The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-12
The Fair,

| notwithstanding the general wish that a
| timely shower might moderate the atmos-
phere and lay the dust before the opening
of the fair the clouds refused to come, and
on Wednesday morning the sun rose bright
| and clearan the mercury in the therlnome-
ter began to rise also, afterthe same fashion
it had observed for a week previous. The
usual hustle and stir of the first day soon
commenced and the hacks anticipating a
large business were early on the ground.
Prehl, of Woodbury., sent down large four
horse coach. Crothers and Fox, our livery
men, had all their available teams in use
and a host of other vehicles helped furnish
means of transportation to the fair grounds,
to which the dust made the walking unen-
durable. The attendance however, on
Wednesday was quite moderate, caused
partly by the excessive heat, and probably
in measure by the fact that the prospect
of clear if not cool weather on Thursday
led many to postpone their visit to that
day.
About ten O'Clock we sailed out to the
Fair Ground and found most of the exhib-
its in place, and the various committees
busy as bees in arranging those not yet put in
place. We heard it remarked that the dis
play this year was not equal to that of pre-
yious years in size, but were not able to
notice any falling off, and in respect to
quality the exhibits were certainly equal
to any we had ever seen there. Our time
did not permit us to make close examina-
ton of all the exhibits. nor would our space
permit description if we had done 50. and
we may possibly have overlooked many of
equal if not greater merit than those we
did notice, but on stroll through the
building and tent we have picked out at
random few of the exhibits that met our
eye. A good feature of the arrangement
was a change of place of many of the
| classes from that they occupied in previous
fairs, which seemed an agreeable break to
the monotOny we have noticed heretofore,
that of finding the same exhibits in ex-
actly the same place year after year, MAX
ing the display look like the same old fair
repeated. And if the various committees
would exercise more care in marking the
articles exhibited it would save some trou-
BILE. We noticed some pictures hung up
out of reach with the card bearing the ex-
hibitors' names stuck into the frame in
such a way as to hide the name entirely,
and on one or two of the quilts hung up the
cards were pinned on bottom upwards.
making it necessary for us to stand on our
head to read the inscription, which gym
nastic feat attracted more attention than
was agreeable. A little larger handwriting
and the use of black ink on the cards, in
stead of pencil. would also assist the way
faring man in getting at the name and ma
ture of many of the exhibits, from which
the railing in front of the platforms keeps
him at a respectful distance.
The first thing attracting the attention
on entering the building near the Secre-
tary S Office was the art display, and con-
picuous here was the fine painting of the
watcrlilies found in our pond and of which
the average Woodstowner is so Justly
proud. Mrs. Kate A. Cooper is the artist.
Miss Mamie Morgan exhibited some fine
paintings on plush and two portraits. Miss
Ella Hunt very pretty little picture of a
lady. The picture of E. S. Reeves farm
house and surroundings in South Woods
own, by artist Ogden attracted much at
tention. Miss Lena Tyler had crayon
drawing of game and some very pretty
specimens of tile painting. Mrs c. B.
Browns painting ''rhe well worn Bible"
is a pretty little conceit. Miss Emma
Lawson has fine specimen of portrait
painting and she and Lena Tyler display
each painting on brass. Two small
water colors by Lille Austin, age IL
years are little gems. Miss III. L. Pancoast
displays some fine specimens of panel paint
ing. e
Passing on we noticed in the children $
department, specimens of penmanship from
Lille Austin, aged ~. and Sallie NJ. W.
Dunn, aged 10, which would do credit to
people twice their age.
ID. w. c. White, the Jeweler had a fine
and varied display, his first exhibit at the
fair, we believe. A large case of silver
ware and gold and silver watches and a
variety of clocks, the whole tastefully ar
ranged, attracted attention.
Recap and Foster of Salem, had the
only specimens of harness we saw on ex-
hibition, fine set of single harness. T.
Dunn & Co., of Salem, exhibited a beauti-
full suite of parlOr furniture, seven pieces
valued at S165. D. Koppenheim had fine
by the way-while NJ. II. Applegate, and
Pemberton Pierce, had each several organs
and tho cheerful music served to enliven
proceedings during the day.
Pyle's Pearline was represented by Wal
ter Sellers, who gave away during the fair
$500 samples.
On the opposite side of the building. re-
turning to the front, we found the preserv-
ed and canned fruit. Mrs. Hannah d. AL
len exhibited some fine specimens of evap-
grated fruit.
Mrs. John I. Elwell exhibited about 1875
jars of canned and preserved fruit, vegeta-
bles and pickles, and % varieties of .jellies.
Mrs. ]. W. Lippincott had display of 50
glasses of jellies, but We did not ascertain
how many varieties.
The last named lady had some pies dis
played that made tbs reporters mouth wa
ter, as also had Mr. Benz. Duffield, and
Mrs John F. Elwell's display of 33 varie-
ties of cakes on a plate side by side with
Mrs. DR.. Gilman exhibit of 30 varieties.
made us wonder how many kinds these
ladies could make anyhow when they once
put their minds to it.
On this side the building E. A. Massey
had the exhibit promised of watch run
ming in a vase of water. He also had a
show case containing % gold and silver
watches of different styles.
Over on the middle platform, in the la
dies department, We scribe was nearly lost
Such miracles of needle work as we there
witnessed we would hardly have believed
possible. We can't describe them. now we
have seen them, but among the many We
noticed beautiful specimen of embroidery
on cloth, by Mrs. NJ Musgrave; fancy
Bible cover, by Miss Bessie Higbee; crewel
work, by Mrs. A. F. Burr; pretty en-
broidered apron, by Miss Nellie skinner; a
toilet set of five pieces, by Miss Mary f.
Magee; two very pretty embroidered table
covers. by Mrs. Nina Brown, and some