St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-09
GAMBLING IS BARRED
From the State Fair Except
Pools on Races at the
Grounds.
LIQUOR ALSO PROHIBITED.
Privileges on the Grounds
Will be Sold on
Sept. 1.
OATES OF EVENTS FIXED.
Poultry Middle Called Up and
Settled--Ppemium LIST
Stands.

The board of managers of the Mime
sofa state fair was in session at the fair
grounds yesterday perfecting the plans
for the fair. which is to occur during
the week beginning with Sept. 10.
There were present President John Ii.
H. Stevens, CT Minneapolis; Vice Pres
ldent Ell Weaver, OF Mankato; Treas
urer A. ID. Motfett, of Mankalo; Secre-
tary w. +. C.oss, of Red Wing, and Di-
rectors w. NJ. Liz gett. of Benson;
Clarke Chambers, of O%watonna; d. IL.
Moan, of St. Paul; c. G. C%osgrove, of
lie Sueur; J. II. Randall, of Morris; j.
II. Letson, of Alexandria. and }. j. Fur
long, of Austin. The directors reported
the condition of their respective locali-
ties, and tn I the prospects were good
for q big show and a big attendance.
Supt. o. c. Gregg, OF the Farmers
Institute work, was present and OUT
lined his programme for the institute
work during the fair. \ part of the
plan is a reunion of the graduates of the
state agricultural college, and it was
arranged that they shOald meet on the
ground during the week.
Supb. dlOSS pNI II wy OultltlCh u pAoL
for a good roads exhibit. in which it
was arranged that two departments. the
State Agricultural society and the Road
Improvement association should CO.
operate. President Charte, of the
State Road Improvement association,
and Prof. Hayes also appeared before
the board and submitted the plans.
Tuesday, Sept. II. was selected as Good
Road day. Sections OF Macadam road,
road built from ordinary dirt and gravel.
will be built. road making machinery
shown in operation, and the paving
men will be asked to lay sections OF
brick. asphalt and other paving. Prof.
Hayes will prepare to illustrate the talk
he will give on 0 construction, sec
tional drawings, ETC., showing how the
bed should be prepared and how other
layers should be added to make good
roads.
DR.. Martha Ripley, Mrs. Stamford
Niles and others, representing the
Women's Suffrage association, came
before the board and proposed a
woman's day. They proposed to pro-
vide a woman speaker of national reDu-
tatlon and 10 prepare a programme of
particular interest to oDe The
board approved the plan, and Saturday ,
Sept. Is, was decided upon as WJnan'S
day. On that day there will be no
races, and the price OF admission will
be =5 cents.
Gambling Devices Barred.
A proposition from Pat Conley to pay
$500 for the privilege of selling pools
and operating the tin horses resulted in
the adoption of d resolution that no
privileges be sold for any game of
chance, and that the selling of pools be
confined to The races that will actually
occuron the grounds. The managers also
affirmed their position of two years ago
that no liquors should be sold on the
grounds.
At a meeting of the executive COM
mittee l.eld about a month ago charges
were preferred against the officers of
the state poultry association who pre-
pared the poultry premium list that the
premiums for certain breeds in which
the makers of the list are interested had
been made higher than other breeds.
The board adopted a resolution that the
premium list should be uniform on all
standard breeds, but that owing to the
near approach of the fair it was deem med
advisable to make no change in the
premiums this year.
VIM Nj. Bracket, of Minneapolis,
who has long been identified with the
management of the Minneapolis exposi-
ton, was chosen to assist in the man.
agement. and will have particular
charge of the interests of the fair in
Minneapolis, where he will assist Presi.
dent Stevens.
Privileges Sold Sept. /.
Several propositions were received
for the purchase of the privilege of OPP
Grating the dining hall. One Minneap.