New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-28
THE WESTCHESTER FAIR
,,v SHOW AND A HORSE SHOW TO
RE FEATURES OF THE ANNUAL EA-
urrITT0N AT WHITE PLAINS

Tho bafies Of WestchezteT county nave oe0"
.on5ire their time ike most babies 1or the
-, ,,,,+,s or for periods shorter than
that length of time Because OF t'eiI SUI
-onndinss and by reason o. "lher oi'
stances more or less obvious, 1heE nave ''0' 80
-, % coz-e+ far1e ard wealth after the man
ner Of their elders. These NT9'cli7S'1l 90
80 s;rnn1v yelled when their sto1nachs felt
-. or acba5, simply laughed and prattled
whom everything was all right without ~i4N
-. "a The rest Of the time they slept.
12pt the native innocence Of these west
o,,,s+or babjas is to be destroyed They are
% become acquainted with the allurements and
5ac.it Of riches and their latent instincts OF
envy and ambition viii all be Matched out
7-bere is TO be q baby show. Although the
narade OF the best looking babies Of West
chester County Is. as would seem proQortionate
and rrorer only a small part Of the Westchester
rountv Fair and Horse Show. which is to be
hold Al White Plains this week. nevertheless It
has caused q furry in more than hundred
homes. Last year there were 104 babies on
exhibition and because Of the remarkable pros
r-ity Of the county il is estimated that TINS
number viii be greatly increased this year
Prizes are offered for the prettiest girl baby
and the handsomest boy baby Of year OF
ur5er and also for the best boy and best girl
babies between one and two years old Little
frankie Mahoney won the 'yearling' prize
last year for the handsomest boy, and his
parents in the belief that he is still hand
so.ner now that he has cut a few more teeth,
will enter him again for the senior baby prize
Souvenirs are also distributed among all the
babies who do not win prizes, they Will not
CRY too hard from disappointment
The fair viii begin tomorrow and continue
tfroughout the week. The horse show viii be-
gin day later and continue four days The
whole exhibition viii be held on the fair
grounds. about one mile west Of White Plains,
On the Harlem Railroad, and three miles from
Elmsford, on the NeW-York and Putnam Rail
road.
The crowds which wont to visit the eX-
hibtion Of the Westchester County Fair and
Horse Slow aggregate as many as twenty thou
sand on red letter days. They are not like
ordinary country fair crowds Along the roads
leading to the fair grounds, for example, Will
be seen, a half hour before the opening time,
wagonloads Of farmers who have brought
their luncheons and who intend TO make the oc-
casion one long picnic There is cold tea, put
up in fruit jars. sandwiches bUttered with the
product Of a churn not chemical laboratory,
and great family spongecake. baked the day
before, and perhaps 4 little concave on top be
cause some overanxious Cinderella opened the
oven door too soon
Then, between the farmer wagons, seated on 4
handsomely finished brake, with a couple Of
footmen and a driver. bugler. and horses in
tandem, viii b. seen some exhibitor at the
horse Show, and with him his wife and
daughters and guests. He owns string of
horoughbreds. and in the cup room of his
many acred estate hang hall a hundred blue
rbDons Won at former shows. The farmer
4'Oks cgriously al the horseman. and the horse
man looks at the farmer. and the women all
look al one another's dresses.
Inc horse show has not always been an ad-
11nct OF the Westchester County Fair. Indeed.
tne lar proper dates back to the early part OF
NE century although it has only had con-
unQous existence since 1856. The horse show.