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Class 55. Articles of Leather, and India Rubber Goods. 



The exhibit in this class was large and mostly of good quality of their kind. The 

 display of boots and shoes especially was very fine. Number of entries, 28; premiums 

 offered, $114; awarded, regular, $24; discretionary, §1; in all $25. 



Class 56. Articles of Furniture. 



In this class the exhibit was large and very good. Number of entries, 34 ; premiums 

 offered, $217; awarded, regular, $117; discretionary, §3; in all $120. There was quite 

 a number of non-enumerated articles exhibited in this class that were of fair quality 

 but of no special merit. 



Class 57. Stoves, Iron Work and Ornamental Concrete Work. 



In this class the number of entries was 35; premiums offered, §35; awarded, $3. 

 While the amount of premiums offered in this class is not large, it is still one of the 

 most important and useful classes in the whole division of manufactured goods, and 

 the privilege of exhibiting their goods at our annual Fairs to possible purchasers is 

 sufficient inducement to make the exhibition large and interesting. The display of all 

 kinds of stoves, ranges, furnaces, floor tile, mantels, grates, door trimmings and many 

 other articles of that class was very large and good, and attracted much attention. As 

 it is well known, the manufacture of stoves and ranges of all kinds and varieties is a 

 large and important industry, carried on in Detroit and elsewhere in the State, it was 

 expected to find the goods in large variety and of first quality on exhibition, and the 

 patrons and visitors at the Fair were not disappointed. The course adopted some 

 years ago by this Society to offer no premiums on stoves, has resulted in no lack of 

 exhibits or loss of interest in the annual exhibitions of this Society. 



There is annually exhibited at our Fairs a large class of articles of manufactured 

 goods on which there is no premium offered, nor expected by the exhibitor, but quite 

 a large share of them are valuable products, not only to the manufacturers, but of 

 great utility to the consumers, the manufacturers being satisfied with space and oppor- 

 tunity to exhibit their goods, relying on their merit for their chance of remuneration, 

 and I recommend that a liberal policy be pursued by this Society for their exhibition 

 by providing ample and proper room and other reasonable facilities to such exhibitors 



in this department. 



All of which is respectfully submitted, 



HENRY FRALICK, 



Super intenden t. 



Accepted and referred. 



The report of the Superintendent Cobb on Police was read by the Secre- 

 tary as follows: 



To the President and Executive Committee of the Michigan State Agricultural Society: 



The Superintendent of Police would report that the number of police employed for 

 all purposes was 41 ; the amount paid the same was $349.50. This includes the men 

 used in the halls and on the track, as well as all around the outside of the grounds. 

 There were three persons arrested and taken out of the grounds (all boys) for climbing 

 over the fence. But one person was seen intoxicated on the grounds, and he was in 



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