
Truck and Irrigation Day. Poland China Swine. Berkshire Swine Short-
Horns Hackney Saddle Horses Shetland.—Judged.
WEDNESDAY NOV. 22.—Short Horn Sales Day. Southern Pacific
Day. "Katy’’ Day. Old Fiddlers contest and Old Folks Ball. I. O. C.
Swine Percheron Normani Holsteins Clydesdales.—Judged.
THURSDAY NOV. 23. —San Antonio Day. "Sap” Day. Home Indus-
try Day. Du roc Jersey Swints Polled Angus. Jerseys Roadsters Horses
of all work Cleveland Bays. Herefords.—Judged.
FRIDAY. NOV. 24.—Gulf Shore Day. G. A. R. an JW. R. C. Day.
Sheep. Devon. Brown Swiss. Red Polled. Mules. Polled Durham. —Judged.
SATURDAY NOV. 25.—Drummers' Day. Traveling Men's Day. Leg.
Islatlve Day. Jacks and Jennets Farm Horses. Carriage and Buggy
Horses Morgan Horses. —Judged.
SUNDAY NOV. 26.—Band Concerts. Auto and Bicycle Races.
MONDAY NOV. 27.—Railroad Day East Texas Day. Reunion of
persons born in the Republic of Texas.
TUESDAY NOV. 28. —Builders' Exchange. Baby Show.
WEDNESDAY NOV. 29.—Y. M. C. A. Day.
Horse Races Every Day Except Sunday.
exhibit is a sight well worth the price
it admission to the fair.
IMPLEMENT HALL AND
MACHINERY BUILDING.
In these buildings are to be seen the
acme of human achievement in the
matter of the latest and most Improved
ranch and farming tools and ma-
chinery. Besides the ranch and farm-
ing machinery there are electrical de-
vices and mechanical displays that re-
veal the most ingenious methods of
invention. There are gasoline and
acetyline engines that almost act like
human. There are models of other
engines which if perfected will
double discount the instruments of
force now embodied in the present
finished display.
Pumpiug machinery of every style
and size Is artistically arrayed and
next to this display is an apartment I
containing wind mills of the most im-
proved invention. A complete cotton I
gin is In operation and nearby is a
miniature cojnpress. There are mills
for grinding corn machines for trans-
forming wheat into flour well drills i
hay presses and in fart every possi-1
ble instrument tool and machine that
can be utilized in the work of the
ranch and farm.
Outside the buildings in the open
are standing several wind mills of va-
rious makes but far from the drive
way is a complete well drilling ma-
chine stationed and engaged in the |
work of drilling a well. Under a tent
all to itself there is a complete outfit
ot harvesting machinery. Nearly all
the machinery run on the grounds is
operated from an engine propelled by
a huge boiler situated near one side
of the main machinery building. The I
adjustment ot the wheels and tackelj
that connects the various assortment
of machinery is a marvelous piece of
work.
Th# Creamery.
In order to acquaint the people of
southwest Texas with the benefits of
the creamery proceM of handling
milk and making butter an immense
creamery plant has been installed.
This plant occupies a building to itself.
Here can be seen the fresh milk con-
verted into butter and cheese while
you wait. If the sightseer waits long
enough he is given a bit of the cheese
to find out for him or herself the re-
sults of the improved process.
Agricultural Exhibit.
Perhaps the most noticeable feature
of the entire fair is the emphasis
given to the agricultural exhibit. The
farm products on exhibition at this
fair are far superior to anything ever
before seen In San Antonio.
In a building to itself. Just across
the way from the main exposition
building is one of the largest and best
farm product exhibits that was ever
brought here for exhibition purposes.
Every variety of grain and cereal;
every kind and specimen of fruit and
every assortment of market vegetable
is displayed here In such profusion
that one's mind naturally reverts to
Its earliest recollections of the read-
ing of the graneries and store-houses
of ancient Egypt where all was rich-
ness and abundance. Contrasting the
present exhibition with the products
raised by the Texas farmers of only a
generation ago one easily realizes the
vast step that has been taken in agri-
cultural advance. The agricultural ex-
hibits of the International fair tell
i louder than words can portray that
the Texas farmers have learned the
true meaning and significance of crop
diversification.
The Main Building.
The crowning glory of the entire ex-
hibition without a doubt is the big
building in which are situated the
unique and costly exhibits from Mex-
ico. The local exhibits presented by
San Antonio business men. and the
truck garden and farm exhibits
brought here from the counties of
south and ewst Texas. The aggrejate
value of the exhibitions in the main
building approximate perhaps a quar-
ter of a million dollars.
