Omaha daily bee., 1890-09-11
SIXTY THOUSAND PERSONS.
The State Fair Grounds at Lincoln Packed
to the Gates.
TRAINS RUNNING EVERY FIVE MINUTES
Fakirs Reap n Rich Harvest - I IN c
ira dies Display in the
Eycning-Among the
Departments.

S Infused his handsome features. THERE'S no
accurate wey of determining thenumber OF
people who pass the gates, but 1t is certain
hat the grounds at Lincoln never contained
more people than today The actual attend
ance was probably between 5O,OoOand 10000
1t is amater of general remark that the |
sun al ways shines on the state fair The |
dates are different each year, but the ele. |
mcnts verinterfere with the big show. If |
the good lu OK continues it Is expected that |
tOno crows attendance will overtop tOdays
fully one-third. The grand trades display
In tue evening has been extensively adver-
tised and this will probably draw extra tn ou-
sands to the city. Thursday Is generally
big day. anyway
Seldom are there more fakes gathered to.
gctherat one time than arenoS collected on
the fair grounds. Beginning with the laby-
rinth, wherein one may, for a altry dime,
enjoy the privilege of losing oneself, and end
Ing with the man with the nickel-in.he- slot
machine, there is an ntermin able array Of
Catch.penny and catch-dime scherues. At
every turn and on every corner there is
moneymakiug deviceof some kind, and they
all seem to be doing agood business. There
are fully half a dozen sideshOws with the
usual fat women, lean men and freaks gen.
orally There are anatomical mus Gums for
the men ony'' and machines which turn out
for madeusa picture Of cir flu ture husbands.
There are fortune telers and mind readers.
Thereare hobby yhorses andvelodpedesh horses
and dOnkeys. Then there are lung ties ters,
weight machines, prize packages, shooting
galleries, etc, ETC. And the sCrangcst panof
1t all is that they are maklng money. The
yerieSt fake of them all rakeS in the e'shekelS
by the hundreds The crop OF unsophBti-
catedis very prolific.
When people 20 to state fair they ex pect
| TO see big pumpkins, fine horses, fat cattle
and hogs, agricultural machinery, fruit, etc.
| 1t is not surprising that not very much inter
| est is taken in the exhibits Of needle work
| and sO-caled fine art Even mercantile hall,
which contains representative display of
merchan disc aractyely arranged, receives
| but little attention. The crowd wants toSee
| SOnehingelSe.
\ week ago it was the opinion of the
board of managers that the live stock eX-
hibit would not be as strong hume really as
in wears previous. When the fair opened
the secretary thought that the exhibit
would be smaller but much finer than ever
before Todayt isthe expressed opinion of
the fair man a gers that as regards quality the
show is vastly superior to last years and
thatit is equally as large.
The collection of heav draft horses is un-
usually fine, both in quality and quantity;
heprincipaI exhi bitors Of horses are; Judd
and Norman; Importing Draft Horse com
pany of Lincoln, draft horses; Joseph Wat
son & Co., Beatrice, English Shire: Olt-
man Bros, Natseka, Ill, German, HanOver
Importers, Percheron and Ara bian Horse
co rnpany of Fremont PecherOns and French
coach; Valparaiso stock farm, Valparaiso,
Neb :; Roberts Bros, Ashland, Ncb, jacks
ouehundred imported horses; French coach
horse company of Beatrice, Neb., and Mark
NJ. Coad Fremont, Percherons.
In the cattle department fine specimens ot
ShOrth oms, HerefOrds, American Hcretords
Swiss, Devons = oiled Angus Sussex, Gallo
ways, native grade, Jerseys, HolSteiDs anC
Red POled, are shown
The displayof sheep includes five rpre
sentatives of the following varieties: Cots
wOlds, Leicestershires, Hamps hires, Shrop
shire Downs Oxford Downs, American
Westerns.
In swine can be seen Berkshires, Poland
Chnas, Essex, Chester Whites, jersey Reds
Yorkshres, Victonas, etc.
