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Show THE FAIR. With that pf?ci!'arifr of newfpaper men which prompts them to know all about everything before it occurs, a Ha bald reporter started yesterday to "do" the Fair grounds, the Fair, the superintendent, the supervisory committees, com-mittees, aDd in fact with a view to "do" the public generally if opportu city presented. Having arrived our reporter introduced himself to superintendent super-intendent Rockwood and secretary Campbell, who wore the air of men having plenty to do and cot more than sufficient lime in which to do it- The introduction wu speedily accomplished, for the gentlemen were easily accessible accessi-ble and urbane, and this reporter always al-ways acts ai if he had been known by and knew everybody that ought to be known, from an early period of babyhood. baby-hood. He looked around and saw a number of ladies, and he reflected that ladies were about the first thing he ever saw on this planet, so far as tradition tra-dition went. These ladies that is.the ones in tho the 13th ward Assembly rooms, were busily engaged arranging, displaying and putting in order the handsomest kind of specimens of ladieB work. It would be unfair to tell the public too much in advance of the specimens entered for exhibition; but a walk through the Fair will be well worth the time and money spent in attending at-tending it. Superintendent Rockwood courteously courte-ously took the Herald representative around aDd showed him things lots of things and a number of places. There was the ground floor, or large hall, of tho Assembly Rooms, in which the ladies were busy; then the vestry room behind, whero telegraphy reigns; then the basement of tho main building, build-ing, in which corn, squashes, pumpkins, pump-kins, potatoes, and other vegetables, all of Brobidignagian proportions, were unpacked; then the east wing of tho building, or school house,, whero the fine arts have place, and whero Ot-tinger, Ot-tinger, Savage, Wcggelaad, Lamb-ourno Lamb-ourno and others will display tho results re-sults of their genius and artistic skill. Stepping out into the rear of the Assembly Rooms, Mr. Rockwood poirtcd out the stalls for the horses, tho stands for tho cattlo, tho place for tho fat hogs and rotund sheep, and tho entrance for stock, which is from Second East street. Then tho pavil- i lion where fruit will bo exhibited was reached, being the building used by S. W. Sears as a wagon depository, ! which ho has given up for the use of the Fair, and here our reporter became mentally confused and terribly bothered at the eizo of the specimens already arranged. Thero were a couple of men packing in a monstrous apple on their shoulders, whilo a young lady ' bore a basket containing huge squash; or, it wad tho men who carried the banket of squashes and the lady that was paoking in tho apple; or in fact everything about apples and squashes got wonderfully mixed, for ono seemed , about as big as tho other, and the I other assumed extraordinary propor-tions. propor-tions. On tho strength of tho report so far made by tho Hebaid man, wo can recommend tho publio to attend tho Fair, tho general exhibition of which opens at noon to-day, while the stook exhibition will commence at 10 o'clock to-morrow.. Rotation. Wo understand that Mr. Mark Ctoxall has given up the managership of the Western Union telegraph office. A pormancnt manager man-ager will bo appointed Boon. This ohange results from instructions from Chicago, whero complaint had boon made of some mattors conneotcd with the ofhoe. Mr. Croxalf has held Hie position as manager in our city for nino yoarB, and by hisjudioious and careful management has securod tho good-will of tho great majority doing business at tho Western Union office. 'Tho working work-ing of a telegraph office is a greater mystery to tho publio at largo than i tho management of tho solar pystcm, and people can understand tho phenomena pheno-mena ot the latter much better than they can tho delays and vexatious annoyances an-noyances daily and hourly occurring to telegraphers. Of courso no allowance is ever made for theso things and men will continue to complain with &s much consideration or lack thereof, as the old woman who couldn't seo why tho dcuoo tho sun didn't riso in the west and tho moon shino on dark nights. While wo hope to find tho future manager as prompt, as efficient, and as thoroughly posted in tho thousand details of the position as was Mr. Croxal, we heartily oon-giatulatc oon-giatulatc him upon his relcaso from a thankless position wherein tho most tireless endeavors to pleaso arc scarcely over appreciated. |