Putnam patriot., 1914-07-24
NEW LONDON
 COUNTY FAIR
Officers at Work to Make 1914 a Record
 Breaker
Departments To Be Enlarged

Col. Rutherford C. Plaut, the ener- getie Norwich business man who last year assisted Secretary Charles Dwight Greenman of the New London County Agricultural society in the big job of putting on the best and, incidentally, the most profitable exhibition the so- ciety has given in the 60 years it has been on earth, was in Putnam and Danielson the other day, on his way home from Woonsocket. Col. Plaut drove his new Buick car at a little slower speed than usual, for he wanted to talk fair with number of Wind ham county friends of his that helped at Norwich last year. He admitted there'd be another baby show this year He hoped 1t would be bigger than the baby show of the 1918 fair,.al- though last year the two Windham county women engaged to be the judg- es had to look over more than hum dred kids in two tents at Norwich.
 "We got our idea from thewildwood baby show of last July, very largely, and we're glad, on the whole, that we got the two judges from Wildwood,n said the colonel ssWe ought to get 800 kids this year. We can do 1t. The business men of Norwich and New London will,n he said, "be generous when 1t comes to donating the prizes" 1 Secretary Greenman said Monday that the 1914 fair would be the biggest thing between Brockton and Charter Oak this year. He expects to see at least 20, 900 paid admissions LaborDay and fully twice that number for the the full three days. He did lot of advertising last year, but the publicity appropriation will be good deal lar ger this year, and his press agent, Hil- Hard Bruce, the Norwich newspaper man, who handled the same job last year, has been given more money to spend and pretty free hand in all I four eastern counties this year. He
 will also do advertising and billing in
 Washington county, R. I.,ior last year
 hundreds of people from Westerly and the Shore Line stations as far east as | Kingston were at Norwich fair.
 It is expected the racing committee will put on 210 class, purse S500, to get carload of speedy nags to Nor /, wich, Stafford has $500 race every ] day and makes it pay. In'WiIliman- ! stn laS a n class. Willimantic made 1t pay. In l the estimation of President Arthur D. 1 Lathrop, who is generally at the head of the racing committed, 1t is an aw- fully poor policy to be niggardly with the horse money. The racing Is tho back bone of country fair. It always was that way. It probably always will be.
 There will be an addition to the main building or agricultural hall this year, something needed long ago, but up to this year the society, which cleared 5000 in 1913 and paid of It's mortgages, never hadi the money to spare. The track is dandy now. The society laid out $500 on 1t in the spring and for the motorcycle and horse races of July the Connecticut Amusement nssociation--Plaut's in thai, too spent S262. More work, if needed, will be done for the fair Norwich track to- day comes pretty near being the best
 half mile track in Connecticut.
 | fine cattle, sheep, pig and poultry classes promise big things this year. There are more hen scranks,in eastern Connecticut today than there ever 1 were before, according to Woodbury
 Rogers, who, AS usual, will be the boss of the poultry show under the grand stand. Rogers knows bis book when 1t comes to chickens.
 MT. Greenman hopes this week to sign q contract with some flying ma chine man. It may be little Knox | Martin, who, true to that unfortunate
 name he carries, got his knocks last l year. In a Curtis biplane that had seen better days Martin went up six
 tunes, each flight taking his life iii his
 fingers, and the last time up, about 1 sundown of the third day, his engine
 renegged and he fell into Maplewood cemetery, mile from the grounds, and came within an ace of beating his
 brains out az ainst tombstone. This
 year 1t seems he has k rench mono
 plane, very speedy and very expen- sive. He'd like to bring that new out
 fit to Norwich and show that part of
 the country what he can do with .
 real machine. He may get chance,
 although MT. Greenman admitted yesterday he was in touch with . crack man able, they say, to turkey
 trot and tango in the sky, as well as to
 send his machine shooting through
 blue space at the rate of 100 miles an hour, the speed, by the way, claimed l by Martin for that French flyer of his . The night fair by electric light, with . l fireworks and a band all the like o'
 that, took we'll last year, so. naturally
 there will be night fair this year
 Lots of people go al night that can'l 1 very well get there in the day time.
 A large nunnber of Putnam, Danielson
 and Moosup people went down to the
 night fair last year. Any one of them
 would like to sss another. The 1oek-
 cts were big fellows, and the set pieeas