St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-12
The STATES OWNDAY
Calls Out a Large Aggrega-
tion Of Sight Seers at
the Fair.
Farmers Find Much in the Big
Show to Elicit Admira-
tiOn.
The Races All Professions
and One Calls Out a
Big Roast.
To-day Will be st. Paul's Day,
with a Special Pro-
gramme.

Yesterday was Minnesota day at the
State Fair, and the world was there.
When Nine. Mcdonald mounted her
chariot yesterday afternoon, laid the
whip about the flanks of those eight
spirited bl cks, and went tearing around
the circle like newborn cyclone. there
were 1900 people in the stand and
about the fences to see her go. The
cornfed enthusiasts. who in the main
composed the crowd, yelled in mighty
fugue as the fat woman sped by in a
cloud of dust and kissed her dimpled
hand to the crowd. 1t was great day
all round. The weather was perfectly
magnificent. the track was good enough
for record work, and the events of the
programme were a good deal more in
tereSting than usual. The crowd was
not entirely in the stand, in fact there
were as many people on the outside
of tie fences, perched on the slOp-
ing hill to the northward as
as there were in more advantageous
quarters. A trip through the exhibition
halls proved that these were also
crowded with sightseers. Probably as
much interest centered in the object
lessons taught at the institute as in any
feature on the grounds. The hall was
packed while the lectures were in prog
Tess. The milking properties OF the
full-blOoded Hereford and ShorthOrn
cows were explained, and it was shown
wherein a cross between the Devon
shire and Hereford breeds might be ex-
pected to produce the best of results as
to quantity and quality of milk. The
sideshow men, the pop vendors, candy
butchers and reStauranterS, who had a
pretty hard time of it for the first couple
of days, were right in the swim yester-
day. The canvas booth in which all
manner of equine and human mon
stroSities were alleged to be on view,
was well patroniZed during the whole
day by those whose experience in fair
matters had to be purchased. In fact every
department of the fair seemed to be
raking in the shekels hand over hand.
In the enclosure opposite the grand
stand there was different scene from
The entire length of the fence up the
home stretch was lined three deep with
carriages containing parties of ladies
and gentlemen from both cities. There
seemed to be sort of gOod-natured in
tereSt on the part of the crowd, even in
trot with but two starters, one of
them skate that couldn't go mile in
five minutes. From morning 10 night
crowd hung about the agricultural ex-
improved binder or the pattern of par
ticular concave for thresher, warrant
ed to run through a bundle of wet oats
or band knife and a few iron bolts
without breaking. "If them 'ere
concaves is what they are cracked
up to be-" said an old grang
er, turning over one of the curved
pieces of metal. Its many dollar in
the pockets OF the farmers as have to
D., I,n gs41
concaves is buStin' all the time in
thresmng season. First thing you
know some man lets a wet bundle get
away from him. Down she goes into
the cylinder; away goes the concave,
and half an hours time is lost in re-
placing it, while the whole force of men,
paid by the day. is lying idle. Yes, sir,
if them things works all right its big
thing for the farmers"
CycIonic Charioteering.
"And now they're off' shrieked a
little fat man with red nose and a
letch in his off eye, who had constituted
himself caller on chariot racing, and sat
aside the picket fence taking in the sit
uatOn. 1t is the most exciting of all
the racing at the fair this season-thls
mad scampering of eight horses, four
abreast-and the people in the stand
anu along the FENCES thought SO. l0o
race is for half mile, and in the first
quarter the grays driven by NJ. McDon-
aid seem to have the best of it. The
grays are leading by length at the
turn, and then the race in the
stretch begins. Madame swings the
long lash about her head and brings it
down with swish about the fianks of
the leaders. The four game blacks lay
their ears back, their tails fly straight
out behind in the breeze, and they get
on even terms with the grays in the
next half-dOzen strides. The race for
working hard. The blacks win by half
a length, and the cheering subsidies, ull-
til the teams show up again for second
heat, which is won again by the madame.
First heat, 5715; second, 5714.