Omaha daily bee., 1888-09-08
IT MADE MONEY THIS YEAR.
The Omaha Fair Has Cleared All
Expenses.
'esTERDAY's RECEIPTS PROFITS.
A Fair Crowd in Attendance the Last
Day of the Exhibition - The
Magnificent Speed Bursts
on the Course.
The Fair of 1893 Ended.

The uniformly good weather and conse-
uuent splendid attend ance, has placed the
Omaha Fair association on its feet with
money ahead. Thursday alone, the receipts
amounted to over $4,000. The morning at
tendance has been rather light throughout
on account of no special attractions outside
the exhibits, and the managers of the var
ious dining pavilions have been dissatisfied
as their profits have not been as large as
they expected.
The attendance yesterday was about the
same as that of Wednesday, and the mana
gers are happy in the thought that every
dollar taken in now is clear profit.
A sale Of stock on the north side of the
track was the only unusual feature of yes
terday.
Mr.. Burgess came very near losing val
liable draught horse by the latter breaking
through the covering of an old forsaken
we'll on the south side of the grounds. The
well is about forty feet deep, and had been
covered with boards and dirt, and had be-
come sodded over the top The hinder parts
OF the horse fell through, but he managed to
scramble out.
teenth street, lost his little boy Joseph in the
crowd at the fair grounds Thursday and the
child has not been seen since.
Somebody who has lost a whip and fine
lap robe can find the same at the secretary's
Office.
One Of the most unique features of the
fair is the pair of Irish elk horns, the property
of Councilman Bedford, which are displayed
in the art hall. They are ten feet six inches
from tip to tip, and the palm is twenty-five
inches in width. They attract universal at
tention, beng in reality wonder of greatest
interest. Aside from their immense size and
peculiar shape. they possess history little
known to the tbrong who gaze upon them.
in the county of Limerick, Ireland,
by James Hinchey, and through
several changes, they have come into the pos
session of Mr.. Bedford by whom they are
dearly priced The scientific term given
them is ccrvus megaceros, ii species which is
now extinct, having disappeared in the stone
age. The horns are older than the bible or
the pyramids of Egypt. And yet they are in
u remarkable state of preservation, and look
ms if they could endure her era of the same
duration. Mr.. Bedford has been offered
large sums of money for the curiosity, but
prefers to keep it, knowing there is nothing
like il on earth.
The fair ended practically last evening,
and some of the exhibitors have begun to
take away their articles entered for prem
lums. The display continues until noon to-
day, but there are no special features to at
tract a crowd This is done to enable eX-
hibitors who wish to compete ut other fairs
next week to do 50.
All day yesterday Secretary Gibbs was
busy paying out premium money, and up to &
O'Clock $4,000 had been paid to successful
in premiums.
Mr.. Hugh G.. Clark the treasurer
of the fair, estimates that the as.
sociuton is about $1,000 ahead He
thinks that Barnum drew away about
5000 from the fair on Wednesday. He sug-
gests that it would have been stroke of
business to have made Barnum exhibit in the
morning and evening and then the great
crowd of people in the city would have pat
ronized the far in the afternoon. Mr.. Clark
estimates that the attendance the several
days of the fair was the same last year,
with the exception that the attendance yes
terday was possibly larger than the same
day last year.
The display of agricultural products and
farm implements was smaller than
last year but the stock exhibited
was greater in number and finer than ever
before seen at a Douglas county fair The
floral and art exhibits were also finer. The
races are without rivals in the west. Taken
all in all the entire exhibition has been a
most satisfactory one to the PATRONS