Omaha daily bee., 1884-09-08
THE STATE FAIR.
An Unusually Large Exhibit Of Me-
braSka Products.
The Races To-Day and The Prepa.
rations for the Weeks. Entertain.
ment,

The fine weather which has prevailed
during the past week bids fair to continue
and the prospects for the success of the
state fair, are most propitious. The wis
dom of starting in the work in time to
get the exhibits all in good order, and
make Monday a good day has proved
good, and to-day should be what Wednes-
day usually is In fair week. Even on
Saturday there was an excellent showing
in the several departments, but they
were all greatly increased on yesterday,
and are now quite complete. On Saturday
night and yesterday machinery, live stock
and other articles continued to arrive
every moment and the entries have been
far ahead of the average year. In live
stock alone, for instance, the list is one
third larger than usual and although the
new stalls built on the south side and in
the northwest corner have greatly added
to the capacity, every one has been taken
and the managers have positively had to
refuse a great many applications.
The displayof agricultural products and
live stock this year will be the
principal features of the show. On Sat-
urday night Sherman avenue was crowd
ed all night with cattle on their way out
and yesterday several special trains were
run up on the Omaha and st. Paul
road with stock which had come from
a distance. The county exhibits will be
the finest and best provided for of any
year thus far, especially those of Hall,
Washington and Burt, whose quarters
are already well filed. The first county
named has the old Union Pacific
headquarters for its display and will fill
every shelf in the building; the latter, in
their own house will make a better ex-
hibit than ever before. In the way of
machinery there has been less prompt
ness, and though there is already
a great deal up and
in working order there will be a great
deal more to-day and tomorrow. Art
Hall has been better looked after than
any other department.. and is quite well
filled: in fact, were no further additions
made, it would be more than cred.
table. Floral Hall, too, is
in good shape and among the exhibits,
those of plants, flowers and fruit are the
best and excel those Of former years,
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attracted the greatest attention in pre-
viousfair, notablyDewey Stone, Peycke
Bros. and the railway companies are
making no display at all this year or are
backward in fitting up their headquarters.
There are any number of refreshment
stands and the side shows occupy q very
prominent place, one of them being
located east of the grand stand,
where its canvas obstructs the view not
a little.
Newspaper row is on the right of the
main entrance, going in, and here the
tents of The BEE, Rural Nebraska,
Christian Hour, Iowa and Nebraska In
surance company, ETC., are up and show
up to greater advantage than last year.
A number Of private tents for camping
purposes are to be seen in the press
headquarters and indicate a more than
ordinary interest in the proceedings of
the coming week.
Yesterday was ushered in by a shower
of rain, which served to lay the dust, af-
ter which the day turned out clear and
fine. There was quite a large attend
ance of visitors in the afternoon, over
ninety dollars being taken in at the gate,
outside of season tickets. The promise
for the week being a good one, is
frat class in every particular and the va
rious officers are kept very busy in ad-
justing things SO that all will run
smoothly.
There will be two races and a chariot
race today and the list of amusements for
the week will be very full.