The morning times., 1895-09-04
PRIDE OF THE FARMERS
Montgomery COunv's Big Fair
Now in Full Blast.
THE BEST EVER GIVEN
Exhibits In All Departments TO BE
Larger and Better Than Ever Be
fore-A Number of Was hin@t on
Merchants HaveTakenS nSpnce-Some
OF the Sports OH the Programme

Nearly half century Of experience has
made the Agricultural Society Of Mont
gomery expert in the matter Of county
fair The jurisdiction of the Society in
such matter includes also the District Of
Columbia
Forty-onc Of the fairs have been held
on the grounds OF Rockville, Where the
forty-second was opened yesterday with
fine weather and a very large attendance
forthc first day OF such an event, Secretary
John +. Muncastcr aid TO The Times yes
terday that The outlook at present indicates
a very much more extensive Show in all
the departments than has yet been held:
There is not yet, however, that complete
order which VIII permit anything but
general view of the men. women, and de
partments. Countless boxes are still in
The unpackng process, and many Of these
contain the things which Washingtonians
have sent for exhibition.
WASHINGTON REPRESEN TED.
Among the washington contributors
now on record here are: Benton Bradford,
| 1909 Tenth street northwest; Hugh
Hanger. Twentieth and NJ streets north west;
John L. Ludlcy, 912 Massachusetts ave-
nue.: the Independent Ice Company: Miss
Moran and Miss & E Moran, 2416 Penn
syIvania avenue: p H. Mattmgly. 1928
Whitney avenue; Miss Fannie Ober, 21O
street southeast; Ed Schmidt, Tl2
Twelfth street northwest; Miss Julia
/ So!yom, Cabin John Bridge; Mrs. A. H.
Ycrkes. 622 q street northwest; Orndoff
/ \ Truxton, ? Moran Y Co, and w. E..
Clark * Co.
! The Independent Ice Company have heavy
/ draft horses on exhibition and the three
/ last named firms farmers supplies.
The Washington men who have bloodcd
! stock on the grounds are T. f. Shugrue, Of
! Georgetown, "Pcle W." c. Fahency.
! Brirhtwood. Floss" Golden Nugget"
/ and HNeIla s." Z. H Bates. Sentinel
! II;"G. W. Kemp "Blue Sky" John Dugan,
princess Orloff, ana Il. T. MILAN, Oral. y
THE CHIEF MARSHAL.
The chief marshal is Mr.. Leonard weer, ,jr.,
his assistants being Lieut.. Marshal j j.
Hutton and Messrs. H. X. Manakee, j. W.
! Jones. jr. n. II. Miller. F. NJ. HallOwell,
! C. NJ. Mackall, R. l. Mackan. jr"
! A H. Aisquith, jr., Joseph R. Cassin ana
| w. p. Jones.
There were only two events on the pro.
gramme Yesterday. The first was a lnile
| ra ce for roadsters. Entries Daisy
| OrIoff." A. F. Prescott; Dolly H." j.
! c. Dorsey. and BUCK" j. S. Layton 1t
was for a SIS prize and was won by Dolly
H.. in 3:O7, with Buck a good second and
| Daisy Orloff distanced.
| The second fdature was a very uninter-
estng game of baseball between the Rock
vile Athletics and the Riverside Athletics.
The latter club was composedof: Mckenna,
| ss; Herbert, 3b; Estler, IT,; Flaherty, 2b;
Bromley, Ib; Pearson, cf.; Loveless, c.;
| Ockerhausen, rf., and Brown, p.
The Rockville men were: Dawson, 1b;
Kingdom cf; Rabbit, 2b; Eagle, IT,; Shaw,
3b: Kelchner, ss.; Harris, c.; Beard, rf.,
and Nicholson, p.
/ The Rockville men are excellent players,
| and this, with the absence of several of
the best men of the Riversdes, gave the
game TO the former II To 2. The umpire
was Mr.. Jacob Boyd.
The grand cavalcade will take place at
10 O'Clock this morning The races will
| commence at 1890 p. m. There will be
227 class pacing, $50 class trotting,
hurdle races at six furlongs, running a six
furlongs, and two hunters prize contests
The officials of the races are j. r Kelly,
starter: H b. Cramer, timer, and Lee
Offut and H C. Hurley, judges.