The evening world., 1904-02-08
Whiskers Contest Feature Of
4 AH.Week Carnival at Which
Visiting Delegations viii Be
3 Weacomed by Real Rubes. =.
SURPRISES AT EVERY POINT.
Town as 1t Was One Hundred
\ Years Ago Gives Chance for
Novel Effect - Handsome
Booths and Funny Side Shows

cspeciai to The Evening Worldly
( HiCKENsACK, N. j.. Feb. S.-The
Haokensack Lodge of Elks will this
evening open their grand fair and car
enival in Company G's spacious Armory
Ha1l and Director-General Charles c.
Reese has facetiously remarked that
the locaf carnival promises to make
the st. Louis Worlds Fair appear in
significant.
The fair will be continued till next
Saturday midnight, with two matinees
and the Elks are hopeful of clearing
enough money to give them a substan-
/: tinl help in beginning the erection of an
Eiks' Home in Hackensack.
Unlike many fairs this one has a
most encouraging start. yearly 1900 hav-
Ing thus far been realized on the raf-
1ing OF an automobile, won by New
Yorker. and tbe chances sold ON the
shttiand pony and cart
other EIks TO Help.
The management OF the big event
will not depend alone on the people Of
Hackensack and the towns In Bergen
County for patronage. The lodges OF
Elks In New York City. Brooklyn, Jer-
Wy ,itss ilobuhtH tNtl
in Philadelphia have been apprised Of
this effort to establish a suitable Elks
home In 1Iackensack and they have
promised to attend and lend such helI.
1ks only Elks Can. This Is another en-
eournging feature.
The several booths are arranged In
the hall TO represent as nearly as pos
Eibfe portion OF Hackensack hun
, dred years ago. There Is the windmill
CInnt ,s said TO have stood where Nc
AArRfR ATsunr NEsa to- H.
tner of Main and Mercer streets--thc
y misiast spot in the town at present.
! There In the mill wheel seen so often
on the grist mills along the Hacken-
: lack River years ago, and there is the
/. old-fashioned post-office and country
stores. all utilized as fancy booths.
y The whiskers Contest.
Representing. as It will. Hackensack a
, century ago. II was necessary to have n
-whiskers contest, and that is why so
Smuch has been said about the various
I STYLES of chin growths in vogue IN the
sarly days. Every one knows that Hack.
3ssssssS g. S-4 the amusing carl.
. been taken good-uaturedly.
The patronesses. of the carnival are:
Mrs. William NJ. johnson, OF Hacken-
laSk; Mrs. {. r, Breckcprldse. MAY
IA. .. Fayssrron, Ridgeweod Mrs.
Abram. De Ronde. Englewood; Mrs. ].
Hull Browning, Tenahy; Mrs. z. ID.
! Easton. Arcola: Mrs. Kimbali C. At
wood. Oradell: Mrs. w. Dayton, Har-
nngton Park; Mrs. John J., Phelps, Tea
neck, Mrs. Dumout Clark, Dumont.
I The Auxiliary Committee is composed
Of Mrs. William Welles Holley. Presi-
dent, the mother OF Exalted Ruer Al
fred T. Holley: Mrs. w. r. Fsrr, Vice
President: Mrs. James II. Coe, Secre-
tary. and Mrs. s.|Frank p. De Ronde,
Treasurer. --
Those at the booths.
Those in charge of the several booths
.fre: Dramatic, Mrs. Alfred w Will
iams,' with assistants from the Hacken-
lack Dramatic Association and the
1Iackensack Golf Club: fancy booth,
Mrs. r. w. Spencer: candy and picture
ktiderS AIRS. uarIes Z. Reese: down
town. Mrs. Edwin G. Humphrey: country
ttore. Mrs. f. G. Hankins: haywood,
Miss Louise r. ThoTa; cast side. Mrs.
u. Phillips; fishing pond, Miss Jennie
Amos: restaurant, Mrs Conrad Wagner
ana Mrs. w. D.. kingsland. The cigar
1ae list OF booths does not show the
several side attractions TO be sprung
un TIE patrons bv the ever ready E.lks.
and IL c. f. Eckerson can be induced
TO enter a den OF lions that win be a
feature, a special matinee may be ar
ranged for his benefit.
Exalted Ruler Alfred I. Iiolley says
the fair will be the best ever, for
nothing Is too good for Hackensach,'
and Treasurer Walter b. Smith says
he mas rlggpd up one of his wagons
every night from the armory.