The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-08-28
STATE FAIR A BIC
: SHOW ALL IN ONE
LilI
Exhibition This Year Is Sure to
Be Up 10 the High ii
Standard.
Grounds Are Made TO Look Like
a Bower of Beauty; The
improvements.
At Night They Will Be Turned
Into a Little City OF Blaz-
ing Light. a.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
Encouragement, redecoration and re.
laiilitation, so prevalent preliminary
To the opening of each Minnesota state
fair are more marked than ever this
year. rs the advancing season brings
closer the date of the forty ninth an
nual fair, Ang 81.
Where was formerly vacant upland
of some twenty acres now stands a
story and a half wooden and glass
structure which is to be known as
manufacturers building +, and on
whose 10000 feet of floor space is to
stand one OF several big carriage ex-
hibits. This new building is at the
northern end of Lee street and faces
the camp grounds, a section of the
state fairs enclosure particularly pop
ular Vita the visitors from afar.
Occupants of the grand stand and
bleachers will also note on the brow
OF the hill opposite the second quar-.
ter of the mile track the big Interna-
tional Harvester building. formerly
located just northwest of Machinery
hall, hut now on a most commanding
site. which during the fair is to be
thanked with machinery exhibits, space
for which has been contracted for to
the limit of supply.
Beautify the Grounds.
What was formerly IA rather un-
slightly depression between the new
manufactures building and the dairy
building has now become Crescent
park with flowers, shmbbery and
gravel walks.
"Circle Park" has. occupied the space
formerly vacant and mkempt to the
north OF machinery hall and all to
mile track has been cleared of build
ings and leveled off against the com
ing of The 300 Siolx Indians from the
Sissetoa reservation, who are TO live
and move and have their being there
when not engaged in the historical
spectacle Fort Ridsely in Co." which
is to be given in front of the grand
stand each evening of the fair. Next
year this space win he parked alsc
and will afford room for thousands
who prefer to view the races from
that vantage ground.
I'm the matter of roadways the state
fair of 1907 will be an improvement
in that Smelling avenue, which Dor
lor- tl,n ornunJS ON fha aast has baau
regarded and resurfaced and is now
a highway suitable to all kinds Of
travel. while a new automobile road
way is being constructed from the
upper Smelling avenue gate directly
west along the north side of the mile
track 10 the grounds of the state agri
cultural college and then south, along
the west line of the grounds to tho
racing barns. thus completing cir.
cult of which the old established
roadways in the older part of the
grounds form link.
: The Landscape Gardening.
1t is in the development OF the
landscape gardening, however, that
Secretary C. \. Cosgove has done the
most work in improving the grounds
Between the agricultural building ani
the street railway terminal yards, is
a crescent flower bed with 1850 phlox
all of which win be in full bloom dur
ing the fair. The New England Fur
niture & Carpet eompany's building /:
nearly surrounded with beautifully
designed flower beds; there are big
flower beds in front of the st Loui;
Exposition building-the newspaper
mems headquarters during the state
fair-and several bits of, parked am
flower covered land now adds colol