Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-18
THE cTATE FAIR.

ments and the respective committees
wore kept very busy in taking care of
stock, machinery, farm products, ETC.,
as they arrived.
At four p. m. the appearance of a
number of handsome carriages contain
the elite of Newark, Elizabeth and sur
rounding country indicated that the
fair had begun. By five o'clock there
were large number of visitors on the
ground.
OF course, with the majority, "horse"
was the all absorbing topic. Elegant
matched teams, not entered for pre-
miums, were in abundance, but the
races were the centre of attraction.
Though but few thoroughbred stall
lions are exhibited, those ON the ground
do credit to the fame of New Jersey for
fine horses. Mr.. E. G. Brown, of Eli.
zabeth, has a splendid young Hamble-
tonian, of bay color, three years old,
from Morgan mare. He is remark
able for his beautiful, compact build,
fine style and action and docility, being
very gentle, ip fact perfect pet"
One of the finest two year old stall
lions ever exhibited at Waverly is shown
by Mr.. William M. Somers, of Plain
field, for the owners, Wilson & Simp-
son.
Jared s. Stout, of Scotch Plains, ex-
hibits pair of very large fat cattle. J.
r. Value, of Elizabeth, shows some fine
Attorneys, among them full blooded
COW and yearling. Thomas Safer
thwaite, of New York, exhibits fine
Alderney bull, three years old. Mr.. E.
G.. Brown, of Elizabeth, exhibits o
beautiful little bull, six months old,
three-quarters Alderney and one-quarter
Holstein.
John Magic and Son, of Elizabeth,
have eleven fine Berkshire pigs, and
John A. Montgomery shows some good
Chester Whites. Belkshires are exhi-
bited by J. L. Douglass, of Belleville.
| POULTRY.
The display of geese and ducks is
very fine, and nearly every breed of
pigeons and rabbits is represented.
FRUITS, VEGETABLES, etc.
This department. filled up yesterday.
Ohm K Brothers tropical plants attract
much attention as one of the chief orna-
ments of the tent. This firm exhibit
thirty five varieties of cut flowers, raised
from the seed. They have large and
fine display of gladiolas, sixty varieties
of dahlias, and number of rustic bask-
cts and terra-cotta tree stone vases, in
which flowers have been grown in a
very tasteful and artistic manner. Mon
mouth county has come up nobly with
| fine vegetables for their size. In this
display are thirty varieties Of vegetables
and more than one hundred varieties of
fruit. Every kind of grain isrepresent-
ed.
There are twenty-five jars of grain OF
different varieties in this tent from
Walla Walla, Oregon, and other points
on the Northern Pacific railroad.
The array of samples of Kansas pro-
ducts, brought from the line of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad
is very interesting. There are jars of
every kind of grain of the finest quail.
ty; Jumps of salt picked up from vast
beds that lie on the surface of the
ground gypsum of fine quality, speci-
mems of coal beautiful blocks of sand
stone and magnetism limestone, used
for the finest public buildings of Kan
sas samples of tagging that is quar-
ried out in pieces eighteen by twenty
seven feet flax, cotton, peanuts, etc.
MACHINERY.
This department under the charge of
Mr.. VIM. Foster Dodge, though pre-
senting rather meagre display, has a
number of new and valuable machines.
Clark's double pressure blower, ex-
hibited by Patrick Clark of Railway, is
pronounced by experts as a very valu-
able invention for cupola furnaces,
smiths fires, etc. The fans are only
twenty inches in diameter while those
of the ordinary blower are thirty six
inches.
In this department are some fine
samples of goods exhibited by the Eli
zabeth Cordage Company, from a heavy
cable down to fine Irvine. The Com.
pany also exhibit specimens of Ameri-
can hemp and fax in different stages OF
preparation for spinning
Twelve specimens of stoves are ex-
hibited by Munsell & Thompson OF
Elizabethport Pruden, of Elizabeth,
shows all of the usual sizes of drain