The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13

berland Agricultural aud Horticultural, at
least. Another objection we think, and
this too applies to other Fairs as well, is
the price of admission charged. Fifty
cents for single ticket to see the products
OF the soil, and some manufactured articles
is too much, We think, for farmers to pay
who sell their wheat at eighty cents per
bushel and go hawking around vegetables
at whatever price an overstocked public
choose to pay. Whether it pays the asso-
citation better we don't know. Whether
1000 patrons at fifty cents each is better
than 1000 at twenty-five cents piece we
don't know, but one thing we do know and
that is that great many farmers remained
away from their own fair because Of the
alleged inability to pay the price of admis-
sion. Passing along the street met an
old farmer, "Well, you are not at the Fair "
L queried. NO" he answered, 'fifty
cents for single ticket, or three tickets
for dollar, is more than | can afford, be-
side that the horse jockeys get it about all,
and I'm opposed to horse racing" That's
another objection. horse racing, But says
one, no fair can be run without it. Well
perhaps not, but the fact remains that it's
bad thing after all, and one which finds
but little favor among our best people.
An old saying runs, '.Speak well of the
dead or say nothing" and perhaps We
should be more thankful aud be in more
favor to say all manner OF good things
about the fair than INDUCING in the lugu-
brious strain of the above. Still we think
with all the good in it, it is well to point
out, as one sees it, the little faults con-
nected Herewith.
One depositor we noticed received eigh-
teen premiums, all but three of which were
first premiums at that. Well it paid him
to be good anyhow; another sixteen, an
other fourteen, still another thirteen and
so on
There wasn't as much dust visible to the
naked eye as there was at the Woodstown
fair and that leads us to remark that the
water spilled around OH the street fronting
the exhibition grounds, on the grounds,
and elsewhere contiguous, was not wasted,
no not by great deal It was perhaps,
everything considered, among the best in
vestments made by the association
On part of tie ground near the grand
stand was the enclosure occupied by the
w. G. T. U. and these ladies too, had the
enterprise and | should add courage too,
to lease the basement of the grand stand
and invest in the altogether uncertain spec
ulation of catering to the visitors at the
fair in providing meals for the occasion
We are glad to say that they were fairly
rewarded in the venture. Perhaps we
have said enough now, the other about the
fair being grand success, the races the
best, more people in attendance than ever
before, heavier receipts than in the past,
everybody pleased, everything passed off
pleasantly, and the old chestnut about the
fair paying their fare at the fair, &C., being
said by the other papers the day after the
fair. One thing we can't forbear speaking
of at the close of this article and that is
the almost entire absence of drunkenness.
Think Of the thousands in town and then
remember if You please that but one arrest
was made for drunkenness the day through
and ask yourself if prohibition has some
thing to do toward making people happier
and society better. Another thing, Bridge
ton should arrange to have excursion trains
from Woodstown as Woodstown had from
Bridgeton on fair days. 1t would pay.