St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-08
This BEATS THEM ALL
The State Fair This Year Is
the Best That Has Ever
Been Held
Every Department Is Over
flowing and the Exhibits
Are Of the Finest.
The Inaugural Day Of the Fair
Was a Pronounced
Success.
Sketch Notes Of the Most
Prominent Exhibitors and
To-Day's Programme.

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1t is great Fair, probably the great
est Fair ever held in this state. Every de-
partment is filled, every hall is crowded.
The best bred horses, the sleekest of
cattle, the finest produce, the latest
labor-savlng apparatus and the most
superb workmanship the state can boast
of are all to be seen within the limited
area of the Fair grounds. Yesterday
was inaugural day. The weather was
perfect, and for the opening the at
tendance was indicative of a very sue
cessful Fair. All that is needed is
continuation of yesterdays weather.
Should the society be favored in this
direction, for the first time in its his
tory the Fair will be made to pay.
Everything that the officers can do to
command success has been done. No
effort has been spared; no expense has
been too much to attain the desired end.
President Clough aud Secretary Cross
are two men of high executive ability,
of ceaseless energy, progressive and
overlooking with enthusiasm. They
tendents, as follows:
Horses-Clark Chambers.
Cattle-D. NJ. Liggett.
Poultry-L. Cooke.
Daryl. j. Furlong.
Horticulture-W. Elliott.
Main Building-L. X. Stona.
Grain-W. Nj. Hayes.
Machinery-Ed Weaver.
TO the assiduity of these gentlemen
the excellence of the display is due. In
no other year of the society's existence
has there been so large an exhibition of
live stock or better display of the
Doundless resources of tine state. 1t is
proper that the Fair should be made to
fulfill three-fold object: First, bring
into competition the cream of the live
stock of the state; second, to place on
public exhibition the resources which
the state has stored up for those willing
to settle within its borders; third, to
provide suitable recreation for the work
ing people who all the year round are
by the force Of circumstances compelled
to do continual grind to keep the wolf
from the door. The State Fair, there
fore, appeals to all for support. 1t does
not restrict its beneficent influence TO
one section of citizens; its work is to In
terest everybody, and the person who
this year visits the Fair grounds and
cannot find something to please. inter-
est or instruct him, might as we'll take
bee line to the nearest river and hurry
his exit to other chimes. He is al
together too good for this world, and
citizens will be better for his departure.
There is never a particularly large
crowd on the grounds OH inaugural day.
so yesterday the exhibitors were almost
solely occupied in giving finishing
touch to their exhibits. In the live
stock departments hundreds OF stable
men were engaged rubbing, reruDbing
and rubbing again the finest hOrsehesh
gathered under any set of buildings in
Minnesota. The horses fairly glowed
with the furnishing they had,
and their names and tails underwent
such twisting with the aid of pieces of
ribbons that when finished they pre-
scented most bewildering display of
colors. All the noted importers and
breeders of thoroughbred horses are
represented. Prominent among them
is Hon. John Zelch, of Cottage Grove,
who has some of the finest English
ShireS and Percherons that could be de-
most prominent in the display, Clancy
Bros. and j. l.. Delaney d Co. having ON
view the cream of their stock. The
Clyesdales, Clev Gland Bays and English
Shires are notable group, and a visit
to the Fair should certainly include
visit to their department. There.are
some very fine English and French
coaching horses, particularly the lat
ter. The trotting horses are unfortunate
in that they are so boxed in and COW
cred with blankets that the visitor is
unable to get but the mereSt glimpse.
They undoubtedly include some very
fine animals, but this has to be taken
for granted--yOu can't have ocular dem
onstration; the stableman tells you so.
Probably the superintendent may ar
range for this section OF his exhibit
being probably On view for the benefit
of visitors. The horses, however did
not have monopoly in the furnishing
line, for scores of men were to be seen
busily dressing down" the magnificent
ShOrthorns, sleek-looking HerefOrds,
massive Devons, diminutive Jerseys or
tldy-lOoking grade cattle. One set of
men were doing elbow work in brush
ing off the last vestiee of dust from the
animals back, another was APPLYING a
preparation to make the horns look as
bright as new silver dollar, and third
set were decorating the stalls, each vie
ing with his neighbor to make his the
SmarteSt. The live stock is interesting
to the city man and the farmer alike,
but when these departments are over
hauled and move is made to others
there the unity of interest ends. The
farmers will henceforth be found in the
agricultural hall, the dairy hall or
among the implements, while the city
man will jauntily pass through the
main building, cast his eye over machin-
cry hall and then hasten to take in the
fleeting pleasures around the race track
1t is curious and unled crowd you meet
passing from one building to the other.
There is the ''horny handed son of toll"
his face bronZed with the sun, the skin
at the nape of the neck tanned and
burned to almost represent a piece of
leather. He is sometimes accompanied
by his wife and family, and they monop-
Ollie almost quarter section of the
grounds. Hundreds of young farming
men are there, in many instances ac-
companied by their sweethearts, dressed
in all the colOrs of the rainbow, chewing
gum, getting outside of popcorn and
dispOSing of enormous quantities OF pea
nuts, but Withal joyoaSly happy and
contented with the rest of the world.
Hobnobbing with these unfamiliar peo-
pie are the clty-bred individuals. The
merchant prince and his family; the
substantial tradesman and his daugh-
tiers; the dapper young clerk and
the pert, styllshly dressed shop girl.
And thus 1t will be every day this week.
only on each preceding day there will
be more people, and consequently much