The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-09-21
THE FAIR
Some Facts and
FanCieS.
WEATHER WAS FINE.
The Crowd Good Natured and
The Track Tip-Top.

Once upon time there was a boy
who had nickle. He bought piece
of pie, and after eating it. wondered
where his nickle had gone to. We are
somewhat that way. We, like others
took our chunk, ate, and now feel the
goneness of all the excitement, the
fun-and the money. And this is
only another form of saying that Yale
Fair for 1900 is now gone-dropped
into that crack which poets style the
past-never more to bob up excepting
to the man with strong pull and an
equally strong memory-when the
premiums are paid.
This 18th Annual Fair of The Yale
Agricultural Association has some
good points about it worthy of note
and commendation. Despite the fact
that it came in the midst of cam
paign and its distractions, it was on
the whole pretty fair sort of q fair.
| OF course, we don't think for a mo-
ment of comparing 1t with the Paris
Exposition or the one in Chicago seven
years ago. But when we compare it
with previous Yale Fairs, and consider
how meagre the material its officers
had to work on, and the little help
they had from those who will most
likely be the first to criticise, we Won
der that it was as good as it was.
We must also bear in mind that the
world is ruled by fashion In the matter
of fairs as well as of feathers. That
old dame has de3reed that the old
time country fair, made from med
ley of pigs, chickens, sheep, and fat
cattle, in dressing of cereals and
| fruits, is thing out of date. In de-
| Ho nf Vola Eoir
officers went on, and if enough of
these materials had been forth coming
from the farmers, they could have
had swapping fair. Let the blame
| fall where it may, the fact remains
that farmers themselves do not bring
forth the old time material for exhibits
as of yore; and fair managers have
| been compelled to fill in with other
things as points of attraction.
This we can truthfully say of the
| 1901 Fair, what exhibits that were en-
tered for premiums, both of stock and
other material, was for the most part
| first class. We saw stock In the stalls
that no farmer in this or any other
county need be ashamed to say he is
the owner. The whole amount of
vegetables on display at Exhibit Hall
was not great as compared with some
| fairs but no land seeker would look at
the varieties shown, and go away with
an idea that this was not fertile
country, or that our soil tillers have
| forgotten how.
The farmer is thought by some to be
the most gullible of all classes of
people. And this may be true on lines
with which he is not familiar. But the
farmer knows on which side to st
down when he milks COW, and he
knows points about stock, farm ma
terial and products which makes il
impossible to fool him. AS class
farmers enjoy the races, their sons and
daughters like the relaxation afforded
| by the side attractions and stands.
But none of these things, nor all of
them combined can long hold the in
terest of first-class sfarmers-from whom
good exhibits must always come-in
the country fair. Some one said in
congress way back in the seventies
that the "way to resume specie pay
ment was to resume" Perhaps the
best way to have an old time fair, is
to resume building it out of old-time
material in the old-time way.
The candy man, the wind bag man,
| the melon man, and the man with a
I bargain to give you and penny to
catch, were all on deck. The wheel
of fortune and some other doubtful
deyices for drawing money out of the
pockets of the unwary, would haYe
gladly added their mite to the fairs
attractions, but the managers declined
their aid. In this we think the officers
are backed by vast majority of the
/ patrons.
One of the amusements at the fair
was the contest between the Memphis
and Yale base ball teams. The games
were hotly fought both on Wednesday
and Thursday. At the first contest the
Memphis boys went to supper with
good appetites and score in their
favor of IA to II. But the Yale boys
turned the the tables all topsy turvy at