The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-04
ALL'S FAIR IN DONGAN HILLS.
EXHIBITS or ALL SORTS UNTIL
YOU CAN'T REST.
Richmond COunty's marlborough Has q
Giant From Papler.Hache County.
Patagonia, Who Is Getting All the
MOney-An ~ Pound Wear Old Baby.

Giant From Papler-Mache County.
Patagonia, who Is Getting All the
MOney-An ~ Pound Wear Old Baby.
ALIVE and breathing! One year old
and weighs As p~ounds-only twenty-five
pounds lsss than its MAJ Mamma, papa,
twenty hree for yours and skidoo! Come
in and see the Staten Island giant baby,
Ethel Shotwel. Only been in Bloomfield
a year and weighs the whole OF eighty-fve
pounds Don't miss this rare opportunity
to see how they grow on Staten island"
After you rave paid your 10 cents and
nave seen Baby Ethel you take in the rest
OF the attractions hat the great Inter-
borough Fair has to ofer over at Dongan
Hills, Staten Island.
The fair opened yesterday. 1t is held
under the auspices Of the Richmond County
Agricultural Society, and besides big babies
there are on exhibition the big pumpkin
that was raised by Thomas Snedigar OF Great
Kills, the patchwork quilt, cotton, Exhibit
No. 4I52, that was made by Miss Annie
Holbert Of Dongan Hills, and ANY other
things Of a moral and educational value.
This is the biggest fair ever, say the
residents OF the south shore Of the island;
at least it is the biggest county fair that
ever has been held On Staten Island. That
means a lot.
When the Manhattan visitor entered the
gate Of the fair grounds on the opening
day Yesterday he was at once struck with
the magnitude of the display that had
been gathered on one ten acre lot and
impressed by the wide range OF the amuse-
ments that were offered to the public.
Watching Minting the Marvel in his SEN
s~ational feat Of ascending the highest
spiral tower before the public on one wheel
OF an ordinary bicycle, he missed seeing
the worlds Of terpsichOrean
artists exemplify in b~ewildering mazes the
national dances Of every nation Under the
sun. 1t was best to take things one at a
time.
First came the main fair building. Here
a pause was made to view the excellent
Deedlework OF Mrs. s. d. stephens, who
| had crocheted with her own a IN
afghan in pink and mauve, really a remark
able work, with the exhibition No. 1852
attached to it for reference by the judges
next Friday. Then Mrs. Hawkins's home
made pound cake, with an ivy de ign on the
icing. demanded attention.
To the right we're some OF the Martha
l washington DlChHCb NARN Ut ~"
nut I'D particularly for exhibition purposes.
On the left was the feather stitching done
} on silk by Miss Isabella Hooper OF Great
Kills. No. 1884; ard surely a prize winner.
Then in the school exhibit there was the
Illuminated essay on Lincoln, history special
prize competition, Stephen O'Brien, aged
10, 6B grade; and The Angelus, exhibition
No. s73. John Ericsson, aged II, grade 4B.
And before leaving the building IL was I'M
possible 10 avoid looking at Mr.. JOrgensen's
(ta 1idermist) frame Of stuffed ~birds-three
quail and a woodpecker, most ifelike.
Along the main avenue Of the fair grounds
a score OF attractions caused the insular
one from Manhattan to inger in awe and
admiration. Here you got your Abe Dou-
mars original Partisan cornucopias, filed
with pure and delicious ice cream; and at
the next stand you absorbed Eddie Money!
original Rhode Island clam chowder at s
cents the plate
The spieler:
wonderful, wonderful A two headed
man. P~atagonian giant; two heads, nine feet
tall. exhibited at the Pan-American and
brought to Staten Island at the urgent
re- quest Of the fair digectorsl"
n Won do not find him az rop resented
ths management will refund your money.
ISM OF course after you were stung with
a napier mAohe mummy you hadn't the
nerve to ask the man for your 10 cents.
so YOU passed that.
-Have a jolly old time, neighbor. Don't
forget that mrs IL tne DAY We celebrate
Here we have five peerless beauties who
will dance for you as you never Jaw any
one dance. Come in and see the dances OF
all nations
II yu nav your Bowery you didn't
90 in.
began 10 zee the things that we're instructive.
Here was the agricultural exhibition, purg
and simp le. Herr was the mammoth pump
kin. with Gerald Darcsy. the name OF the
grower, branded in the rind. NOxt came
crooknsck squash, early prolific, New York
City Farm Colony growers; Peppers, Ohio