The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-07-22
NJ. y.ouis Fair ~ Is74.

And now comes the st. Louis fair, and
we welcome its approach with as much
pleasure as ever before. The institution
is local in name but national, if not
international, in its character and III
tuence. st. Louis may be slow and
old fogyish about some things, but in
this great exposition of the arts and in
dustries of the country, she has far out
stripped every city III America, and her
annual fair has become u sort of ma
tional holiday, as well known as Christ
mas OF the Fourth of July, and II Is
rather waste of words to say that IT
commences on the first Monday in
October.
We are glad to learn that the new
management have determined to
eclipse all former exhibitions and give
us such display of western skill aud
products u has never before been wit
messed.
The managers are the right sort of
men, many of them with years of eX-
perience in the work, and all of them
men of liberality and enterprise, who
will not halt with half way measures
for the accomplishment of so grand Il
purpose. They are already at work
spending large sums of money in inn
provements at the far-famed and beau
tiful fair grounds. A fine art hall is in
course of erection which will be admir-
ably adapted for the display of fine
pictures, statuary, musical instruments,
and other articles properly included III
this department. Then they have so
"A In 90 thpnlInl.lnt IN a
week of its continuance, will be great
stock mart and bazaar, aplace where
you can buy anything, from ten cent
toy 10 n ten thousand dollar horse. This
feature, alone, well managed, will give
not only perpetuity but ever increasing
success to the institution.
Founded upon tle theory OF emnla-
ton in articles Of display, works Of art
istic elegance, genius in construction,
ii is not strange that this association,
operating in its aims upon oil the eie-
ments of legitimate human ambition
and incentives to honor and profit,
should, each successive year, record An
exhibition excelling the previous one.
Having glanced carefully over the pre-
MUM list of 1874 we are compelled to
express our opinion that for complete
ness of detail, munilicence of award
and equality of distribution, the man
ayers of the fair have exceeded in their
labor, only their former efforts.
1t is seldom that an assoc alton or
gani2ed on the basis of the st, Louis
fair is so continuedly successful; and it
is still greater rarity to see the disin-
terestedness of motive in private gam
and perquisites so fully actuating the
same number of gentlemen as COM
pose the directory. In its whole his
tory not n farthing has been touched or
expended except 10 promote the objects
set forth in the articles of incorpora-
ton, and hence the implicit confidence
which it has inspired in the industrial
world.
An association of this character is
reliant upon the efforts of the people,
not only for its prosperity but for its
existence; and nobly have the people
of st. Louis, of Missouri, and of the
west and south, responded on former
occasions to maintain its high chamc-
ter.
In other countries, perhaps even in
other cities, the municipal or state gov
eminent might be enlisted to assist in
carrying forward such an undertaking;
but the st. Louis FAIR association has
had no such assistance and its prosper,
ity is the fruit of combined individual
effort. For the present, as in the past
its success Is reposed in the labor of its
managers, the growth of the country
the interest of the exhibitor, the salts
faction of the visitor and the universe
pride experienced in the welfare of the
institution.