The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-01
THE SECONDDAYOFTHEF FAIR
An Immense Attendance of School
Children and Many Adults.
The Awards in the Livestock Department
The Races POstpOned-SOme of the
Interesting Features.

Yesterday was "Childrens Day" at the State
fair, and the attendance was very large. The
public schools were adjourned, and the pupils
and teachers provided with free tickets, and
their attendance necessarily brought out many
of their parents, so that over four thousand
adults tickets were sold during the day, the
receipts being very much larger than on any
Tuesday of the fair for several years. 1t rained
vigorously early In the morning, and throughout
the day the sky was cloudy and the weather
threatening. The track was so muddy and heavy
that the racing was necessarily postponed until
to-day. Properly speaking, the fair opened on
yesterday, for not nearly all the exhibits in
place on Monday. The display is particularly
good in the live stock and agricultural nipple
ments, and machinery departments. Yesterday
about seventy horses that could not be provided
with shelter at the grounds were sent down
Sn the city to livery stables, and large force of
men were busily engaged all day in putting in
extra stalls. There is the finest lot of sheep on
Ahe grounds ever seen at a State fair and the
display of Jersey and fat cattle, in spite of the
pleuro pneumonia scare is very large. Pre-
miums were awarded in this department yester-
day, the principal ones being carried off by
focal exhibitors. In the main building the dis
play is not so large and complete as in former
years, with the exception of the woman's de-
partment, which is very comprehensive and
extensive, including almost every specimen
OF needle and fancy work known to
feminine ingenuity. An interesting thing is the
s'pioneer household In the western part of the
building, upstairs, which is large room fitted
up with an oldfashioned fireplace cupboard,
rag carpet, chairs and pictures, and such furni-
ture as the early settlers Of this country were
obliged 10 be contented with. The ladies who
have in charge the womans department by in
dustrious canvassing and energetic work, have
succeeded in making their display, probably the
best and most interesting feature of the fair.
The regular collection of pumpkins, melons and
beets of abnormal size is there, and fine as
sortment of fruits of various kinds, while west
OF the hall, the poultry building is well filed.
NATURAL HISTORY DEPARTMENT.
This department. is in charge of DR.. r. I.
Brown and Fletcher Noe. Fully one-half of all
the space is occupied by Mr. Noes collections
Mr.. Noe took threefourths of all the prizes in
natural history last year. and bids fair to take in
most of the $125 in prizes to be given this week.
One case of winter birds and scenery is quite
artistic the remaining cases Of stuffed birds and
mammals, present the same features as last year.
Mr.. Ed Bowge, of cumberland, Ind, has two
eases of eXcellently mounted birds, which make
by far the most valuable bird exhibit of the pres
ent fair.
Russell Robinson has a collection of postage
stamps; May Fairfield, of nocturnal lepidoptera;
Nettie NJ. Duzan, collection of plants; j. NJ
White shows ITO Varieties of wood all natives
of Warren township.
Most of the space not occupied by Mr. Noes col
lections is taken up by Mr. G. K. Green, of New
Albany, and Dr. A. J. Phinney, of Muncie who
exhibit minerals and fossils. Mr.. Green is Prof
Collects assistant and is AN authority on the fos-
sis of Indiana particularly of the falls of the Ohio
from which famous locality he has collected more
corlls than all men living
The only collection of any real scientific merit
and mot for SALE !" is DIR. A. j. Phinney's series
of the fossils of the Indiana rocks from the
lower siluran to the upper coal measures Dr.
Phinney is a member of the State geological staff
His fossils consist of over 1000 specimens, In
eluding $50 species and one third AS many genera
1t Is especially rich in corals of the ancient seas