St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-09-10
BIG FAIR IS OPEN.
STARTS OFF BY BREAKING THE
RECORD FOR OPENING At
TENDANCE.
1T BEATS BARNUM'S SHOW.
BESIDES THERE Is NO HUMBUG
ABOUT ANY PART OF
1T.
SOME GOOD BICYCLE RACES
All Preparations for Entertaining
visitors in the City Are
Completed.

The International Congress of Agri-
cultural editors will assemble in In
stitute hall in the forenoon. Address
of welcome by Hon. S. NJ owen. Min
neapolis. Addresses on practical
topics by leading agricultural editors
of the state.
Band concert by a rromi lent ln:ji-
tary band.
Lectures in the Farmers Institute
course, in Institute hall in the after
noon.
The following racing events will oc-
cur on the track in front of the grand
| stand:
2:25 trot, for purse of $500.
PIG trot, for purse of 500.
2:23 pace, for purse of $780,
Free for all running, one-half mile
heats, for purse of $3.50.
Exhibition Of rifle shooting by DR..
| w. T. Carver. the scout and plains
man.
Madeline fitzpatrick will give an ex-
hibition of refined bicycle riding in a
| bloomer costume on the track in front
| of the grand stand.
Charles G. fitzpatrick in feats of trick
bicycle riding and his step riding act
In the evening a reception will be
| given TO the Agricultural press and to
the press Of Minnesota at the Com
mercial club of st. Paul.
People who cherish the idea that
the only things raised in Minnesota
are pine stumps and half-breeds will
have their notions shattered by this
| exhibition
Thus spoke NJ. II. Lane, a machine
ry man from Lockport, N Y, as he
stood in Agricultural hall yesterday
| in conversation with one of the men
| in charge of the Mile Laos county
exhibit.
That there are people on earth
| who have cherished such an idea
there is no doubt. Every such per-
| son who comes to the present state
fair and opens his eyes to the sights
on every side will undoubtedly be-
come a walking advertisement for
Minnesota on his return home. If
| he is of an observant turn of mind
he will find SO much to wonder at
4 and talk about that he will be able
| to find subject for talk many weeks
| after the fair has closed. To the
stranger entering the gates every
| step will mean revelation. To the
citizen of Minnesota every aisle of
| every building he traverses will fur
| nish inspiration to make him stead
| fast in allegiance. Every foot of
| available room in the buildings is oc-
| cupied by things, animate and in
/ animate, which typify the high de-
] velopment of our civilization. On
every hand is a profusion of all the
necessaries, incidentals, luxuries,
| that man can crave or woman desire
The completeness of the common
wealth to provide for the needs,
! material or ethical, of it's people is
| evidenced no less in the lavish dis
| play Of wild grasses than in the
seemingly endless array of costly
MANUFACTURED articles. In one booth
medicines, in a second artificial legs,
| further along stacks of groceries,
then stoves, music, clothing, sewing
| machines, furs, books, flour, brass
work, house furnishings, harness and
a great horse hide, with main and
tail attached, every inch of the skin
glistening and glossy. Here is
| fancy work, delicate in texture and
| wonderful in finish; next to it, per-
haps, hardware, sharp, bright, dull,
lacquered; woodenware, plain, fragile,
fancy, strong; twine from the state
prison and blankets from the wooden
mills-on all sides and everywhere,
floor to ceiling, side to side and door
to door, are vistas of beautiful dec
orations and handsomely arranged
exhibits.
LESSON IN PROGRESS.
The main building is liv-
ing lesson in progress, an, ocular dem
onstration of prosperity, where
great firms have spent thousands of
dollars in displays and count the
money well expended. Successful
! strivings of science and of industry
are no less apparent in the institute
| building, vacant now but for q lot
| of chairs and a road-making exhibit
just within the doors There the
uninitiated may see just how educa-
ton is improving the roads no less
| than the people. A dozen different
kinds of Western roads and a dozen
different methods of building, will
engage the attention of the thought
full visitor no less than a biggest
graph-in-the-world exhibit just
across the road. For one equally
with the other represents American
enterprise, thought and achievement.
Enter Dairy hall, and at the door
way you find sentiment leading the
way to work, from effort to tri-
umph. Welcome" says a large
sign worked in evergreen twigs; and
just below figure of an ideal COW,
done in feathery ferns and ever
greens by w. A. Roberts, of Mime
apolis. Within the hall are the
masterpieces of inventors and the
delicious products of the dairy and
the factory. Today the machines
will be in operation and visitors
will witness the lightning-like sep
aration of cream from milk, the
actual production of butter from
the cream, and a demonstration of
the most approved methods of work.
ing, treating and preserving.
AS order came out of the chaos in
Agricultural hall homely growths
were seen combined into pyramids
of color and of beauty. And those
! Who entered uttered EXPLANATIONS of
delight as they saw developed before