Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-10-09
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SEP. u, 1917.
EDITOR CHRoNICLE:-P Permit me t.
briefly call The. attention of those who
may have read l., to a communication in
the Cleveland Ledde1 of the 18TH, dated
Vienna, and signed "Yentilator," for
the purpose Of correcting any misappre-
tensions that might result from certain
unauthorized statements it contained in
reference to the Brookield fair. The
writer severely censures the manager
for failing to render their Fair a high
toned moral entertainment, and yet was.
evidently, not present to witness whaI
he attempts to describe, as he assures u
that l. understands that it was worse
this year than ever BEFORE If"Yenti
latOr' proposes doing us the honor oil
writing us up, we would respectfully
suggest that, in the future, he select d
more favorable standpoint for his
"labors of love-" so that it may nc
again become necessary TO draw 50
largely upon a fertile Imagination, Il
morbid fancy and vague, unreliable
data.
By no means would we wish to be re.
garded as spologists of the evils com
planned of, but which are well nigh in
sepsrable from our modern Fairs,
bringing together, as they do, many OF
the 'lewd fellows of the baser Sort with
the accessories of gambling, drinking,
betting and profanity but to require
that the officers of these Fairs shall sup
press and punish all infraciions of the
laws of morality, and the rules of good
behavior, and every evil that may in
sinuate itself under cover and confusion
of a large promiscuous gathering, pre-
supposes a ~sleepless vigilance, coupled
with an Argus eyed, Briarean armed,
Protean shaped, Chameleon hued mon
ster, not the exact counterpart of our
urbane, gentlemanly President, who in
connection with his efficient associates,
used all possible diligence in excluding
and ferreting out every form of dissipa-
ton and immortality. So much for the
general charges; now for those more
specific.
He speaks of the Fair as an ''institu-
ton started some ten years since,''
whereas, had he taken the trouble to
inform himself it would have become
apparent that this was THE Fourteenth
Annual Fair" Why, my dear Sir, or
Madam, we are already UeterdnS in the
Fair business, and should be spoken Of
with a Difference becoming our dignity,
instead of with that flippancy that char
acterizes your correspondence.
ventilator complains that "the man
agement has got into the hands of fast
horsemen' to the neglect of all other
interests. 1t is moi quite clear to our
minds which we are TO conclude are
fast" the men or the horses, the phrase
being somewhat ambiguous. True,
liberal premiums are offered, with a
view to improving and perfecting this
mob est of animals, the horse, but a like
liberality extends 10 all the other de-
psrtments. Unmindful of the trite old
Roman maxim 40 speak only good of
the dead"-de mor;His, mil niSi 6oaam-
our "Ventilator'' h~esitates not to assail
the character OF the dead, to give point
to his vituperation. He says, lone
young man was brought home II corpse
from This place, but what the cause OF
his death was is as yet not known to
the public, as there are conflicting
rumors about it," Again, had he only
been nearer The scer e the mystery would
have vanished, and the case been per-
fectly clear. The facts are simply these:
A gentleman ty the name Of Dray, re-
! turning from Sharon to his home in