The evening world., 1911-09-27
MEN Of MILLIONS
Chief FARMERS
. At M|NE0LAF FAIR
Belmont, Gould, Willets and
Others Show Prize Stock
and Pumpkins.
BEST IN ITS 70 YEARS.
Is Real Old-F Fashioned Exhibit
and Well Worth a
Visit.
BEST IN ITS 70 YEARS.

You base New Workers. who think the
whole world 10 paved ana painted.
o mad by day and pleasure mad by
night: who know nausht OF nature ana
hmow Home. Sweet Home only ~ .
parody ,n a Broadway musical show.
haA best HE you over to Minecls. l.. l..
and attend the Queens-Nassau County
fair.
Il is the same county fair you saw
when a lad back home. long before your
temples grayed. The prize porkers grunt
IN pigeish c~omplacency. the honored COW
moos In the seif-ssme way. the record
trotter Gladdens the hearts OF the David
Hsrums, the largest "~punkins' ever are
on display and the bedauilt that mother
worked over 90 long and patiently IN
the evenings when her days work was
uoue 10 awsiiins the I-.-i:.%oTs ;::ses
decision.
Tho only modern intrusions that dis
turo your dream OF that boyhood fair -
the chugging automobiles. the owef-
driven Agricultural machinery and the
weird blrdllke machines that hover
above the horizon at Nassau boulevard
aviation neld ive miles away. Other
wise It Is the same fair. with larger OK.
hlbits, Of course. that has been heia
on Long Island for over halt a century
In fact this Is the SEVENTEEN annual ex-
hibit,on OF the Agricultural Society OF
oueens-Nassau counties. The fafr VIII
END Saturday night.
CIRCULARS" WHO NAVE At
TENDED FOR MANY WEARS.
There be many about the tsir
grounds who have attended The sxhioi-
ton regularly for half q century. Uncle
Nick Haliock, OF Milton. n. T.. hAs been
acting as q Judge for nifty years. He
began In 1853 as u Judge OF pigs ana 10
now passing ofic!aily upon the mer'us
OF fruit and vegetables.
Aiong the racs-track rail. where the
trottinG G are held. the DavA hA-
runs forsgathar to exchange views on
the various thoroughbred. Here You
viii md Arrcndsr Smith. Of Rockville
Centre, who has bsen an exhibitor '
the fair for forty years. He ano MS
friend. John Ludium. Of Hempstead. VIII
cai, ND tho past performances OF the
hest horses that ever dragged q suiky
around the dirt tracks Of Queens ana
Nassau counties. Here that veteran
starter, Frank Walker. sees to II tina
tie beasts Of speed get away properly
and his basso profundo voice roars or
iers across The feld until the dssiss'
cen hear and understand.
Tho busy band when not eating sana.
viches and ''punkin" pie " srindin
out ''~A,exander's Rag Time Band" Ana
above all the voice Of the hot dog man
n heard In the land. Outsde the fair
grounds on the Free Midway the
rpislsr entrances with golden promises
Of the wonders TO be seen for . dime
,sa cents" inside the tent.
GAME OLD BALLOON WITH NEW
"AERos" NEAR ~.
II A the Same old fair on = Lager
scsis. II brlngs bAck memories to the
man who was not born and raised IN
Manhattan. 1t Is a touch OF the Ole
iays that takes you up 10 that New
England farm or out to the rolling
prsir,es or down on the old plantation.
Ana they are having balloon ascsn'
sions daily.
Are you ready. Capt. Santiago'"
Il an. sir. Cut her loose"
And up into the air scars the SAM
old balloon that o q soar alof
whom you were knee high to a duck
o made you gasp and hold you
brsash % the Delighted and bespAn
died. aeronaut waved good-by TO IN
tarong. But In the balloon ascension
you see the old compared to the ne"
for after the balloon IL up YOU gaze to
ward the West and see the aeroplane
da.ttnx 20 and fro against the settin
sBa-
Mos, Of The men who are promotn
the fair a Mineola are retired farm
ers Retired farmers on Long Islam
be n said. are men who are forced
.pend their declining years on a mel
million or 20. But they are az keenl
interested In the produce and live stoo
dtsplays as ~ they we're out In Kansi
instead OF twenty miles from the NJ
lions metropolis.
s. Taber wlnets OF Roslyn was four
gazing penslvely into a pen containir
I'd. II. Clarke's wyndam pig with I
black freckles and SIS ribbon around
neck. Mr.. wiilets IS a director of d
fair and chairman OF the Horre Sho
Committee. lie said he was admir-
The pigs afable disposition.
INTEREST IN THE HORSE Nc
"pViN6 OUT" HE SAYS.
John II. Vanderyeer Of Elmhurst. a
ether director Of the fair. was disco
cred In deep meditation as he gaz
. upon Howard Gould's exhibit OF Dex'
Kerry cattle. ..
lust think" he observed. those lit
cows viii produce as much as TWEEN
quarts a day. ! mean by that II
they give twenty quarts OF pure mi
II may be made forty by q Skin