Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-05
THE URCHINS:
HOW 5000 LITTLE SOULS WERE
MADE HAPPY.

MADE hdfT1'
The First Day of the ST. Paul and Mime
apolis Fair-The Sports-The Displays in
Mechanical Agricultural, Horticultural
and Floral Eiails-The Indians and the
New sboys-AiisaIa Day-Jupiter Pluvius,
Kindly Disposed, Smiles GraciOusly.
Some of the children of Minneapolis
and St. Paul went to the fair yesterday.
The sum total of the big and little lassies
who lent their presence and encourage
ment on this suspicious occasion Is exceed
ingly hard to estimate, as they were re-
ouired 10 leave no cards with the gate
keepers. and thronged the various
entrances in such numbers as to battle the
efforts Of tally-keepers' Col. King kinks
there were about 5000 of them, and one OF
The gate-keepers ayers that there must
have been nearly 10000. Striking an
average between these rough estimates and
adding the number of big sisters, mothers
and brothers who came along
to look after the little ones and
avoid the rush of the succeeding days, We
have fair estimate of from 10000 to 49,
900 people who visited the Minneapolis
fair grounds yesterday. This for the
opening day, when the display of exhibits
was known to be far from complete and
few attractions for others than the children
were offered, was indeed
A MOST AUsPIcIoUs OPENING
of what promises to be the most success
full fair on record, and greatest show on
earth.
no Of fha
morning the children came trooping in,
with bea1ning faces, freshly combed hair,
well-illed lunch baskets and the bright an
ticipations of big time coming, and set
about realizing il with all speed in their
several ways. The
PEANUT AND TIE ADvERTIZING CARD
cut no small figure in the days amuse-
ments. One promising urchin boosted a
master-Seroke of economy II securing two
dozen OF the latter with his own name on
them from an amateur printer on the
grounds FOR quarter They was ten
cents dozen or two dozen for twenty five
cents. so got two dozen. cause it's cheap
err he said.
They occupied the forenoon in strOllirg
the novelties and nice things n which they
obounded gazing in awe-strucl1 wonder
and curious longing upon the glazing eff
gieS hung up outside the tents wherein the
great snakes, fat men. Punch and Judys,
half wcmen," elephant swallOwers and
other agicians performed their wondrous
feats aad raked in the dimes, laughed up
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his own questions through tin whistle
concealed under his mustache.
all the while congratulating himself that
he was making the children believe that it
was the Iag baby he was playing with that
did the talking. Others visited the stock
yards and stuck up their little noses at the
hogs ana admired the cattle and sheep until
they were tired, then repaired to
the seats OF the amphithe-
alter, where they munched peanuts.
emptied their lunch baskets and exercised
their lungs iii demonstrations Of shrill APP
proval when stray horsemen eluded the
vigilance of the sentinals and went career
ing round the track.
Toward midday the crowd increased and
cheerful spectacle of moving humanity in
bright array and joyous spirits, but victims
of spirits stronger than the
LEMONADE WHEN IT Is RED,
and the -EY. NJ G. A. drinks which APP
peared a. some of the booths, did not APP
pear to mar the serenity" of the scene,
thanks to the reformed policy of the man
-agement
While the children have adjourned to
the grand stand to witness the races. we
will join the older people in brief tour
of the exhibition buildings.