Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-04
FAIR TO OPEN WITH ECLAT
Late Arrival Of Numerous Exhibits Of
Machinery Cause Busy Sunday.
EVERY FOOT OF AVAILABLE SPACE TAKEN
County and Educational Exhibits
Promise 60 He of Great Interest
TO the visitors from All
over the state.


CFrom a stan Correspondent
LINCOLN, Sept g. Especially - The
busiest place in Nebraska today was the
Nebraska state fair grounds. 1t was
whlrlwind rush to get everything in shape
for the formal opening tomorrow morning.
During the night twenty-eight cars Of ma
chinery came down from the Des Moines
fair and were unloaded and put in place
during the day. with this big receipt Of
machinery at almost the last minute, the
machinery and implement exhibit this year
will be one-third larger than ever before
in the history OF the state. This is partic-
ularly gratifying TO the fair board, for the
reason that several months ago implement
dealers entered into an agreement not to
make exhibits at state fairs. The agree
ment was broken about a month ago and
! there has been a grand rush since then
for space AS a result there is not foot
Of available ground for this character Of
| exhibit that Is not occupied.
]. w. Gilbert brought in his herd Of elk
| and Angora goats from Friend this morn
| ing and this will prove a most attractive
| feature OF the fRip. Near Friend Mr.. Gil
| bert has a park of seventy-fve acres In
| which the elk roam around and to which
visitors are at all times welcome.
County Exhibits strong Feature.
| Agricultural hall was one of the busiest
| places on the grounds the officials from
the various counties working tooth and
toenail to get their exhibits in place. The
| displays this year seem much more artis-
| tic than ever before.
| The model school house and the work
| of the various Nebraska school districts
will attract much attention, though, as one
man remarked, There are considerable
more frills in the show than readin'. 'ritin'
| IL a., ~. ia t-fo Of
Geneva and Kearney, the former for the
girls and the latter for boys, have good
exhibits, including views Of the schools,
dormitories work rooms, grounds and such
like. The photograph of the superin-
tendent's office OF the girls industrial
school makes the governors Office look
cheap.
The swine barns, the cattle barns and
the horse barns are full of Nebraska's
best stock and compares favorably with
the previous stock exhibits.
stock Pavilion Too Small.
The new stock pavilion will be formally
dedicated Tuesday. 1t is a nice building,
but it will not fill long felt want an
ticipated by the people. 1t is too small
and only a small per cent OF the people
will be able to get seats to see the fine
stock on exhibition. Probably 1t viii seat
1900 persons. The, new administration
building looms up we'll and is a great i'm
provement over the old way of scattering
the fair managers over the grounds. All
the officers can easily be found by just go
ing to this building. The enlargement OF
the grandstand at the race track will be
appreciated by the race lovers.
Among the exhibits that are we'll worth
seeing is the ish exhibit in charge of Fish
Commissioner OBrlen. This year he has
discovered large number of fish that never
before travelled further west than Chicago.
OBrien knows everything there is TO know
about the inney tribe and he is one of the
most accommodating men on the grounds
and would rather talk Of the states invest
ment in fish than Of anything on earth.
Corn-GRtherinG Wagon.
Another exhibit that will appeal to the
people is large wagon built by an enter
prising firm. It is about sixteen feet to
the top OF the seat and will be used ex-
clusively for gathering the Nebraska corn
crop
An Omaha firm has an automobile wheel
! which its inventor hopes will succeed rub
Der tires. The wheel consists OF springs in
: a wheel, which Is encircled by another
wheel. He claims that II makes riding
easier than rubber tires.
Al Dougherty, owner of San Antonio
! Pete, the trottng steer has promised to let
Z the beast go every time the managers re.
r quest It. This will prevent a repetition OF
, the Dan Patch episode OF last year when
hundreds OF people were disappointed
Contrary to expectations an entrance fee
was charged to the grounds today and a
. number Of people had the opportunity OF
= paying 30 cents merely to see a lot of mer
at work There is yet much to do, but By
r tomorrow night everything will be in it,
o place and the fair will be running full
blast and better than ever before
: "BiE swede" Wanted.
3 Sheriff Ress went to Washington today e
: get a party known as the big Swede,
k who jumped a 500 bond signed by S. M
3 Melick. The man was arrested for vagrancy
but he is wanted here as a defendant IL
a a paddock case. in which stranger wa,
2 done for 500, which Detective Malone re
$ covered for him after arresting the mel
: red-handed.
y Travel UnprecedentedIy Heavy
e 1t was necessary for superintendent Big
r nell to make up a second section of No
= this morning to accommodate the traye
s to Denver When the train pulled I'm
o was crowded to the doors, hundreds o
q people being unable TO find seats As Their
was a large crowd going from Lincoln.
d new train was made up. According to Mr.
y Bignell, travel was never as heavy as a
!. the present time.
20 Nance County Republicans Meet.