St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-09-15
MONEY TO SPARE.
FINANCIAL SUCCESS OF THE
STATE FAIR WHICH CLOSED
LAST NIGHT.
SOMETHING FOR NEXT YEAR.
THE SURPLUS MEANS THAT THE
NEXT EVENT WILL OUTCLASS
THE PAST.
SCENES OF THE CLOSING DAY.
Twenty Thousand People Estima-
ted to Have Been on the
Ground Yesterday.
SOMETHING FOR NEXT YEAR.
SCENES OF THE CLOSING DAY.


Thirty-six times has the Mfnneso-
ia State Agricultural society ar
ranged a state fair and conducted it
to close. After almost every one
held up to the present year there
has been a deficiency that the fol-
lowing legislature has been asked to
make good. This year the balance
is on the right side of the ledger, to
the tune of $4,000 or more.
And what is better, this fact as
sures fair next year that will out
class the one just closed as signally
as this has eclipsed all previous
fairs. Warrant for this statement
is found in the scenes witnessed last
night in Secretary Randalrs office.
President Weaver and the secretary
We're busy as nailers making out
and signing orders on the treasurer.
But busy as they were every winner
OF q premium, and every exhibitor
in the classes where only diplomas
are awarded, interrupted them long
enough to utter most hearty words
OF praise and voluntary promise to
come back next year with a better
exhibit. To give a man that happy.
satisfied feeling there is nothing like
prompt payment of money due.
Coupled with courteous treatment.
it is doubly effective. When the
G b reporter left the fair head
01Io rsfl
who had worked on the base ball
diamond were being paid off. Not
half a dozen creditors of the fair
association will remain unpaid to-
morrow morning. This prompt and
business-like course finishes out in
elegant style week the like of
winch has never before been record
ed in the annals of the society.
There is a fat surplus in the
treasury Of the association; every
man who had any sort of privilege
on the grounds has made money:
every prize winner has the stated
amount of coin in his pocket; every
exh1bftor went away feeling that he
had fbeen justly dealt with; and
no complaint to make of the officers,
the judges or the successful compet-
itors.
For a last day yesterday takes
the top position. This is owing very
largely to the fact that it was news
paper mems day. Twenty thousand
people on the grounds! Five thou
sand in the grand stand, and almost
as many more scattered along the
FENCES or massed around the base
ball diamond! Several attractions
under full swing at one tirne-music
by the big band, race by Miss Chris
topher on a bicycle against run
nlng horse, base ball out in the
neid, trick riding by Mrs. Kilnat-
rick, shooting by DR.. Carver, ,screecb-
ing Oh the programme, chewing gum
ana cigar vendors, racing by news
paper athletes on wheels, yelling bv
the oall cranks, applause by the
grand stand, and the resonant rine-
ing OF the starters bell punctuatine
1t all, with just an occasional Iu1l
OF a minute to allow announcements
OF results-all this produced a ratb-
CT ENJOYABLE picture of Bedlam in
ana around the grand stand and
track 1t was one of those occa-
slons when state secrets might ba
whispered out loud without dancer
OF being heard by even the person
next to you
Gut IN the fair grounds proner The
scenes represented yeritahIa
worlds market. Men, wagons and |
norses seemed to become inextrica- |
oly mixed up, yet separated and |
saIely went their ways. AT one |
point tired boothkeeper, out of |
breath and material at the sanoa |
ume, would be packing his outft |
preparatory to moving awav /
Alongside would be another chan |
with STUN to sell and a magnifi- |
cent voice, which he used inces-
sanity. Next door masked Moor
crying the virtues of a certain brand
Oh TOBACCO and lecturing between
preaths on the disagreeabIe attrib-
utes OF the American boy, a gang of
Whom made life miserable for hin,
several times during the day. The
boomer and the
crier of the greatest side show ON
earth drowned the antiquated music
OF an automatic base drum and
cympals. But in the din and ont
OF II, hungry and thirsty people kept
rght along spending their money.
ana surging, pushing and lodging
did not appear to discommode anv-
body in the least
About the buildings were grouped
hundreds of express wagons and
vans. with private vehicles in be-
tween. Into these was being loaded
all sorts of stuff, from a bag of no.
tatoes to fancy Towering plant
Pretty piles of fruit, artistic COM
binations of homely vegetables.
pyramids OF preserves, all were be-
ing ruthlessly wrecked, and carried
plecemeal to the wagons. Friends
OF the exhibitors were not forgotten.
much of the stuff being of such
character that it could not be shipped
nome. They brought wagons and
bags and hired men and collected
any old thing they could carry.
Floors were Uttered with piles of
grass and grain that had been used
to decorate rough boards and posts.
There were decayed melons, ,squashes.
tomatoes and such truck lying every
where in Agricultural hall, which
was completely dismantled before
closing time at 6 o'clock In the
MAIN building but few exhibits were
diSf1irhnd