New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-09-19
FAIR ATTENDANCE IS POOR
Bad Weather Seems to Have Inter-
fered With Crowd.
Attractions and Races Are Better
Than Expected.
Paid Admissions Yesterday Fell
Below Two Thousand.

intact the attraction is so good that
the shows that are on the ground COM
plain that they are unable to get a
crowd worth while showing to. The
Rube Acrobats are compile attraction
in themselves.
Admissions to the grounds yester-
day were better than was expected with
the threatening rain constant men,
ace to the success of the races and
other attractions. More than two
thousand people were on the grounds,
and there was not single person dis
appointed, which speaks we'll for the
management.
Some excellent races were run in the
afternoon. The track was quite muddy
in the early part of the program but
before the races were half over it had
dried SO that it was in fair shape and
the horsemen made the most of it.
The fair is on in full swing as far as
the weather will permit and there is a
good attendance considering the wealth
err, which is one of the things against
which it is impossible for the officers
of the association to provide.
The grounds look very much as a
well-regulated fair grounds should.
There are the lines of shows on either
side of the passage from the gate on
the east end of the enclosure to the
grand stand, and they are all good
shows, intact the best that have been
in the city of the kind and they are
prepared to do good business.
AS far as the agricultural exhibit is
concerned, there is no discounting the
fact that it is as good as any that have
been given on the grounds. Floral
hall is we'll filled with some of the best
vegetables that have been exhibited in
the place for years. It has apparent
ly been a very good year for fruits
and vegetables.
There are apples there that would
do the heart Of any herticulturalist
good to look at and would charm the
fancy of any purchaser, and there are
grapes that fairly make the mouth
water to look at, with coarser vegeta-
bles galore including some of the fin
est potatoes that have ever been exhi-
bited.
Among the things that attract atten-
ton that are new is the corn exhibit
by the school children of the country
it is simply immense and the grain that
is shown has the appearance of being
better and larger than that shown
from the fields of the regular farmers
of the county. There are some fifty
separate exhibits and they are ar
ranged and displayed by John Cut
ting, superintendent of the schools of
the county. He has been swamped
with the returns that have come in
from his appeal to the youthful agri-
culturalists. This morning sometime
there will be a representative from the
state school of agriculture at the fair
ground who will lecture on the value
of good seed selection and the points
in the selection of grain for seed. It
is going to be very difficult piece OF
work to pick out from the mass of ex.
cellent ears of corn that which is the
best and the man who does it will be
entitled to a premium for he will be a
good one.
The industrial exhibits are not as
varied as they have been at other
times, still there are all that the build.
ing is entitled to. 1t shows plainly
that it is too small, and the rough ap-
pearance of the interior detracts from
the appearance of the best of the ex.
hibits.
Among those that attracted atten.
ton are those of the hardware firms oil
F. H. Retzlaff, Ochs & Baer and W.
F. Laudenschlager, there is one al
either end of the hall and one in the
center and they all show excellen
judgment in the selection of goods fol-
display and the manner in which they
are displayed.
G. A. Ottomeyer has very pleas
ing and excellently arranged display
of his ladies coats and furs, the bootl
in which they are located being yer,
prettily trimmed with leaves and othe
decorations, the work of his lad,
clerks.
A. J. Meyer has Photographic dis
play, which is not so very elaborate
but the tasty arrangement of the exhi
bit never fails to attract the attention
of the person who is passing thatway
Crone Bros. have a display from tn
dry goods department. that is secon
to none in the hall, and though it wa
late in being placed shows to excellen
advantage, the superior line of good
that is to be found in the store fror
which these samples are taken.
Out in the field there is an exhibi