Daily globe., 1882-07-22
.StiIE Alice and to the Front.

| Col. Kings reputation for getting up grea
fairs is widespread. Everybody has.the ut
most confidence in him IN this direction. HI
never fails to secure the very best attractions
in the country. The following, respecting
Col. King and his fairs, is taken from the
Breeders Gazette, of Chicago:
When Col. King came floating into Chicago
last fall, on that ocean of water and mud
which had engUlfed his fair of the preceding
week in disaster and financial ruin, we re.
marked to him, "Well, Colonel, the deluge
will cease by-and-by and you will give us a
better and bigger fair next year than you in
tended to this"
s'Don't; please don't make remarks to the
corpse at the funeral" was the mournful re-
ply. 81 am as dead as a mackerel. Died of
six days submerging in water and mud, and
am going to be buried a Thousand feet deep
under disappointed hopes and expectations,,,'
Nonsense" said we. "a Thousand fairs
have been ruined and made failures by bad
weather before this, and weEt right on the
next year, better and more successful than
ever before, just as you will next year,
"But just think of the hard work l have
done for a full year; think of the enormous
expense we have been to, the extent of the
preparations made, the costly attractions pro-
vlded, and then see what this internal deluge
has done to us; washed us clear out to the
middle OF an ocean of mud and sunk us
thousand fathoms deep in disappointment and
despair" and again the colonel shook his
head mournfully and muttered ''No. no;
don't feel as though ever wanted to hear of
another fair, much less to try and run an
other"
But we knew he would, all the same, bs
cause we knew the man and the influences by
which he was surrounded. Unused to de-
feats or failure he took too heavily to heart
nj 10 Upru disan pfF &c in,
the managements of fairs and expostions.
Bad weather makes failures of the best-pro.
vided-for fairs. The public understands this
thoroughly. Exhibitors have learned it by
heart, and are too intelligent to blame or hold
far managers responsible for what they can
not help.
The experience of Minneapolis last year in
this respect was the experience of nearly all
the leading fairs of the country Rain and
Dad weather ruined the most Of them, or
made them failures. But they will all be IN
line again this year, and at the very head aud
front of them all comes our friend Col. King,
at Minneapolis, with the best pro gramme and
the most exciting attractions he has ever Of
ferred the public; and when he swings open
the doors September the same eager crowds
OF twenty, thirty and forty thousand a day
will rush in TO give him warm and hearty
cheer OF encouragement.
The new union fair organization which has
been formed briggs st. Paul and Minneapolis,
those two marvellous cities of the Northwest,
into harmonious cooperation and effort in
sustaining these great industrial expesitions
which do so much to adveI tse their country
and add prestige to themselves and the state.
With such a combination of strength and
resources as the cities of st. Paul and
Minneapolis can command, union
fair or industrial exposition, such as they
now propose, will prove of incalcuiable value
not only to the cities referred to, but those
great industries and interests upon which
they are both becoming so rapidly rich and
great Aud for this reason, so patent to all
intelligent observers, we expect the best fair
and exposition ever yet seen in Minnesota will
be that of 1852, under the auspices OF this
new organic ltIon.