Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-12
WORK AT THE ARmoRY.

I Preparations for the Exhibit Nearly
 Completed The Layout of the
 Booths-Prfzes to be Awarded for
 Guessing and Voting Contests -l
 Interesting Exhibits opens To-
 Night.
 The armory is now almost in readiness for the great exhibit and fair given by the l railway conductors. By o'clock this | evening the oldest member of the gallant l Second will hardly recognize the interior of the big edifce. For the last week sounds of hammers and saws have taken the place of drum taps and the tramp of the decorator replaces the militiaman's measured tread. .
 The interior of the armory has under gone pleasant change and the visitor at the exhibit will imagine himself in small worlds fair. The space is divided in a large square in the center and two alleys on each side. The square is named for President Clark of the Consolidated railroad. The alleys are called malls and are named for Colonel Stevenson of the Housatonic railroad system and General Manager Futile of the Consolidated As you enter the armory the alley to the right is the Futile mall, that to the left the Stevenson mall.
 The first thing one will meet after he | has entered the armory is Waltzinger's cafe. In the center of Clark. Square is a blockhouse holding the prizes to be given 1 to the lucky season ticket holders, guess CTS and prize winners at the fair. From 1 the top of the blockhouse soul-stirring | music will be dealt out by the Second reg | ment band. The Waltzinger cafe is at the oc %1or r1o- -1r AL Ho11 | system of electric danger signals is at the opposite end. Along the side are booths in which car wheels, model locomotives, stationary engines, car couplings, lamps, | chandeliers, railroad switches, danger sig nals, and hundred and one models of
 new railroad inventions. On the malls
 are booths arranged in the most exquisite
 style in order to display the goods on ex- hibition in the most attractive manner. On the Futile wall is beautiful display
 of fancy lamps. These are already fixed
 and need no work for today. The num-
 Der and variation of the railroad is 8
 source of wonder to any who see them.
 The Hall system of signals is very elabo-
 rate. This exhibition is set up here at &
 cost of 1,000 The blockhouse, in the
 center, is furnished with an assortment of
 par1or furniture, having in it's little space
 almost any household and fancy article
 from an upright piano to an axe and saw
 Just behind the blockhouse is large glass
 case filled with the daintiest little rubber
 boots that are made. This present from
 the Colchester Rubber company.
 On each side of Clark square there are
 four switchhouses, all numbered. The four
 on the west are Nos. 1, 8, and 7, and those on the east side 3, 4, 6 and 8. The switch houses are of canvas, with slight
 wooden frames. The voting is carried on ? s,,% %baoa i%11 al 1o,1 lot box for particular contest. The vot- ing for conductors prizes is in switch house No. 1, engineers prizes in No. 2, liverymen's prizes in No. 3, doctors prizes , in No. 4, school teachers in No. 5, par sons' or priests in No, r G. A. R. post ir No. 7, and prizes for bicycle riders in Mo- , 8. There will also be four guessing con , tests, one of the guesses being the height of the banner pole, the second the lengtt of fishing rod and line, the third the length of a cable on miniature steamboat and the fourth being the number of little rubber boots in the Colchester Rubber F company's donation.
 :, |, Tonight the affair will be opened witt
 speeches by prominent men in the state } city governments and high railroad off 3 cials. The Second regiment band vii ? give concert from the top of the blocl l house in the center of Clark square. Tn 3 IoilOWm2 are Gne respectlve committees: Executive committee-President, Earl 8 B. Kenyon; secretary and treasurer, Will jam w. Pardee; auditor, James N. Coe f general ticket agent, James N. States
 superintendent of presents, Herbert 8 Beers; superintendent of voting, Samue t H. Clark; superintendent of guessing, Will 2 jam L. Thomas; superintendent of railroad l exhibits, Charles M. Phillips; superintend Q ent of freight, Miles Hart; superintendent a Of balcony, Elbridge D. Kidder; genera e manager, Frank H. Hermance; assistan J. manager, John Mccarthy.
 J. Advisory ommittee-Charles T. Hemp
 stead, chairman, Superintendents Shepard s N. Y. division; Davidson, Hartford diviE n ion; Waterbury, Shore Line division, Ost y rander, Air Line division; Curtis, North @ ampton division; Trumbull. Valley divis 2. ion; Beach, Naugatuck division; Lyon 7, Housatonic division; Paine, Danbury an ;, Norwich division; Hopson, New Have
 and Derby division.
 Committee on gifts and votes-Hon.
 B. Sargent, E. M. Reed, N. A. Easter l. brook, F. c. Bushnell, Adjutant Geners r. A. M. Embler.
 |. A special train will leave Meriden at Il " p. m. this evening for those who wish t = attend the opening of the fair.