St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-06
The INAUGURAL DAY.
This Morning Will Open the
Thirty-First State
Fair,
Which Gives Promise Of Be-,
ing the Best Of the
Series.
An Idea Of the Studied Eff
fort to Please and En-
terrain.
Features Of the Fair and In
formation for Coming
Crowds.

plOration of the wonders prepared for
their ediication. 1t is asserted, and
with truth, by the managers that since
the first Fair was held there has never
been so interesting and comprehensive
a collection of the best products of the
great state of Minnesota as that now
arranged in the Enclosure. The finest
hOrSeflesh the world has ever seen will
be there, comprising every class of
equine from the heavy draught of the
English shire to the light and 1.-the
limbed native of the Western plain.
Herds of cattle there are with pedi-
greeS as long as a French counts,
and blood blue enough to satisfy
the most exaeting stickler for thor
Oughbred strain. In the main building,
specimens of every sort of merchandise
handled IN Minnesota trade, displayed
in manner so tasteful ana artistic as
to indicate the pride taken in this the
Exposition of their prosperity by the
merchants of every town, city and ham,
let within the state line.
There perhaps attaches to the ma
chinery exhibit more interest than to
almost any other department of the
great show. 1t comprises in itself
complete history of the countrY'S prog
Tess, since the day of the sickle and
mandrake. The most perfect devices
for use in every branch of agri-
culture are to be seen on every
hand, that product of American
genius and application 'the Irvine
binder. the wonderful little lightweight
mower, warranted to cut twelve acres
of slough grass every day without
heating bolt, while in utter contrast
by its side reposes a scythe of the pat
far of r1IOfad
edged and forsaken. A great feature of
the machinery exhibition at the Fair
this year is that steam power is provided
sufficient to keep the entire exhibit in
motion at one time.
For the military end of the attraction
the arrangements are full and complete.
The paddock was never in better cOndi-
ton to be used as a field for mimic bat
tie. and the troops from all over the
state, cavalry, Infantry ana artillery,
will see to it that the visiting thousands
go away impressed with the strength
and efficiency of the state militia.
The railroad exhibit is the most CON-
plete ever seen at the fair, and com
pTiSes, in the case of the Northern Pa
cifie. besides beautiful designs in grain
of all kinds, sections of every sort of
timber available for the manufacture of
household furniture, growing Oh the
Pacific coast In the Manitoba stand
there is a newnesS in design and COM
pleteneSs in detail. One design is to
represent the progress of Minnesota,
and is in the form of gigantic OK
framed entirely of grains and grasses
growing along the cOmpany'S lines. The
design is intended to show the evOlu-
ton of the country traversed by the
Manitoba road from small grain
raising to cattle ranching. The OK
also signifies the pet scheme of the
president of the Manitoba, that of in
Producing goO6 Breed of cattle along
the line of the road, and inducing the
farmers to take interestin that branch
of farming. That the scheme has been
a success is exemplified in the won
drous herds of lowing descendants of
the thoroughbred bulls presented by
President Hill to the farmers along the
road. There are Herefords, small of
bone, but all beef; DevOns, Swiss,
Polled Angus, Galloways. Jerseys, and
every other sort of stock known to the
breeder, as fine a lot of cattle as ever
was bred.
The Texas Vaqueros gave wonder
full exhibition of horSemanship yester-
day afternoon in the presence of 1000
people. The performance was received
attendance, and the applause the riders
received was deserved. The principal
feats consisted in picking nickel from
the ground with the horse at a full
gallOp; roping and tying steers against
time, and other equally interesting
maneuyerS.
The racing begins to-day with the
Minnesota bred horses, and the day will
be devoted to racing between horses
bred in Minnesota only, and not over
two years old.
The following letter was yesterday
sent by President w. NJ. Bushnell, of
the State Fair, to the representatives OF
Sioux Falls, S. D., now in the city:
Gentlemen: 1t will afford me much pleas
IRE, as president of the Minnesota Stale
| Agricultural society, to tender you the free
dom of our grounds tomorrow, Friday, Sept
| 6; and to this end, permit me to request
your honorable body to present itself for ad-
mission under the guidance of A. S. Tall
madge, secretary of the st. Paul Chamber of
| Commerce.
l trust that I shall receive your accept
anee at once, and that ii will be my good for
| tune TO extend TO you Individually the right
| hand of welcome while my left points out to
you the varied resources of this great com.
monwealth accumulated onlour Fair grounds
The foregoing invitation was verbally
| accepted by Hon. Charles E. Baker, sec
rotary of the Commercial Club of Sioux
Falls, s. D., who states that about fifty
of their number will present themselves
! for admission to the fair grounds, leav-
ing by the Manitoba at 10:45 this morn
ing. They will probably be attended
by their band OF some twenty pieces,
and all will be accompanied to the
grounds by A. S. Tallmadge. 1t is ex-
! pected that they will take the $50 train
in the afternoon for Minneapolis, and
! sights at the Exposition.
Everything points to the fact that the
attendance will be the largest this year
in the history of the Fair organization.
| and certain it is that there never was a
more thorough exposition of the re-
sources and products of a great state
than is presented in the myriad exhib-
| its nnrr arravad for nnhIic inSnecfinn