Daily globe., 1879-06-16
St. Paul and the State Fair.
ST. PAUL, June Is, 1879.

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ST. PAUL, June Is, 1879.
To the Editor of the Globe
see that the Pioneer-P Press comes out |
this morning against any effort being made |
by our business men and citizens generally |
toword aiding the State Agricultural society |
to give a fair in this city this fall. In this
Recommendation believe the Pioneer Press
is giving bad advice, and that il followed an
injury will be done the city, from which she
cannot recover in many years, if ever, and
at any time only by the most united and
persistent effort, coupled with large e1pen-
diture Of money. r.
st. Paulis peculiarly situated just now, and
on what is accomplished in the next two or
three years will largely depend her future
standing either as the metropolis or as q
second or third class city in the State. It is
therefore essential that everything calculated
to advertise st. Paul should be ayailed of,
and that no advantage now possessed should
be yielded up. In short, we should hold fast
to what we have, and get as much more to
make the city attractive as home or bus
mess location as possible. Cannot you
speak good word for the fair? It will be
taking. back step to not have the exhibi-
ton this fall-a loss of position that will be
hard to recover. The GLOBE has ever been
prompt to defend and advocate the
interests of st. Paul, and it should
speak now in no uncertain terms.
It is time for the property owners, for the
business men and every friend of St. Paul
to take stand in favor of q fair in St. Paul
this fall. If not holding fair simply
meant that the six, twelve, eighteen or
twenty thousand or more people who would
visit such an exhibition, should it be given,
should remain away from st. Paul this year,
the decision of the matter against fair
would not be essentially vital. But the fact
is, and st. Paul business men and property
owners might as we'll look the mat
ter square in the face first as
last, st. Paul and Minneapolis i are
now running aclose race for supremacy.
The two fairs the same week last year was
an incident in that race. Minneapolis has
renewed that feature of the contest this year.
It will not do now to say that the holding of
two fairs the same week in the cities of st.
Paul and Minneapolis is foolish proceed
ing. The fight has been inaugurated and
one battle fought. Both parties suffered
financially by the encounter, but both parties
advertised the advantages and resources of
their cities, and their state, as it had never
been done before, from which they will in
time be benefited dollars where cents
were spent for the exhibitions. Appre-
ciating this, Minneapolis took prompt
steps to improve this year what was so we'll
State organization, had to wait the action
of that body. Finally the State society,
moving under the requirements of the law
creating it, reorganized for this year, and de-
cided to hold fair at st. Paul. Then there
was talk of compromising the conflicting
| interests, and meetings of gentlemen from
| the two cities were held, but Minneapolis
promptly notified st. Paul that no arrange
ment would be considered by them which
did not include fair in that city this fall.
| In other words, ST. Paul must acknowledge
itself beat, withdraw from the field and
| leave Minneapolis to reap the harvest from
the seed sown last year.
This is the situation to-day. The ques-
tion of compromise on fair aud equitable
terms has passed. Minneapolis is going to
have fair. That city is being extensively
advertised all over the country through their
fair. Bill King is going here end there and
telling the great things to be done in Min
neapolis that week. In doing this he adver-
tises the city. It familiarizes strangers with
Minneapolis to such an extent that they
come to look upon it as the chief city of the
State. st. Paul has already suffered greatly
by not keeping itself prominently before the
public in the same manner.
This in itself ought to be sufficient to con-
vince every st. Paul man of the necessity of
going forward with the fair this fall. But
the injury does not stop here. If the fair
is not held, it will be received by the Mime
! A.
square back down on the part of St. Paul,
and Minneapolis having had an undisputed
field for year, will have gained such q
vantage ground that she can safely snap her
fingers at any future propositions for COM
year and the year following, and so
on until that fanciful dream of Col.
Hewitt's, of union of the two
cities is realized, the fairs to lie held in this
section of the State will be held at Mime
apolis. This is no idle prophecy. Pick up
the papers devoted to turf sports. st. Paul
has dropped out of sight. Go among the
Eastern and Southern horsemen and breed
ers-the class who furnish the great drawing
attractions at fairs and you do not hear OF
St. Paul. Bill King has showed Minneapolis
to the front. He is busily at work forming
his combinations. He has got his horse
circuit formed, and he is now form
ing cattle circuit. He is lay
ing his foundations for the future
solid and we'll. Citizens of Minneapolis
had to put their hands down deeper into
their pockets last year than did st. Paul
ST. Paul gained fully as much credit and
fame in the contest last year as did Mime
apolis. A large proportion of the money
spent is represented in buildings on the
grounds, ready for use this year. Mime
apolis proposes to utilize upon the none,
represented in those buildings, and in othel
) expenditures made to advertise their city las
year by giving another exhibition this year
believing that if followed up all the none,
then spent, and more, will come bacl
to them. On the contrary it is proposed
that st. Paul shall cry pecavi, that the eight
ten or twelve thousand dollars lost in last
years exhibition-eve cent represented il
the new buildings put up on the grounds
shall be absolutely sunk, that nothing shal
be done to reap return for those expendi
lures, and that St. Paul shall drop out o
existence so far as such exhibitions and tur
sports are concerned. This is the PROPOSE
ton of the Pioneer Press. It il
not sound. It is not too late to ge
up good fair, and it should b,
; held. After it is held if Minneapolis is willin,
: to talk compromise and union fairs, al
: right. If not renew the fight next year, an,
, keep fighting until every right Of position
, held by st. Paul at the close of the exhibi
!, tion last year, is recognized not only b
Minneapolis, but by Chicago, Milwaukee, ST
Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Cleveland
i Buffalo, and other cities known to the coun
try through their e1positions and racin
events. ST. PAUL.