The Newtown bee., 1894-10-05

that is, the Danbury fair is being held this week, and all the people from sur rounding towns have been pouring in to | it, by rail, teams, bicycles and on foot. It is the same old story, the biggest fair | ever held in Danbury, and it's true | story, for each succeeding year has found the fair steadily gaining ground, and this year has capped the climax as far a s the exhibits are concerned. There are some classes of exhibits that have fallen | off, but taken as whole the showing this year is ahead of anything yet held. THE BUILDINGS LOOK NEAT AND ATTRAc- | in their new coats of paint and the ex- hibits are arranged with great care. Yet after having seen this great collection, it is with a mixed feeling of pleasure and | vexation that the better class of those who attend leave the ground. For in- stance as you enter the main building and stand before some Cxquisitely paint ed flower or the handsome painting of | Quartermaster, Rundle and Whites famous stallion, in the art gallery, from just outside the door comes arring voice in one's ear with the invitation to 1 come and see some human monst rosity | in the shape of some hideous deformity in man or beast, and the more hideous the object they have, the louder they yell. It would seem that if the long line of fakirs and side shows were excluded from the grounds it would be model fair. But no rose without it's thorn and | there must be money in it for the fair people and something of popular de- mand for this sort of thing, or else they would certainly be made to ply their noisy and grusome trade somewhere out side the fence.
 THE MAIN BUILDING,
 as usual, was devoted to fancy work, ,and there was an endless variety in cases and strung overhead on wires. The mer chants had their allotted spaces and there was not much change in their positions from last year. Directly in the center of | the building Ryder, Bryant & Co.,, the
 
 line of jewelry, their neighbors in the trade were also all represented. The ex- hibits by the dry goods firms were very meagre. The clothiers were we'll repre- sented and attractive displays were mo- ticed by Levy Brothers and c. F. Havi- land & Go. The latter firm had in their display mechanical toy representing young people at dance, that attracted considerable attention. Holbrook's s shoe store also had mechanical toy of the old woman in the shoe, with her children, that greatly pleased the crowd. The shoe store of R. F. Foster & Co.,, was rep resented with handsome show case of goods and W. A. Lyon displayed his goods on machine that kept them travel ling at lively gait. The J. M. Ives | Co.,, always have an interesting and large l display of handsome furnishings. The | poultry tent was filled clean to the top, l but it was too noisy place to remain | long in. A new feature this year was the charging of an admittance to see the dogs, and there didn't seem to be as large showing of dogs as former ly either. But anybody who invested 10 cents to go into see them certainly got their moneys worth of noise. In the large main tent the exhibit of flowers, fruits. vegetables and grain was excel lent. Charles F. Beardsley had space in this tent and was showing and selling the goods of the New Milford pottery company for Beach & Son of New Mill ford. P. Cannon exhibited his bees in this tent and James Sexton & Son of Bridgeport also had magnificent dis play of statuary and monumental work J near one of the entrances.