St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-12
GOOD SIDE SHOWS.
Tempter Wins the Trotting
Race, Wilkes Falling on
the Track.
RACES ALL RATHER SLOW.
Nettie Wilkes Wins the Pa.
cling Race--Today Is
st. Paul'S Day.

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State Fair and it was so far as the day
went an ideal one. So far as the Fair
was concerned it was busy day, whose
close saw com mpleted ana fully arranged
one of the best exhibits that has been
brought together IN the state in many
years. All day long there was saving
and hammering and continuous
hustling around the halls, as load after
load of agricultural or manufactured
product was set in its place.
The great halls are splendidly stocked
and it is hard to realize the long and un-
broken drouth that has prevailed all
summer as one looks at the great rows
Of yellow, sunny pumpkins and
baskets of purple sugar beets
and sheaves of golden grain. For here
in rich profusion is every Imaginable
product of the farm, and certainly no
stronger testimony of the fruitfulness
and productiveness of the North Star
state can be found than what meets the
eye on every hand il the agricultural
department. The line of preserved
fruits, jellies. pickles and the other.
good things which cunning hands know
SO we'll how to make are we'll displayed,
and are surrounded constantly by
crowds of women, and even the men
like to look at them. too.
The farmer who is interested in the
latest implements and most improved
farm machinery will find lots to interest
him, as he fingers amid the exhibits Of
score or more of implement concerns.
whose cunning machinery seems to
have eliminated
The idea of Toll
and sweat in the farmers work. Then,
too, there is a farmers institute where
live questions are discussed and inter-
esting tests made, and in these there
were gathered large number of men
and women yesterday, who discussed
various topics and gave some advice that
was worth listening to. for it was prac-
tical experience, and that always counts.
Today the farmers are busy with the
question of road-making, and this fore
noon will be spent in the theoretical
side of it, and they will do some prac-
teal work this afternoon, just as they
did yesterday. when the Fort Wayne road
machine and the Western Wheel
Scraper company spent several hours
inside the race track constructing vari-
Gus styles of roads.
Possibly one OF the most complete
exhibits on the grounds is to be found
in the poultry hall. This building is
stored full of the finest breeds of ducks,
chickens, turkeys, geese and pigeons,
all chatterlng, quacking and Growing at
once, but nevertheless making an at
tractive show, that delights all. So full
is the hall that quite number of cages
are placed on the outside, and a model
hen house, a regular white house of
wire screens, little doors and perches,
is occupied by half-dozen stately
white chickens, that parade around and
pick here and there at the
passers. by. The art hall is
unfortunately the most meager
exhibit on the ground, and 1t would
seem that for some reason our mer-
chants and tradesmen did not take
much interest in the. Fair. for they
haven't gone to much trouble to show
up their stocks. This may improve
within day or so. otherwise it will be
the weak part of the Fair.
Minnesota ought to be proud Of her
farmers as stock rasers, for they have
made splendid showing, not only in
dairy products, but in live stock as well.
This latter exhibit has been the center
of attraction to good many all day,
and some splendid specimens are
shown.
Horses. Cattle, Hogs, Sheep
and other animals make most inter-
esting display, and an instructive one
as well. Few Western states have
come to the front as has Minnesota in
III the past few years In this respect.
and if there was nothing else to see but
the stock exhibit, it would amply pay
any ore to 60 out to the Fair for the day.
But there is far more there than this
which is worthy of attention and study.
Every convenience for the comfort Of
people has been provided. Good dining
halls furnish excellent meals at reason. .
able figures. The arrangements for
transportation to and from the grounds
are frst-class. and delays are compare
lively unknown.
There is also on the grounds great
assortment of side shows with every
conceivable freak imaginable In it.,
and swings and 'merry- go-rounds" TO
delight the little folks, and the big ones,
too, who go merely to take the children.
There is tent of Indians in full war
paint and feathers who execute war
dance and amuse everybody. The In
dians are living IN tents near by, and
among other things in the fonts are two
or three very brown, chubby papooses
that are a source OF never-failing inter-
est to the women who 60 in to see the
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