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The Danbury Fair.
SCORES A SUCCESS AS USUAL

THE ATTENDANCE VERY LARGE.
This weeks marks the period with
Danbury when it holds its great fair,
which probably advertises the place AM
brings more people into its borders than
get there during all the remaining weeks
of the year put together. The first Mon
day in October came little late this year
and really last week, with its beautiful
days continuing all through the week,
was Danbury's week, but the manage
ment chung to the old arrangement, the
first Monday in October, and as result
were not blessed with as good fair wealth
er as the prophet dealt out last week.
The old adage that "that bad begin
ming makes good ending" is likely to
prove quite true in the case of the fair,
this year. Tuesday, the first day, was
any thing but good one. A heavy rain
set in in the morning and continued till
afternoon, annihilating the bicycle races
and making the racers very angry that
the management of the fair would not
let them race after it cleared away. The
rain kept the crowd away, too, though
more were present than was expected
with such weather. Wednesday prom
ised better things and early in the morn
ing looked as though all the conditions
desirable would exist. But it kept get
ting colder and by noon was quite un-
comfortable standing around without a
stove. But cool weather is much more
preferable than rain, and the teams on
the highways, the trolley cars and the
steam cars were fairly we'll loaded with
people bound to see
THE GREATEST FAIR HELD IN THE NEW
ENGLAND STATES,
for the Danbury fair has now this dis
tinetion. People who have attended the
great fair continuously for years say that
this seasons effort rivals all proceeding
years, and in almost every department
the showing is larger and better than
ever. In the main building the art ex
hibit attracts much attention and the
artistic work displayed by the sewing
machine companies Of work done on their
machines is a great attraction to the la,
dies. The Danbury, merchants have Ia
ken liberal spaces and exhibited rishel
goods than have ever before been shows
by them. 1t seems to be rivalry to SCI
who can make the finest showing. Ii
the center Of the building Rider, Bryant
g. Co., have on exhibition one Of thu
richest displays Of jewelry, silver ware
and cut glass ever exhibited and tn,
handsome cup won by Quartermarch at.
tracted attention. The ladies' depart
ment, especially the embroidery, is yer.
excellent, this year. In the large tent
the exhibits Of fruit, vegetables and fielt
crops shows that this has been an unu
sually prosperous year with the farmers
for the exhibits are of especial merit
The flower exhibit is also q great attrac
ton and ladens the air with perfum
that makes being around them grea
pleasure. It is here also that the band
daily give excellent concerts. About tn
edges OF the tents are all kinds Of exhih
its Of baking powders, flour. starch ant
!, every conceivable household supply
samples Of which are generally freel.
given away.
! THE AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
and wind mills and powers Of All kind
are exhibited 80 usual and the tent 70
! carriages ID more than full Of fine looh
ing vehicles. The poultry show as uau
Ill is large and noisy and there are som
+ very handsome fowls. g. e Osborne .
!. Stepney made very excellent exhibitd
his famous nun pigeons. The benc
: show does not seem quite A. attractiv
i asusual. TheexhIbit d cattle WAS prol