The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-22

I The state fair season is again approach
ing In little over a week-Monday.
Aug. 31--the forty fourth annual Mime
sofa state fair will be thrown open to the
public Most elaborate preparations have
been made and it is quite within the
bounds of moderate statement to say that
no such fair has ever been given on the
Hamline grounds-and that means great
deal.
When the last state fair closed 1t seemed
that it's record could scarcely be reached
again. It was an enormous success from
start to finish. Over 225 900 persons passed
IN thru the turnstiles in the week; the
premiums paid were greater than ever;
the races entered more horses; the live
stock shows produced more fine cattle.
Yet it IS a fact vouched for by the en-
tries already on file, that there will be
more entries in every department this
year than ever before; and the reports
from every direction indicate that the at
tendance will surpass last years record
by many thousands.
The features of the show will be much
the same as in 1902-a great national ex-
hibition of live stock conducted In coop
GRAFTON with the American Hereford
Breeders association and the American
Short Horn Breeders association; an ex-,
tensiye display of all other classes OF ami
mails; an agricultural building crowded
with exhibits; an exposition .puhoins
loaded with the choicest goods IRON the
stores and factories of the state; a dairy
( building full of the latest things in dairy
I appliances and apparatus; poultry build
4 ing equipped with modern coops and re-
sounding with the songs of feathered oc-
cupants; a woman's building, where the
7 products Of the feminine handicraft OF the
state may be found; fish eXhlblt-ln a
\ separate building; honey exhibit;
swine building; sheep building-and so
4 on. .
+ But there are some things distinctly
7 new. For instance, the swine building
lust mentioned has been erected this year
at a cost Of $1,000, and Is the largest IN
the world.
Another new building is the agricultural
machinery building, which has just been
finished at cost of 100000 1t will be
the nucleus of an exhibit Of farm imple-
ments and machinery larger than has
ever been brought together In one place
before.
All over the grounds there have been
many improvements. A mile of new &C.
ment walk has been laid, so that the
7 buildings are now all connected and should
there be rain, no one would find 1t muddy
on the grounds Many small buildings
B have been put up. At the grand stand
new steel judges stand takes the place
of the old and unsightly one. Streets nave
been laid out and graded low places III
the grounds have been filled up; AXE
has been made; trees and plants and flow
ers have been planted; the admlnlstra-
tion building has been remodeled ana
painted: the woman's building has prac-
tically been made new. In short the VS.
itors at the fair grounds Will ma the
place altogether changed in appearance.
; These things, with the great amuse-
! ment program, the attempt Of Dan Patch
! to lower his new worlds record, the hne
races, the speciality performances the
great Schreyer in his flying bicycle dive,
and above all, the triumph OF Paine
pvrotechnical achievements, The Burn
ing of Ancient Rome'-these VIII make
I'D a fair Of quite unapproacha'be attrac-
tons. ~. a,,,,.
In the following outline of the week $
program it should be understood that the
speciality events and band concerts given
Monday evening are repeated with varla-
tions every afternoon and evening of the
< week Theg reat Pain spectacle OF line
Running of Rome" is given every evening.
i No amusement program is provided Tor
\ the mornings, which are spent In Judging
and examining the exhibits. The pro-
gram follows:
Monday, Aug. 31-labor Day. >
MORNING.
9 a. Unofficial opening -, H..
II a. m--Opening address by the Hon
Charles W. Fairbanks United States sena
'o' AA''Ai AFTERNOON
g No s eisss 2 paen esaSS eeS Re
/ 3-Running race, one-half mile heats, tw
in three, $500: No. drumming race, one an
one-elghtn mile nuruleS rot o-J0eA -oioS Oh
upwards. $3.50
! Dan Patch-Three heats, one mile pacin
4 against his own worlds record, 1894.
Band concert.
3 D. m-The great Calvert, famous aeris
performer; Mile. Lilgens, sensational FIR
dance.
$50 .. m.--The Livingstons, society &C
D. m-The great schreyer, aerial cycliS
and flying dive act; Carl Charles, equ1l
! brist.
43O p. m.-Balloon ascension and parachut
drop; Pongo and Leo, comedy acrobats.
: EVENING.
At the grand stand: p. m.-One-half mil
running race, heaths; one mile running rac
dash.
. ( Balloon ascension.
Band concert.
g. The great Schreyer, aerial cyclist and d!
In gdive act; Mile. Lilgens, sensational I'll
dance: the Livingstons, society acrobat
the great Calvert, the world most famol