Daily globe., 1878-09-03
N MINNEAPOLIS NEWS
Reported for the Daily Globe
THE GREAT EXPOSITION.
THE EYENING IND THE MORNLNG
WERE THE FIRST DdF.
Full Birds Eye View of Mechanical Hall
The Races-The Rarus Misunderstanding
All Settled and Serene-Fun Attendance
and Everybody Happy.

"All roads lead to kome.: All success or
failure of the great exposition depends upon
the state of the weather, therefore
The day opened bright and beautiful as
Venus eyes from her afternoon siesta. His
majesty of the day s stir-the sun-showed an
unobscured face to those who rose with him,
while the cool, fragrant aatumnal air, laden
with the music of the cricket's song and the
blue jays metallic clang, gave promise of a
first class day for the commencement.
At o'clock A. NJ. the grounds were astir
with the hundreds OF attendants and employees
of the different departments, and all was life
and activity. Even at that early hour
DROVE AFTER DROVE
of stock, ranging in size and importance from
the mammoth horse of pure Norman blood to
the tiny Berkshire pig, whose porklsh eye had
just opened upon the vanities of this
subluhary sphere, came pouring
into the enclosure and seeking
each its proper location. Rough farm wagons
laden with poultry, spruce Democrat wagons
burdened with supplies of fancy groceries,
numbering furniture wagons overhowing with
the treasures of the cabinet-maker's art, digni-
fed lager beer wagons with untold supplies of
the thirst-quenching, nut-brown beverage-in
short all the countless train of moving vehicles
which the fair-going mortal is SO well acquaint-
ed with, moved in a mass from the city
to the great centre of attraction,
the fair ground. Even Forepaugh's S
elephants could not prove counter attraction,
and the omni-present small boy, Mikempt and
Mishod, forsook the lesser for the greater show,
and hurried forward 't to the fair"
IN GOOD ORDER.
For wonder everything was in order. Bor
rowing useful knowledge from past experience,
the management had full and we'll trained
corps of polite and attentive ushers and at
tendants, and the work of final
arrangement moved forward with the
half of the articles for exhibition were still not
located, but before the honr of 10 o'clock
struck everybody and everything seemed to
have found its place, and there was none of the
hurry and rush, the rattle and bang, which are
usually accessory before the fact at all exhi-
bitions of this character.
A GENERAL VIEW.
Arriving at the grounds at o'clock the
GLOBE man first essayed a general view of the
grounds, the track, aud the buildings, and
with the following result:
The grounds, though not the largest are now
the most complete and perfect in the State.
The location of the various buildings were de-
scribed in the GLOBE of yesterday. and their
arrangement are as near perfect when we con-
slider their uses as it is possible to make them.
The track is in perfect order-level as a barn
floor and smooth as the surface of mirror.
The stables and sheds are nearly all occu-
pied (there being 1000 In ali, for horses and
cattle) and still there is demand for more
room" 1t is safe to say that the management
could have added one-third more attractions to
the display of stock. if they could have agreed
to furnish the room. When one looks over
the full and complete display Of blooded ami
good for stock -raising?" might be considered
settled.