The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-25
AMBITIOUS PLANS
FOR GREAT FAIR
ARE COMPLETED
Test of New Type Airship Will
Be Feature of Olympic
Park Events.

O1lObti $3.50 hoNC Pio6iNHSNt ~ ooeiS
factorily within the last week or so
that 1t Is now evident the big event
will greatly surpass any of its prede-
cessors In all around excellence and
also in the quantity and quality of ex-
hlbits in each of its numerous depart
ments. Special attention is to be paid
this year to entertainment features,
and a number OF novelties have been
booked, which as popular drawing
cards promise to surpass anything OF
the kind ever offered in this section.
Latest on the list of specialties for
which the management is negotiating
is an airship of a novel and original
type. The flyer Is now being tested
In long-distance flights and IL 1t does
what is claimed for it by specialists
visitors at Olympic Park during fair
week will see as pretty an exhibition
Of aerial navigation as science has yet
been able to present.
Practically all the entertainment fea-
lures which have made Olympic Park
so popular throughout the summer sea-
son will b. retained as attractions dur
ing the fair. There viii be dancing,
afternoon and evening, in the big
pavilion especially devoted to this use,
with music by Professor H~abepsang's
orchestra. Professor C. F. Montalvo
win act as master of ceremonies.
Vaudeville shows composed of high
class acts especially selected for OPEN
air presentation will be given daily on
q stage In front of the grand-stand.
Roller toboggan, c%arousel, helter-
SHELTER, moving picture pavilion and
other standard park features will pro-
vide amusement in variety, not to mem
tion the Midway. with it's galaxy of
surprises.
With its foliage-canopied walks wind
ing among tall tree trunks, It's artistic
arrangement OF grass plots and flower
beds and It's pleasing variety or orna-
mental features, Olympic Park has
come to be known as one of the most
attractive of open-air resorts in his
section Of the country. To its natural
beauties will be added during fair week
many special decorative features.
AL of the exhibition buildings will be
Illuminated each evening with artistic
and spectacular electrical effects. In
the interiors of these buildings and
throughout the park in general stream
ers and festoons of in~candescent lamps
VIII be arranged in such a as
to combine efficiency Of illumination
with novelty and beauty In decorative
display.
Applications for space in the manu-
lecturers building have been coming
IN so rapidly that 1t now ooks as IL
available room would be reduced to a
minimum well In advance of the date
set for the opening of the fair. Here
Mill be exhibits from prominent mer-
camille houses. as well as from indus
trial establishments, which desire to
show their wares and to demonstrate
manufacturing processes. One large
department house in Newark mas made
tentative arrangements to take several
of the regularly charted spaces, with
the purpose of showing the furnishings
and equipment Of the various rooms of
a model house.
The big extent Of floor space in the
manufacturers building will afford
room for exhibits in a variety Of de-
partments. Among these will be one
of the most attractive displays of ladies'
fancy goods ever arranged for any fair
in the State. There will also be DEM
constructions Of new food products and
newly devised processes Of making and
preparing foods of various descriptions.
Jersey genius has always made a spe-
cialty OF invention, and here In this
big and varied display under one roof
will be found a heterogeneous array of
Useful novelties, which will be a nota-
BILE object-lesson in demonstration of
that fact.
In number and quality of entries Ia
its horse show department the New
Jersey Fair of 1909 promises to set a
very high standard, Among those who
irtend TO exhibit are a number OF per-
sens who have been showing horses In
various classes at such prominent So
ciety events as the recent shows at
Long Branch, Atlantic city. Plainield
and Philadelphia. Several of these
prospective exhibitors were led to take
part In the show this year by the sue-
cess of the horse show department of
last years fair.
The first prize in each class in this
department will be SIS and a blue rib
bon; second prize. $40 and a red rib.
bon; third prize, s5 and a yellow rib
bon, q fourth prize. a white ribbon.
The fee for each entry viii be IS. APP
plication blanks maj be obtained from
James NJ. Beldon. manager, New Jersey
Fair, Olympic Park, Newark. The pro-
gram for the show is now complete. II
comprises the following classes:
Best roadster, ~trotter. to be shown to
road wagon: best roadster, PAGER. to
be shown to road wagon; best appoint
ed road outfit, horse to count so per
cent. and wagon and equipment so per
cent; best pair of roadsters; best car
riage horse, to be shown before an APP
propriate vehicle; best carriage team.
to be shown before an appropriate We
hicle; best pony under 12ia hands, best
pony between l214 and IA hands, chill
dren to drive in both classes; best pony
not over ID hands. to be shown under
saddle; best saddle horse, to show the
PAGES at walk, trot and canter; best
runabout horse, to be shown before n
runabout. conformation and
style of going to he considered, horse
to stand without being hitched.
Assurances of entries from promi-
nent stock-raisers in New York State.
Ohio and elsewhere make it certain
that the exhibits in the cattle, sheep
and swine departments will far surpass
ANYTHING shown In preyio,s wear re in