The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-05
CROWDS AT WAVER[Y.
Last Fair on the Old
Grounds Promises to Be
a Great Success.

weather brought larger crowds to the
Waverly Fair yesterday and by noon
there were many more people On the
rounds than had been present at any
time yesterday. There was a large mum
Der OF early arrivals, the class OF visitors
that come by wagon load and bring their
lunch baskets with them. Hitching space
around. the track was In demand, and
there was quite a string Of rigs tied to
the rail by noon, with more coming all the
time. Still the attendance was not up to
the record OF former fairs.
Judges in the various departments were
hard at it during the morning hours, and
a majority OF the awards rave already
been mad The entries in the show horse
classes were finer than ever shown at
Waverly before, according to the opinions
ON men qualified to judge. For three
hours Charles McCue, Of Long Branch.
William W. Ogden. Of this city, and Rem
sen Cadugan, of Bayonne, the judges of
gentlemen's driving horses. were trying to
select the best horses in the respective
classes!s It was a pretty hard task. as the
quality of most of the contestants was
very high.
n. Stacy Smith. OF this city, won the
blue ribbon In Glass u A for pacing
roadsters with his chestnut. gelding Mono
pole. For teams of mares or g~eldings,
Thomas F. Russell, Of BioomsfieId, cap
tured the blue ribbon with his pair, Prin-
cess Sprague and Maid Thorne. The ami
mails were handled by Theodore F MAJ
field. John f.. McDonough's team took
second. DR.. winthrop D. MitchelTs turn
ont IN tho a1cC- far frofffuo rnadctarc
caught the Judges eye, and the doctor
was awarded first premium. Princess
sprague came next In favor. and Benja-
min Meyers entry was given the orange
ribbon for third.
For pairs Of mares or geldings, or mares
and geldings, Princess Sprague and Maid
Thorne captured their second blue ribbon,
and Mayor George O.. Smith, of Walls
burgh, came next with his team, which
got the red ribbon. Family horses, tam
dems, four-in-hands n saddle horses will
be judged this afternoon.
Premiums had also been awarded in the
aviary. fruits, flowers and plants. mer-
chants and manufacturers display, veg
etable, cereal and grape departments. The
display of grapes was unusually fine, and
about all of the prizes In the many classes
were captured by fou men. G. c. Corby,
Of Montclair. outstripped all of his COM
petitors. He had about ninety exhibits
of almost as many varieties OF native
grapes. When the awards had been made
it was found that Mr.. Corby had cap
tured first premium for a display Of fifty
varieties; first for display of twenty yari-
eties. and first for ten. five and three va
rieties. Mr.. Corby also won ffty-eight
frsts for as many individual varieties,
and nineteen seconds, making e~ighty-two
premiums in all.
C. J.. Copley. of Stapleton, Staten Island,
won second prize for a collection of fifty
varieties; fourteen individual frsts and
as many seconds. Theodore Jerolamon,
of Belleville, won ten firsts and fourteen
seconds. and Henry Jerolamon captured
eight frsts and a like number Of seconds.
The Messrs. Jerolamon also came in for
a share of the honors in the classes for
apples and pears.
The APhilippine Wild Woman" had a
rival llis morning in the person Of "Feege,
the wild Man" The managers of the latter
do not state where he came from, but a
sign announces that HE eats raw meat
and drinks blood while another sign
makes the Observation-Disclosures state
ment that Feege is "as Wild as the day ne
was captured"
One of the freaks. who goes by the
name OF Major Case. had an experience
last night that he did not relish. he IS
only thirty-four inches tail, and was IN
vited to take a ride by a man with a
buggy. The owner of the rig put the
dwarf out on the road at the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad bridge. and with his short
legs the little fellow spent nearly three
hours getting back to the fair grounds.
An alleged ~pickpocket was arrested
about noon by Policemen Allendorf and
Weingarth. A woman, who gave her name
as Mrs. L. w. James of Paterson, scream
ed while on the 'Bowery.'' AS she did 30
a young fellow ran away. The woman de-
clared that her pocket had been picked
and the young fellow was seen to throw
the purse away The officers gave chase
and caught the man before he could scale
the fence.
The prisoner gave the name Of Harry
Smith, but refused to say where he came
from. He was locked up. Later he was
a~rraigned before Justice Rapp and held
In $500 bail for the Grand Jury
The racing yesterday began with the
2:17 class trot, purse $500. h first heat
was won by Brown Jim. Iyandor second,
Rob Roy third. Myrtle Boy fourth; time
2:1sh.
Second heat won by Brown Jim, Rob
Roy second, Ivandors third, Quarter STAFF
fourth; time. 2:17H.
The second race was the Governors
Stake Of 81 600, for 2:1s PAGERS. First heat.
won by Strathbelle, Frank Knapp second.
Adsign third, Allawood fourth; time,
2:16A.
Second heat won by ~Strathbelle, Adsign
second, Carsie Fletcher third. Allawood
fourth; time, 2:16A.
Yesterdays attendance fell far short Of
the mark expected, even for the opening
day. Tt would be hard to estimate the
in attendance owing to the size of
the grounds and the manner in which
the visitors roamed about and scattered
to the different buildings and attractions.
It is doubtful, however, If there were at
any time during the day more than 2.5oo
persons within the enclosure. The racing
was Of a satisfactory order, and some
fairly high class horses were engaged.
but the grandstand bore a deserted APP
~pearance, and there were far more seats
thar there were occupied. It was
none too cold, either, while the sun was
shining during the day, and the managers
we're houino that the attendance during