St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-09-13
EECEIPTs OF THE BIG FAIR AL
READY EQUAL TO THE EX-
PENSE.
ANOTHER IMMENSE CROWD.
SECRETARY RANDALL HAPPY
THAT THEY ARE WELL OUT
OF THE WOODS.
MINNIE DOES HERSELF PRoUn
Twenty-Five Thousand People
Paid Admission to Get in
Yesterday.
This is Farmers day at the state

fair, and the programme is:
Lectures in the Farmers institute
course in Institute hall.
Grand eavalcade of all the prize
animals and parade of the movable
farm machinery.
Afternoon-The following speed con-
tests, concluding the programme in
this respect for the week, will occur
on the track in front of the grand
stand:
2:45 trot, for purse of $500.
2:15 pace for purse of $500
Free-for-all trot for purse of 500.
Steeplechase running, one and one
half miles, for purse of $500.
Exhibitions of trick bicycling by
Madeline fitzpatrick and Charles G.
Fitzpatrick, the one-legged bicycle rid
er, including the descent of the flight
of stairs erected in front of the grand
stand by Charles G. fitzpatrick on his
wheel
DR.. W. F. Carver in exhibitions of
his skill with the rife.
Other attractions in course of prepar-
alton.
There will be a very substantial
balance in the treasury of the State
Agricultural society this year, after
all debts and expenses have been
paid.
Secretary Randall said last even
ing that the receipts to date carry
the association we'll "out of the
woods" And there are still two
grammes, promise of fair weather
and an unprecedented interest
among the people.
Any person who watched the
crowd yesterday, or fought for a
chance to come home before mid
night, will be ready to assert that
yesterdays receipts should come
pretty close to paying all expenses
for the entire fair.
There were 25, 600 paid admissions.
according to report from headquar-
ters.
But the street cars and some short
line trains from Minneapolis must
have carried several thousand be-
sides. 1t seemed to the onlooker as
if some of the cars arriving after
dinner were carrying a thousand
people each, so selidly were the pas
sengers wedged IN. Unloading was
a slow process, and many people
alighted a block from the gates to
gain time on those confined in cars
ahead. Ticket sellers had hardly
time TO make change-but the crowd
ing purchasers insisted, of course.
After securing the pasteboards it
was a fight ito get free to use them,
and women especially suffered in
the jam. Under such circumstances
1T was nothing less than wonderful
that no accident occurred, nor did
a fight of any kind crop out The
pushing and showing and crushing
was taken philosophically as one of
the features, if not one of the pleas
ures, of the biggest fair that ever
happened.
Once inside the grounds a feeling
Of relief was the first sensation.
There was at least room to move
and breathe-a chance to turn
around and treat the brain to a SEN
sation of rest after a season of
eternal vigilance on the line of self
preservation. This on the roads
and streets of the large grounds.
Inside the buildings the sensation of
being mobbed was liable to rise up
again.
Fortunately, the day was most
agreeable in temperature-wa but
not at all hot or close. Outside a.
coat or wrap made one feel COM
Portable; indoors it did not become a
burden. Crowds were continually
pouring in and out of the big door
ways; aisles and the spare space in
h''0'-N~ 'T-"-e continually filled to the
limit by constantly changing thro.
OF slgla-seers. The prevailing good
temper was happily illustrated by
the care which everybody seemed
to exercise in making room for the
children, the aged, the under-sized or
the lame.
Almost every person carried
hands-full, or arms-full, of souvenirs
or advertising matter, from a picture
card to a fair-sized sheaf of grain.
bound with gay ribbons, which
dozen girls Were sorting, binding
and distributing in one end of the St.
Paul & Duluth exhibit.
Even after the racing began at Q
p. M, before a packed grand stand
and with a great crowd up on the
hill watching the shooting tourna-
ment, there was no apparent di-
minution of the crowds every
where encountered. Still everybody
looked comfortable, and the tired
dusty and half-disgusted expression
worm by visitors on Wednesday had
disappeared.
Although it was Minneapolis day.
1t is entirely within the limits of
truth to say that more st. Paul
people were present than on the pre-
ceding day. Early in the morning
there were such pronounced indica-
tions of lowered temperature that
folks who had about given UP the
notion of going to the fair changed
their minds and hastily prepared to
go forth into the enjoyment of an
ideal Minnesota day at the states
great show. The street railway com
pany had very fortunately got a tip
on the weather and sent dozens of
extra cars out to accommodate the
crowd. For many hours the travel
was all one way. Long lines of cars
returned from the fair grounds with
out passengers, and as rapidly as they
could be moved they returned with
heavy loads The car that did not