St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-09-11

cool, with variable winds.
st. Paul day at the state fair al
ways means a great outpouring Of
citizens. This year will be no ex-
ception to the rule, rain or shine
and rain is not likely. Stores, fac
tories and public offices will close
part or all of the day, and proprie-
! tors, professional men, clerks, me-
chanics, laborers, will go out to the
big show. They will bring their
wives, families and best girls, in
carriages, street cars, and on foot,
when the home is within walking
distance. The programme for the
day is:
10 a. m.-Second day of international
congress of agricultural editors Open
ing address by Col. John H. Stevens,
ex-president of the State Agricultural
society, and the Oldest agricultural
editor. Addresses by prominent agri-
cultural editors and discussion Of
topics of interest to farmers and news
paper publishers.
Band concert on the grounds.
Speed contests on the track in front
of the grand stand, beginning at 2
p. M:
2:30 trot, for purse of $500.
Free-for-all pace, for purse of $7O0.
2:19 pace, for purse of $500.
Steeplechase running, mile and a
half, for purse of $200.
Exhibition by DR.. w. F. Carver's
famous driving horse.
Madeline fitzpatrick, in exhibition of
trick bicycle riding on track in front
of the grand stand.
DR.. w. F. Carver, in an exhibition
of rife shooting and glass balls from
the back of his bucking broncho.
Charles G. Fitzpatrick in his trick
bicycle performance, including the de-
scent on his wheel of fight of stairs
sixty feet high, and 120 feet long.
They began to come in earnest
yesterday, and thousands more will
arrive today, tomorrow and Friday.
Who? Why the folks from the coun-
try, citizens from the rural districts
of Minnesota, who are celebrating
the uneXampled harvest and the
cock-crow of prosperity by joy
full pilgrimage to view the beauty
and the grandeur of the state fair.
You can tell them, and you are
proud of them, because they are re-
dolent of the free spirit of the prair-
les. You can tell them, too, because
they are interested in everything
that is good or new or useful; be-
cause they are painstaking and thor
ough in their examination of a ma
chine or an agricultural exhibit; be-
cause they look good and are good;
because they know great deal Of
the practical, working side of life,
and are not ashamed to let the
world know the fact. Few of them
come alone. The farmer, or the
farmers wife or son, do not go to
state fairs for personal enjoyment.
Almost invariably they take along
the children, the sister or the sweet
heart. And they ali go in for en-
joyment together, incidentally i'm
bribing a great deal of information
for immediate or future use.
Scores of family parties were no.
noticeable on the grounds yester-
terday, and they did not overlook
anything. 1t was distressingly hot,
at least for the city people, but the
visitors from outside the cities went
about their sightseeing methodic-
ally and without excitement, Many
members of the legislature, and even
Gov. Clough himself, were noticed
In the public places of the fair; nor
did they neglect the halls and barns
where the manufactured, the natur-
al and the live exhibits are placed.
In the agricultural building Supt.
Furlong and the exhibitors took
great pleasure in showing the gov
ernor an entry of products from a
farm right next to the one he was
raised on. And Gov. Clough knew
the people who made the entry and
spoke we'll of them.
SO extensive are the grounds and
buildings that a crowd of 5000 or
5000 people is lost in the space. 1t
is only when some specific event
gathers them in some particular
place that one is impressed by the
great number present. Good judges
estimated that between 5000 and
1O,UUU peOplS were scattered ABOUT
the grounds just before the break
away for home in the evening. The
big grand stand swallowed up many
hundreds to witness the races, but
streams Of visitors, young and old,
passed in and out of the various
buildings. No drunkenness, no row.
dyism, no vandalism anywhere, but
orderly, intelligent and interested
people. 1t was a pleasure to mix
with the groups everywhere, to talk
with them an hear their comments
on the displays, the animals, the
passers-by.
Finishing touches had been COM
pleted in every building, with but
few exceptions. The manufacturers
and the machine men experienced
some little difficulty, here and there,
IN getting things fixed exactly to
suit them; but this fact gave intel
ligent observers an opportunity to-
see work done that they, perhaps,
had never witnessed before. In
Dairy hall, for instance, workmen
were still engaged in putting up
.shafting to run the wonderful ma