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the roll of the judges and commenced the delivery ol the class- 
books to those present. 
As usual, but few of the judges appointed —and who had 
formally accepted the appointment —were present; so that much 
time, indeed the remainder of Tuesdaj 7 - and part of Wednes¬ 
day, were occupied by the officers in supplying their places. 
As fast as the committees were filled, however, they com¬ 
menced work, and thus some had concluded their tasks before 
others had been formed and assigned to their respective duties. 
Wednesday was a successful day notwithstanding the dis¬ 
comforts of the weather, as will be seen by the following edi¬ 
torial notices clipped from the News and Sentinel of Thursday 
morning: 
[From the Sentinel.] 
Much anxiety was felt on Tuesday night lest the clouds which through 
the day previous had partially obscured the sky should gather and make 
the prospects for Wednesday so forbidding as materially to affect the at¬ 
tendance. But fortunately such apprehensions proved groundless, and, 
although the day was not one of all sunshine, it was, nevertheless, quite 
pleasant, despite the disadvantages of a somewhat chilly atmosphere. And 
so the third day of the exhibition was rather agreeable than otherwise. 
At a very early hour yesterday evidences were not wanting that the at¬ 
tendance at the fair would be very large. Carriages, busses, and express 
wagons, fitted up for the occasion, passed backward and forward between 
the city and grounds, loaded with passengers on the outward trip, and even 
the first train out from the Union Depot was heavily loaded, and each suc¬ 
cessive one carried a swarm of living freight. Passenger trains on the va- 
rious roads arrived with full coaches and sent a flood of visitors to the ex¬ 
hibition. 
[From the News.] 
The second day of the fair was a most successful one. Great crowds of 
people poured out from the city all day long to the fair grounds. The out 
going trains added to their regular passenger coaches long lines of flat 
cars, upon which were erected wooden seats for the accommodation of the 
vast numbers that swarmed on the trains at their departure for the grounds 
during the day, and their return to the city late in the day. Crowds every¬ 
where yesterday were to be seen. Much discomfort was necessarily to be 
endured in going to and fro, but once on the grounds the vast space there 
gave play to the multitude, and except in the exhibitory halls or at the 
centres of public curiosity, one could move about without being jostled 
seriously. 
