Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-12
TEXAS STATE FAIR.
Finishing Touches Being Put On and
All Things Getting Into Position.
Next Saturday Will See the Commencement Of
the Or. ndest State Exhibition Ever
Opened to the Public.

| Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, Tex, Oct. 1.-THE work goes mer-
rily on, only more of it. Vehicles OF all descrip
ton arriving in one continuous stream from
morning till night with every possible conceiva-
BILE description of exhibit and show, tents going
up, machinery being put in position, cattle
coming to hand by the car load. carpenters and
painters driving the final nails and putting the
finishing touches, the secretary badgered and
worried from morn to dewy eve-and often far
beyond-as only the secretary of a state fair can
be, and withal as calm, cool and pleasant a
church usher in the performance OF his duties.
Such is the daily routine at the fair grounds,
and, so far at least rs the strain upon the secre
tary and his staff is concerned, such il will be
until the gaes of the association shall have
closed upon the exposition of lsJO.
Horticulture will have magnificent showing,
there being plethora OF the best va.ietlvs OF
flowers and ferns.
Entries and arrival of stock still continue to
be abnomally heavy. Such large number of
clean limbed md booded racers as is con-
gregated in the stables is seldom gotten
gether, The "Great Texas Derby will run
on the opening day, next Saturday, the 18th
inst, and the best horse race ever run in the
Southwest is expected.
The city has been canvassed to elicit the gen.
eral opinion on making the opening day. with
its many and famous attractions, public holt
day, with the result that the concensus of opiu-
ion is almost unanimously in favor thereof
The business men and residents Ct nerally will
take in the fair on thai day in d body.
BY the last mail there arrived entries of horses
for exhibition from Norse,- Bosque county, and
from Farmersvile comes the notification that
half 9 dozed PAGERS and trotters will be on hand
from two enterprisiny breeders of that city.
Wilson brothers. Cave City, Ky. arrange to
ship large consignment OF horses fer both
racing and show purposes, while a celebrated
firm of horse breeders in Waverly, Morgan
county, Ind, instruct the executive TO allot
them seventeen more box stalls, having secured
ten such prior TO the present order, and state
that they leave on Monday with a carload of
stations for Dallas. Great interest has been
awakened in the Texas state fair in Indiana by
this shipment by this celebrated firm, and it has
been the means of securing the attendance of
many sightseers from that state, who would not
otherwise have been with us.
The San Antonio far turns over an ingenious
meat and sausage broiling exhibit which has
been attracting much attention at the exposi-
ton in the city of the Alamo, same being com
posed OF a brick furnace with wire screen, with
some other novel and useful adjuncts.
Council Grove, Kan. sends a large consgn-
ment of Jerseys.
A proposition is on foot to organize ten or
twenty mile ladies' horse race, q prominent
horsewomsn who rode last year being the one 10
make the suggestion; she forwarding names of
some lady friends who would be also glad to
take part in such competition. The executive
have the msttef under advisement, and will in
all probability be able to make the necessary
arrangements.
A specimen of the favorable conditions of the
Texas climate towards longevity and rentention
Of the mental faculties is 10 hand in the shape
OF letter from e worthy citizen of Weather
ford, aged eighty, wherein he describes newly
invented washing machine of his own which he
he is just paten:ing and desires TO have
hibition. II the machine will do all that the
octogenariau inventor claims for il then it Is
certainly som ething out of the common rut,
inasmuch as it is suppos ed to not only wash,
rinse and preas the various articles consigned
to its care. bu. actually carries them to the
clothes line and hangs them up to dry.
scientist comes to the front in Terrell, Tex,
forwarding for exhibition beautiful collection
OF fossils and general geological display.
II. r. Stone, president of the Weatherford,
Mineral W ellis and Northwestern railway COM
psny, informs the association that the Texas