The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-12
SUCCESSFUL ORANGE FAIR
LARGE ATTENDANCE AT THE FIRST
 DAY OF THE AFFAIR.

Three Thousand PoopIe-Ltst of Prize
 Winners-Interesting Horse Races
 Fine Programme Offered for To-day.
 The first of the Connecticut country
 fairs opened in Orange yesterday and
 the crowds made up of "hayseeds,"
 ''rubes" and city folks were there, and
 had the usual good time The country
 fair is thing that is growing in popu-
 larity every year notwithstanding the
 fact that they are just the same as
 they always were and that if you see
 it one year you see 1t always Of the
 many fairs held in this state during
 the fall the one held in Orange is
 typical of the country fair The great
 majority of the visitors are farmers
 and their friends and they enter into
 the proceedings of the day with
 spirit worth going a long way to see.
 The Orange fair is different from
 number of other Connecticut fairs in
 that it is free from "Fakirs." In the
 Branford and Danbury fairs these men
 reap a harvest and even in a number
 of smaller places they are to be seen
 annually. But for some reason they
 steer CleaT or anu lllSy are quite conspicuous for the absence
 Nearly all day the roads leading to the Orange Driving park were well filled with people driving and walking
 to the grounds and by the time the programme opened there must have been 5000 inside the fence. This is a smaller crowd than usually attends on the opening day, but the fair this year is being held almost two weeks earlier than on previous years. That may possibly account for the smaller attendance. The promoters said yes- terday that they expected very large crowd to- day and that it would proba- bly reach five or six thousand.
 The showing of garden products this year Is not quite up to the standard owing to the poor year, but neverthe- less it is g. fine show. Three large | tents are given up to these products | and they were viewed by nearly all present. Everything that can be grown in Connecticut will be found | under these tents andsthe judges had hard time in awarding the premiums on account of the large number of entries. The live stock exhibition Is excellent and called forth favorable comments from all sides. This exhibition Is larger than usual and includes cattle sheep and swine There was also good show of dogs, horses and fowls. The fancy work exhibition of which Mrs. D. E. Russell Miss Minnie Clark, Mrs. c. D. Hine and Miss Mary Woodruff was the committee in charge also was first class and of course was interesting to the large number of ladies in attendance.
 Taking 1t all in all the Orange Agri- cultural society Is to be congratulated on having such a fine show in their town and great credit Is due the off, cers of the society, who are as fol- lows: President Watson, S.. Wood ruff, Vice President Walter s. Hine, 1 Secretary Arthur D. Clark, Treasurer l.. Clark. Jr, Directors W. s. Woodruff, Walter s. Hine, A. D. Clark, D. L. Clark, c. F. Treat, F. c. Wood ruff, D. E. Russell, B. M. filling, H. M. Clark, W. H. Beecher, E. c. Russell, c. s. Clark S. c. Colburn, P. J. Rourke and B. T. Clark Nearly all of these men were on the fair grounds yesterday experimenting different lines of amuse- ments and acting as judges in the diff ferent classes. The committee on agri- cultural exhibits was composed of B. M. filling, W. H. Woodruff, William H. Russell, C. R. Treat, s. J. Treat and L. A. White. These men were in charge of the different crops and awarded the premiums in their lines. To give list of the premium winners would be al- most impossible as every kind of vege table and all the diffrent classes called f0f, y,rp tun Tho jII6ppc ti . were rather late in awarding premiums and the books were not turned in to the secretary until after 6 o'clock The grand floral parade, one of the ] unique feat ures of the fair, started at ] o'clock and went twice around the ] track. This procession was made up ,f gaily decorated floats, bicycles, wag- ,ns and carriages and there were also n line number of freak makeups. There were number of prizes offered (