The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-12
BIG ESSEX FAIR
BRINGS SWARM OF
COUNTRY COUSINS
And City Folk, Too, Have Day
Of Fun on Olympic Park
Grounds.
ADMIRE THE PUMPKINS
AND SEE THE RACES
Trotting for $500 Purses on
Days ~Program-STAR Car
toonist Kept Busy.

with a record breaking Monday
crowd inside the gates, the Essex
County Fair today afforded a wonder
land of attractions, one of which was
THE EVENING STAR booth, where
Staff Cartoonist Peters quickly made
sketches of callers. presenting them to
the originals. Hundreds who wanted
a good likeness, with a few original
lines thrown in, besieged the booth.
The sketches by Peters became at once
a feature. of the fair.
The ~horse-racing program for today
also attracted a great crowd to Olympic
Park. The races u off Saturday
afternoon proved so successful that to-
day the races drew a great crowd.
Todays card included these events:
Class No. 4, 2:1s trot, purse $500; class
No. s, 2:12 pace, purse $500; class No.
q. 2:s0 trot, purse $500; class No. 8,
haIf-mi1e running race, two in three.
purse 800.
Another feature 10 the Wild West
show, given in the inleld. The flower
show and the poultry exhibit are CEN
tres of interest, and toward he latter
part Of the week there will be keen
rivalry for prizes.
Public institutions have taken q
great interest In the county fair. The
Shade Tree Commission has installed
a nne exhibit. 1t exempiifies the sys-
tematizing of shade tree, lawn and
municipal horticultural Improvement.
The Essex County Hospital for the
Insane has on exhibition q remarkable
display of the handicraft Of its pa
tients, demonstrating the good that
has been accomplished by the plan.
Through the manufacturers building
4 rrelt crowd Is constantly streaming.
There enterprsing manufacturers give
away samples Of their wares, including
everything from food stuffs to steel
rails.
The lair Is also Of the oId-fashioned,
basket-lunch kind. Many bring heap
Ing dinner baskets with them, and,
under the trees about the grounds, en-
Joy a real old-fashioned picnic.
The racing program for the rest Of
the week Is as follows:
Tuesday, October 1B-Class No. z,
2:S0 trot. purse $500; class No. s. 2:25
pace, purse $500; class No. 9, fve-
eigh.' s mile running race, two in
three. purse s1O0.
Wednesday, October 14-Class No. 10,
2:22 trot, purse $500; class No. IL, ELS
pace, purse $500; class No. IL, 2:1s pace,
purse $500; class No. IA, th~ree-quarter
mile running race, two in three, purse
800.
Thursday, October 15-Class No. is,
2:10 trot, purse $500: class No. 16, 2:1S
trot, purse $500; class No. II, free
for-all trot and pace, purse $500; class
No. IS, running race, two in three, $50
yards, purse 500.
Friday, October 16-Class No. 10, 2:25
trot, purse $500; class No. 20. 2:21 pace,
purse $500; class No. 81, five-eighths
mile, running race, two in three, purse
800.
Every night there will be a grand
display Of fireworks. The contractors
have prepared an elaborate program of
pyrotechnical effects. These displays
will be put on at the close Of the vaude-
willie performance in front of the grand
stand every evening.
During the evening the price of ad-
mission to paddock and grandstand
seats will be only twenty live cents.
The program will be changed every
night and special features introduced.
There will be special set pieces Of
fireworks, such as horse race, rooster.
COW, American flag, pictures OF Gov
ernor Fort, William H.. Taft and Will
lam J.. Bryan, war panorama. ~rosette.
400 feet square,, prize fighters in actual
combat. set pieces Essex county fair"
'Ofympic Park" ETC.. geyser fountains.
spreading palms and others.
The program will be changed every
night.