The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-15

The annual North Carolina State Fair
is gliding swiftly along the smooth turn
pike of Time.
Before it is quite realized the date for
the great industrial show viii be here
Tuesday is the day.
Two days and two nights-tile nights
at least are short--and the gates will
open.
Already the city is decorated for it
like bride at the altar, and If it is
not the biggest Fair, from every stand
point, that the State has ever seen then
old Prospects is liar and the whole
family of Indications are frauds.
With the approach Of the opening day
the number of visitors in the city in
creases. Almost every home has one or
more guests already and every train
today and tomorrow Will add to the
number.
Then on Tuesday morning that many
headed stream of humanity called '.the
people will start Raleighward Its the
peoples Fair and they are coming to it
and they have right to come. The
stream started Tuesday will swell larg-
er and larger throughout tine week until
Thursday. when the Fair grounds will
look as If all the face of the earth were
there.
A few people went ont yesterday to
take Il peep at the exhibits and they
came back delighted and surprised at
- aft
noon there will be still larger crowds
of curious spectators about the place
to watch the workmen as they ar
range the exhibits and to see the trans
formation which has been wrought on
the grounds and in the buildings.
They will find the buildings rapidly
filling mp with exhibits. Nearly every
foot Of desirable space has been taken
and exhibitors are begging Tor q place
to display their goods Ine grounds
are in better shape than ever before and
the buildings nave been repaired and
retouched in such way as 70 make them
more attractive and better adapted to
Fair purposes.
In the main exhibition department
Floral Hall-are all sorts Of products OF
the soil, Of the loom of mans skill and
=
this building-on both first and second
floors-are the school exhibits. At the
west end are agricultural Implements,
vehicles and the heavier farm products.
Still further on. at the extreme west
end of the hall will be found the chick
ems and the geese and the ducks and
the turkeys-one of the most interest
ing exhibits in the whole building. Here
also the children will find white rabbits,
guinea pigs and pigeons.
Then there will be the dairy exhibit
the finest ever seen here, including an
exhibit from the Vanderbilt farm near
Asheville. This will attract much atten-
ton. The Experiment Farms exhibit
will, however, be quite as interestingI
Passing ON up the race track toward
the grand stand You will find shows and
usual features of Vanity Fair enough
to satisfy the most ardent lover Of
Midway pleasures. One thing is certain.
Just back of these and near the
grand stand You will come upon the fine
cattle in neat stalls. Hefe is the blooded
z bull. the prize ram, the fat pig-the fin
est breeds of cows, hogs, sheep and
goats.
Under the grand stand the blooded
horses-those not entered for the races
are stalled. This tremendous hall
formerly occupied by restaurants and
fruit stalls. is now cut up into stalls
that are occupied by fine horses.
Then still further on. at the extreme
northern end of the grounds. yon find
the race horses. There you viii see
many swift racers already making
themselves at home, but many-said to
be the real thing-are still to come in
Just what horses will be here cannot be
stated as yet, but they will be those that
have been making the circuit Of the bic
race tracks. They are coming here to
get some of that $4,000 of prizes of
fered by the Fair management AL
ready there are a large number Of en-
tries for the races, and the track is il
fine shape. This insures some great sport