The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-17
TO-Day.s Races.

$50 CLASS TROT AND PACE.
Princetell ). Price Nicely, Dixie. y. C.
Little Stakes. :. c. Steele. Norfolk. Va
Matte Holt. l.. Banks Holt, Graham.
Titatnia. ......T Il. $. Stone. Raleigh.
Rowdy Bob. II. II. Pace & Co. Raleigh.
RUNNING RACES.
Mollie Mcclure w. o. Thompson,
Lumberton, n. c.
w. J. Harden. ...G. J. Mengelking,
Richmond, Va.
War Song. ........ Thomas CFysler,
Lynchburg. Va.
JemOna. ....W w. w. Reavis, Henderson.
Little Squaw. w. Fl. Joyner, Garysburg
Floral Hall at the State Fair grounds
happened to a cataclysm of rainbows
on its insides ycsterday-for the State
Fair of 1899 begins i'm Jolly earnest to-
day and all the State is coming TO see.
Therefore yesterday morning while
the cottager was vet in bed the en-
gines began to puff through the gray
mist up to the grounds and all day
long the lines of cars wriggled In through
the great doors of the building to dis
charge the loads of exhibits that came
frcm every section eff the State and
from without the State; and Il small
army of porters under the direction Of
exhibitors and fair officials fell Cn Che
exhibits and wheeled and carried taem
into place
The rattle Of hammers and the ras9
OF saws filed the building with a MAD
GIN as though another Chicago had
been burned down and was being rebuilt
i'm a single morning and the builders
had gotten Il late start into the bar
gain.
What had been a bare interior divided
it self mp into hundreds Of bcIoths and
stalls of cunning shape and device as in
the twin1ling of an eye. And every
where behind all and before all and
above all the bunting broke out into
a thousand hues that the rainbow never
dreamed Of with the red. white and
blue dominating all, save here and there
where the colors of Sir Walter Raleigh
bespoke the enterprise of some pro-
gressive citizen of the CAPITAL City. 1t
hung in streamePs straight down from
the ceiling, wound itself in graceful folds
about the UprightS, dropped into loops
from both fronts raliated into valie-
gated stars on the roofs of canoDies
Ludded into roses, under the wizard fin
gers of the decorators, and everywhere
supplied a gorgeous background for
wares that ranged from Kimberley
diamond to a High Point steam en-
CINE, from the furnishings of a ladys
5Oudoir to the fittings of Il saw mill.
The murk and ltful dTizZle had their
way outside, after fashion, but inside
matters We're blithe and busy enough;
cor the weather man had promised plenl.y
Vt sunshine fer the hg end of the Far
md it was needful 60 make ready.
How the folks did work, At ten
o'clock yesterday morning the hnll was
almost bare, save for the decorators and
he nascent decorations AT one O'clock
NE whole interior was a taoaS of adj
mems goods of all linds-and it a-l'ainia'.
But gradually the exhibitors claimed
heir own, guided by Some marvellous
instinct of possession ami the method
Vt the madness came out in all the
hundred and enc carefully arranged eX
libts that YOU will have to go and see
I YOU want to understand.
BY six o'clock things were hooking up
decidedly In the hah nearly all the
work was done but putting on the ruff
les. Outside the clouds had pulled
part and were drifting away with their
jagged edges a-fire. The Fair officials
anne out of their den, looked ut The
ky and went back grinning. The fa-
IRIS plucked up heart and began to
ct ready TO fake. The ''Wild Filipino
Tho eats raw meat and drinks
hood" turned his face from the wall
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