The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-01
ALL READY TO GO.
FAIR OPENS TODAY UNDER MOST
ENCOURAGING AUSPICES.

Twenty Acres Crowded and Covered Will
Tents and Machinery-Art Hall Filling
Up with Fine Paintings, Triumphs o.
Needlework and Other Products o,
Wichita Gen!us-The Swine Display II
sary-with the Immense Business Do
ing there is Not q Hitch or Jar.
The State fair opens this morning
under the most encouraging auspices.
There was more animation on the
grounds yesterday than has ever before
been observed at an opening day to
say nothing Of previous day.
The fair grounds is regular white
city, fully ten acres being covered by
canvass.
There is every conceivable thing on
the grounds from a punkin to a wind
mill. Talk about wire fence displays,
they are there until further orders and
every man is positive that his will be
the best. One man has a big derrick
with a 500-pound weight hanging from
1t which he pulls back and lets go
at the renee so as 10 Qe0lOUSlTdlc It's
Bolidity Of construction.
Another man has an irrigation pump
and a canal dug almost the entire len
9Th of the fair grounds. He proposes
to show the farmers that they can dig
hole in the ground and with his en-
CINE pump water to the surface suffi-
Gent to irrigate all the land around
him.
There are forty or fifty different
kinds of windmills and machines of a
kindred character and on the whole
there is more machinery on display
than has ever been exhibited in the
state al any one time and place.
Already every stall, in the animal ex-
hdbit is filled and more stalls will be
required for the swine.
The chicken tent is filled to its ut
most capacity and the air is resonant
with the cackle of ROSTERS, turkeys,
ducks, geese, pigeons, etc. The chick
en- men say that it is the best display
they have ever had.
The art hall is filling up rapidly
There are some fine paintings there al
ready. The needlework, photogra PHI
ic, pen writing and novelty displays
promise to be very complete The big
hall has been whitewaShed and it looks
like a marble palace.
There are sideshows in abundance on
the ground and in this line of amuse-
1lent it viii not tax the genius of any
one TO get action on his spending
money.
There is one thing which all upon the
grounds have noticed and that is the
absence OF friction between the manage
ers Of the association and exhibitors
or the renters of booths. All of them
admit that Secretary Hewey is the
most agreea bic man to do business with
than any secretary they have ever
dealt with.
FAIR NOTES.
Harvey will deliver his speech in the
ampitheatre.
Fred L. Bailey, the Oklahoma repre-
entative is an exhibitor at the State
fair
The press headquarters is located near
the secretary's office and representa-
tives can find data as to the name of
the exhibitors of stock, etc.
Secretary Hewey was the busiest
man in Sedgwick county yesterday and
Is ably assisted by corps of assist
ants with which it is a pleasure to do
business.
Floral hall was never arranged in
all her beauty as she is at the present
time. There is nothing like the pres
ent exhibition ever been given in Sedg-
wick county.
Talk about flowers and hot house
plants! To, thoroughly understand
what can be done in this line, the tent
where exhibitions of this class are ex-
Inhibited at the state fair should be
seen.
The big gospel tabernacle has been
secured for the display of agricultural
products: 1t is filled with all kinds of
corn, cotton. castor beans. souashes.
pumpkins, tomatoes, radishes, beets,
etc. Colonel George Wolfe still has
charge Of the tent.
Corn is king, and just what it is to
behold the king in all his glory can bet
ter be known by visiting the fair Iii
nois men who were present yesterday &C
knowledged that Kansas had the corn
RMS year and that corn palace should
have been built at Wichita.
The display of agricultural imple-
ments. fences, wind mills. pumps, car
riages. wagons, etc, is far ahead of
anything ever exhibited at a fair in
Kansas. This alone is worth twice the
price of admission and farmers can
learn from the experts present many
useful points
There are twenty-eight pens of hogs
which embrace not only the finest pro-
duction of Kansas but Nebraska. Ok
1ahoma Iowa, Missouri. and Illinois
have representatives of the swine fam
lilies Oh exhibition. The showing of
Chester Whites are superior to any
thing Of the kind ever shown here