The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-26
GALADAY MOLD BRANF0RD
ANNUAL FAIR or THE BRASFORD
 ,IGRICULTURfL SOCIETY.


 rated wasons-fine Exhibits Made In the Ladies' Department.
 The fair Of the Rranford Agricultural society in Branford yesterday was a grand success. From early morning teams and crowds were pouring in from neighboring hamlets. At half-past ten ihe parade Of oxen strings and decoral' ed wagons took place.
 Chief Marshal Daniel Averill led the march down MontoweFe street, over south Main and back Main to the grounds.
 IL was o'clock before the fun began in earnest. From that time on the crowd began 10 collect around the differ ent fakirs. who had gathered, The 'akirs worked hard, talked long, cracked jokes and did everything except take In tho shckels az of yore. The crowd which visited the fair yesterday did not part with money as quickly as In times gone by. Everyone o' the faklrs admitted and lamented this fact. The only fakir who did any business Was Smoke" Saunders and his manager with the African dodger ac:. Smokes" comical sayngs kept huge crowd around tho pla He and to him came con siderable moacy.
 The fair exhibit or manufactured goods, fruit and poultry in the town hall attracted large crowds People poured ina.d out of the place in seemingly endless stream. The exhibits were well worth 5eeinG. Beautiful specimens of handiwork, luscious fruit and excellent poultry in the hall were exhibits Of the Singer and White Sewing Machine companies.
 At halr-past two tEe judges announr- cd that John W. Nichols of Cherry Hill had wen first prize for trimmed carts. The second prize went to Whittlesey Brainerd of Stony Creek.
 MT. Nichols cart was very pretty IL was straw house, and exact minia- lure of the house in which MT. Nichols lives. In it were several children, who scattered fruit of all kinds.
 The prize for the best string was won hy R. A. Howard of Stony Creek The second went to G. c. Fields and the third to J. w. Nichols.
 At 3 o'clocK Marshal Av"rill called the racers to time. The first prize was won by w. H. iAamphrey.
 The half mile race for BranfoGl horses was won by Robert Bar tholomew's "Haldane, Jr," after three exciting heats. Earle Baldwin's horse was second. The races excited much interest. although, as usual, there was considerable delay in getting off
 In the free-for-all race John $. Pal mer's bay gelding and James McLay ]r.'s bay gelding were the only starters McLay is from this city and Palmer is from North Haven. McLay's horse continually broke in the stretch, thus giving the race to the North Havener. A very pretty lavender colt, the prop erty of Miss Carrie Beach, attracted much attention. MT. Kerwin of the Crawford Shoe company was in charge of their exhibit .....,,i s., MT. Valdemar Hammer had on exhi- bition a collection of coins of the Roman republic and empire. Among them are coins of the reign of Diocletian, Maxi. milianus, Tiberius, Constantine, Trajan, Caesar Marcus Agrippa, Hadrian and Valentianus II. There are. also about fifty coins struck off in 3S6 B. c.
 The Treat & Shepard company also had a piano exhibit.
 There was the usual crowd of large vegetables. The vegetable exhibit is very poor this year, and it falls far be- hind that of last year. In fact this has been very poor year for vegetables.
 The only real wonder of the fair was corn stalk seventeen feet high and four beets which aggregated fifty pounds in weight.
 The proverbial huge pumpkin was missing. The poultry exhibit was much better than on previous occasions.
 The improvement is in the art de- partment. Hitherto some execrable paintings and pencillings have offended the sight of the sightseers. Yesterday some excellent pencillings by Miss Elsie Nichols added much to the attractive ness of the hall.
 Among the New Haven people present were ex-Mayor George F. Holcomb William J. Montgomery, ex-Counclman George F. Ref, James Bradley, James E. McLay, jr., Selden Dudley, Edward Blakeslee, Miss Celia Dillon, Miss Glea- son, Thomas Fitzgerald, Frank Maher, John Conlan, George Taylor Samuel T ,1%l