Middletown transcript., 1878-09-28
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"WEDNESDAY next, October I'd, the
Fifth Annual Fair Of the Peninsula
Agricultural and Pathological ApsOci-
alton will open and continue three
days, as has been the custom hereto
fore. The Board Of Managers have
spared no expense to make this, the
Exhibition Of 1878, the very best that
has yet been held, and, if Old Proba-
bilities will only give US favorable
weather, it will undoubtedly be the
most successful and best attended Ag-
ricultural Fair ever held on this Pen
insula. We have before referred to
the many and substantial improve
ments that have recently been made
at the Exhibition Ground, but many
changes and alterations have been
completed during the last week that
need mention. The Grand Stand, which
we have already called attention to,
is now, since its enlargement and re-
construction, one Of the most comfort
able and imposing structures Of the
kind in the country, having capacity
for seating about $500 people, while
the quarter stretch, another recent i'm
provement, will accommodate at least
another thousand. In the centre Of the
Grand Stand reporters gallery has
been constructed, which will give
members Of the Press much better fa-
cilities for reporting the races than
they have heretofore had at this Fair,
and also prevent them from being
crowded. Nearly every building On
the ground has been receiving atten'
ton from the hands Of busy mechanics
during the past two weeks, while the
track is pronounced by judges to be il
better condition this season than i
ever has been before. The dining sa
loon will be under the supervision 9.
Messrs. P. Coyle & Son, who, during
the past season were 80 successful il
their management Of the Excursion
House at Ocean City. As caterers
their reputation is wide and irreproach
able. The music, as heretofore, vii
be furnished BY the Diamond Stat
Brass Band, which acknowledges NJ
rival on the Peninsula, and whose 81
periority is conceded by all who hav'
heard it play. The Diamond Stat
band have procured many new ant
favorite airs which they have recent,
been practicing expressly for this oc
casion, and we think our readers VIII
attend the Fair will be much bette
pleased that the Middletown boys ha
been engaged to play than they woul
have been had the Board Of MangeI
turned their backs on our superic
home talent and imported higE
flown and bombastic band from di
tant city.
The list Of entries for the trials
speed, which will be found in anotht
column, speaks for itself and needs =
specification. The 2:22 race
something little faster than we hay
ever had at any previous Exhibitic
Of the P. "A. & P. Association, bl
'fthe world moves" and it is expecte
that the Association will keep up vii
it. Another thing to which we desi
to call attention il this The P. A.
P. Association Fair is not Middl
town Fair. 1t was inaugurated ar
is maintained for the whole Peninsul
It is Maryland's Fair as well as Del
wares Fair, and our friends across Il
line look forward to its opening wi
as much pleasure az do we in al
around the town at which it is hel
Maryland people, particularly those
Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne's cou
ties, have always been among the b
patrons Of the Peninsula Exhition, a
they have always been well pleas
with it and have frequently CARR
away many Of its highest premium
Did we deem it necessary we VOL
heartily extend an invitation to I
Maryland friends to participate in |
Exhibition Of 1878, but, feeling Il
il as much their Fair as it is DeIawal
Fair, any such invitation would be
perfous. 4e"ea
Favorable arrangements have b
made with all the railroads lead
toward Middletown, and excurs
trains at exceedingly low rates Of
will be run daily during the Exh
ton. In conclusion, we respectfr
say to every reader of the TRANscR
and everybody else, come and part
pate in the pleasures Of the Exhibit
Of 1873 and have day or two of
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