The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-27
CROWD AT HHE ETNEOLA FAIR
AMATEUR AND GENUINE FARM.
ERS RIVALS FOR PRIZES.

TrOttinE and Pacing Races Furnish Good
-FtnIShes Close. but No Record,
Broken Circus Day sights within ann
W,thout the acknowledgement Award.
Mlneola's fair. the annual Long ISLAM
odd Home Week caught It's stride yester
day. New exhibits were to he seen on ever
aide. the tents having sprung up overnight
with mushroom swiftness, and the outft
rseembled a dozen circus stands combined
into one. Merry go rounds and chair wheels.
shoot the chutes and rife gal cries. faksrs
and novelty booths were crowded In among
the legitimate exhibits. offering entertain
ment for the sensible or the frivolous all At
the one price Of admission.
To be enjoyed free OF charge are the shows
outaide the grounds. The village street
that leads from the station to the main gate
il a real midway, or. rather. as vendors pro-
dominate, a Cheapside market. There IA
a camp OF Rypsies there. and also, as a rival
10 the ZinRari, a native American fortune
tsIIer announced as the seventh daughter
of a seventh daughter. Forecastins the
future IN hungry work and must not cause
forRetfulness OF present necessities.
Az n proof customers had to wait az one
spell IN the afternoon while the seventh
daughter, the horoscope and magic glasses
being pushed aside TO make room for 'he
dishes. disposed OF q snack OF fried eggs,
rolls and coffee.
Society. pending the opening NJ the horse
show to-day, rubbed shoulders with the real
farmers about the exhibits Of cattle, sheep,
.wine and poultry. The amateurs won a
fair share of the prizes. the CHIEF Interest
being in the poultry awards. The exhibits
allied half a dozen tents. W. X. vanderbilt,
Jr.. won ribbons with Barred plymouth
Rocks. white Rocks and Wyandottes, r,
DUDLEY winthrop scored In Rhode Island
Reds. a br eed the Winthrops have done much
10 make popuIar on Long Island, aud W r
sherry won in several varieties OF Cochins,
mr.. paul KYLE Of FlushinR had success with
both bun and black ~OrpinRtons,
W. c. Jordan and I. W. Van Sise, Jr., made
fine exhibits Of white and bun Leehorns
II. w. Billiard. James f.: Aloin ana W 3
sherry we're strong 10 Minorcas, willie the
latter had wslkovers in Blue AndalusiAns.
r ack Spanish and in many varieties Of Polish
and Hamburg Is. J. Hart WEIGH. Isaac keator,
Mrs. Alice Hewitt. Miss Cornelia Prime AMI
Harrison n. Duval wen many ribbons with
hantams. Timothy Treadwell and W r
sherry led in the fine displays Of ducks and
geese. The poultry show ia one Of the most
complete ever seen NJ a Long Island FAir.
Robert Seaman Of Jericho won for good
a S2s cup presented by H.. r. Winthrop for
the best Rhode Island Red. xhibit Of four,
by the second successive victory. He also
won r. ID. Winthrop's t25 cup for the best
pen Of Rhode Island Reds. 4 similar cup
for the best exhibit Of fruit went TO Walter r.
Willctts OF Roslyn. None of the. QIeens-
Nassau exhibitors could hold q candle 10 Mrs.
T. B. hawkins Of Terryville. Suffolk county.
in the open competition for the best .displSy
Of fruit by one exhibitor. Mrs. Hawkins woT
the $50 prize. The decision was on a scale .
points. the best apples counting 40 pontE
pears rs, grapes 20 and peaches Is.
"Arfthe percentages based on the difficult
Of growing the different varieties Of fruit ol
Long Islandr" was a question to a committee
NO. h gum" said the Scion. We rae
lem on the profit as a CROP p
The light harness racing began az o'cloct,
and the stand held a great crDwd, while
hundreds watched from the raib. Automo-
gate, but the drivers OF horseS and carriages
were permitted to take places along the outer
| rail- OF the homestretch. 7 There were. 200 "
$50 Of the vehicles in a double row each hold
ing trottinR and pacing enthusiasts. The
muster of surveys suggested,the days before
the coming Of autos. II WIS a sight unique
in these times. Ia
won the two %trotting races, the 2:35 class with
sally simmons, H.. and Lhe 2l9 with king
Axworthy. Neither had %. move by several
seconds az fast az its record AZ White Plains
9sst week to win N the ssns;E 0cEia Ssc bsth Sg
had the winner Of secOnd money 60 sally SIM
mons, H., the bay stflton Imperial. The
Hartford hOrseman btRan his career with
ing Jim DaIy won the c:I5p pace in good time,
the second horse in each heat being well
enough up TO make tie finish interesting.
Records are not broken often on I half mile
Walker, the starting Judge, yet few could
wish to =ee better riCing, The others IN the
stand were n. 3. ShultZ and G.. p. Titus,
Judges: !. J. Van Nostrand, timer, and Silas
klotz, clerk. The summary:
al L.. a-zVsl,R nuNaa ganOs