The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-09-16
FIFTH EDITION.
THE DEMIREPs DAY.


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Having heard OF what great fair the
Mount Hollyltes give from year to
year, q reporter Of the RKru9LroAN
route for that famous Jersey fair
| ground, We boarded special at
| Camden, N. j., at / O'Clock, and my,
what large ard miscellaneous
| crowd
All the girls and fellows from about
town that help to make the nights
| pass fleetingly by. were on the train.
The girls dressed In their speck and
span new bonnets and silk dresses,
decked OF with sparkling diamonds,
hnger'rings and earrings that fairly
dazzle one as they sparkled and dis.
pensed the rays of old Sol. Their best
fellows were out In numbers, and
| when the doors of the special were un-
locked they made rush for seats like
pack OF sheep when being driven to
| pasture six inches high.
After run of about one hour the
train. which was long and full one.
as some hundred persons had to stand
up. Ind passed through n rich and fer
tile-looking country, Mount Holly
fair grounds We're reached. Then be-
| & AN the rush for the entrances to the
fair grounds.
The turn-stiles fairly spun around
The display OF ladies' fancy work,
painting, vegetables, small fruits, dairy
| pl oduce and bench show, were ahead
Of Wilmington's late exhibit The
buildings, three In number, are large
ones but not anything like as fine o
one as the main building at the Hazel
Dell grounds but the display of fancy
goods went ahead of anything the re-
porter has ever seen at any fair. The
grounds are not to be compared with
our fair grounds as the arrange.
ments for their display OF cattle were
mean, very dirty; not tit for a gem
tlemnn let alone lady, TO walk
around to gaze at the display. The
revenue that the directors got from
their fair privileges is something as
tonndlng. or fabulous
The large room under the grand
stand is used as bar-room. where
some fifteen or twenty bar-tenders
were kept on q run to supply the
wants OF the thirsty crowd, who fair
ly fought to get chunce to buy a
glass OF beer, (two swallows). The
way the beer ran in that bar-room
could be liked to Sllverbrook run. 1t
seemed to run on forever, and even
then the thirst of tho crowd seemed
to DO only wetted for more. 1t was o
frequent sight to see man walk up
to the bar and call tor 6 beers. and
then walk off short distance and
drink them down, one beer after an
other. Women and men were seen in
numbers. under the influence of the
foaminR lager.
The managers 1t Is said received 40
per cent OF the gross proceeds OF the
! sale OF beer. Two wheels OF fortune
were running In fall blast for which 1t
is said 5000 were paid to the fair
managers for privilege. The re-
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watching the men and boys risk their
quarters, halves and silver dollars on
the turn of the large wheel.
There were four tabloe, over which a
piece OF oil cloth had painted on them
"a black. bright yellow star, and green
oval space. The black and green were
even money. That is,if you put down
quarter or one dollar or more on the
black spot and the wheel after being
, given a sling stopped on the black.
you doubled your money, and so II
you put your money on the green. II
1t stopped there.
Butif the wheel stopped at the yell
. low star you receive five times as
! much as you laid on it. The game was
very fascinating and the mon behind
,, tho tables were kept busy pulling in
the shining silver metal. They had
quite big stack OF 1t piled up ON the
table in the centre of the circle, In
which they were inviting everybody
to step up and try their luck. 1t was
| a fair game, but like all games OF
! chance was sure to put the biggest
money in the pockets of the men who
were running the game. You can
never beat gambler at his own game
that lie not very often.
Everything seemed to go at Mount
Holly, The grounds were fairly
crowded around the entrance with IA
kris OF every description and with
D every devise under tho sun to catch
: the money of those who were suscep'
D Lible to their oily tongues and beam
ing smilo. The fellows could fairly
/ smile you out of aquarter In less time
. than II takes to tell II. Everybody
. seemed hungry for the nimble dime.
| The scene yesterday beRgars descrip
ton from the pencil Of tho RRrUBLI
CAN scribe. 1t certainly gets there II
making money only is what the Noun,
Holly managers are after, and thai
seems to be the utmost thought o
those having tho fair In charge. We
arrived homo about 8 O'Clock, tired but
! perfectly satisfied with our visit TO til,
a great and much talked OF Jersey fair