St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-06
A Splendidly Contested Race Be
tween HerOd and Silas
Wright.
Five Mile Bicycle Race-Skating Ex-
hibitiOn-Special Mercantile
Exhibits.
Large Attendance and the Fair from First
to Last Success.
Especial Telegram to the Globe,

angles from their etans, the smoke snoL out
north as soon as it left the chimneys, the dust
went north, and everybody looked north when
ever they came in contact with the wind
and dirt, just as If they were expecting some
one.
Some impious wretches were disposed to muir
muir at thisfurther visitation of divine provi-
dence, but at GLOBE headquarters it was remem-
bered that few years ago we were wading in
mud most OF the time, and here the fifth day Of
this great fair opened without drop of rain to
mar the occasion. The crowd yesterday and
Wednesday has left the association out of debt,
and the officers and directors of the Southern
Minnesota Fair association feel consequently
happy, as they have good reason to.
An right here il is eminently proper and just
that the management of this fair should have
word OF commentator. Nothing succeeds like
success is good adage, and it certainly is appro
priately quoted concerning this fair. Particular
credit is certainly due to Secretary Van Camper,
Of Winona, for his indefatigable labors to make
this fair success. The success of any fair de-
ponds largely upon its secretary, and it is only
fair to judge of Mr.. Van Camper by his
success. The president Of the association
Hon. D. A. Morrison has also given his time and
energies in the same direction and as body the
entire list of officers have worked to win, worked
for their fair, for their beautiful city and for
southern Minnesota. 1t has been simply an ag
ricultural and mechanical fair. There have been
no high priced celebrities and no enormous
purses, but each day has had an attractive pro-
gramme and the races have been more than
usually attractive and interesting and the record
the best ever made on ts.s track.
The weather aside fro-3 the fearful wind was
clear through warm and by the industrious use
If rha CIR tla tha lin Of ha
fair grounds and the track in front of the Ampi-
theater was kept in a comfortable condition.
RocHEsTER's DAY.
By preconcerted agreement among the mer-
chants and business men of Rochester this was
made the city day at IL m. All places of bust
ness were closed and the employees given the
chance to attend the fair during the afternoon.
The attendance from abroad was not SO large
as on the two previous days. The average farmer
who stops work at this busy season of the year
and drives from ten to twenty miles to take in
the far, cannot afford to spare but one day and
Friday did not see so many of them, as matter
of course, as Wednesday and Thursday. The
trains did not bring as many either, but the city
people turned out, and although not q big crowd
was to be seen, no one felt lonesome.
SPECIAL EXHIBITS
Walking about the grounds and through the
exposition buildings during the early mornig
| when there was no crowd to jostle against him,
| the GLOBE representative had fine chance of
seeing some of the most notable exhibits, which
are noted for the benefit of those who were so
unfortunate GAS not to be able to be present
and see it for themselves.
WHITE SEWING MACHINE.
The White sewing machine, manufactured at
Cleveland, Ohio, and northwestern distributing
| Office at st. Paul, is an exhibition represented
| by Mr.. s. F. Rawley and Miss A. E. Pierson.
They made fine display OF work done on their
machines, no doubt the finest done by any ma
chine on the grounds. The White does not
| claim any one special feature, but invites the
attention of the public to their broad claim of
superiority: Its light running, noiseless, care
| in construction, features of durability finish of
machine and woodwork, self threading qualities,
its automatic bobbin winder, its belt shifting
device, its great range of work. There are al
| ready SOC, 600 in use. 1t IL the most modern
machine in the market. See it before you buy.
wINoNA BINDEE.
, The Wlnona binder and mower, exhibited, was
most favorably commented upon by oil who Wis
| tied the fair, and many congratulated Messrs.
Robertson Bros, of Rochester, upon their good
fortune of having secured the agency for these
machines. They will be permanent exhibition
at their store at Rochester.
POULTRY DISPLAY.
Chas. H. Bedding, of Saphier, Wis, breeder
OF pure bred poultry, had the largest display and
took the most premiums of any exhibitor. He
breeds from the best strains He had on exhi-
bition the following varieties: light and dark
| Brahmas, Plymouth Rocks, brown and partridge
Cochins, white and brown Leghorns, black
Spanish, S. s. Hamburgs, golden and silver Po-
| sh II RaQtarns II
| Games, Rouen, Pekin and Muscovy ducks, mann
outh bronze and white Holland turkeys.
wINoNA PLow WORKS.
Thomas Hurd, representing the Winona Plow
company's works, made the largest display OF
steel and wood beam plows on the grounds
The hardness OF the steel in the Winona plows
make them superior to any other pillow.
THE DOMESTIC.
As usual this favorite machine made very
fine display, and its operators were kept busy
during the entire week OF the fair. 1t is most
appropriately named, for 1t is adapted to gen.
eral family use to more perfect extent than any
of its competitors. A child Of ten years car
handle it and it at once becomes q member of
the domestic" circle. But while it is simple
in Its operation and easily handled il is yet capa
BILE Of as wide a range of work as any machine
ever made. All the improvements known to the
manufacture OF sewing machines are in use by
the Domestic. Among such are its underbraidel
and its appliances for doing decorative art
needlework, which latter enables the operator
to produce work OF superior merit. The
Domestic possesses the exclusive use of the
best woodwork for drawers and table cover and
in its construction element is allowed to enter
which is not the best possible to be obtained
anywhere. There are more good points in this
machine, which a novice can at once see and
comprehend, than can be pointed out by many
an expert in other machines. The exhibit Al
the Rochester fair was under the charge of NJ
L. Barber, travelling agent for the northwest
aud to his zeal and experience operator the
attractive features of the exhibit is due. No one
who ever saw Domestic operate can hesitate a.
to what machine to purchase.
ON THE TRACK.
The grand morning cavalcade consisted Of tbs
studs of thoroughbred Norman. Clydesdale anC
other horses with some of their get and som,
very fine FLIES, and the herds OF thoroughbred
and grade cattle. Several very fine herds Of
Holstein and Jerseys and one herd each of Here
fords and Short Horns were shown and the mum
Der and excellence of the thoroughbred horse.
was without comparison. Among the horses wa.
fine five year old FLY bred by Jay LaDue, OF
Rochester, from Hamdallah, owned b,
the Graves Bros, of this city and dam by Alex
ander. Her name is Utopia and she was sold
one year ago to q Dublin, Ireland, gentleman
for 81, 900, for gentleman's roadster and whei
she took the race in the three minute class OF
Wednesday winning the third, fourth, and ffti
heats in 2:35, 81 and 2:37, the first race sh,
was ever entered in it began to be understood
that she was pretty fair roadster. She is
full sister to Silas Wright and viii live to honor
her spurdy brother.
, Although the display of stock and other arti
cles is not as great as has been seen at many o.
our state fairs, yet when we come to conside
| how much of this display was made by Roches
ter and Olmsted county 1t overwhelms any ex
hibit ever made by any six counties in the state