Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-10-22
Frederick Fair Opens.
Exhibits Claim Wide Attention
And Races And Grand Stand
Attractions Please.
(From the Frederick News.)


With bright, clear skies and the most
ideal temperature that could be desired.
the fifty-fourth annual Fair of the Fred
erick County Agricultural Society opened
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. Prompt
ly at that hour Chief Marshal John T..
Best and his aids, accompanied by the
Yellow Springs Band. started the parade
from in front of the New City Hotel.
The line of march was to Market street,
up Market and down East Church street
to Carter street and out Patrick street
to the Fair Grounds. Under ideal con-
ditions the gates were swung opvn and
the "cattle show" began.
The bright and sunny skies, which
greeted the eye brought out people by
the thousands and early there was a
crowd on the streets. There was one
steady stream of persons to the grounds
and people went out in every imaginable
way. Many took the cars. Others
walked or went in autos, while the Ii e
of teams poured into Frederick from II
directions. While the crowd early in he
morning was small, as is always the case
on the opening day, yet following the
formal opning of the Fair the number
began to increase until shortly after
noon it was reported that probably the
largest crowd which ever attended the
Fair on the opening day was present.
On account of the Hagerstown Fair run
ming over to Saturday many concession
people did not reach Frederick until late
and all day Monday they were busy ar
ranging their attractions. Much of this
work could not be finished until about
noon Tuesday so that all of the midway
attractions were not running at their
usual clip until later in the day. The
usual line OF Fair bankers, of which the
throng never tires, is on hand spell-bind-
ing the people with the 'best and only
show of its kind ever seen in America. y
The Judging of the thousands of entries
at the Fair started and the judges have
before them gigantic task. There are
more than three thousand entries in the
household department alone and this is
said to exceed the entries of any previous
year. Every department of exhibits at
the Fair is crowded, and in some places
there is an overflow, such as in the eXhi-
bit of flowers, where it has been neces-
sary to place some of them in the same
room where the fancy work is on display.
There are hundreds of articles in the
needlework department, which must be
judged, and there seems to be no end of
the fancy articles.
Out in the grounds in the oval beyond
the grandstand horses were being judged
as was also the case along the race track.
Swine were taken from their pens and
their fine points noted, The sheep and
cattle were brought out of the stables
and judged, while the largest number of
Shetland ponies in the history of the
Fair consumed considerable time of the
officials.
The annual pilgrimage of the Fred
erick County Colony in Baltimore, led by
Col. George W. F. Vernon, will be made
to the home county Thursday. A special
train over the Baltimore and Ohio for
the colonists and their friends will leave
Camden Station at 7.30 O'Clock in the
morning, and returning leave Frederick
at 5.45 O'Clock in the evening.