Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-12
THE STATE FAIR.
Resume of Rainy WHOLESOME of the
Notable Exhibits-A Slanderous News

Notable Exh1D1tS-A Sl8u0erOus NeWs-
paper Rebuked- Resolutions of Thanks.
The imperfect facilities afforded both by
telegraph and mail for the transmission
of news, prevented very much Of the re-
ports prepared in regard to the State Fair
at Rochester last week, from reaching the
GLOBE office in time for publication, as
was desired. A brief resume OF interest
ing matter may not, therefore, be map
propriate. As a whole, the weather for
the week was a first class failure. Sun
shine was the exception and not the
rule, and while the management
had secured the finest display
of stock and other articles ever
brought before the people of Minnesota,
the Unfortunate conspiracy of the ele-
ments to prevent large attendance was
only too successful. On Friday alone
was there anything like the attendance
which the exhibition deserved. On that
day some Is, 900 people were present, and
though driven home by tremendous
showers about dark, they enjoyed on the
whole a very pleasant day. The closing
day, Saturday, was rainy, and articles
we're not removed entire until Monday.
SPECIAL EXHIBITS.
In Floral hall ,rapt in admiration Of the
beautiful pyramids of leaf and blossom,
intoxicated with their perfume and de-
lighted by the graceful spray of its fall
ing fountains, on which the summer
moon was not falling, the ears of the
GLOBE man, always alive to music, were
assailed by the notes of some grand Sc
lections from Faust played by master
hand and upon grand lnstru-
ment. Investigation showed that it
came from Hallett & Davis parlor grand
piano, under the skillful touch of Prof.
A. de Anguera. who, for the past twenty
wears, has been upon the floor of w. W.
Kimballs music house, Chicago, and who
is now his head salesman. The Kimball
company, besides the piano mentioned
and fine selection Of their own organs,
exhibit the Emmerson upright piano. AS
usual, they have swept the field, carry
ing off both first and second premiums,
distanclng all competitors Mr.. E. S.
Conway, manager of the Chicago house,
in charge of the exhibit, thirteen years
ago established the first Kimball agency
in the State at Rochester. Then sales
were comparatively slow. Now they
reach $4,000 per year., or about
| SIS or $40 per day from
the factory-a larger number than any
other factory in the United States.
While the beauty and fine finish of some
of the goods with the fine cimbella at
tachment of the organs and the almost
| infinite number of changes possible to
be produced In the degree and fiexibil1ty
of tone by the use of the large number of
stops, is sure to excite the admiration OF
the beholder, yet the simple plain case
L ,oh Of Of no
| palmer instruments suggest the adapt
grade of society, and the humble homes
as well as the rich and grand made
happy by this matchless, peerless organ.
Mr.. j. 81. Wagner, the old time agent
at Rochester, still comes to the front de-
| flying competition in price or quality.
| FIRST NORMAL SCHOOL.
This institution made very fine dis
play in Floral hall, under the direct
charge of President Irwin Shepard. 1t
consists IN part of four cases of minerals
from the museum of its society of arts
and sciences, embracing agates, crystals,
marbles, fossils, corals, and the collection
of Leadville ores and minerals, contain
ing over two hundred specimens, very
many of them of great value to mu-
scum, and numbers of them very pure
and rich and which were presented to the
school by former pupil. The exhibit
also contains a series of mammoth charts
illustrating the strata, fossils, and ami
mails of the various geological ages.
There is also an extensive selection of
pupils work--a collection of charts
drawn by pupils illustrating physiology,
zoology and geography, free-hand draw
ings, sketches from models, original and
applied designs, and sheets of drawings
Illustrating plane problems, issometric
and photographic projectives. The ex-
| hibition shows not only the perfection of
the pupils work, but also the wide range
| given their studies, and from the fact
| that all pupils are required to draw we
| are taught that it is not so much an art
as a scpence The graduates of this
| school are eagerly sought for all over the
| State and twice the number at command
| could be placed The enrolment is un-
usually large this fall and not vacancy
| exists.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Great indignation was felt and eX-
pressed at the structures of the p. p. on
| the State fair management, as being I'M
| just and unwarranted. 1t is generally
/ COuCcucu Wy CNCl ueuy, OAOCPo ehO hONS-
paper alluded to, that the state fair has
been in very able hands, and had the
weather but been favorable, would have
been grand financial success. The
GLOBE is under obligation to the man
agement for uniform courteous treatment,
and scruples not to say that the following
resolutions, presented for publication, are
just and true in every particular:
ROCHESTER,, Sept. 10, 1SS1.-To the
Executive Board of the State Agricul
tural Society: We, the undersigned ex-
hibitors of Dane county, Wis, desire to
thank you all, individually and collect
lively, for the very kind, courteous and
fair treatment which we have received at
the hands of you all during the holding
of your exhibition just closed, and at the
same time we wish to congratulate the
State Agricultural society on having such
gentlemen as Col. Clark w. Thompson
for their president and r. G. Judson for
secretary, whose superior management
and untiring efforts have secured
success to your fair at time
when failure seemed inevitable
Tho opf;o,rot;opc 0f tho borco iocEo owe