Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1904 — WINNIPEG EXHIBITION. [ARTICLE]

WINNIPEG EXHIBITION.

A PRIZE LIST OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARa . \ Everything Promises to Be Most Successful—A Number of Distinguished Statesmen Will Be Among the Visitors. Winnipeg, July 7. —The Dominion of Canada exhibition, to be held in Winnipeg from July 25 to Aug. 6, thin year, promises to be one of the best ever held in the Dominion. One hundred thousand dollars will be expended in prizes and attractions. This of itself will give an idea of the magnitude of the undertaking, Winnipeg believes in doing everything on a big scale. There is nothing half-hearted about it. Since it held its first exhibition In 1891 it has learned the lesson of “push.” Every year has added to the interest, the prize money and an important factor, cbe gate. The prize list comprises about 120 pages, a story of the wonderful development of the province tersely told. The exhibits will include everything, grown, bred, painted or manufactured in Canada, from the fine art to the motherly sow. The speed program will undoubtedly be a great attraction. It win Include boys’ and men’s races, horse races, trotting, speeding, etc., etc. The prizes in this class alone will amount to $19,760, the highest being $2,500 for a “free-for-all,” others ringing from $1,200 down to $l5O. Among the entries so far received are the speediest horses on the continent The Canadian Manufacturers’ Association have secured control of two buildings, and the Secretary, Mr. Young, says there will be such a display of Canadian manufactures as has never been shown before in the Dominion. “Esprit de Corps.” All the tiny cripples in the neighborhood of the settlement house, together with a few able-bodied children, had . been feasted on cake and lemonade. When one of the deformed mites was ready to go home he missed his coat, which search failed to find. The young woman who had been ministering to the wants of the company had seen one of the able-bodied girls go out with something under her shawl too bulky to be secreted cake. “Run, my dear, to Jenny,” she said to one of the lads. “In picking up her shawl perhaps she got hold of something else by mistake.” The boy moved off on his stumpy crutch, and when he returned he held the coat up in triumph. The “accident” had happened; Jenny had picked it up with the shawl. The crippled children crowded close round the young woman in great perturbation. Their self-respect had been wounded, and they looked disdainfully at the few sound children among them. Finally one of the lads said: “Miss Martin, it ain’t one of us that did it. Jenny ain’t a cripple; she’s on’y a Sunday school!”