The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-09-26
KANSAS ClTY'SFAIR
A Big Turnout Of People-Twenty
Thousand People on The
Grounds.
A Good Day For Racing, Sight See.
ing and Dust, More Es-
peciaIIy the Latter.
Rarus The Big Sensation-Other
Matters Relating to the
Exposition.
TILE KANSAS CITY FAIR.


Fair Yesterday we're the crowd and the dust,
although both may be attributed TO Raru..
who drew the crowd, and the crowd assisted
M materially in rsi.ing the dust, which blew
in thick and sitting clouds upon every sue
ceeding movement OF the wind. Ii was
dusty 10 Kansas City yesterday upon the
very slightest provocation, and in fact
without any provocation at ell. In fact,
the dust was
so PAINFULLY PREVALENT
that 10 escape from it was one of the utter
impo-sibilities, whether upon the grand
staud, the amphitheater, in the booths-it
WAS dusty everywhere, and yet more par
ticulaIly and especially upon the prone
made or space between the booths and
the amphitheater. People who vent there
clean, in half an hour bore most striking
and marked resemblance to . mummy
freshly
EXHCMED FROM DRY CLAY BANK,
and of the great assemblsge there yester-
day there could scarcely have been one who
did not make away with LIS allotted peck
of dirt. When the gales were closed for
the evening there wasn't, BY several hund-
red bushels, a. much real estate upon the
grounds as in the morning, as each and
every Individual visitor took away q more
or le-s quantity in his clothing, hair, eyes
and ear-, not
TAKING THAT INTO CONSIDERATION
which was swallowed, and consequently q
dead loss. There il no gainsaying the fact
that it was dusty upon the fair grounds at
& snsas City yesterday, most uncomfortably
so, and while everybody didn't like it, it
couldn't be helped, and as 4 consequence
it was taken a. good humoredly as circum-
stances would permit In the city the
dust. also, while not SO very deep, was ex-
promiscuous and cordial, very
friendly TO the stranger,
COMBINING IN ITSELF
The happy faculties of dissemination and
most tou.hing to behold.
Sill, the far Yesterday va, ana has bee n the
preceding days, a success. and has drawn
immense crowds, more, however, through
advertising il has receive j than
sny merritoricus display of products or ex-
races upon the track.
RARUs WAS THE CHIEF CARD;
Rsrus the ugly, who c.r ps-haps include
more real estate in a single stride than any
Ither animal eXtant; Rarus, Who
piupges along 20 beautifully, never
breaking but a. relisbie as locomotive on
4 good track Rarus, h. seemed TO appre-
.iate the applsuse which greeted him as he
'howed himself upon the track, yet who
iidn't m AXE any unnecessary motions when
showing off," sensible Rarus, fleet and
Igiy, the great attraction, the magnet
shich drew the people to Kansas City yes
srdsy to spend their money and see the
air.
THE CROWD OF YESTERDAY
vas immense, and at fair and candid esti- |
nate approached twenty, and possibly |
wenty- five thousand, although enthusiastic |
( snsas Cityites claim from forty to sixty |
thousand out il must be remembered that |
ixty thousand, and even forty thousand |
'eople W, re never gathered in one place in |
his western country at one time, during the |
history Of this section, and that twenty |
housand is an immense crowd. and rarely |
cen. The crowd of yesterday was the |
srge-t, in all probability, ever seen at =
air IN this western country, and is
AN IMMENSE ATTENDANCE.
Sot all Of them were strangers, perhaps not |
nore than half, but ten thousand strangers |
n city Of thirty-fve thousand inhabitants
r-ates a stir, and il must be said that on
esterday Kansas City was string and live
v. Leayenworth sent down five crowded /
caches TO swell the t-.rong, and it Is to be
oped that when We have anything here
hat Kansas City will return the compli-
lent The attendance from Leavenworth
esterdsy was fully five hundred.
THE EXPOSITION GROUNDS
re small, too small II i.,ct, and while ef-
,rts have been, and are constantly being
lade TO enlarge them, the managers have
OF vet succeeded in doing so, and as nat
raj consequence are cr.mped for room. A
,rger srea would serve to make much
etter showing of what was set out for dis
lay, and tend 10 highten and increase the
itct of the exhibitions.
THE DISPLAY OF EVERYTHING
as very good. especially in the Missouri
uildipg, although the Kansas building
as a great and the chief center of attrac-
on, it containing several fine specimens of
lie product of the soil of the sovereign
ate in the Union. To the Santa Fe road
due the principal credit for this. most
llient and noteworthy feature of the Ex-
,sition. The display of all kinds of farm
schinery was excellent, "a also the show
the stock line, fat hogs, monstrous cat
e. prize bulls, fancy horses, etc. The art
,llery tended to attract the visitor and was
ell worth the spending Of few moments.
THE RACE COURSE
as, as a matter of course, the initial point
T the crowd, the scramble to secure elig-
lie seats upon the grand stand being the
der of the day. The space enclosed BY
'e race course, being grassy and cool, was
rgely occupied. aud furnished several
ost desirable points from which to view
'e races. On the whole, the fair at Kan
u City, yesterday, may be considered .
lccess certainly in the matter of the At
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