Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-14

people upon the grounds, happy joyous
throng, swaying hither and thither, now
held by the vendor of patent medicine
stand, exhibiting his Punch and Judy or
cracking his ancient jokes, or again at
tracted by the race course.
The noon train brought great many
st. Paul people, mostly hackers of the
PAGER Niger, owned by Lasher, we'll
known st. Paul citizen. The ST. Paul
contingent was in the best of spirits and
literally made ''Rome howr' on the race
track and about the grounds. The Hast
ings City band discoursed sweet music at
intervals, and everything went "merry as
a marriage bell.' The ladies and child
rem even entered in'o the soirjt of the day
and every body had "a good time.
INDUSTRIAL HALL.
The exhibit in this building takes the
pastry, in competition with any fair that
has been held in Minnesota this fall It was
not large and extravagant, but perfectly
arranged, neat and tasty. The exhibitors
were all citizens of Hastings. Timer
Bros. & Winler had the neatest exhibition
of hardware 1 have ever seen arranged at
meeting of this character. On a piece
of sail cloth hung against the wall they
had built a magnificent building out of
locks and their various parts. Fred Schurch
made good exhibit in harness and
saddlery. j. f. Dorish excelled in q fine
line of dry goods, clothing, etc. j. G.
Mertz had we'll selected line of furniture.
A. M. Chase had boots and shoes. W. E.
Vanauken displayed pianos, organs, sew
ing machines, etc. Rust & Stafford had
an art gallery-photogra Two fine
pyramids of flowers and plants occupied
the center of the hall furnished by the
wife of Hastings popular banker, Mrs.
l.. s. Foliett. In the art department there
were some rare relics owned principally
by MI. L. S. Follett. There was musket
of rebel soldier, killed at the battle of
Fair Oeks, the stock was broken and the
barrel bent. Mr.. A H. Truax had OIL ex-
hibition powder horn, taken from the
body of d soldier named Kettle, killed at
the battle of Srandywine during the Rev
dictionary war. The horn is engraved.
representing scenes of New York city at
that time, and is valuable and noteworthy
curiosity. 1t has been in the Truax family
since it was picked up from the battlefield
by the grandfather of the present owner.
The B. S. D. Ell. have fine line of clothing
on exhibit. M. Tanges, boots and shoes;
Meloy Bros, crockery and glassware;
Shiltz, paints and brushes; and TT q
Ladies' Guild of the Episcopal ,,nurnh
have stand covered with farcy articles
embroidery, etc. John Estergreen g. Son
make handsome display of buggies ami
sleighs, etc. divers new grocery stand
display vegetables of all kinds, and foun5
in the greatest perfection.
STOCK.
Over eighty five head of horses,
prising the various breeds, were on
The leading stockmen of Dako' en'oie o.
had specimens of their herds 90 ooun.
and an exceedingly creditabl ~ Sn,S Sneo
made. Such men as S. S. u,spiay tle
Byers, j. G. Maloy, job no,lo''' oon
Hastings; Leonard j. MON ana,a'
nera " r.nr msaS' et Hampton, and Other
and Normans II q. OF Clydesdale
good represent ere was a PARTICULAR
horses and or alton, although in dra1
lack. maoh STOCK there was Il
head an, & exhibit numbered about 1C
ownedt embraced the usual vsrietie
the he ~ the same men mostly who owne
G, Irses.
se- %. Eoi1et. had some fine poultry, az
P Icral parties, including R. G. Judson,
.armington, had fine line of Cotswo
,sheep.
THE RACES.
? Here was where the interest of the ia
j.. conferred as soon as the judges opened f
: business. There were many old horsem,
9 and all agree that more holly contests
s and interesting meeting was never seen
]. the state. Every race meant blood. Eve
horse was driven to win. There was no
of the usual jockeying and holding up al
u trading, which fact was largely due to tn
:, we'll kno wn starter and Judge Capt. Ait
IL mis-, who kept the boys wsll in hand.
Il At one O'Clock precisely, the horses we
~ ordered out for the fifth heat in the 2:
class of which four heats had been trott
on Wednesday and not finished for la
- of daylight. The starters were Black Jill
- Big Foot, Lulu Judd, and Namon
= Each horse had taken heat the day b
=. fore. The race and money was won
20 = Namona in two straight heats the pre-
- tiest ever witnessed on any track. Tin
40 2:35.
o. The 2:30 pacing race, purse 5000, be
n three in five, promised some fun from ii
40 beginning. Capt. Aithnis the starter hea
- indirectly that there was some talk amor
40 the drivers that he was interested in t
= st. Paul PAGER, Niger, and without mo
! ado, after the 2;30 trotters had fnishe
- stepped down from the judges stand ar
., declined to serve in the capacity of start
~ and give nobody any cause for dissatisfa
~ ton. The association promptly appoir
10 ed G. A. Baker, of Hastings, in the CAP
g place, and no delay was caused. The
y. were entered in this race Tucker B, b.
~ Billy N, C. g., P. Nelson, Red Wing; CIR
a. Dan, C. g., Peter Langden, st. Paul; Jol
~ H, C. g., Thomas G. Merritt; Niger, bl.
I A. B. Lesher, st. Paul, Niger was Il
- fsvorite in the pool from the eutst
~ although some of the starters. notab
:. Tucker B and John Fl, promised to ma
~ him earn his money.
A splendid start was got in the frs
=, 20 with Niger to the pole, Tucker nez
~ At the quarter pole Tucker
~ by fine burst of speed got the lead b
&c lost it again to Niger at the half mi
10 The heat was won by Niger, Billy N Sc,
IL ond, John Ell third, Tucker B fourth an
- Gray Dan fifth. Time 2:3S2I. The Sc