Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-10
AFTER THE FAIR.

Revie,O of the Yesterdav's Appearances
What VIII be Done Nect Year--AU Bills
IN Attendance, ETC., Etc.
A brief visit to the exposition grounds
yesterday showed an army of exhibitors and
laborers busily engaged in clearing away
the goods, chattels and traps of all kinds
which had been on exhibition or use during
the great show. All the eating houses we're
closed, except the Universalists, who were still
providing clearly lunch and warm coffee
for all who were an hungered or thirsty.
Two or three
LONELY FLAGS
fluttered in the chilly north wind, or wound
around the sorrowful stats to keep them
comfortable. The voice of the miniature
Minuehaha was stlled-no more cheerful
laughter at the hurlying multitude which a
few Erief hours before swayed past. The
fountains had ceased their play, and the
beautiful flowers were withered and trodden
under foot by the rough fellows, whose only
immediate object in life was to "clear the
hals.'
THE STOCK PENS
were vacant. The pitful bleat of the lambs,
and the comfortable grunt of well-fed hogs
no longer smote the crisp, cool atmosphere.
The knd-eyed COWS and wonderful, ribbor-
bedecked bulls we're no longer present to call
forth EXPLANATIONS of admiration from the
gazing multitude which-alas, was no
longer there.
RARUs HAD GONE,
bearing with him a crown of admiration,
and giving in payment pleasant remem-
ORANGES, and food for innumerable ro-
mances, which will be told around the
pleasant firesides on many prairie home,
when Boreas shall assert his right to reign
drought his realm in "' Et0He du Nord''
And with him John Splan, who took back
what he had brought to Minneapolis
words and unkind memories. And
NOBLE LITTLE HOPEFUL
crowned with flowers, and followed by good
wishes from every soul who witnessed his
gallant effort to capture in honorable con-
fict the crown from his adversary. Gone
with Dan Mace and all the hopes Of future
success which could be piled upon him.
Gone to be watched from Minneapolis for a
coming twelve months to see il his promise
of further and more glorious triumphs on
the turf shall await him.
And then the lager beer booths under
the
GRAND STAND
were desolate for the healthy gang Of thirsty
hangers-on who periodically wendell their
way thitherward to cool their coppers and
wet their whistles. The amphitheatre Itself
was vacant and gaped hungrily for it's accus-
toned multitude, and the judges stand was
so quiet after the six days siege of that ex-
haustless voice with
MAN NAMED SMITH
attached to it and no sound so daring as to
attempt competition with the one which is
gone--to Dubuque with the horses.
The band stand, the pool stand, and all the
innumerable caravan Of booths with their
sole-leather pies, and ham sandwiches sug
gestive Of grit. Watermelon wagons, with
hints of stomachaches in the near future.
Corn doctors and headache doctors, with
their infallible nostroms, warranted
to cure-or kill. The lung tester,
the health-lift, the thousand-and-
one swinders with plasuible stories, and
execrable music; with tongues longer than a
liberty pole, and consciences made of India
rubber. All. all gone; and the spot that they
had filled with activity left to us mourners
desolate.
THE RESULT.
All things taken into consideration the fair
may be called a decided success. All prelni-
ums have been or are being paid, and no ex-
hibtor has left or will leave the
city without his money in his poke t. 1t is
generally understood, however, that the
management have not realized a very con-
siderable overplus, on account of the heavy
expense of providing the innumerable at
fractions which rendered the exposition so
acceptable to the public.
That 1t will start on the next year entirely
free from debt is absolutely certain. And that
start has already been made. It is asserted
(althongh the GLOBE does not assume to
speak by authority that the management has
already started out on next years labors, land
have definitely settled that the
FIRST WEEK IN SEPTEMBER
is good time to hold fairs, and have agreed
upon that time for holding the next expo
sition. Numerous horses and other attrac-
tons have already been bespoke and
promised, and, altogether, the Minneapolis
EXPOSITION OF 1879
promises to be even more successful than
the year previous.
Nearly all the horse men have left the city
for Dubuque and the circuit, the winners of
purses with plethoric pocket-books, and
many Of the buyers of pools with port
monnaies depleted.
ATTENDANCE.
Nearly the exact figures derived from
various official sources fix the number that
attended during the week at little above
100000 persons-a tolerably good attend
ance considering it was ''nothing more than
a-ah-little bit of a-ah-county fair, up in
the country