The Morning herald., 1878-09-24

READY FOR THE OPENING.

A MERE GLANCE AT THE DOVER FAIR
GRoGNDs-wHAT HAS BEEN DONE AND
WHAT WILL BE THERE TO BE sEEN-Thb
OPENING TO DAY.
Special Correspondence of the HERALD
DOVER, Sept, 23rd.
All day long the bang, hustle, clatter'
and confusion of exhibitors getting their
show cases, machinery and stock stalls in
order as will show what they have to show
to the best advantage, has been rampant In
Fairview Park, which lies on the Delaware
R abroad Just little distance on the VIII
mington side of Dover, where the State fair
commences tomorrow.
The last Legislature chartered the Asso-
citation last winter, and as soon as It was
granted, the association rolled up It's sleeves
and went to work In dead earnest, for 1t
well knew that 1t had no child's play before
It.. Since then It has laid out the grounds
beautifully erected buildings, which fer de-
signs and appropriateness, reflect credit,
and has attended to the thousand and one
things TO the most minute detail with per-
sistency and enterprise that deserves praise.
To cut long story short, something like
$12,0 900 has beer spent, and i$12, 600 were
never expended oman object more worthy
Ct that amount. -'''ar
To all members of the Associations this
lovely stated of things due, but TO Ts Il.
Denney, the President, and W. H. Wallace,
the Secretary, is to be ascr,bed to . greater
extent than to any other two men who have
had any thing TO do with II. don't sup
pose you ever saw buster man than Mr..
Wallace, he Is every where ct once and al
ways does things with dispatch instead Of
with hurry. He and his ASSISTANTS write
more letters in day than they could count
| in . week, and Though every one ccmes to
him for information, he never gets mad or
1 calls people hard names. 4, g,ijaea...,
/ It has become merely . true saying now
q days that no one ever saw an Agricultur-
lal fair without horse racing, and the trot-
i ting feature here, will be an interesting one.
The track is circular ended parallelogrAm
| with very little deviation inthe grade, and
in the grand stand 1900 people can Dit at
their ease and look, on at the sport, The
most interesting race will be No. II, Of the
2.22 class.for purse of 81 600 which comes
off on Friday with the following entries:
Nil Despirsdum, b., e: Driver,,b. .g;, Will
dair, b. g; and Jersey Boy. b. g.
The opening ceremonies commencing ct
1880 O'Clock tomorrow morning, will be
i appropriate and interesting. Chancellor
. Salisbury viii preside, and the flag pur>
chased by the Dover Cladiesy will be pre-
!, sented to the Association BY Hon:; N. B.
Smithers, and an address of acceptance VIII
. be delivered BY Judge Houston. ~ After this
= ex-Judge Wm.s Fullerton, of New York will
lspeak on some suitable topic. 4 sa,,
The other three days Of the Fair proper
Twin each have q distinctive feature outside
of the, racing, On Wednesday there will
, lbe q grand Tournament, on Thursday or
address BY General Roger Pryor, and OF
IFriday d grand display Of stock in the ring
a and the announcement of awards. Three
times every day there will be open air con
certs by Prof. Hassler's Military Orchestrs
Eof Philadelphis under the professors per
l-l sonal direction; .al vsh !, a. 'zA.a
!. All in all, the fair will be worth going tt
l see, and thugs are near completeness tina
: all the association will have. to do tenor
! lrow merning will be to open the gates snC
/. get out of the way Of the crowd, >0