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of the Chicago exhibition how much our people are 

 really in their debt. They have helped to carry the 

 burden of the undertaking at a time when success 

 was largely dependent upon their judgment and 

 fidelity to the work in hand. These men are, in the 

 natural course of events, being succeeded by others 

 who will, I am sure, when we get out from under 

 the curse of the "foot-and-mouth," carry the Inter- 

 national to still higher levels. 



It would be almost criminal, in closing, not to 

 speak of TOM BELL'S masterly work in the ring in 

 the handling of the elaborate evening programs. 

 Such parades have probably never before been 

 staged elsewhere in any showyard in all animal 

 history, and the cleverness with which they have 

 been managed has been the subject of SADDLE AND 

 SIRLOIN comment many a time and oft. Mr. HENKLE, 

 Mr. LEONARD'S successor as General Manager of 

 the Yards, has from behind the throne spent many 

 a weary hour working out details that have been 

 essential to right results. BARNEY HEIDE, placid and 

 patient, saddled with the secretaryship and general 

 superintendency, works fift^-two weeks in the year 

 for everybody concerned. Statistician HORINE, too, 

 comes in for honorable mention, and ye who know 

 something of the importance of a master mechanic 



