The Homme Show, which opened] Jon Monday, lasts for ten days, and seems likely to be ax popular ax fever, ax there are a large number of foreign entries for the Jumping Competitions. The arena has been [beautifully decorated with thou. sands of flowers massed in great splashes of colour. A new cov of delicate shade has been arranged over the arena to temper the risy of the sun Large red and purple Tampshgdes add a picturesque touch, Great attention has. been paid to the lighting of the building, There are 212 lamps, each 10,000 candle power, and in addition are thousands of smaller} lights masked Ly feathery ferns, There are several innovations to be noted. For the first time the new hall is being used for the es, and_here: in loose boxes! will he found some 000 of the fin. lent specimens of horseflesh in the worl. A special ventilating sys. tem provides that at least four times each hour fresh air, washed and cooled, is brought into the building. This arrangement per-mity an extn hundred yards of floral promenacte from the Hammersmith Road entrance to the main hall, making in all a quarter of mile of decorated promenades. Another result of this arrangement that the annexe is left free for [the introduction of an indoor loxercise ground, a kind of Rotten Row, and this improvement has been' enthusiastically commented]
by competitors. There is a wide stretch of tan and also a much larger assembly ring for classes about to enter the arena,
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