The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-09-03
THE STATE FAIR
Minnesota's Greatest Exposition to
Open Next Monday.

Minnesota's Greatest Exposition to
Open Next Monday.
The one busy spot in the Twin
Cities these days is the State Fair
grounds, where hundreds of men and
women are working night and day in
order to have the exposition entirely
complete for it's annual opening on
Labor Day, Monday, September 5th.
Several hundred painters, carpen-
tiers, plumbers, gardeners, teomsters,
laboring men and women cleaners, in
the direct employ of the fair man.
ayers, are rapidly putting the plant
in most excellent condition for the
big event. Many thousands of new
flowers in, artistic beds now adorn
portions of the Fair grounds formerly
used for restaurants or some side
show. The new grandstand plaza, with
the neat, new bandstand and mag
nifcent floral display, is one of the
most interesting of the many changes
made in identifying the grounds.
Decorators are as thick as flies on
all floors of the big grandstand and
Exhibition building, on the Industrial,
Liberal Arts and Automobile shows,
which are free this year.
| In the Agricultural building, for
merly the Main building, every inch of
space has been assigned, and already
farmers and county exhibits are being
rapidly installed.
| The horticultural and Horticultural
exhibits, which now occupy the entire
space of the former Agricultural
building, promises to be the most
popular on the grounds. Limited space
play of flowers, but with the ample
room now available the floral societies
Of both cities will have huge exhibit,
as the premiums have been more than
doubled this year.
In the. horse and cattle department
dozens of carpenters are busily en-
gagged in constructing temporary
barns. The tremendous increase in en-
tries over last year. owing to the large
advance in premiums, has caused ex-
hibitors of horses, cattle, sheep and
swine to compete, who have heretofore
refrained from showing i'll Minnesota
Never in it's history has the Minnesota
State Fair had such a large number
of entries in this department. Partic-
ularly is this true Of the cattle depart
ment. Several herds from as far east
as NewHampshire will be seen con-
testing for prizes in the big live stock
building.
Sixty solid acres of machinery ex-
hibits is what Superintendent Sivright
of that department reported at the last
board meeting. The manufa cturers OF
threshers are again showing their pro-
ducts at the fair. One concern who
has a building on the grounds reports
their exhibits as taking "a cars this
year, as against six last year. Ma
chinery Hall is veritable bee hive
these days. hundreds of men working
like beavers to have their exhibits in
stalled in time.
In the Woman's building the scene
is busy one, the entries being tagged
and installed. Several assistants of
the superintendent are deeply engross-
ed in ordering men and boys just how
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hand-painted china displayed. In this
building, for the first time, will be
the educational exhibits arranged un-
der the direction of Prof. Jordan, sup
erintendent of the Minneapolis, and
Prof. Heeter, of the st. Paul schools
Indications point to these exhibits
drawing great numbers of those inter-
ested in the school work of the Twin
Cities.
Around the grounds men with lawn
mowers are moving the lawns at
rapid rate and the florists are on their
knees coaxing the flowers to hold back
their beauty until after the fair
But the one real busy spot is the
general office in the Administration
building. Women and men clerks are
rushing from one office from another,
their hands full of entry blanks The
telephone boys are busy giving infor-
nation and the porch is crowded with
prospective exhibitors awaiting the
leisure of the hustling secretary or the
Superintendent of some department.
Taken all together, a visit to the
fair grounds is sufficient to convince
the most skeptical that the 1910 fair
is going to be monster exhibition