The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-09-27

special irom a S'sd Correspondent
Harford. Pa. Sept. 2G--il~re aud
now IS the only genuine, ninty nine
and forty four one -hundredth's per
cent. pure and unadultsrated country
rair. Walisvile. Dallas. West Pittston.
Iiunesdale and other places have fairs.
but they are not country fairs They
may have been country fairs at one
time in their history. but when con-
irasted with the Hartford fair they ate
Just fairs. 70 Hartford alone remains
the distinction of conducting Il Coun-
try fair
Forty-'our years ago the Hartford
annual fair had its origin. 1t il The
same fair today that it was Wednes-
day. September 10. 1857. and each sue
ceeding year in the interim. No horse
racing or that sort of thing-just
pumpkins and COWS ana crazy
quilts. and preserves. True. there was
a bit of innovation today In the shape
Of football game. but the society"
seemed somewhat sherpish about it
all the day ana. very likely. will not
let il occur again. Hereafter the pa
tlons Of the tair who demand excite
hr called upon to he content with the
annual ploushiug match.
Everybody-or at least what is COM
pretended 10y that term from this view
poinl--attends the Hartford fair. And
everybody comes in carriages. Today
there We're five thousand persons on
the grounds ana it is fair to estimate
that the number of vehicles required
I,.f, L..
hundred
iIarfnrd is four miles from the near
est other place. kingslrys: seven miles
from ilopb"ttom; fourteen miles from
Monlross. and twenty four miles from
h" York state line. 1t is in "A deep,
Crater-lik" Depression atop one OF the
highest of the thousand-and- -one high
mountain knobs of central Susquehau-
ma county. 70 reach it. one must drive
up ana down So many hills that sea
sickness iS al EVER impending dau-
ger.
THEY START EARLY.
I:ut TIA" hills have no deterline .I-
! s"r, on the populal ion hereaboutS. If
! the journey is lonI and SLOW they take
an early start one party Whira
| drove from Windsor. y. y, started at
| ! =. M With the first RAYS Of the
sun every road, within It radius Of
| twenty or more miles was lined win
| .ch'cles, headed Hartford way and us
| they began to closely converge, it
| looked as If a score Of funerals We're
| ccnring into town all at the same time.
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owners we're welI-,o.do Tha hor.as
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cigar game. The society wouldn't
on the grounds.
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