The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-03
DOUBLE PROGRAM
FOR THIS EVENING
Large Attendance Tonight Will
Bring Figures Close to Last
Years.
Official Attendance Figures.


E*Five days.
At noon today the turnstiles showed
that about 10000 had entered the fair
grounds. This record, however, did not
Include thousands Of school children
from both cities who were admitted
free at the carriage gates. Before the
day is done, it is expected that the
ance, exclusive of school children, of
more than $4,000. This is extremely
high for Saturday crowd.
Hereafter school children will not be
admitted free on Saturdays. The fair
management never made the rule; it es-
tablished itself in some way, and no at
tempt has been made hitherto to end it.
But this year, it is said at the grounds,
Is the last.
This, the last day Of the Minnesota
state. fair of 1904, opened as auspi.
of the fair could have wished, and the
prospects Of establishing a new record
in Saturday attendance figures were as
bright as the weather. .-..-.-
An almost cloudless sky, a certain
and we'll disseminated knowledge that
after 1880 tonight the state fair of
1904 would be thing of the past, a
double display Of fireworks for the
night combined to bring people into
the, grounds at almost the rate they
arrived yesterday when nearly 10000
persons passed the turnstiles.
Few of the signs of one of the worst
weeks the state fair has experienced
since the old 90 ill' King days were
cleaning corps had gone over the
grounds with the peculiar fne-tooth
combs with which it's members are
equipped. The thousands of yesterday
left the grass sadly trampled and
blackened, but otherwise it was as
clean underfoot as it was bright and
shining overhead. and the public sci
about to make up for lost time.
Morning Races.
Ten o'clock had scarcely arrived be
fore ROssiter's Minneapolis band, par
aiding the principal streets of the fair
called to the attention the special race
scheduled for this morning, because o:
the delay incident to the inclemen
weather of the preceding days. Horse
men were early on hand for these event
and the others on the grounds who thinl
something of a horse race made haste Il
get into the grandstand.
There was no lack of inspiring sounl
with which to begin the morning. I,
= addition to the Rossiter band, the nov
popular band Of the Ninety-frst High
1anders, Canadian militia, in their pic
turesque and rather breezy costumes
stood on the south steps of the grand
almost the. same time the. serviceabl
nd-boosting for the "Mighty Pike
started in the day, the merry go-roun
organs. and the graphonhones united i
advertising the joys offered under tn
many small tents on the grounds, an
In proper form.
Fire Alarm.
BY way of further entertainment 70
the early arrivals, the two fire depart
ments gave what was in effect an exh
bition run at 10 o'clock. An alar1
turned in from one Of the horse barn
to the right of the grandstand, so far a
understood by the fremen, who are some
What h a by the lack r..
neapolis. and then the St. Paul fireme1
out on the jump and they ran thru mos
of the streets of the fair, before the
discovered the place where the fire ha
failed to develop. The run offered
pleasing diversion, however.
Fraternity Day.
Today being Fraternity Day, tn
knights and ladies of the secret gri
gathering in force on Fraternity Row
making the tents Of the Maccabees
Good die; Tem Ran, the e1od Broth s
and Royal League hum like tn
proverbial beehive. Woodmen in a,
colors of degree team uniforms, un
formed men of all kinds Of fraternit
affiliations added to the picturesquenes
of the scene and prepared for the con
petitive prize drill held in front Of TIL
grandstand at 2 o'clock.
Much depends on the loyalty Of tn
people of the twin cities and the visi
ors from the northwest whether the fai
of this year will show a credit balanc
and the officers of the fair lookin
to the townspeople to come out in lare
numbers this afternoon and evenin,
and overcome the $4,000 deficit in a
tendance.
The official figures show that Q