There are three entrances to the
main building one at either end and
TO THE FAIR GROUNDS
via The S. A. & A. P. Ry.
THE BEST WAY
Leaves S. A. 4 A. P. Depot Every Twenty Minutes.
First Train Leaves San Antonio 7 A. M.
Leaves Fair Grounds Every Twenty Minutes.
First Train Leaves Fair Grtuids 7:10 A. M.
VISITORS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED through Side Gates at
Fair Grounds.
Round Trip Rate 15 Cents. One Way 10 Cents.
GEO. F. LUPTON Gen'l Pass. Agt.
Screw Worms Killed.
Dr. Burby's Screw Worm Remedy
cures without fail; kills the worm
and heals th® wounds. 250 a bot-
tle; $3.00 per gallon.
SUBSCRIPTION $5 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
one at the west aide. The entrance
at the east side of the building con-
ducts the visitor* Into the theater and
auditorium. Here is where the prin-
ciple speeches of the fair are mada.
where mimic entertainments are pull-
de off and where other free and
charged shows are given.
Standing in the main entrance that
leads in from the south end of the
building one beholds a glittering ar-
ray of booths exhibits bunting and
flags rising tier upon tier until the
brilliancy of the whole is lost in
matchless glory in the roof. There are
flags flying to represent every nation
on the earth. The United States and
Mexican flags of course take prece-
dence above them all. And last but
not least there shines in splendid re-
diance the Lone Star emblematic ot
the greatness of the state whose
wealth of resource is contributing to
make the San Antonio International
fair the greatest and most successful
event of the south.
On the ground floor of the building
are the larger booths in which are
placed exhibits of buggies furniture
pianos typewriters groceries dry
goods agricultural exhibits and prac-
tically everything used by the average
family. The International & Great
Northern has a booth of unique design
and artistic beauty than which no
other excels on the grounds. Nearly
all the prominent Arms and business
houses of the city have their wares
on exhibition in one or more booths
on the ground floor.
In the southeast corner upstairs Is
located the famous Mexican exhibit.
Nearly every article exhibited here
has carried off a prize from the St.
Louis world's fair. There are precious
stones minerals building stones mar-
ble granite cotton and silk goods
dried fruit wines tobacco and cigars
flour corn Mexican curiosities
tanned leather and a host of other
rare and costly collections too numer-
ous to even mention in a single para-
graph. A person can spend a full day
very profitably looking over and exam-
ining the Mexican exhibit. When one
has half completed hfs examination of
tho Mexican exhibit he begins tp
have an Idea of the resourcefulness
of the sister republic.
Albino R. Nuncio a Mexican me-
chanical engineer has the exhibition
in charge and he is the accerdlted
representative to the fair from the
Mexican government. Mr. Nuncio is
a very pleasing gentleman talks Eng-
lish perfectly and takes great paina
to explain to the visitor everything
in connection with the exhibit.
On the east side up stairs Is a
splendid collection of bees and bee ex-
hibits. Nearbv is the agricultural ex-
hibit from Gonzales county. In the
northeast corner is the school exhibit
in charge of Prof. Charles J. Lukin.
Opposite across the way is the wo
man's department. In the woman's
department can be found needle work
drawn work sewing plain and fancy
and tn fact everything that the
handiwork of woman can devise.
Above and beyond high over it all
flutters the flags and the bunting In
royal colors. At night illuminated by
electricity the hail presents a scene
of color and maginficence that rarely
finds an equal. When the people
crowd and press when the gay and
Jaunty girls laughingly run In and out
when the exhibition is at Its height
then the scene makes its deepest Im-
print upon the mind of the sight-seer.
Chicago had her "Midway Plais-
ance" St. Louis her "Pike.” and San
Antonio her "Giggle Alley." The great
passageways of the first-named cities
have been made famous in song and
story throughout America since they
were first thrown open to the public.
Temples of regal magnificence reared
their towers on either side of these
pleasure courses and the people pro-
nounced them the success of the two
great world's fairs.
The temples that adorn either side
of “Giggle Alley” may not be as costly
as those that have gone before but it
Is a cinch that they were not more fun
provoking. In "Giggle Alley” fun and
laughter will reign supreme. Here all
kinds of innocent liberties will be per-
mitted. It is the Intention of the fair
management to make “Giggle Aley" a
carnival adjunct to the fair. The girls
will meet the boys on “Giggle Alley”
(Continued on Page Two.)
Giggle Alley.
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