Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-19

the hour for retiring. sleeping room was
a premium. No rooms we're to be had. and
cots were pressed into service. The night
clerks even found that these cots gave out
and they were forced at a number OF the
hotels to turn guests away as early as Q
o'clock. Many hundreds found rooms in
various parts Of the city. The steady rush
Of guests for the hotel blotters made n n
physical lmpossibility to keep track OF the
hundreds of Nebraskan arrivals, not to men,
ton those Of other states.
state Fair Notes.
put one drunk man was seen on tho
grounds yesterday.
Judg $ in the agricultural d partment be-
gan work yesterday.
Jud ing in the poultry building will prob
ably be finished today.
An exhibit Of fresh oysters and clans has
Just been placed in the Fishery building by
IL. II. Branch of Omaha.
The bright sun and clear sky yesterday
morning had the effect of bringing out a
large numb r of amateur photographers.
Hog men say they have seldom had to pro-
tect their stock from the heat. as at this
falr the pens are all that could he des' red.
A large number OF Grand Army OF the Re-
public veterans are welcomed each d v az the
hea "a iarters of the u. S. Grant Post n. 40
of Omaha.
Permission was received from Washington
yesterday to close the p st flee this after
NUN II oTuer 10 give the employees a chance
to see the fair.
would be completed last evening and Super
intendent Stewart will try to finish in the
horse department. today.
c. e. Gaddis was before the State Fair
selling fruit at Wholesale on a retail license.
hls case was continued.
In The poultry how are precisely COL
b'tds II is thought a & Cd record that the
barred out stock co 81 ted only of seven
ducks. They arrived here too late.
The Missouri Pacific yesterday carried
II, 900 people to the fair grounls ard back
ana all trains were on t me. For To-Day il
has borrowed all the coaches il could find.
Amo g the visitors Sc n II he ( ir grounds
yesterday we're Hon, Jam s Robertson and
Miss Margaret Robertson Of Cherokee, la.
They a e the guests Of Mrs. John S Briggs.
Two Of the most interesting implement ex-
hibts sen in Pow or hall re the Btker plr-
oct barbed wire mach ne and tie new Os-
b r. CO n binder. Both are in full opera ion.
The Board Of Managers found it necessary
yesterday morning to cut four more gates
through the fence at the railroad entrance.
III attendants at the entire eight gates
were then kept busy handling the crowds.
Some idea Of the tremendous crowds that
are attending the fair may be obtained by re-
t!ecting that 1t keeps about a dozen gate
keepers busy taking up tickets, and during
the busy hours they do not have a minute to
spare.
A large INVOKE of fire. h PEACHES YVES re-
raived yests~t Y by J. NJ. Ruosoll " Son
of NymoIe. Tna ex / 1t of this firm in Hertz
cultural hal colta ms nearly 100 varieties (
peaches, selec ell from the crop of 20 600
baskets.
The monstrosity business is on the in
crease. A giant COW and a Jumbo mule
nave been added to the sideshow attractions,
lnd the snake shows, Punch and Judy and
im!lar diversions are doing a land office
business.
A great convenience, and what may re
a mercy, has been provided IN he grounds
by tn Boston store. 1t has ut Up a pa ilion
Just west Of Mercantile hall, con ain ng an
Emergency hospital, with co.'s and a trained
nurse, and with the adjunct of a creche,
where babies and children are cared for,
iree of charge.
The reporters are indebted TO OK Governor
rurnas, secretary of the state board, for
numerous well appreciated courtesies. He
Gems to be one man a least IN the right
place and never fails to accord to his CO.
workers, the newspaper men, all the rights
and p'erogatives to which they aIe ent tied.
We terday the governor was particularly
tractors to the sporting writers assigned to
the state fair work.
One Of the amusing incid 'nts 4 the para1e
&C 1urred at Eleventh and FGrnam streets
when the Ak-Sar-Ben float passed that 10 Mt.
By the jolting over the rough colblest mes
II the street the demon in the rear, who
held al TT the skeleton, let 1t drop, This vas
notice. by 4 competent a d eiicienu' Iolice-
man, one of those brou hit Iack TO lie by tho
new bard, who was static ed en- the corner.
I his was the p0liceman's chan e to show his
uetlle, and he knew it. Ca sting n wrathlul
glance upon the inanimate demon. he ran
into the street AMI grabbing up the mass of
bones, he scurried off with II to the polite
station, where the desk erseant, howe err,
refused to book any charge against IT, but
Instructed the policeman to 90 after the
lem n. The policeman was. nevertheless,
~c1it5nt, for the crowds had ia rly howiei
hen they saw him perform the act of duty.