St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-14
THE DAY OF ALL DAYS.
st. Paul Day at the Fair VIII Be Oele-
brated To-day, and Don't You
Forget It.
Good Weather Assured and Magnificent
Program Arranged Schedule Of
Races Announced.
Dedication of the s--The La
crosse Game--Company DPS Ex-
hibition Drill.
A Quiet Sunday at the Fair Grounds
More Light on the Dairy
Question,
ST. Paul DaY To-day.

yards all last week will find field Of use
fulness to-day in transporting the crowds
that will be sure to attend the great state
fair. An estimate can hardly be made Of
this crowd, but the fine program prepared,
the great reduction in railroad fare to 1
cent per mile both ways by all the roads in
the state, the fact that it is st. Paurs day,
and that all the magnificent exhibits still
remain intact and, with fair weather, con-
servative statisticians have said that at
least 40,00 people will be in attendance
to-day. They say that st. Paul will turn
out 20, 600, Minneapolis 10, 600 and the sur
rounding cities and towns at least 10, 000
This is apparently fair calculation, still it
is doubtful if so many people
are in attendance. The figure fixed for st.
Paul to contribute ought to be realized,
though when it is remembered that on
Minneapolis day that city only turned out
about fourteen thousand people, it will be
seen that twenty thousand for st. Paul to-
day is a very liberal estimate. And again,
Minneapolis cannot any more be counted
upon for ten thousand tomorrow than the
country towns and cities can for the very
liberal number awarded them as their
quota. PROBABLY with good weather thirty
thousand will visit the grounds to-day, and
the management will be abundantly salts
fled with that number.
YESTERDAY AT THE FAIR.
Despite the strenuous endeavors Cf Mar
shall Chapel and his aide-de-camps, a
good manv people found their way into the
grounds yesterday who had no business
there. Many of the booths and lunch
houses and all the grog shops were opened,
q
trade being confined to system of preying
upon each other. A bottle of Budweiser
went for good watermelon, while a small
flask OF oh-be-joyful was currency for a
bunch OF cheroots; a pot of beer was an
even exchange for cup of coffee, and
bag of peanuts brought a ham sandwich.
The profits could not have been large, but
it was doing business, and that is what
these men are there for A savory smell
from the culinary departments of the eat
ing houses drew from the proprietor of one
Of these institutions the information that he
was making preparations to feed the biggest
and hungriest crowd that ever visited q
fair to-day.
All was quiet about the various exhibi-
ton buildings and in the stock barns. Be
yond few head of cattle that were taken
away last evening, the splendid stock eX-
hibit remains intact. The few that have
gone will never be missed. The track is in
prime condition, and the attaches of the
trotting stables are confidently expecting
some very fast time to be made tomorrow.
INTEREST CENTERs
in the 2:20 class, not alone because OF the
handsome money hung up. but on account
of the notable string of trotters
that will contest for it. Prince
Arthur, with record Of 24M: Butter
scotch. 2119; Bonnie McGregor, 2215; and
Maggie Middleton, 203l. are the most nota-
bic horses that will be seen on the track
when this race is called. 4 gentleman who
has been with ButterscOtch all the season
expects to see the race won by heat that
will average 20, but so good a drivers and
horseman as Jack W0odmansee is not SO
sanguine, and thinks the heats will be two
or three seconds slower than that. He says
that while apparently the track is in prime
condition there are flaws in it that make
fast time doubtful. 1t has not been thor
oughly hammered down yet, and does not
present that billiard-table-lfke surface so
essential to fast time. That there will be
some elegant racing tomorrow he does not
doubt, and truly as Mr.. Woodmansee says,
what difference does it make to the public,
a second or two, in the time a
horse trotS a mile? It is
the closeness of the contest that
makes sport not the time my horse makes,
and the 2:20, MIR. Woodmansee thinks, will
be close enough to please the crowd, Prince
Arthur with a record four seconds slower
than Middleton, and three and one-fourth
slower than Butterscotch, is the favorite,
though not by such odds as to detract from
the interest Of the race.
WATCHING A PAGER.
Mr.. Bruno Beaupre of st. Paul was at
the grounds yesterday, looking about the
pacing stables for match for his little
slayer, frankie. Ed Porter hitched in
Sleepy Fred, belonging to George W. Far
| rier and turned them out into the track be-
hind a light buggy; they made the quarter
pole in 80, the half in 1:15 and mile in
$780, after bad break by Sleepy Fred on
the last quarter. They were sent another
quarter, which they made in 81, but Mr..
Beaupre thought that was hardly fast
enough, and frankie is still unmatched.
Sleepy Fred is entered in the 2:30 pacing
class, and is favorite. He is a handsome
bay gelding, and Mr.. Beaupre is looking
high or he would have been suited.
To-DAY's PROGRAM.
| 10 O'clock-Sweepstake shooting.
11:30 O'clock-Grand games of lacrosse be-
| tween the champions of the United States and
| the champions of Minnesota.
! 12 O'clock-United States artillery from
Fort Smelling in their lightning drill.
| 1880 Oclock-Company d, NJ. N. g., in
| their famous exhibition drill.
| 1 O'clock-Formal presentation of the
permanent fair grounds by Hon. Edmund
Rice, mayor of st. Paul, to His Excellency
Gov. L. F. Hubbard, and by Gov. Hubbard to
Hon. n. P. Clark, president Of the Minnesota
| State Agricultural society.
MONDAYS RACES.
Following the presentation, the dedica-
tory exercises, etc., will occur the races.
| No. 1-2:32 Glass Trotters, Purse $4O0-
| Alexander & Abbey, st. Paul, enter b. g.
George a; George w. Farrier, Minneapolis,
enters br. G. General F.; same enters br. IN
Malacca; Henry Colby, Fort Dodge, enters S.
| S. John A. Rawlins; Peter V. Johnston Chi
cago enters g. m. Silver Leaf; Price Smith,
Chicago, enters br. Rolla Parvin; H. D. Nc
Kinney, Janesville, Wis, enters b. g. First
Call.
No. 2-Breeders' stake for stations raised
and bred in the State, $3.50, with entrance
| money added.
| Daniel Woodmansee Midway, enters b. s.
Reveille and Won Arnim; Simons Sc Wright,
St. Paul, enters Silas Wright; Charles Brown,
| St. Paul, enters b. s. Fearnaught.
No. 3-2:2O Glass, Trotting; purse $500 OF
fered by the citizens of st. Paul, and $500
added by the society, provided the winner
! beats his or her record.
George w. Farrier, Minneapolis enters br:
g. Doty; F. j. Dickey, Marshall, Mich, en-.
ters b. M Maggie G. Middleton; D. c. Suth.
erland, East Saginaw, enters b. g. Butter.
scotch; Thomas Foley, Chicago enters Viii
Collander; E. A. Parker, Minneapolis enters
b. g. "A. G. Painting; Ed. Long, Hamline, en-.
ters b. g. Prince Arthur; H. D. Spencer Still
water enters b. g. Boston Davis; s. W. Whee-
lock, Moline, enters b. s. Bonnie McGregor.
No. 4.-Free-for-an PAGERS; purse 81 ,OOC