Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-08
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The Great Event Of the State Fair al
Rochester.
GOVERNOR AND STAFF PRESENT.
A Grand Cavalcade. Eloquent Grafton and
Royal Banquet.
OTHER NOTABLE FAIR EVENTS.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
STATE FAIR GROUNDS.
ROCHESTER, Sept. Z.

hOChESIER, Oepl- &.
This has been the gala day for the state
fair. The weather as it has been all
through the week, has been simply perfec-
ton, clear and warm with light breeze to
temper the heat. The crowds began to
pour into the grounds as early as O'Clock
IN the morning, and from that hour until
p. IN. there was no let up in the arrivals
The secret of this rush is found in the
fact that in addition to the grand
attractions OF stock, machinery,
grain. racing, etc. this was the day when
the governor and associate state officers,
paid a semi-official visit TO the fair, and in
whose honor the fatted calf, a short horn
from the Lake Elysian stock farm Of c. A.
DeGraff. three years old and weighing
1,900-was roasted whole and served up in
regular old Kentucky barbecue style. To
do homer to the state officials many of the
leading public men of the state, business
men. politicians and all, had also timed
themselves to visit the fair on this day, SO
that without doubt the gathering here
to-day embraced the greatest number of
the representative men of the state ever
gathered together on a similar occasion.
Among those present are the following:
STATE AND Ex-sTATE OFFICERS.
L. F. Hubbard, governor. Gen. j. II.
Baker. railroad commissioner, chairman
of the fair reception committee.)
Charles Kittelson, state treasurer, Fred
Won Baumbach, secretary of state.
w. W. Braden, state auditor, Sam. II.
Nichols. clerk supreme court.
II. NJ. Knox, public examiner,
II. H Young, clerk board of immigra-
ton.
A. c. Lane, assistant attorney general.
Col. J. C. Hill, Judge advocate on the
governors military staff
Ex-Govs. H. Fl. Sibley, c. K. Davis, F.
B. Armstrong and W. R. Marshall.
Ex-Auditor O. P. Whitcomb.
OF the representative men of the state
the following have been sighted by the
GLOBE reporter: Hon. M. I'll. Dunnell and
II. B. Strait, members of congress; II. K.
Wells. Preston; Ara Barton, Faribault;
John F. Norrish, Hastings; c. F. Buck, Wi
mona; w. Wheelock, Owatonna; G. II.
Berry, Winona; James Polleys, Wells, N.
P Clark and d. B. Searles, st. Cloud;
d. L. Buell., Caledonia; Col. A. DeGraff,
st. Paul; Hon. Dexter Curtice, Madison,
Wis; D. w. Ingersoll, st. Paul; Ben Van
Campen, Cannon Falls; Peter Berkeyi st.
Paul; H. B. Morse, Winona.
United States Senator Window, Winona;
Gen. LeDuc, Hastings; Judge Thos. Will
.,>,, W;nono. TDJca Ctorf Pocbocf Copo
tor Officer, Austin; Hon. Don. Cameron,
La Crescent; Hon. HI. Lamberton,
Winona; Judge L. j. Severance, Mankato.
THE RECEPTION.
The reception ceremonies were inaugur-
ated at $50, at which time the local recep-
tion committee, Mayor Mayo and the city
council, waited upon the gubernatorial
party at the Cook house. After a gen.
eral informal Introduction and
hand shaking, the distinguished guests
were taken to carriages, and preceded by
the city and cornet bands of Rochester
were escorted to the fair grounds, where
they arrived a little before 10 o'clock and
were received by President Clark, officers
and committee of the state fair society, with
the Owatonna band, stationed at the en-
trance to the grand stand.
In the meantime the horses that took
part i'll the grand cavalcade had been par
Gded in the inner circle in the track
There were near 200 on number and
embraced all the best strains of trotting
thoroughbred pacing and general purpose
bloods, presenting one of the largest and
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Northwest, ,and by far the best both in quail
ty and number ever seen in the Northwest
As the head of the procession approached
the amphitheater theOwatonna band struck
up, the other band and foot procession
halting and opening ranks through
which the carriages containing the
visitors were driven to the main entrance
where they alighted, with Gen. Baker as
master of ceremonies, who introduced the
governor to President Clark, by whom the
visitors were escorted to the places as
signed them in the amphitheater. in the
center and directly opposite the judges
stand the bands taking position on the
lower tier of seats, one on either side. ALI
seated the grand cavalcade of blooded
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theater, the horses in the lead, followed by
the cattle, sheep and swine in the order
named. As the procession moved by
Gen. NJ. T. Grattan, the efficient racing
Judge announced the exhibition of the ami
mails passing, number, breeding, etc, At
this time the amphitheatre was crowded.
while crowds of people on foot and in car
riages lined the fence for long distance.
the crowd being equal to that on any pre-
vious day of the fair, though so early in
the day, and numbering $4,000.
THE CAyALCADE
was headed by the exhibit of John Wells
worth, Dodgeville, Wis, thirty head of
Norman and Clydesdales. The Normans
we're headed by Nordy and the Clydes BY
Masher. Next came the exhibit of
Field Bros. Cedar Falls, To-. Eng
lish draft and Cleveland bays: b
Neal, second, Recommendations; 81. Eckles.
Eyota, three Norman stations; Simon
Downie, Owatonna, two Clydes and one
English coach; Joseph Richardson, Elgin.
I'LL. seven stations, with Omega at the