Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-09-11
.aE GREATEST DAY.
~ THS HISTORY OF TIE FAIR ASSOUIL-
TON.
r,s,.y Thousand People On the Grounds
.-,,,bo5y Plssad-Ths Racing PrOgramms
e.,.tOp,-Ths Pacs Unfinished and Will
Be Called This Morning.
=. ,..ts the record out of sIght!o

III beats the reOOlu Ou' VI 'iNH"
.. exclamation Of satisfaction,
the lips ofTreasurer George Hook.
W. Fair Association, last evening,
..,mizes the situation on the grounds
Yesterday.
nat a Fair in Wheeling.
-, less than twenty thousand people
- On the grounds in the middle of
.f,erpoon, and couple of thousand
~, home by o'clock. Had the crowd
y, much larger, it would have been
s.crt 70 have found space for them
..,ys around in. Indeed, as it was,
Inv avenue set aside for pedes-
tsrs about the grounds was
lied aud congested with u
.ri mass Of humanity, and as far
.,.irp through the buildings, that was
s"sr5ing only to be achieved after the
Else OF great patience and ingenui-
Tbe refreshment booths and lunch
- were Utterly eaten out at noon,
20 he'd M send TO town for new sup
~ -..s ~ food, the lemmonade tubs looked
=, a. drought had struck them, the
-'Jnle supplies OF peanuts and pop
-, suffered a sad dimunition, and so
!. ,gas with all the privilege men. The
s.girs. Too, had everything their own
-sv as amid that vast concOurse OF
me there was no end to the cOntiding
.srflemen whose arrangement OF gray
S-ain matter inclined them to believe
5svcould beat another mans game, and
GOOD many of the sharpers were kept
IN the perpetual jump to supply the
rrropgs surrounding their stands.
Up al the main gate, from half-past
,vsiye until two o'clock, it looked as
norch q procession was passing
%roggh. Even at as early an hour as
f,lf.past eleven, two five minute counts,
-s,resenting the average OF admissions
hi-ly. showed, respectively, los and 1l5
rs-Sons entering the gate; and at one
O'clock a five minute count showed 2S5
,aople. or over So minute. AT the
.smetime about 10 q minute were coming
h through the Penn street gate, and the
gme number at the river gate. Many
brndreds also came in in wagons and
carriages OF various sorts, and it would
have taken a professional 'steen tent
circus money changer TO have kept pace
with the wild and enthusiastic demand
i,r "ticketsn' "ticketS!"
As early as eleven o'clock many peO-
PIE. principally ladies with children,
sought the shelter of the grand stand,
tr rest, room TO turn around IN, and
5r a chance TO snatch a bite OF
uncheOn, and at noon there were sew
enl hundred people in the stand
Watching, with evident satisfaction, the
immense crowd outside.
The number OF vehicles entering the
grounds was unprecedented, and II
seemed, as one looked about over the
enclosure from the grand stand, that
there could hardly be any sort OF
Wheeled vehicle left in all the country
rgnd about the city. The roads up
rrough the grounds from the grand
sand 10 the live stock pens were packed
with wagons and carriages, the space
under the apple trees, at the north end
Of the track, inside, was damned, bug
gies and covered wagons were tightly
packed all about the lower end OF the
rack, from me pool boxes around to the
class horse stables, and there were
about two hundred and fifty 70 three
hundred carriages In the field about the
judges stand.
While all this crowd was on the
grounds, city people who crossed the
river we're unanimous in saying the
city was still packed with people, and
recited pathetic tales of Out-Of-tOwn
folks unable to get anything to eat and
oihuudredS, including very many ladies,
who were compelled 10 walk the streets
all night, for sheer inability TO find a
place TO lay their heads. II would be
to know how much cash the
visitors have left in the city during the
week. The amount must be much in
excess Of 500, 900.
What gentleman said an Exposition
wouldn't pay here?