The Street Fair Final Notes Respecting the Great Fall Carnival that Opens Today in McDonald Bright weather, clean, gay streets, a wilderness of flags, festoons of electric lights, and crowds and crowds of people--the Street Fair is upon us! Visitors to the Fair will note that McDonald is the handsomest town in Western Pennsylvania. We are brand new. The oldest of the many substantial brick blocks that the visitor will see is not yet three yeas of age; the water and electric systems are little older; the fine school house was built within the memory of those not yet old enough to go to school; the long brick pavements have scarcely been tamped into place; our magnificent churches, -- they are not yet finished! McDonald is the prettiest town in the country topographically, as every visitor acknowledges. It is not flat, nor hilly, nor rugged, nor yet commonplace. The town is built on gently swelling ground, with no abrupt hills, and with a very fine view from nearly every house. A landscape gardener could not have imaged a town site better for drainage or buildings or fine streets. Visitors tot he Steubenville Centennial say McDonald outshines Steubenville of the Centennial. A complete program of the events of the three-day Fair will be found in the fourth column, fourth page of this paper. The sports begin at 9 a.m. each day at the Ball Par, and here are baseball, football and rugby games between the best clubs in the country. In the afternoon, at the same place, are all kinds of races and the aeronauts and fancy bicycle riders will give their exhibitions. In the evening are rope walking performances on the main streets of town and the dance at the Star Opera House. (Paragraph missing) Chairman PHILLIPS has granted privileges to three good tent shows at the Ball Park, and several small shows in other places. He has granted five restaurant stands at the Ball Park to Messers, MILLER, J. C. LAING, W. H. COOK, and Robert WATSON and a stand at Station and Lincoln to Mr. FRAMPTON. The Methodist Church has a stand, the Volunteer Hose Co. has one in the West End, and the FERGUSON Hose Co. has one at McDonald and Lincoln Avenue. Our Fair Committee, instead of throwing everything wide open, as is often done at other fairs, has been very carefully to license nothing that might be unlawful; and all the arrangements for a first-class, healthy-toned fair as nearly perfect as they can be. This first day are shown the premium agricultural exhibits at the stores; tomorrow will be Miners' Day, and Friday will be Oil Men's Reunion day. The East End Football Team Monday evening elected Mr. Joseph VOYE, Honorary President of their Rover Club and Howard CASE Captain of the Team. The Tem plays Rosedale today; Reissing, tomorrow; and Beech Cliff on Friday--all at the East End. Park--kickoff at 2 p.m. each day. The True Blue Flute Band, at the request of the Committee, will parade each morning of the Fair, at 10 a.m. This splendid Drum Corps is now one of the best known in the country and is very popular everywhere. At the Strikers' camps, where there are seven or eight bands, it has held first place all the time. The great rugby game with Homestead is on Friday at 1 p.m. The McDonald Baseball Club plays Canonsburg today, Washington tomorrow and Braddock Friday. The Rugby Team has charge of the ball at the Star Opera House each evening and the Team has a restaurant next to WILLIAMS & LOCKHART's. The Miners' Relief Committee has a restaurant next to the post office. Many strange faces in town, and not all are pretty. Miss SHANNON, the aeronaut, and M. FOURCHER, the great bicyclist , have arrived. Thirty babies entered for the GIFFIN-MOORHEAD baby show, and Oakdale not yet heard from Even the flies have come to the Fair. On Fair Eve, a cloud of flies a little larger than fleas settled down on the town and made people miserable. Twelve extra policeman have been put on for the Fair. The Fair Committee will pay them. The West Virginia oil field gets a holiday Friday for the McDonald Fair. Special trains will run form Sistersville, Parkersburg and Wheeling. G. J. BUCHHEIT and Co. have at their store a large and perfect X-Ray apparatus, and the public is cordially invited to test it. Go and see through yourself and find out if there is anything inside of you that outhtn't to be there. The guesses at WILLIAMS Bros.' jar of beans run from 1,000 to 12,000. Sept. 4, 1897 Outlook In The Midst of the Fair The first day of the Fair was not a shadow of the second, which was Miner's Day. At 10 o'clock, the noted Camp Victory arrived with a band, having marched all the way from DeArmitt's mines. Thousands of men and women came marching from Reissing, Cecil and Tom's Run. At 12 o'clock a mile-long procession with bands and banners arrived from Carnegie. The latter was headed by a banner with a large square hint to McDonald people: "In God We Trust for our Bread This Day." All the processions coming to town carried numerous banners with mottoes, the tenor of all being, "69 Cents or Bust." At noon about ten thousand people were gathered at the Ball Park, and the streets of the town were still crowded. Every train dropped five to twenty car loads of people. The big miners' meeting probably was the last of the great strike. It was one final struggle for "69 or Bust," and before this paper reaches its readers the strike will probably be over and the miners at work again at 64 or 69 cents. Thursday brought hundreds of beringed, swarthy Romans and Magyars from Tom Run ans such places where they work, and they made a picturesque street crowd. If Friday's crowds exceed those of Thursday, we shall have difficulty in caring for all.