The Jersey City news., 1905-09-26
Annual Event at Trenton
Opened Yesterday With
Ideal Weather.
FINE RACING PROGRAMME
ATTRACTIONS OF THE MIDWAY
GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE
EXHIBITS OF ALL SORTS AND
DESCRIPTIONS.
Especial to '-The Jersey city News. .


TRENTON, Sept 2s, 19o5.-The
eighteenth annual exhibition of the In
terstate Fair Association opened yester-
day morning when the official pennant
was raised from the top of the grand
stand by Miss Helen Laffan, stenogra-
pher to the secretary of the fair The
weather conditions We're ideal The at
tendance was estimated to be in the
neighborhood of 5000, which number is
some hundreds in advance of the figures
for last year.
The vaudeville and racing programme
met with the appreciation Of the patrons
the racing, despite. the small fields be
ing keenly contested. The numbers on
the vaudeville programme are very good,
many of the acts being of the headline
order. The Lewis airship did not make
a fight, the aeronaut not caring TO make
the risk, owing to the high wind and the
fact that the mechanism was not in the
best of running order Professor Lewis
and his assistants worked on the machine
all the afternoon and late last night he
stated that flight would be made today.
The attractios on the midway this
year are as numerous as last, the "Trip
Around the World" which was exhib-
tied at st. Louis, being largely patron
lied. Professor Rollins and his Euro
pean trained animal show gave num-
Der of exhibitions during the afternoon.
The star number on the programme was
the performing lion, General Cronje. the
king OF the forest being put through his
PAGES by Professor Wilson. an intrepid
trainer of wild animals The tribe of
| Iggorretes, ten in number, We're not in
working order yesterday. The manager
OF the show gave it out that the dancers
would not perform until to-day. Kiko,
the wild Man, was on duty at the
old stand. and hundreds paid a tenth of
a dollar and saw the freak chew bones
| and growi like beast when his keeper
| prodded him with pole. The girls
from Coney Island had little to do except
bask in the sun while the loquacious
| barkers endeavored to land paying au-
| dierce.
The exhibits in the ladies' fancy goods
| departments and the departments deyoted
to bread, pie, cake and fruits are ad-
| judged better and greater than last wear.
and the judges will have their own trou-
bles in making awards. The farm pro-
duets in exhibition building No. 8 are
we'll worth looking over, the specimens
being unusually good The farm inple-
ments scattered about the grounds at
tractcd the gentlemen from the rural dis
tricts and the good poins of each article
were carefully gone over. The live stock
exhibit is fully as good as last years and
it is worth ones time to visit this depart
ment of the fair.
The police had but little to do. the
crowd being very orderly. At the Nc
kinlcy hospital emergency tent a number
of cases We're treated during the day
Frank Seaman cut his left arm with d
meat axe and DR.. Brown took IA stitches
in the severed part Others treated were
Albert Wynant, William Clifford, Dennis
Handley, John Bosley aud John n. Le
| Barre.
A rumber on the vaudeville programme
that was yociferously applauded by Low
ers of horses was the riding Of Professor
Fills, who is said to have participated
in the Boer war. He put his hors,
through many difficult PAGES and gave al
exhibition of daring riding. The Flying
i Jordans, acrobats, and the Afiers famil,
high divers, came in for good share o.
attention. Carnex Brothers, DARN,
cyclists. who circle "The Devils Chin
ney," at racing speed. made a big hi
with the crowd, and received an ovation
at the finish of their thrilling act.