The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-01
Attractions at the Fair Event Which Opens Labor Day Will Continue Throughout the Week.

A real idea of the hugeness of the
 great Connecticut fair which opens at Charter Oak Park on Labor Day and runs for a week following may be gained by a few figures which have come to light in the Fair offices now
 that the entries in all departments have been closed and are being sum-
 marked for the various catalogues. The show, last year, was a monster expoSition-one of the largest ever
 held in the state-but, this year judg- ing from every standpoint, it promises
 to be vastly greater, a fact which may
 be gathered from the point that the
 combined parks, Charter Oak and Lu- ma, with all their vast area have ac- Ifually proved insufficient for the needs Tbf the exposition and the manage
 n1ent is actually worried to provide departments which make up the weeks undertaking. A vast city of
 tents is to be built of which one will
 be larger than that used by Barnum
 & Bailey's circus and one about the
 same size. Tents of the same dimen- sions used by the smaller one-ring cir cusses will be used for numberless
 smaller parts of the fair.
 In the department of farm machin- cry, to choose the nearest example, there will be- space of over 100000
 square feet containing over 100 differ ent exhibits of a dozen or more ma chimes each and showing every kind
 of farm machinery in use in Ameri- ca to-day. In the cattle show which will have the largest tent of all, there will be over 500 head of the finest cat
 tie in the east in the four dairy breeds alone. In the poultry show there will
 be over 5000 birds of every known
 kind of land and water fowl shown in
 a background constructed to represent gentleman'S country estate with an artificial lake and all the natural sur | roundings. The cat show will be lar ger than the national cat show in New York City. The display of vegetables from practically all the eastern states as far north as Canada to as far south as Maryland will be the great est ever seen. In the ladies industrial department, have been entered over | 5000 articles of home manufacture.
 | The departments of sheep and swine are to be special features as they were comparatively obscure last year, the exhibits of sheep including some of the finest fiocks in the east such as | the Davison Shropsllires from Mill brook, N. r., and the Fernwood flock of Hampshires.
 Over 1000 animals being seen in these two departments alone, but per haps the greatest interest to the pub lie are the racing and popular amuSe-
 ment features which are to be on such a scale as could be brought to Hart ford by an enterprise of the magni- tude of the Conn. Fair. Hartford as a Grand Circuit town has been the scene of many famous races including that of last year when the we'll
 known Hamburgh Belle broke a 1 worlds record for three straight heats. None known will stand as a. greater contest than that of the coming La
 bor Day when, in the Charter Oak
 stakes, The Harvester and Bob Doug les both undefeated champions will
 meet for the first time in their ca reers. The Harvester will be driven
 by the greatest living driver Ed
 Geers and Bob Douglas by Roger Mo | Donald.
 Three days solid trotting and pac- | ing will be followed by the society | oughbred races with their picturesque | exceeding fondness last year and which will be as fast as on any track l in the east with the possible excep- ton of those around New York In the trotting race between The liar vester and Bob Douglas it is whisper 1 ed that the world may see new rec | ord for the mile event.
 In addition to all these there will 1 be amusement features of such mag nitude that even if one never visited l a single regular department a day at | the park would be a noteworthy event Largest in extent will be Kemp's Wild West one of the most popular | forms of amusement ever seen and | one peculiar to America which will | be given as an open show at the Conn. | Fair. Still more remarkable in thrill ling features will be an act by the