Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-06
vast multitude. There were the sturdy yeo
many Of the land, with their wives and daugh.

vast multitude There were the sturdy yeo.
many of the land, with their wives and daugh-
tiers; the hard-fsted youthful grangers, with
their sweethearts; the sleek and Industrious
pick.pocket, with his fingers in every persons
pocket other than his own, the dapper youth
of the city. the rotund business man; every
body in fact within a hundred miles of st.
Paul, including few curious if not jealous
Minneapolitans, who had allowed their desire
to look upon the king to overcome their
otherwise well-settled hatred of everything
sayoring of st. Paul, and above all, the St.
Paul fair.
But, with all the crowd, and all the undis-
guised desire to behold the President, there
a marked aud remarkable lack of en-
thusiasm manifest when that individual at last
put in an appearance ,t1 IS
ON THE PLATFORM OF HIS CAR,
and then stepped upon the ground. attended
by his wife, Fair President Finch, and fol-
lowed by the omnipresent Devens, the agricul-
tural LIE Due. and the attendant retinue
Of lesser officials who made up the
sum total of visiting greatness. There were a
few Jealous adherents to the conciliatory policy
who attempted to raise cheer when Hthe
head and front of their offending" DOTTED his
hat to the Minnesota populace; they raised
their tiles and called for the customary cheers,
ou' eolneAo" Tue people uluh catcl tne IN
tended contagion of welkin-ringing
applause and beyond the screaming
OF few small boys who would have yelled just
as loudly for Dennis Kearney, Ben Butler, P.
L. Barnum or any other communistic tramp
labor-loving representative, or prominent show
man, there were little to make known to the
people who were at the extremes of the grounds
or complacently guzzling the inebriating self
zer or the harmless whisky straight under the
shadow of the grand stand, that anything like
a President had stepped within the portals of
the fair grounds.
Then the soldiers were drawn up in array,
and did the honors in good style at present
arms as the executive passed along. Through
the dust afoot the ladies and gentlemen trudged
through dust that covered their shoes fairly,
and crowd that toasted its curious eyes for
the frat time on
REAL LIVE PRESIDENT.
On across the race track, around to the Presi-
dents pavilion they went, or at Leaf such of
them as were fortunate enough to keep togeth-
er. But they did not all succeed in getting
through the crowd, which finally closed in and
cut the procession in twain, leaving
dignitaries and their wives and few news
paper representatives squirmiug about in the
almost hopeless endeavor to straighteu them
selves out again into the faintest semblance of
procession" Completely lost at sea, with
out guide, and no chart as to the passages be-
tween fences or through grand stands that
would lead them to the stand whittier their
comrades had safely gone, and where all the
fun was to be held, they worked and twisted,
marched and countermarched wound in and
out, and round and round, until at last they
gave it up as hopeless Job and halted for con-
sultation and a cooling breeze. Then on again.
when at last the gateway was found
through which the others of the party
had passed; but too late. brawny
man in his shirt sleeves and hammer in
hand was battering down the timbers and max
ing further ingress impossible.
1t was here and at this moment that
AN HONEST AND ENTHUSIASTIC WOMAN
was making himself heard in measured and
penter fair officials, and eyery-
body who had had hand in
barring the progress of the people who had
hoped to get into the grand stand quarter
stretch and other choice localities, without the
payment of the customary entrance fee. Speak
ing for himself, at least, he damned every
body and everything, and declar-
ed inferentially, and upon the
strength of double and twisted
oath, that, as this was free country every
x.
granted to even those who demanded admit
lance to the precincts which executive feet had
trodden without their owner coming down
with the fee exacted from more common NOR
tails. But it was no use, the mailing went on
just the same, and the freedom shrieker fell off
his rostrum and was lost in the surging crowds
Meantime the lost tail-piece of the excursion
procession, had run down an individual minus
his coat but plastered all over his front end
with several yards of badge, who very gener-
ously piloted them between the Scyllis and
Chary bdis of the grand stand, in the shape of
two doorkeepers, took them across the track, and
finally, after great tribulat1on and a good deal
OF clambering, landed them on the presidential
pavilion, just as MIR. Hayes was getting fairly
warmed up, OF rather, considering the state Of
the weather and the nature of his remarks
cooled down to his speech.
THE PAVILION
which was set apart for the speech-making
and Presidential exhibition has already been
described in these columns. 1t was co,nfor-
tably filled on this important OCCASION, and
boosted as its occupants all grades of official
life, from President to policeman, on the male
side, and from President 8 wife to the aforesaid
policeman's sweet heart on the other. This
latter dignitary was enveloped in smiles and
red hair, and there was, in all. probability no
one in all that great concourse who felt the
prodigious weight of the honors which the oo-
casion had precipitated upon them more than
her.
ON THE PAVILION.
The scene which the Presidential
eye beheld-and which was az
we'll vouchsafed to the lesser imurtals,
who sat behind him-was one calculated to in
spire enthusiasm in any ordinary speaker. The
grand stand was simply packed with humanity,
and bright colors and handsome feminenity:
stood out in all their attractiveness radiance;
and loveliness. There were bronzed
and broad-shouldered men, sturdy farm!
ers, gaudily uniformed soldiers, magnificent
and awe-inspirlng druu majors, dirty-faced
boys, enthusiastic youths, decrepit old men
and tottering women, men on crutches, and
men with sleeveless arms y no had come 70 sec
again the captain who had led them id many
a hard fought battle perhaps, in fact a motley
mixture as to nationality, complexion, Sattire,
but all evinclng earnest attention and al alike
displaying about the same amount of iprairie
dust. tte
One of the most pleasing events of the
speech-making portion of the programme was
the enthusiasm which was shown regarding
Mrs. Hayes. Emphatic calls were made for
this lady, who at last consented to go forward
and. leaning on Acknowledgement