Evening journal., 1910-08-24
REST TENT AT
COUNTY FAIR
Evening Journal Will Provide
Many Comforts for ViSi-
tors This Year
NEW FEATURE WILL PLEASE
THOUSANDS OF FRIENDS

THE EVENING JOURNAL Rest
Tent will again provide comfort and
conveniences for visitors at the 1910
New Castle County Fair, to be held
on August 80 and 81, and September
l and 2. Thousands of visitors will
remember with pleasure the cordial
welcome, the opportunity for rest, and
the prompt supplying of unforeseen
needs by ready attendants. at the rest
tent furnished by the EVENING JOUR-
NAL last year, and will be glad to
hear that the same opportunity will
be offered freely this year. Perhaps
il is not correct to say the same Op-
portunity, for the plans formed are
much more elaborate than last year,
and the EVENING JOURNAL intends
TO add 100 per cent to its guests en-
joyment of the best fair ever held in
New Castle County, by the valuable
features of the rest tent.
The tent will be Just inside the
grounds, directly opposite the main
entrance. where il will be easy of
access. II will be a bigger tent than
last year, and will accommodate many
more easy chairs and couches and
guests. An improvement that the
mothers will appreciate will be a sep
arate retiring room, for women; an
Offset from the main tent provided
with cots and couches. Curtains viii
divide the room from the main tent,
and thus give privacy for women and
children wishing to rest. Last year
number of women left babies to
take maps in the EVENING JOURNAL.
tent, and the babies this year will en-
joy the quiet of the retiring-room.
Children, whose little feet quickly
tire in trotting around the grounds,
may pass a pleasant half hour az the
tent while their elders continue to do
the fair without having TO carry the
youngsters around in their arms.
Another convenience that will prove
most valuable will be the free tele-
phone service Both phones will be
Installed, and the numbers-make Z
note of them-will be ID. & A. 434O
Automatic 1715. Persons outside
wishing to make as quick connection
as possible with friends or busines
men at the fair. may telephone to on
, Of these numbers. THE ENENlN
! JOURNAL win have special messel
. gers at the tent. who VIII 90 all ov'
= the fair grounds in search of the pc
Z son asked for. and either deliver
message or call the party TO the ten
> phone. as desired Also. anybody q
, the grounds may telephone to friend
= In the city without charge. The tell
phone service at the tent has alway
) proved a great success, and a pOpula
/ feature with visitors at the fair.
Did you ever go sightseeing around
fair without getting powerfully thirst
and wanting a drink of water NOR
than anything on earth? OF cours
! not nobody ever did. Then you kno'
lust how good the Kiamensi pur
spring water furnished freely at IN
JOURNAL tent is going TO taste Pur
and clear as the mountain streams
the cooling. refreshing fluid will Sill
down uarched throats. Sounds good
doesn't it2
Then he EVENING JOURNAL ha
not forgotten its good friends tn
fans. Baseball and other sports, an
the days news, will be bulletine
every day. and the current numbers q
, the local newspapers will be on I'll
so that the visitor will have only him
self 20 blame if he iE't up-to-the-mir
ute on who's who and what's what
Some small boys in particular hav
a faculty of humping and bruising e.
. bows and knees wherever they g
i and their elders will occasionally met
, with an unexpected minor misfortun
! in the shape of headache, faintness q
confusion. They will be glad that Oh
EVENING JOURNAL tent is hand
with free emergency treatment for Oh
. small accidents. There will be ban1
= ages, ammonia salts, arnica, and suct
/, like things. to put the unfortunai
! quickly into shape to enjoy the fai
= again.
The tent will be a fine place
d. which to eat your luncheon. Lai
: year many visitors who had brougl
: iunohes from home, found the tel
= a convenient dining-rOom.
= The principal aim of the attendan
= at the EVENING JOURNAL telIt vi
be to make their guests feel At HON
= and comfortable, and thus uphold q
reputation of the paper as the frieI
OF all the people Of Delaware all q
: time And up to the opening, Il
, JOURNAL VIII be very much occupi'
a i'm thinking up new schemes to NAL
= the Rest Tent one Of the best an
brightest features OF the County Fai
o As hinted before, it was a lofty ali
because this is going to be the bigge
and best fair in the history Of Ne
g Castle County.