The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-09-30
Attendance at the Trenton
Interstate Fair Greater
This Year Than Ever.
OVER 10000 VISITORS
sEcREATRY MARGERUM SAYS
THE. SUCCESS THIS SEASON
HAS EXCEEDED ALL ExPECTA-
TIoNS.
Especial to ..The Jersey CITY News.'')

TRENTON, Sept. 30 19O5.--With
the lowering of the official pennant over
the grandstand at the Interstate Fair
grounds. at p. m. yesterday, the most
successful exhibition ever held by the as
sociation came to an end. The attend
ance yesterday was estimated at 12,000,
about 1900 more than that of last year.
This breaks all records for Friday at
tendance, as the last day of the fair is
usually considered dull one. 1t was,
however, far from this yesterday, and
things were lively even after the pennant
was lowered.
The total attendance for Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
compiled from the tickets taken up from
the turnstiles, is 10e,519. The total at
tendance was 7,776 more than last year.
The lower portion of the grandstand
yesterday was filed. and large num-
Der of persons were in the paddock. The
ground in front of the grandstand was
filed most of the afternoon.
Until the official ending of the fair the
pike was crowded, the sideshows and
fakirs doing rushing business. Some
of the shows left early in the day, the
managers believing that there would be
little doing,.but the others who remained
reaped harvest.
The exhibition buildings were crowd
ed all day, particularly by persons who
had exhibits in the different buildings.
Professor Flower, of Boston, made
two successful balloon ascensions yester-
day. The first time he dropped in two
separate parachutes after going high in
the air He landed near Hutchinson's :
mills. During the second ascension Pro-
fessor Flower used three parachutes one
of red the other white and the third
blue. While he was in the air he drop
ped handful of American flags of small
sizes, and these landed inside the ground,
and were eagerly picked up. Professor
Flower reached the earth at the new
car shops, much to the surprise of rhe
workmen there.
Without hesitation Captain Cleary
cleared the crowd and confscated the fa-
kris goods, knocking his stand to pieces
Inc pupils of the New Jersey School
for the Deaf attended the fair in body
in charge of Professor J. P. Walker and
corps of teachers from the institution.
The inmates of the State Home for Girls
in charge of the attendants, were also at
the fair Delegations from number of
private schools were also present
In an interview with a reporter yes
terday, Secretary Margerum made this
statements "The success of this years
AAlf AAS pSG-i Dcsouo oti cApSSbu t7oiAs,.
There were many fakirs here this year,
but the pel,ce put them out of the
grounds and con6scated their goods. We
attribute most Of the success to the wea-
ther conditions. which were favorable
frcm the opening to the closing of the
.exhibition.n 4
H When asked what he thought of the
airship and its failure to dy, Mr.. Mar
gerum stated that he believed the ma
chine was all Fight. but that the opera
tors were at a disadvantage, because
| they could not procure the proper mate
Trial with which to FIJI the bag connected
| with the ship.
| Peter 3. Hurley. general manager of
|Ethe Trenton Street Railway Company
lEreceiyed many congratulations both from
I|ths. fair officials and tha public on the
lway in which he handled the great
Icrowds that used the eompany's cars
Idnring the week. Little waiting or
Ierowding was experienced and only a few
Islisht accidents occurred, which is some
Ithing unusual for fair week.