The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-03
URGE THE APPROPRIATION OF
$4,000 ASKED BY STATE FAIR
MANAGERS.
ILLINOIS WANTS $4,000
FOR USE ON IT'S FAIR GROUNDS
AT SPRINGFIELD THIS
YEAR.
A Request Which the Friends Of the
Farming and Industrial Inter-
ests Consider Reasonable.

The State Editorial association has
! given the request Of the board Of man
ayers Of the state fair for an appro-
prlatlon of $4,000, it's Endorsement. and
yesterday G. c. Whitney and G, p.
Stlne went before the committee to
urge the appropriation. The idea that
the legislature will only give an appro-
priation of $4,000 to the fair people
for work in which the whole state Is
claimed to be more closely interested
than almost any thing else, is not a
popular one with the state editors, any
more than it is with others interested
directly in the keeping up the stand
ard with the progress Of the times.
minnesota has asked for $28, 900 for
It's faIr, $4,000 Of which is to be used
1or putting in a permanent water sup
ply ana the balance to be expended
on a building to be used for a stock
arena. For state that claims to hold
fairs second to none, with the possible
exception Of Illinois, this is claimed to
be modest request. Illinois people
in 1895 appropriated $275, 900 for it's fair.
and this year the board is asking for
Iufther assistance, as shown in the
L
me illinois Board of Agriculture has asked
the legislature for little over 1892 600 for the
completion OF the state fair grounds at SPRING
Held. The bills have been introduced in hofb
house and senate, and have been referred tn
committees which are expected to give them
favorable consideration. The exact plans OF
the proposed new buildings have been laid be-
lore the legislators, together with careful es-
Inmates OF cost. The large exhibition arena
VIII occupy the present site of the fire engine
mouse, which will be moved across the street
A1~,
nc comfort will stand just in front Of the
dome building, on the site now occupied by
the poultry sheds. Powerful friends are at
work IN the assembly in behalf of this ap-
preparation, as the magnificent work done by
the board, the economy and honesty that
nave characterized every expenditure, have
won Tor IT support from quarters whence
heretofore opposition has come, and there
seems little reason to doubt that the fall fair
at Springfield will be housed in the most
completely equipped grounds in the world
Nearly $30O,000 expended two years
ago and now it asks for 1892, 900 more.
but when the board of managers of the
Minnesota state fair ask for $28, 900
they are allowed the smaller portion
OF 1t and turned down for the re-
ma1nder. Which the friends Of the fair
think is an injustice to. the state.
we do not think that he have asked
anything immOderate," said Secretary
Randall the other day" Minnesota.
~ S'S oOON I1ilo oily ~SIdCS Ill
the country. We are the rival Of
| Illinois in the matter OF, stock exhibits.
and we want to- keep up the standard.
We need an amphitheater and need
one badly. The Illinois legislature IS
asked. to appropriate money to build
just such building as we want. No
fair grounds win be complete in a year
OF two without some such arrange
nlent for the exhibit of stock and other.
features. We show as good result as
any state and can continue to do so
If the state will give lis an equal chance
with other associations, ~@'