The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-09-14

are seen uniforms, ana WD1e Inc mill
tary fellows are here those who have no
uniforms stand little or no show.
The streets are beginning to look gayer
and livelier every hour, tor fresh troops
are coming in, and merchants and 9th
ers are beginning to dress up their
buildings. In many instances whole
fronts of structures along Ksnsas avenue
have been dressed with festoons and
draperies of various kinds. TO say moth
ing of countless flags which futter in
the wind in every conceivable shape.
By to-day and tomorrow the decorations
will be much more complete than they
that the grand display shall take place
on Friday when the old veterans march.
RATHER DIsAaREEABLE.
It was a rather disagreeabie day, yes
terday, taken as whole. for towards
noon the wind began to rise, carrying
binding, sitting clouds of dust in ali |
directions Along those streets where
water carts had been sprinking 1t was
not so bad, but where there had been no
water thrown at all il was all but IN
bearable; and vehicles and passengers
going to the fair were fairly envelcped. |
A good shower is what is needed now
more than anything else, or If the fair
company or the city, or somebody would /
only sprinkle along Topeka avenue for /
two or three blocks between the reunion
camp and Twelfth street il would be q /
great blessing. a hot wind also pre-
vailed, which added considerably to the |
discomforts of the day, and was the /
cause of q good deal of mild profanity |
AT THE FAIR.
The attendance at the fair yesterday |
was far in advance ofthat of the previous
| day, the grounds being well filed. 1t is
1 anRf0fnoNad that the FNaah 4n-11nFFnEy and 1
Friday will be simply wonderful, for on
the latter day Mr.. Blame will speak and
| all the veterans will be present. Ar
| rangements will also be made before that
/ time, provided il does not rain TO vet
down the driveways of the grounds, fer
| Yesterday when the wind was blowing
the dust was absolutely unbeatable.
The hot wind was bad enough to bear
without being suffocated in the dust. The
militia camp is, very naturally, quite q
center of attraction to visitors upon the
fair grounds, and the tents are surround
ed ct almost every hour by gazing
crowd. Camp discipline is maintained
and sentries pace up and down at all
hours. The officers of the various COM
panies are not idle by any means, for
they keep their men pretty steadily at
, work, drilling, doing various kinds OF
camp duty and everything else calculated
to prevent them from becoming rusty.
The boys do not complain, however, but
, cheerfnl!y do all that is required OF
them.
EVERYTHING IN SHAPE.
Since Monday morning everybody
connected with the various departments
has been busy and the result of their Ia
bors has been shown by the general
, completeness Of sll the arrangements.
! Visitors to the fair now can have the OPP
Z portunity to see everything well dis
!, played, though many of the departments
are crowded and some exhibits, owing
.. to the lack of space, do not show up so
7 well as they otherwise would. Said one
! of the directors yesterday;
There's no providing room enough
for everybody who has goods to show.
: When we go to work and create what
we would ordinarily consider enough
space the exhibits will begin to crowd
. in on US at such rate that it is really
an absolute impossibility to accommo-
date them all. For instance, next year
|. if we should double our capacity, we
would be crowded. You have no idea
what it is, and you can have no idea re-
garding it until you have had some ex-
|, perience at it."
: Barring the way in which great
. many things are crowded, however,
everything Is so placed as to make the
very best showing possible and the Wis
, itor will find, no matter what his taste,
I much TO please and crafty.
CAMP DOVTHITT.
Camp Douthitt began to assume quite
an old soldierly appearance yesterday
morning, as the boys after night under
, canvas began to bestir themselves in
their arrangements for breakfast. Camp
:, fires were scattered among the company
1 | oeH onH "a old nyIp dFiRal hlapk
: kettles so familiar to every veteran,
> hung from many stick. Occasionally
a frying pan siZzled Hospitality with its
: rasher of bacon or in its stead slice OF
pork. The steam also arose from here
> and there a coffee pot, the fragrance of
which bad somewhat of the old time
aroma to the hungry soldier boys. Let
not the citizen who stakes in" The re-
union this week imagine, however, that
he sees before him the verisImilitude of
> and old time camp. How the boys
= would have snikered in 81, g, 3, 4 and
IS at the idea of being sheltered in one
|, of these great hospital tents, or even one
" %o1fd iShS sEe BEEN s'S lost nS entirely
: at finding themselves in one
of the conical Sibley's; a wedge:tent
was . camp palace almost, and there
were weeks together when many a regi-
| Au6Al vas well SOAOCLb al VIZ
portunity to bivouac for day or so at a
time, to say nothing Of putting up shell.
,, ter ofany kind. The ''tFuss tents" COW
ering from twenty or thirty square feet
of ground and just high enough to crawl
into were the best that many of them
I had for many O day.
The committee of thirty eight has un-
donbtedly done well. All honor to every
man of 1t. But it is to be hoped that an
,, other year display will be made On the
reunion grounds of Just the kind of tents
the soldiers had during the war, and let
this be put at the top OF the memoranda
, of things to be done next time.
TURNING OVER THE CAMP.
The first occurrence ofgeneral interest
.. yesterday morning was the ceTemo-
! ny of turning over the camp by the com
mittee of thirty-eight, to Gen. G. w.
Blair, the commandment chief selected
for the occasion. This took place in the
. large rasilion at half past ten.