Evening star., 1909-08-31
ITS F|FTY-S|XTH YEAR
Montgomery County Fair
Opens at Rockville.
LARGE LIST OF EXHIBITS
Poultry Show and Display Of Stock
Up to the Standard.
TOMORROW's RACE ENTRIES
Drag Chase, With Silver Cup as
Prize-List of the
Committees.
TOMORROW's RACE ENTRIES
Special Correspondence of The Star.

| ROCKVILLE, Md. August 81, 1902
| The fifty-sixth annual Rockville fair
| was ushered in this morning under most
| favorable ircumstances-ideal weather,
| a good attendance and large and inter-
| esting exhibits in all departments. 1t
| will continue through Friday, and there
seems to be every reason to believe that
| it will prove one of the greatest sue
| cesses within the history of the fair as
| sociation, provided the good weather
| continues
The grounds were a scene of great
activity this morning. Exhibits were
arriving in large numbers. and the
| superintendent of the various depart
| ments and their corps of assistants were
/ kept constantly on the go arranging
| them in position. BY noon everything
was in shape, the Traviah Brass Band
of twenty-five pieces began to grind out
| harmony, the visitors began to pour into
| the grounds, the familiar cry of the
| in earnest.
The first day is really devoted to prep
arations and the attendance is never very
/ large. Today was no exception to that
rule, although by the time the first race
was called an average opening day
crowd was on hand probably 1,5oO per-
sons being on the grounds
| About the busiest persons in Montgom-
cry county just now are President Lee
| Offutt and Secretary James T. Bogeya
The innumerable details in connection
with the fair devolve upon them, and
| there will not be a minutes let-up for
them until the big show is over. They
| are being assisted by a corps of clerks,
| including Julian F. Walters. j. Hampton
| Jones. Robert D. sherwood. Roy War
| field Luther Muncaster and Maynard
| Penn.
Poultry a Special Attraction.
| The poultry show has long been one of
the leading features of the Rockville fair,
and this year it is fully up to the high
standard of former years. There are on
exhibition hundreds of splendid speci-
mems of nearly every variety of chickens,
| turkeys, ducks and geese and a very
/ large majority of them are owned by
residents of Montgomery county. Henry
j. HUNT of Somerset Heights is probably
/ the largest exhibitor. One hundred and
/ thirty mine chickens. representing eight
/ cen different varieties, and twenty-five
| turkeys, geese and ducks make up his
display. Among the other principal ex-
hibitors in this department are: John NJ.
Heagy, Calvin Hicks. Clifford H. Robert
Hines, r. c. Booth. Otho B. Williams. T.
| Magruder Veirs. William c. Beck, Mrs
Herbert l.. Diamond, DR.. Robert c. War
field, James 7. English. Miss Mary Janet
Mlll6T, SodIIlucl w. luOHpSOn, "A. t.
Woodson. A. E. Burriss. Samuel English,
Walter Thompson, Robert A. Coe, j. II.
| Shorts, James 3. Cook, Reuben P. Hines.
jr., of this county; c. E. Gibbs, Mount
Vernon, Va; NJ J. Cromwell. jr., Lake
Roland, Nd, and B. Alton Smith. Mrs.
T. w. Turner and A. c. Metcalfe Of Bal
| timore. Mr.. Calvin Hicks is superin-
tendent of the poultry department, and
his assistant is Mr.. Paret Hicks
Good Display Of Stock.
The display of cattle, sheep and hogs is
also very fine. Clarence Moore is ex-
hibiting a magnificent herd of registered
Kerry cattle, John E. Muncaster a herd
of registered Jerseys, Adair Brooke a
herd of registered Holsteins and Hazel
w. Cashell herd of registered Ayr
shires and a herd of registered Gallo
ways. Maury Yohn of Carroll county is
showing forty head of splendid Poland
China hogs, and Otho b. Williams of this
county twenty-five fine Berkshire hogs
and fifteen Shropshire sheep. Other ex-
hlbitors in this department are Harry
Beard, James Offutt, Benjamin Bean, T.
Magruder Veirs. Fraley Brothers, Harry
c. Hurley. Benton G. Ray, Thomas A.
Barnesley, Charles l. Corby, w. F. Rick
etts and Clifford Stiles
The usual diversity of exhibits is to be
seen in the main exhibition hall, which is
in charge of Turner w. Welsh assisted
by John w. Keys. Mrs Addie Greene,
Miss Ada Warfield, Miss Ida S. Dove and
Miss Verde Kingdom Nearly every
household in the county seems to be rep
resented among the hundreds of exhlb
itOrs, while many Washingtonians are
displaying specimens of their handiwork.
The exhibits in the exhibition hall include
domestic manufactures of many kinds,
works of art, bread, cakes, preserves,
canned fruits, jellies, pickles and nearly
everything else to testify to the capa-
bilties Of the up-to-date housewife.
rhor iS n Lon tn tla in ha. han
endless array of farm and garden prod
ucts, cut flowers, growing plants, dairy
products, fruits -four. honey, etc.
List of Judges.
The judging of exhibits will begin to-
morrow morning and will consume the
entire day. The premium winners will be
| announced Thursday morning. The fol-
lowing are the judges for the various de-
partments:
Poultry-A f. Warner and George 0.
Brown of Baltimore.
| Heavy draft horses. teams, etc.-Nich-
olas l.. Miller of Clarksville, Md.
Quick draft standard bred and thor
oughbred horses--Alfred Warthen of
| Front Royal, Va.
| Cattle, sheep and hogs-E. II. Riley of
government experiment station, Bethes-
da. Md.
| Fruits and farm products-Frank j.
| Downey of Sandy Spring.
| Garden products-Henry Voght of Ten
| leytown, ID. G.
| Flowers and growing plans-J. r. Free
man of Washington.
] Dairy products-James F. Oyster of
Washington.
| Honey-Austin Stabler of Brighton, Md
| Domestic manufactures-Miss B. Saut-
| ter of Washington.
Culinary-Miss Evie Jones of Brooke
ville
! Preserves, jellies, etc.-Mrs. Uriah II.
w. Griffith of Laytonsville, Md.
| Childrens department-Mrs. Henry II.
Miller of Sandy Spring.
Drag Chase Tomorrow.
A feature of the program tomorrow
afternoon that is expected TO prove in
teresting is drag chase. Seventy fine