The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-17
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morning which, Notwithstanding the low
cring skies of the night before, dawncd
brightly and ushered in a day which, bar
ing a slight shower about 9 p. NJ, was all
that could be desired in the way of fair
weather or weather for the fair. The at
tendance was as usual on the first day,
rather slim. Everybody seems to have
fallen into the idea that the last day is the
one to go, which is all the better for those
who go especially to study the exhibits,
as on the first day they have ample time,
space and opportunity to inspect the vari-
Gus articles, but we suspect that if all the
exhibits were left intact the day after the
fair and visitors admitted one at Il time
there would be mighty few who would
pay out half Il dollar to have a look, which
is only another way Of saying that it is the
people as much as tho exhibits that make
mp the fair. However thai may be, we
accepted the urgent and oft repeated in
y~itation to ''hack 0uti' after dinner on
Wednesday afternoon and took in the in
stitution to the best of our ability in the
two hours space allotted US. Taking the
exhibition as Il whole, we should say it
compared favorably with those of former
years, although there was little on exhi-
bition that has not become familiar to the
multitude. The cattle looked like the very
same you saw last year. The horses seem
to greet you with the same Whitney. The
old bull growls at you with tho same
growl. The hogs pay no attention to you,
just as they always did, and the sheep seem
to say ''herc we are again" Nevertheless
the display of live stock was unusually
full and fine. The falling shower drove
us away from the four footed display and
rs we entered the canvass tent in the rear
of the exhibition building a lot of geese in
boxes, labelled Bremen with Maurice
Elton's name on them, began making re-
marks which we had good reason to be-
lieye were addressed To us, but not being
familiar with the language We made no
reply. We afterward learned that they
had only wanted us to come in out Of the
wet, which so pleased us that we made up
our minds that they ought to have first
ribly high foreheads, put on big airs in
adjoining coops, and the turkeys further
on all seemed to be asleep, except one old
gobbler who peevishly said 'gloo,
glool glooo' as we poked our finger
through the bars of his cage. The newest
thing in the poultry line was a lot of
Wyandottes, pretty fowls indeed, and the
oldest thing was a half-grown chicken
with four legs, two where his legs ought
to be and two where legs ought not to be,
just where they would interfere most with
his sitting down il chairs should come IN
fashion III the chicken yard. We
looked in vain for signs of owner
ship but found none and no clue
to his identity. He was probably like
Topsy, he just growed. John G. Duell,
Ellsworth Rogers and Samuel Duell, Jr.,
had displays OF several varieties of pigeons,
and rabbits were plentiful-one cage a
mother rabbit with four little ones were, as
we heard a young miss say, 'just too
cunnin' for anythingf' Tho remainder
of the tent was taken up with carriages.
Nenstcal had half Il dozen specimens of his
own handiwork, which kept up Woods
towns end of the line to perfection.
while Green, of Salem, exhibited bis own
wares, and Bennett Il Watson had the
Columbus Buggy Cos. make on hand
There was the usual display of agricul-
tural implements. The ParyIn Iron
Wagon Co, of Pennsgrovc, had three nice
wagons. \ traction engine with steam up,
which made short trips to and fro, at
tracted considerable attention. a hog
scalder with an attachment for lowering
the deceased porker into the water and re-
moving him theretrom, promised to turn
hog-killing into a pleasant pastimc, and a
lot of other labor saving and pocket light
ening inventions for the farmers benefit
were displayed. The usual congregation
of fakirs, the lifting machine man, the
pile driver man and the whole fraternity of
%catchpenny beats We're on hand as usual,
but business seemed dull, and they bawled
their business in vain. Entering the main
building the usual arrangement and assert
ment was found. Faucet, the Swedes-
boro baker, had IA LOAF OF bread about eight
feet in length and nearly two feet wide of
the twist pattern, which for quantity, at
least, we Judge took the cake" The dis
play Of fruits was not So fine as we have
seen, but the farm products were Of the big
gcst. The ladies departments were full as
usual. The pies and cakes were calling
for somebody to eat them. The quilts and
comfortables, the rugs and tides, the
bread and butter, the pickles and jam, all
bore evidence that good housewiiery was
not yet one of the lost arts in Salem county.
The organ and piano men were having
a good time, one of the firms having an
exhibit having Il full orchestra that favor
ed the people with choice music from time
to time. Crothers & King had a fine dis
Salem, had the furniture on exhibition
Which they advertised in the MONITOR, and
which fully justified their claim for it.
Meanwhile the races were in progress.
The removal of the t~rotting stables to the
out side of the track and the increase in
grand stand accommodations made this
part of the programme more agreeable to
the spectators. There was the usual
amount of false starting, bell ringing and
other features of scoring up, but the races
of the day were partly finished without ac-
cident SO far as we could learn and upon the
whole Wednesday was as good a day as
first days usually are. Bat in the evening
it commenced to rain, and on Thursday
morning it rained again. Looked like 1t
had come to stay. What time it wasn't
raining it was threatening to rain and the
prospects for the fair were gloomy indeed.
The fakirs were d~isconsolate. Buyers of
privileges figured up their losses and gen.
eral gloom pervaded the camp-meeting.
About 8 o'clock, however, things too
on a more favorable look. The clouds
broke and the people began to break toe,
for the fair ground. Word had been sent
in all directions by telegraph that the fair
would be postponed until Friday and the
$50 special from Philadelphia was coun-
fernandez, but all the same the people kept
coming and by afternoon it looked like the
biggest crowd ever gathered on the
grounds, good enough to quit with if the
announcement had not been made of a
postnoncment. The unfinished races of
Wednesday We're concluded and two of
Thursdays programme gone through, with
two or three extras thrown in, The sum