The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-16
EXHIBITORS ARE
FLOCKINC into
THE ZENITH CITY
DuIuth's County Fair Will Be in
Fact a Northern Minnesota
Exposition Mining Display
to Be a Leading Feature
Races by Day and Night.

Special to The Globe.
DULUTH, Mimi, Aug. 15.-Duluth's
county fair, the first and most elabor-
ate it has held for many years, Will
open on Monday and continue through
out the week Effort has been put forth
to make it all that it's name implies,
Northern Minnesota fair" and the
preliminary arrival of exhibits has in
dicated that in this endeavor the man
agement will be most successful
Exhibitors from all over the north
ern portion of the state have been IN
terested in the coming exposition OF
local products, and merchants, manu-
facturers. farmers and gardeners have
been induced to make displays of their
wares which would be typical OF the
progress and industry of the head-of-
the-lake region. The productive quail
ties of the soil will be demonstrated
and emphasized through exhibitions of
vegetables and fruit, grasses and
grains, raised by st. Louis county
farmers. Live stock will also be given
a large space in the fair.
Mining Exhibits Prominent.
One of the principal features, aside
from the display of farming lmple-
ments, will be an elaborate representa-
ton Of the mining industries of this
section of the state Mining and min
ing machinery, together with smelling
furnaces, VIII DG given OH CAIOii01NO
reproduction on the grounds. Manu-
featuring will be equally well dis
played, practically all of the local con-
Germs and many outside factories being
represented.
Believing that no fair would be COM
plete without Midway" the man
agement has arranged for the presence
of ten exhibitions of novel nature,
covering a wide field in the world of
curiosities Aside from these there
will be open air exhibits, including
high dive act Curios will be displayed,
one of the novel exhibits being the rel
les of many st. Louis county crimes
and hangings, collected by the local po-
lice department.
Numerous improvements have been
made at the fair grounds this year, in
anticipation of an unprecedented at
tendance An addition to the grand
stand, making it capable of accommo-
dating 5000 people, has just been COM
pleted. Numerous small buildings for
the housing of dairy and honey eX-
hibits, with sheds for the swine and
poultry, will enable the displays to be
made in a comprehensive and sys
tematic manner. Tents will provide for
the overflow.
Races by Electric Light.
An elaborate racing programme has
been arranged and there will be two
harness events each day. The purses
for the week will amount to $4,000 to
81 900. Besides this there will be run
ming races at night on the electric
lighted track and a searchlight will
follow the horses around the track.
The fair will be in full blast in the
evening, as well as in the daytime.
The management of the fair, fearing
the financial difficulties which have
overtaken former efforts in this direc-
ton, adopted the scheme of selling
memberships at S. each, with which
were given admission tickets of the
face value of the money subscribed.
In this way provision was made for
$4,000 admissions, and it is expected
that the receipts from this source, to-
gether with the gate money and pro-
ceeeds from the sale of privileges, will
not only reimburse the promoters, but
will leave a margin with which the
grounds may be further improved for
next year.
The organization is known as the
Northern Minnesota and st. Louis
County Agricultural Mechanical and
Industrial Fair association; and is
differed as follows: President, OAR
win E. Stevens; vice president, S. w.
Clark; treasurer, Sidney E. Peachey;
secretary. Thomas E. Hill; directors,
Charles P. Craig, John D. Allen, John
Christie, John Jenswold, Ray T. Lewis,
j. Allyn Scott and the general officers.