EXHIBITION OP 1865. 241 
to be essential to securing a large attendance and making the Fair a suc¬ 
cess. 
In the evening, at 7^ o’clock P. M. of Thursday, was held the Fdection of 
Officers of the Society for the year 1866. [See Page 236. j 
ARRIVAL OF GENERAL SHERMAN. 
At 8 o’clock, meetings of the Wool Growers’ Association and of the State 
Horticultural Society were held in the Court and Jury rooms, and a 9 o’clock 
the officers of the Society, a committee of citizens and an immense crowed 
of people went to the depot to meet Gen. Sherman who, with Colonel 
Sawyer, of his staff, arrived at the appointed time, in charge of Messrs. 
E. D. Holton and K. A. Darling, officers of the Society sent out as a com¬ 
mittee to meet him, and was escorted to the Myers House, where provision 
had been made for his entertainment. In a few moments the streets about 
the hotel were densely crowded with people anxious and clamorous to see the 
distinguished hero, and so, at last, he stepped out upon the balcony, and, hav¬ 
ing been introduced by the President of the Society, spoke as follows: 
“ Fellow Citizens —I appear before you to-night, not that I have anything 
to tell you, but simply to gratify the curiosity you feel in seeing me. That 
curiosity is excited chiefly by the fact that many of your sons have served 
with me during this war. Fellow citizens, I am proud to meet you, and can 
only say that I shall meet you to-morrow at the Fair Grounds, and that I will 
then talk to you more fully about what I mean. All I have to say is, that, in 
any future war we may have, I want you to send me boys as brave as those 
you sent to me in Tennessee. ” 
This coming of the great General was a fit winding up of the day, and that 
night not less than thirty thousand people went to sleep feeling that it had 
been the lichest festive day ever known in the Badger State. 
During ihe night, the several trains of cars brought multitudes of people 
that no man could number, and the thought of the morrow brought to all such 
as stood in dread of great jams a most uncomfortable sense of half suffocation. 
With the morning came a sprinkle of rain—just enough to lay the dust 
—and fleecy clouds, prophetic of a glorious day. Earlier than usual the mul¬ 
titudes swarmed toward the Fair Grounds, so that thousands were there by 
8 o’clock. But when, at 9 o’clock, the carriages containing Gen. Sherman, 
and Col. Sawyer, Governor Lewis, Ex-Gov. Randall, Senators Howe and Doo¬ 
little, and the President of the Society, preceded by the Band, moved up 
Milwaukee street, it seemed as if not only the whole city but at least 20,000 
outsiders had been waiting for the signal. Caesar in none of his triumphal 
entries into the Eternal City ever drew after him a more multitudinous host 
of admirers. It seemed as though myriads of men, women and children, 
wagons of every possible description, horses and mules came up out of the 
very ground. 
At a little after 10 o’clock the General and the other speakers appeared 
upon the stand, amid the acclamations of the people. 
16 Ag. Trans. 
