The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-30
st. PAUL DAY"
ATTRACTS MAN,
Gloomy Weather Keeps Many
Away, but Local Pride swells
the Crowd.
MINNEAPOLIS CARS
AT ST. PAUL GATE
An Attempt to Give st. Paul Good
! Showing by Steering" Min
V neapolis People.

Whatever might have been the In
tention of Jupiter Pluvius as to the
success Of st. Paul day at the state
fair, those who from all parts OF the
state decided to come on Tuesday for
the fairs sake, and those larger thous-
ands who abandoned business and
even pleasure in st. Paul to make
Tuesday record day in the matter OF
the attendance, saw to 1t that the
weather should not interfere with the
gathering Of one of the big crowds Of
the week.
In the face of searching, wintry
wind which drove the unprotected into
quiet corners, the good people or the
state and the twin cities began crowd
ing the fair-bound cars at Z o'clock,
so much SO that little groups waited
for hours on the principal street cor
ners.
Minneapolis People steered.
Evidence that the determination of
the st. Paul people to establish an at
tendance record today was found In
the street car loop yards at the
grounds, where all the st. Paul cars
of the st. Paul ticket office, and every
other car from Minneapolis was given
the same location in which to unload.
That nothing might go amiss young
Mr.. Cosgrove, a son Of superintendent
G. N. Cosgrove, stood beside the I'M
loading cars and in full voice bade
direction was the ST. Paul ticket Of
flee.
So marked was the young mans
activity and SO unusual the assistance
given that the ire of many Mime
apolitans was aroused and there was
continual demands Of Whats the
tor Ixrith 10
Officer" and What do you get for it,
sonny?" Being pressed for an ex-
PLANTATION of his conduct, young Mr..
Cosgrove said that so many OF the
cars were unloaded on the Minneapo-
lis side of the yards that If the people
ticket office the other one would be
swamped.
'Relieving the Pressure"
ner in which the incoming cars We're
unloaded failed to support this con-
tention. Young Mr.. Cosgrove re-
marked that: People seemed to
think this is a st. Paul graft, but it Is
just to keep the Minneapolis office
from being swamped. That's why
they ordered me out here
During the morning the rapidly
growing crowd amused itself at the
big exhibits in the Manufacturers
Agricultural and other main build
ing, by wandering among the buck
sters' booths and by paying strict at
tention to the exhibiting of fancy cat
tie and horses in the circus tents
among the animal barns To this al
ways interesting manifestation of the
possibilities Of stock-growing in the
bread-and- butter state, hundreds of
fanciers paid the closest attention and
the tents were we'll filled during the
morning
Lunch Booths Swamped.
Nothing could better illustrate the
rapidly increasing attendance at the
fair than the tremendous brushes at
the hundreds of eating booths, res
tau rants or short-order places des-
signed to rescue the famished. Where,
the megaphone men, the bellrlngers,
the gongsounders and the various
bankers for the hungry's haven OF
refuge were exceeding the limit OF
human endurance, they were the ST.
lent few this ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS their
establishments had more business
than they could handle.
And where yesterday there was
to be seen an occasional vacant
on or pee oor Spots OF on TN
green places about the lower grounds
the eye might wander anywhere to-
day and see people, people every
where.
Grand Stand Thronged.
The st. Paul purse for $4,000, I'll:
class pacing, and the free-for-all pac,
for Minnesota horses, owners to drive
together with the unusually stronl
program of athletic events Offered
served to make the grand stand
Mecca before the noon hour had ar
rived and the management was pre-
pared to use all available space befor
the afternoon was over.
Naturally the new Manufacture
building. with its individual de
Sign and coloring and its command
ing site-it is the first thing attracte
by the eye as one sits in the gran
stand--as place of interest
brought many of the new arrivals t
it's portals before the other build
the short time given the management
to get the building into shape, tn
number and variety of exhibits in thi
building is not large, but it is file
with interest.
Carving Wonder.
One of the quaintest and most won
derful of the things offered for tn
public view is an immense piece c
carving, twelve feet wide at it's base
and twelve feet In height, deepl
carved in designs representing tn
seven principal events in the life {
Christ The work, while faulty
many respects. is wonderful exh
bition of skill and patience, as 1T is tn
result of several years Of endeavo
made by farmer named Ole Chris
enson, living near Benson, MINI. Th
wood was cut on his farm and most {
the carving was done with pocke
knife, altho some few simple too
were used. The lettering is especial
good.
One of the features of the day we
the judging of saddle horses, turnout
harness horses, and matched heav
and light carriage teams during tt
afternoon in the big exhibition ten
Some of the fanciest rigs ever see
In the northwest and some of tt
finest stock ever bred in the state Wa
placed before a critical and an az
miring audience while the horse
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