The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-09-16
AS EDDY SAW IT
View of Minnesota'S State Fair
Seen Through Franks Specs
KALEIDOSCOPE Scene
AGGREGATION of Attractions for the
DeieGtdtion of Everybody
Out of Doors


The Herald received a letter from
Hon. Frank NJ Eddy descriptive OF
Minnesota's great state fair. The
article is so readable that it is re-
produced. in part, IN this issue.
Among other things, Mr.. Eddy says:
The big show is bigger, grander,
greater, more complete. stupendous,
better and-worse than ever before.
1t isn't a fair II isn't an exposi-
ton. II is a pumpkin show, a grain
and fruit stall, farm machine shed,
q fancy-work department, fat stock
exhibit, a poultry meet, an automo-
bile show. a horse race, a swine col
lection. a circus. a religious revival,
q liquor dealers association, a politi-
cal convention. brewers gathering,
an anti-saloon league, a sporting re-
sort, a religious revival, vaudeville,
an editorial association, a news-boy's S
and boot-black's harvest and fakir
paradise, all rolled into one mighty
aggregation OF stupendous, one huge,
mammoth clever conception to assist
the stranger 10 quickly separate him
self from the coin he is aching to
spend. There is everything here that
you want and great many things that
you don't want, spread all around you
with prodigal la<ishness and most OF
the money is spent for things the
visitors don't want
There is no question but this fair
is great There is nothing bum about
il. but the restaurant provender; moth
ins out of sight but the price of a
place TO sleep and the twin cities
have not fallen down on anything in
connection with it, with the exception
Of the ovation planned TO 7ovare the
insurgent congressman.
Everyone filed into the grand stand
not to see Dan Patch and Minor Heir
in a matched race and not to see
Minor Heir break a record. 13 other
events were advertised to take place,
but a little thing like failing to pull
off the stunts advertised, does not
bother the progressive management of
the fair. No one looks for them to
do so any more than they expect the
democratic party to carry out its plat
form pledges.
Nobody cared whether the Equine
Kings" were matched in a race or
not. Nobody even looked at the time
card to see if Minor Heir broke any |
records. There will be enough peo-
pie broke before this fair ends with
out shattering anything unnecessarily.
The racing is only a minor attrac-
ton anyway. Very few care two hur-
rahs about the new $500, 600 grand !
stand except it furnishes bully shady |
places for luncheon eaters. There are
naked dog-eating savages, half-naked
Indians, a Swedish village, Swedish
governor, a Norwegian United States
senator and a whole lot of other odd,
curious freaks to occupy attention.
There are herds of blooded cattle
with pedigrees longer than foreign
counts in search of American heir
esses; inumerable sheep, whose an
cestry is traced back to Noah's Ark,
and flocks OF poultry so high-toned
that they have their toe-nails mani
cured every morning by an expert.
And you ought to see the hogs, There
are hogs in styes, hogs in pants.
hogs in skirts, hogs trying to get
the best of everything and everybody,
hogs trying to get their snouts into
the pockets of the wheatmaker to root
out his hard earned dollars. but after
all, when one considers the multitude
nous magnitude of this mighty assem-
blage, there are not any more hogs
than one would naturally expect.
The big show" however, are the
people gathered here; and this is an
exhibition that is worth going across ;
a continent TO see.
In the most interesting building on
the grounds. the newspaper building,
came upon group of country edi-
tors, surrounding big chief" Old {
Pease. whose vast expanse of bald !
ness (mind you print this badness" ,
not badness shines and CLEANS
and giimmers like the limitless fields I
Of frozen ocean, where Doctor Cook
found the North Pole. Wise old guys I
his bunch, but il isn't possible for q