New Ulm weekly review., 1889-09-18
Minnesota State Fair.
st, Paul Blazes With Rows and
Arches Of Many Colored
Lights.
Grand Military Display on the Fair
Grounds by Soldiers, Old and
Young.


street in ST. Paul At each side of the
thoroughfare were lines of colored lights ar
ranged in graceful curves or angles At in
tervals branches of many hued lights were
placed while at the intersection of the cross
streets beautiful arches studded with tho
colored lamps spanned the street or branch
ing from the four corners united at the
center OF the spaces to uphold their load
of fiery gems At Bridge square was
a perfect bower OF blazing color
These lines of cleaning lamps, reflected in
the plate glass fronts OF darkened stores,
made vista after vista of Oriental beauty,
finally fading away in a maze Of 1nahy col
ors. The lateral streets looked modestly
pretty with their sprays of colored lamps as
they lighted the pedestrians to the gorgeous
blaze of Third street, where the mlnd was
obliged to search literature such as the
Arabian Nights to find parallel for com
parison The ceremonies of the Yelled
Prophets or the Mardi Gras Of the South fur
nish nothing like it.
Add to this the strains of band music clear
and distinct in the evening air, and tits no
wonder that The streets were almost blocked
with people who were eager to revel in the
scene Vehicles were forbidden the thor
oughfare that is crowded with them
through all the daylight hours Clean as
broom could make it the street itself became
grand promenade, along which two great
streams of pleasure-seekers passed in oppo-
site directions, while the sidewalks were
crowded with spectators. From SlDley
TO Wabasha, back and fo1th the crowd
sauntered, listening to the notes OF light and
voluptuous music while the stars seemed
to blink more rapidly as if in sympathy with
the gayety OF the scene. AS the hours
quickly fed the promenaders disappeared
the crowd seemed to melt away almost as
suddenly as it gathered, and The picture OF
light and motion, such one as is we'll worth
a long ride to Witness vanished, leaving
only the ieWeled street silent and beautiful
N Onday.
1t may readily be said that more animals
have come in during the past two days tnan
in all the other days since the barns were
opened for their reception Especially is
this true in the swine pens, enough entries
having been made to more than fill the pens
provided. New sheds were built yesterday
morning for the swine unprovided with
!. quarters at the regular pens. In the stock
and horse departments the same is true, Dut
in a lesser degree. The latest arrival was the
Cosgrove Live Stock company's exhibit,
which found place in the barns Horse
men who had horses on ex-
hibition yesterday for the first time are: N
P. Clarke, Hugh Paul, l. c. Hogson and
Field Bros. At the head of Clarke's stable is
Chastler, an imported Clydesdale, half
brother OF the famous McGregor, the most
celebrated OF the Clydes. The owner OF tnls
famous horse, Montgomery of Scotland, IS
now in America, and will be visitor on the
grounds to-day. Next to Chastler is new
importation, Senator, prize winner
at the Windsor Royal show last year in Eng
land In the stalls alongside are many colts
descended from McGregor. In the same
barn are the Cleveland bays and English
Shires of Field Bros. OF Cedar Falls, Iowa
At the head OF this stable is Tom Second, a
Shire stallion winning the silver medal at the
inrernaiiona al horse show in Brussels last
year. competing against all ages and breeds
The Fields also show Lord Chancellor, a
Cleveland bay OF fine pedigree and prize
winner In his class is shown the young
mare Debulaute, winner OF prizes at other
fairs This stable carried away twenty -one
premiums at The Des Moines contest L. O..
Hicson shows French draft horses bred in
this state. MI. Higson's original purchases
were mares, from which his present exhibit
are descended. He has number OF natives
which will compare with any imports for
points Hugh Paul of Heron Lake has on
exhibition q number of Shire horses, the head
Of mis- stable being Bonnie Lad, half-broeher
TO Darwin the renowned, belonging to GAL
braith Bros. Others OF the Same stable are
Sir George, Srouu Heart, Scarcliffe Dick,
Scarcliffe Duke and Cicero, the latter the
full brother of the prize winner at the Lon
don, England, horse show this year. In the
cattle barns the recent arrivals are Leslie &
Burwell, w. H. Jacobs of Wisconsin and
Others Mr.. Jacobs shows Orpheus, a Canada
bred Shorthorn two years old. OF the Daisy
family famous in Shorthorn annals.
hull chr i,,r hfx
herd, is OF the Welcome family. In this herd
are four Yearling heiters, prize winners ut
the Des Moines fair This herd also took
first sweepstakes at Des Moines over any
. size or breed. N. P. Clarke is an exhibitor OF
4 cattle as we'll as horses, exhibiting a four
/ year-o.d bull, Oscar. at the head Of his herd
! Oscar is q Booth j. Bates animal bred in On
tario. Following him is Monarch, a Cruick
shank Scotch-bred bull from the Undine fam
ily. Mr. Clarke also shows six COWS as bee1
Droducers. One bull and four cows will bt
entered as herd. In the sheep rens the
display is now complete, nearly an entire
train load having arrived on Sunday iron
Des Moines George Harding OF Wisconsin,
shows twenty head OF Cotswolds, =. r HI
of the same state has Southdowns on exhibi
tion, while George McKerrow from Wiscon
sin shows thirteen South Downs, four Oxfort
Downs and six Shropshire Downs, making
thirty-four head in all. In McKerrows ex
Saibit is one of the heaviest sheep known, be
ing ram weighing over $50 pounds T. N
Porter also shows sheep. In the swine de
partments the display has more pa-ticqlarl.
Increased. Mr.. Porter shows a fine lot o
Berkshires. Mr.. Alex Arnold also has on ex
hbit good display of the hiue-blac Berk
shires P D. Rockway is an exhibitor OF tn
same breed. A number of the new breet
Victorins are also found among the SWINE
at the grounds. Chester Whites have als'
been brough5 upon tie grounds, but no
having pens ready for their reception
,yars still in the crates in which they Wer,
shipped In the Poland China class, G. W
Plank shows twenty-six bhauties Q. d
Smith also shows an equal number of tn
same breed In this class, G. E. Hancock als'
has shown twenty-five hogs. The heavies
hog shown in this class is a boar weighing
over seven hundred pounds
At the racing stables there are more entrie
than there are accommodations More tha,
one hundred horses have been entered for tn
running races alone, and with the large mum
ber of trorting entries, crowd the capacit.
of the stables to their utmost The poultr,
departments are the musical places now, a