St. Paul daily globe., 1884-10-11
The Fair.

The third day of the fair opened with clear,
beautiful skies, and a very perceptibe modera
ton of the atmosphere, which was much milder
than on yesterday. The frost of Tuesday night
seems to have very effectuaily settled the rainy
tendency of the weather, and everybody felt en-
couraged The people from abroad began to
multiply at an early hour and the city seemed to
to be filling up very fast, but as fast the people
turned their faces toward the grounds. The
grounds began to fill at an early hour, and it
quired no prophet to tell the fact of Its being the
big day of the fair.
The forenoon was spent viewing the stock,
machine and agricultural exhibits, while floral
hall had its share of visitors throughout the en-
tire day. In the afternoon the races called
at o'clock, but the matched game of
base ball between the Crescents, of this
city and the Clippers of Winnebago City being
on at the same time divided the crowd. In fact
the entire ground seemed filed with people, and
a more varied set of attractions than were to be
found upon the several portions of the grounds
would be hard to find anywhere. The ball
grounds, machinery halls, floral hall, the races
and the stock exhibits all claimed and held their
share of the 3,O00 to 5000 people who were upon
the grounds. The quarter stretch lined
with people, and the fence beyond the ampithea-
ter as far as the first turn the same, while the
ampitheater was well filed and the side of the
seeers. A very pretty picture the grounds pre-
sented, we'll filed with people, and most salts
factory and creditable fair il Is pronounced to be
by all who visit it. ManKato may well feel
proud and pleased at the grand success Of her
first grand fair.
FLORAL HALL.
Entering this building from the east, at the
right the tailoring establishment of Pond Bros
6 Jorgenson was in full operation with seven
hua i1v at In
this end was the floral display, which was very
fine and were loaned for the occasion from pri-
vate greenhouses in the city. Next upon the
right was the exhibit OF T. II. Williams con
sisting of pants, oils, wall paper etc; L. S.
Davis, coal and wood stoves, A. NJ. Smith and
Williams and Beach carriages and cutters, the
| District Telegraph company and Telephone ex-
| change, +. G.. Heinre, ease of bakers goods :;
| W. W. Kimball company, pianos and organs :;
! the Singer Sewing Machine company, the Man
| kato Ladies' Bazaar and the pavilion of John
| Klein, carpet dealer and upholsterer. At the
| left of the east entrance Mr.. Geo. Brett had an
! pavilion fitted uD from his dry goods store on
| Front street, where he exhibited large line of
| elegant and costly goods. Next was the furni-
| ture display OF Odjsrd 81 Knof, the splendid ex-
| hibit Of Radient Home base burner coal stoves,
! Forest Acorn wood stoves kitchen ranges and
oil stoves Of p. Tutte; Geo. B. Owens, pianos,
| organs and White and New Howe sewing ma
| chimes; G. Schmidt, harness and saddery; j..
| Longini, ''Star Clothing House" with fine dis
! play of their goods; CD. Taylor with splendid
| display of jewelry and other goods in his line.
| While at the end was the manufacturing estaD-
| lishment Of Griebel Bros, with full force OF
men and women at work turning out goods with
| rapidity and excellence. Every thirty minutes
/ pair of boots turned out complete. 4
! force Of sixteen people were at work constantly
/ and all modern machinery used in their business
| wac in full operation. a sample case Of fine
/ adp at ted atf A
| pair of fine hand sewed gents calf boots were on
| exhibition made by Albert Meihofer, lad only
sixteen years of age who has not been eighteen
months at bis trade. They were Of splendid
workmanship and were praised by all who saw
/ them. The exhibit OF Griebel Bros. one
| which attracted the attention of everyone and
| added much to the success Of the fair.
In the department OF ladies' fancy work which
had place just beyond the floral display at the
north end, we're very many beautiful and elegant
| articles, among them a satin lambrequin en-
| broidered in aracein with pond lilies, the work
| Of Mrs. Sherman; piece Of kensington work by
sister w. w. p. Mcconnell; a floral cross upon
background Of oak leaves by NJ G.. Willard.
| The crazy quilt predominatedin in this department,
/ one very elegant one being the work Of Mrs.
| DR.. Warner which contained embroidery, etch-
! ing, hand painting and all manner of elegant
! work; very beautiful lace handkerchief, by
! Miss Nellie Pay silk guilt, the work Of a lady
/ eighty-thr years Of age; pale blue embroi-
| dered satin covered toilet set, by Miss Hattie
1 Piper; splendid specimen o. darning by Miss
/ Marion Mcclellan, little miss Of twelve years
Of age; an oil painting fruit piece, By young
| lady OF eighteen, and many other commeDdable
| works Of art, of almost every description, too
/ numerous 10 mention.
Next came the dairy exhibit, which was choice
/ IL not large, following which that of the
| fruit, or the horticultural display. Although
not extensive it was creditable, including the
! finest and choicest Of grapes and good showing
/ Of apples. Next large assortment Of jells,
1 jams and pickles, after which came more ladies'
/ fancy work, with many articles Of especial
merit one OF them being q cotton
! guilt which contained s,425 separate pieces,
/ the work Of lady seventy years old
! tidy with come handsome stitching by little
Miss Maud Waters, six years OF age: splendid
collection of handmade lsces Of all kinds by Miss
/ Annie MaxEeld; a handsome piece Of crystal
! painting By Miss Lizzie Grady, and again at the
west end was another floral display. IN the payil-
/ lion Of John Klein we're tSO yeEy Gne portrait