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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
tries that are being made to-day, both on the grounds, and at the city office’ 
in the Plankinton House. All the forenoon an almost continuous procession 
of wagons, containing articles for exhibition, have been driving in upon the 
grounds. 
The trains arriving to-day, have brought to town a much greater number 
of passengers than usual, though it is not until to-morrow that the crowds 
are expected, as the fair does not formally open until then, at two o’clock 
in the afternoon. 
The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company have increased their ac¬ 
commodations on all divisions to meet the extra demand. Even small vil¬ 
lages are asking to have one or more passenger cars left each day for their 
own use, promising to fill them. The probability is that our streets will pre¬ 
sent a populous appearance by tounorrow. 
The special trains to and from the Cold Spring grounds, have been run 
with regularity all day; they have, of course, carried no crowd of visitors, 
but principally parties entering articles, and their employes, and workmen 
for the agricultural society. 
In addition to the means of transit to and from the fair grounds, pro¬ 
vided by the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, by these special 
trains, (for which see their extra time table,) the horse railroad makes con¬ 
nection with omnibusses at its terminus on Galena street. Omnibusses 
will also be running to-morrow and thereafter, from Spring street, west 
from the bridge. 
The following, which was the day of the formal opening did 
but little to brighten the hopes of these who, being responsi¬ 
ble for the success of the exhibition, naturally enough study 
the signs of the times as closely as the circumstances of intense 
occupation will allow. 
From daily papers of Milwaukee, issued on the morning of 
Tuesday, the 26th, the following briei extracts are made : 
[From the Milwaukee News.] 
The morning of Monday, September 25, A. D. 1871, woke cold and dis¬ 
mal. Heavy gray masses of clouds hung threateningly over the city and 
suburbs, and caused many to fear for the success of the Wisconsin state 
fair, which began on that day. The incoming trains from the north 
brought the intelligence of a misty rain at Berlin, with a wind blowing in 
the direction of Milwaukee, so as to bid fair to bring what the disagreeable 
atmosphere threatened—a dull, soggy rain-storm. * * * * The num¬ 
ber of entries are so great as to give the most flattering prospects for a suc¬ 
cessful fair. So great has been the rush that Superintendent Elson has 
found it necessary to employ thirty laborers since Sunday morning, for the 
purpose of making new accommodations, in addition to the great improve- 