The windmill exhibits the largest ever
| given atany fair in lhis country There are
tfty-seven mills on the grounds, forty differ
ent varieties, representing at least tWent,
difere mt firms, both east and west In thi
line Nebras ka is very well Represented b.
the Spencer man nufacturng company, of Blu
Springs, the Dempster mill manufacturin
! company of Beatrice, the lSoble sewing ma
chine company of Weeping Water tn
| 1i0lurPgc NlnuIIlll any u. f1OWTtSt
,yohn A. Dempster of Geneva, aud the Fail
bury iron works Of Fairbury. The Spence
manufacturing company have back geare
mill that requires two revolutions OF tn
wheel to each stroke OF thepump The aC
0 vantage of this is thata smaller wheel wi
/. answeraud is less likely to be damaged by
q high wind. The Noble sewing machine con
. pany's mills erected upona standard col
sisting of two posts, held inplace by acabl'
d | 50 thatit can be lowered TO the ground
~ | ,.aiSaI ar Olna a Saf.auuar1 in
high winds and also doing away with th
n necessity ofa ladder for repairing pupos e
y pAmCng the new devices eXhi bted by n
braslxans is the new end gate made by Il.
Q NOrthwall Of Omaha This end gate has les
k iron about it and, il Is claimed, can be use
o more advantageously than the old styles.
\ c. II Taylor OF Lincoln has acorn husllt
that attracts a great deal ofattention. He
n the patentce and cOntem plates man ufactu
g ing his machines at some point in easter
y Nebraska for the next seassn.
# TheCrandall pattern works OF Lincoln hay
+ what they Gala common sense feed pr
, parer.n Its machine that will take Il
e corn, cobs and stalks and chop themall U
a | fine for feeding purposes.
"a Colonel Alexander Hoagland of Lincol
d president of the National news boys home,
the Pasn5Ss OF TasT Gy@'G foe rF,g
s City is interested with him and the machiI
r, seems to be tracting considerable attentiO
n Large exhibits of agricultural machinel
m are made by Llnlnge " Nletcall co Inpan y
" Omaha, David Bradley Il Co, of CounC
y Bluffs keystone manufacturing company
Coz ell Bluffs, I. O. Northwall of Oman
" Moline Nlilbum * StOddard company
2 Omaha, Henry H. Van Brunt of Count
ct Bluffs, Lawrence implement companyof Ii
O. coin, L. r. Guthrie Of Lincoln, F'airbank
T. | Morse & Co. of Omaha, Sutton cart and ca
IS | rage company Of Lincoln, Humphrey Brot
ne ers OF Lincoln, FoStOria buggy company
n. FostOria, o.; Columbus buggy compaI
~ Of Columbus, o.; keyeS Brothers
Is Council Bluffs, Fuller Sc johnson manufa
turing Co. Of Madison, Wis, Davis plat for
binder companyof Cleveland, o., Aultua
Miller * Co. buckeye goods Of Akron, {
q, Sandwich h manufacturing conpany Of san
- wioh, H., William Deerng X Co. of u
~ cago, the Mccormick harvesting mach
ST company Of Chicago Churchill pump co
pany Of Omaha II. p Mast * Co. Of Sprin
as held, o., Winona implement company
is Omaha, o. s. Kelley & Co
st Springfield, O., J, 1. Case. pillow NGr
nd and the ]. l. Case thresblng mach
p- company Of Racine, Wis, Russell 4 Co
.ot Massillon, o., Gaar Scott * Co Of Rlc
mond, Ind, Ioekin plow company, Pekin, i
ls Mast E'OOs x Co. ofSpriHgield, O., Elkhi
mr. carriage company otElkhart, Ind, the u nit
or States wind engine and pump company
,at Omaha, Challenge windmill aud feedM
companyOf of Batavia III, Kansas City b
press company Of Kansas City w
Cooper, Cole Brothers and Dean * lior on