Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-08-29
ADDISON COUNTY FAIR.
Big Crowds and Good Weather
Make Fair Success.

The Goth annual fair of the Addison
County Agricultural society, the oldest
association of the kind in the State,
opened on the fair grounds in Middle
bury on Tuesday morning, and weather
permitting, will close this afternoon.
SO far the weather has been all that
could be asked for, the occasional
showers doing no damage.
As whole the exhibits are better
than ever before, though there are some
classes in which, on account of the un-
usually prolonged dry spell, the show
ing is not so good as it has been in
other years. In the cattle, sheep and
poultry department, as also in that of
horses, the exhibits were pretty near to
the best ever seen at any fair in Ver-
mont, and certainly outclass anything
of the kind ever seen before at any
county fair in this State, and probably
in New England.
Everything that could be done by the
officers in charge, including President
John Z. Weeks of Middlebury, Secre
tary Frank C. Dyer of Salisbury and
Treasurer Charles F. Rogers, with
their able corps of assistants, was done
to make the fair the great success that
has already been assured
On the Midway things are much as
they were in recent years, but with
difference. All of the available space
was taken up long before the opening
day and many applicants for space had
to be disappointed. The everlasting
"Merry-go. Round" was on hand and
fine, but somewhat diminutive Ferris
wheel attracted many patrons. Among
the other allurements for the stray
dimes were a refined vaudeville bunch
of dancing girls, the oldtime "Streets
of Cairo" the International Athletic
Shows, in which Fritz Hanson, an
nounced as the champion welterw weight
wrestler of the world, and Miss May
Moore, posing as the champion lady
wrestler of the world. gave excellent
exhibitions of skill and strength.
The Middlebury band of 80 pieces,
with A. D. Vittum as leader, furnished
the music every day and they gave two
splendid concerts in the Addison house
park on Wednesday and Thursday even
ings, which were attended by large
audiences of people from Middlebury
and many surrounding towns.
Special trains were run on Wednes-
day and Thursday from Rutland and
Burlington and on Thursday there was
also a special train from ST. Albans.
These trains brought thousands of Wis
itors and a whole host of people are
expected for today. There was a crowd
of probably 800 or 900 people on the
grounds for the opening day and on
Wednesday the paid admissions totalled
up to 4555, in spite of the threatening
weather.
The amusements on the platform |
facing the grand stand comprise Stan
nett's horse and pony circus and
Mademoiselle Bernce with her trained !
Polar bears. On each day there has
been a balloon ascension with three
parachute drops, and these events have
been carried out successfully and with
out any accident so far.
Fred A. Upton of Rochester, N. Y.
who has been the official starter in the
races for the past four years, is again
in that capacity. Drivers
and populace are equally well pleased
with his method of getting the horses
down to their work and making them
keep at it all the time.
There We're two races on Tuesday
afternoon, the :16 pace, with a purse
of $500, and the 2:19 trot, with a purse
of $500, Only one colt was entered for
the futurity race for foals of 1910, so
that this event had to be omitted The
two races worked off were closely con-
tested and it took five heats to decide
each contest. OF the IA horses entered
in the 2 :l6 pacing class four appeared
on the track for the word in the first
heat. The following is the summary:
5:::' 5::::. f: 81: :::... :;.,''. :: ! ! ! !:
Time, 2:l5 l-2, 2:15 l-2, 2:l5 IA,
2 10 1-2, 2:17 1-2.
In the 2:l9 trotting race there were
five starters out of nine entries The