The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-10-01
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Wstfer foE the Fremont Journal.
TIE LATE OHIO ANNUAL FAIE
DEAR Ma. EDroR:-I did not think
meet your readers again so soon, but
Shapspeare has it,
There's divinity shapes our ends,
houBh-heW them as we may.
Our cherished State has Just complete
her twentieth anpual exposition. Com
pared with last years Fair, in this she hs
out-1one herself; besides, she has receive
valued assistance from the HOOsier State
the Sucker State, the Land of the ''dark an
bloody ground" the Empire State, and eve
the State of Vermont. Everybody and hi
wife and the most Of their children were i
attendance, and the general opinion appear
to b., thst The grand show was a eomplet
SUCCESS, and the citizens of the NOrthwes
metropolis Of the Buckeye State cannot b
excelled in hospitslity.sand enterprise. Tn
display Of stock, fruit flowers, shrubs, paint
ings, cayons pen-pictuFes, machinery
agricultural implements, needle-work, croch
eting, products Of the loom, stoves, furniture
sewing-mschines, pianos, organs, hair-orna,
men.s, eeEhns, vehicles crazy mountebanks
confectiOnery-venders, bee-kings, gamesters
liquor sellers, blind musicians, dining halls
and news-stands was as profuse as a shower
OfgOld and sufficienuyivaried to satisfy al
manner of tastes and wants. EThe articles
that won premiums were numerous, and
there seemed to be but little dissatisfaction
with the awards. The. various committees
had evidently endcavored to be faithful and
impartial. The aggregate of premiums is
thousands Of dollars, but the receipts will
pay them and all other expenses, and leave
the largest balance in the treasury. The at
tendance Of people was immense, the wealth
er could hardly be improved, the officers Of
the Board and their assistants were prompt
aud courteous, the police were faithful yet
genilemanly, and but very little disorder
was noticed about the vast grounds. So
much in general terms.
TIE ARRANGEMENTS OF TIE GROUNDS.
The TSwayne Tract" owned and called
after Hon. Noah A. SRayne, one of the o.
S. Judges, comprising about 40 acres, in
square form, at The head Of Adams, Madison
and Jefferson and lying on Monroe streets,
about half mile back from the heart of the
city Of Toledo, is the place of tie grand ex-
position. Enclosed with nigh board paling;
shaded With scattering BiOnarchs Of the
woods, interspersed with groups of smaller
trees; underbushed, graded and drained;
provided with an abundant supply of pure
water that would be cold if the pipes lead
ing from the artesisn well were laid deeper
in the earth; with ia well-beaten, half mile
race-course, inclosed and provided with three
long amphitheatrical tiers of seats, the
grounds must be considered arrayed with
an eye to beauty and comfort. About two
thigds of the paling constitute the rear of
some soc stalls, including sleeping apart
ments for the grOoms and herdsmen. These
stalls were covered and filed with kine,
sheep, swine. mules and horses Of all breeds
and uses. Further within are perhaps fifty
pens for swine and sheep besides rows of
cOops on stills for fowls. There are perhaps
200 Of these cooPs which contained hens,
rOosters, ducks, geese and turkeys of almost
everysort. Allowing an average Of three
head in the stalls, and five in the pens and
cOops, and we have by the aid Of little
arithmetic, nearly 5000 euteries of live stock
alone, besides what was rot entered, such
as dogs and harnesssd horses not brought
for exposition. Scattered about are several
frame structures bearing on their fronts
blsck-lettered signs, such as Fine Art Hail.
Floral Hail., The Best Lager on the
Ground Fruit Hail, Head Quarters
Parks Dining Hall, Vein, Bier and Luoch
Saloon, Domestic Hall Nelson -. Furney,'
'Leuk's Native Wines, Power Hail. Gin
cinnati Times, ANN Arbor Business Col.
lege, 'Nssby's Paper For the Orphans,
Toledo Commercial, toledo Business In
stitute, and others that have forgotten.
Evidently some master mind had spared 10
means, time nor pains to make the grounds
a place SFrefeshment information and en-
ioyment.
Could spectator have been suspended
il mid-air at such height from earth as to
have birds-eye view of the city and its
surroundings, he would have beheld aston
ishing sights. He would :have seen long
trains Of cars with every foot of space with
iu and without crowded with eager human
ity aad brOadcloth and silk or their subsli-
tutes, approaching from various directions
and dischaTgi0g their freight of bustling life
as near the depot SIS the accommodated
crowd would permit; thence to pour in one
continuous eager food across the bayou
bridges, down Summit and out Jefferson,
Madison. Adams and Washington Streets,
through the several entrances to the Fair
Ground, and then like swarm of excited
ants rush up and down, hilher and thither,
In all possible Iabyrinthian courses, now
rolling like whirlpool to some center of at
traction and sgain boiling out like water
under a fall, to take divergent directions.
He would have noticed that the street-cars
on the two roads we're loaded down, and
seen hacks and every other sort of vehicle
hurrying to or from The inclosure, seemingly
afraid that they could not carry all who
wished 10 ride. He would have bebeld Fine
Art and Floral HaH, in one corner of the
vast area, packed with crowd of men, wo-
men and children, the first named just able
to maintain their footing, the second jam
med to the shape Of dried pumpkin-seed,
and the third either trodden under foot or
cauteriDg over the shoulders of the slow
moving mass. He would have noticed this
dense current steadily setting into Fine Art
Hall, rushing through its one broad aisle,
and SO hastily threading the two circular
foot-waIks Of Floral Hall, that all the col
lection of pianos, billiard tables. cases of ar
tincial unOs5 paAhtlASs5 AlOse- PiCeu'0sJ SA-
Cravings, Sspen-Portraits, flowers, shrubs,
vines, aquariums, stuffed birds, fishes and
reptiles, relics Of the distant pas, such as
Indian weapons, cOiAs, postage stamps of
all nations, .statuary and mineralOgical
specimens appeared as one indefinite, color
less, unsatisfactory blur. He would have
observed kitchen drudges black and white,
dressing fowls behind some shed for dinner,