B. Janes.
We have deemed it best thus to gather together from all available
sources all the information we could glean from the circulars, etc., of
the Metropolitan Fair, with the names of its officers, and the addresses
of the Executive Committees, that we might give all possible information
to our widely spread circle of readers. We give, from the excellent
article in the January number of the _North American Review_ already
quoted, a vivid description of scenes occurring in the great Northwest,
upon a similar occasion.
'In Chicago, for instance, the Branch has lately held a fair of
colossal proportions, to which the whole Northwest was invited to
send supplies, and to come in mass! On the 26th of October last,
when it opened, a procession of three miles in length, composed of
wagon loads of supplies, and of people in various ways interested,
paraded through the streets of Chicago; the stores being closed,
and the day given up to patriotic sympathies. For fourteen days the
fair lasted, and every day brought reenforcements of supplies, and
of people and purchasers. The country people, from hundreds of
miles about, sent in upon the railroads all the various products of
their farms, mills, and hands. Those who had nothing else sent the
poultry from their barnyards; the ox or bull or calf from the
stall; the title deed of a few acres of land; so many bushels of
grain, or potatoes, or onions.
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