The Newtown bee., 1909-09-17
The NewtoWn Bee
 Newtown, Friday, Sept IT, 1909.
HOME NEWS.
THE MODERN COUNTRY FAIR.
The Danbury Fair Has a Warm Place
 L Popular Affection.


 The real country fair with its mammoth pumpkins, prize cattle and good old-fashi0ned "hoss trots" still has q warm place in popular affec- tl0n. and thousands upon thousands of visitors always attend the Dam bury Fair, whlCa is the largest and most successful of the numerous similar exhibitions held in Connec- ticut every fall. The farmers have just completed their harvest work and they make merry wind-up of the season at the Danbury Fair, and the cities of Connecticut and the southeastern part of New York state send great crowas to join in the sport. Danbury makes a carnival week of 1t and the streets are gay with flags and bunting by day and ablaze with Examinations at night. There will be more sleek cattle and bigger pumpkins and rosier apples this year than ever before. Its aog sho-y, which is one of the biggest in the country, gives its national distinction and countless other att fractions give its visitors a diversity of entertainment. Automobiles valued at $5OO,OOO are daily parked on the green opposite the grand stand and make one of the most in- teresting sights on the grounds. The Midway is replica of Coney Island on a small scale and the exhibition buildings and tents make an indus trial show worth seeing. The Fair Grounds, which are two miles out of the city, are framed in a border of hills, which rise in every direction and in their dress of autumn foliage make as pretty a picture as can be found anywhere in Connecticut. In this natural amphitheater thousands of people gather on the principal days of tn show and there are almost countless attractions to amuse them. Two huge tents and a large eXhibi- tion building contain the industrial and domestic exhibit and the farm produce. Seven hundred dogs are on display.in the kennel show, and more than two thousand chickens are eX- hibited in the poultry building. Out side on the Midway, five hundred different shows and bazars bid for the patronage of the crowds. Two large military bands give morning and afternoon concerts. Vaudeville shows perform continuously in sight of the ten thousand people who throng the grand stand. An acre Of space is. devoted to farm machinery in motion, and several acres are de- voted to the horse and cattle show buildings. On the track there are trotting, pacing and running races, with horse and automobile parades between times. With all it's >attrac- tions, this modern country flair and cattle show is an institution of con- siderable magnitude. Samuel H. Bundle is president of the Danbury Agricultural society, under the auspices of which the fair is given. The other officers are: Vice president, H. H. Vreeland of New York; secre- tary, G. Mortimer Rundle of Dan- bury. The other members of the board of directors are James w. Por- ter, Nathan T. Bulkley and N. Burton Rogers, of Danbury; George T. Put ney of New York and Frank Wells of Brewster, N. Y. The dates of the Danbury Fair this year are October 5, 6, ', 8 and g, and excursion trains will run direct to the grounds from all points between the Hudson and Connecticut rivers, and the Massa- chusetts state line and New York 1 city.