402 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



yards all the attractiveness of the old-time circus 

 to the small boy of the country village.* 



This Kansas City show brought out many of the 

 entries that had been made up primarily for Chi- 

 cago, and served as an admirable curtain-raiser for 

 the big event staged for the succeeding week on the 

 Lake Front. Potts' Shorthorn, Starlight, won the 

 championship, although not without angry protest 

 from both Hereford and Aberdeen-Angus sources. 

 ."Stars" of a Memorable Week. The caravan 

 that moved up from Kansas City to Chicago in 1883 

 was a notable one, in fact, a rare good show in 

 itself. When the entries of Gillett, Culbertson, 

 Cochrane, Imboden, Leigh, Burleigh, John Hope 

 and others were added, it was plain that the most 

 extraordinary aggregation of show steers ever as- 

 sembled up to that time in the United States await- 

 ed judgment. 



Here was the Kansas City champion, Starlight; 

 Earl's imported Wabash and Hoosier; Geary's 

 Prince; Fowler & VanNatta's Benton's Champion 

 in his two-year-old form; "Tom" Clark's curly- 

 coated Tuck; poor old McMullin, twice champion, 

 now to be unnoticed; Culbertson 's Roan Boy, as yet 

 unknown to fame ; Clarence Kirklevington ; Morrow 

 & Renick's Schooler; Gillett 's Storm; Cochrane 's 

 Longner Monarch; Ross & Sons' Grand Chunk; 

 Imboden 's Scratch; Waddell's famous spayed 



*Galloways too were then just coming in, and the representa- 

 tives of both the great Scottish breeds participated in the stir- 

 ring events of this wek. The Leonards, A. B. Matthews, Gudgell 

 & Simpson and M. R. Platt were pioneers in the black cattle 

 movement in the Kansas City territory. 



