The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-12-10
Crowd Was Large and Spent
Money Freely for Ben
eft of Baseball
GRAND PRIZES TO
BE AWARDED TONIGHT
Attractions Did Brisk Business and All
who Could Be Accommodated Re
mained for Dance More Barkers En-
gagged for This Evening


IT there was anything lacking to make
the first evening of the bazaar for tbe
benefit of the Brattleboro Baseball asso-
clation an unqualified success it was care
fully concealed from general observation
IN Festival hall last evening. A crowd as
large as could be handled on the floor and
IN the balcony was present This same
crowd spent its money freely on the mn
merous games that were there inst as ad
Nertlsed. The vaudeville was good and
luily as many as could navigate success
lully enjoyed the general dancing that be-
gan at 9.45 clock This continued until
midnight, when taps Nere sounded for the
hfst evening OF the festival, which will 20
lar towards reducing the indebtedness of
the ASSOCIATION the result OF the sea
son 5 baseball activities \ repetition Of
the festivities will take place tonight.
1t was an act OF wisdom on the part of
the management TO open the doors at !
0 clock, for long before $ o'clock. the time
Tor the concert to begin, every one OF the
games was in full blast in response to the
stentoran appeals oi the ''barkers." /" who
worked as hard to coax the shekcls from
the pockets of those present as if they
y crowd was constantly around each
booth or table and many waited patiently
of nnpatlcntly for an opportunity. To play
some game that appealed 10 their fancy
Perhaps the greatest crowd congregated
at the bI@ doll booth. and towards the end
~ the evening netsons of pail ages could
be seen wandering alound the han lug
ging Teddy bear, a big doll OF Il firzzy
poodle, prizes obtained at that booth ]
I. FuaItcr WAS the shining exponent OF
this form ot getting rid OF Your money"
Edward snyder, armed with Il miniature
lnegaphonc, wed with the orchestra and
the crowd IN general in making audible
the merits uf Johnny thc-Spot and the
com that steadily flowed his way was con
Nncmg evidence OF his persuasive powers.
The flower booth was prcttHy decorated
and In charge of young women who eircu-
lated among the crowd ON the floor and
thus disposed of many of then wares. a
HoWeIIeS, huttunhule hClue the signal for
an attack IN echelon.
Charles f. Mann. although towards the
end of the evening IN need ot throat tah-
lets, disposed of candy good candy-hy
the pound in wholesale quantities at 10
cent, IA pound-if the wheel stopped oppo-
site the right Eumher, - MANY times
was he called upon to rrN"tNe that wheel
that it had to bc oiled a6out the middle
of the evening
The electric maze WAS another game
that had a crowd about il constantly.
Hugh Harwood and Horton -. Walker,
assisted by others, worked overtime in
satisfying the demands Of the crowd to
shoot the balls through the maze of pins,
gates, tunnels and other distractions in
efforts to have them settle in holes which
were pI.atluctiVc of urlZcS
d. Frank Shea, armed with a Slap stick
which lie worked on the table in imitation
of Il machine gun, persuaded many to toss
rings at his game and consolcd them with
the belief If we stay long enough some
one Will get something.
The chance to buy a dollar book of tick
cts at the gold booth was regulated by
wheel of fortune and Fred l.. Minis, keep
ing one eye on the gold displayed there,
spun the wheel and doled out books OF
tickets to those lucky enough to get that
reward for 10 cents
Bob" Shumway and William Pentland
coaxed crowds to roll the balls on their
japanese boards They explained that
they had not been selected for then Jobs
because of any resemblance to the name
of the boards, but because it required
men OF substantial figure to handle the
wooden balls
The refreshment booth in charge of
young women found many anxious to en-
JOY something to eat and drink.
1t was after 3 O'Clock when Fred c.
Shehay, manager of the Empire theatre
on the stage and sang two seiec
tions, 1t was difficult task considering
the constant moving about of many in
the crowds, but scores were able to enjoy
his solos.
This was followed by Tipperary. sung
and danced by the Misses Blasor. Yearly.
and Babb. The young women
were required to respond to several en-
cores and the crowd Joined in the chorus
with commendabIe enthusiasm
The door prize of so in gold was
awarded to Mrs. David Aleany of Brattle-
boro. Several awards viii be made this
evening
Larger prizes viii be offered tonight on
the game Johnny-on-the-spot. electric
maze and Japanese boards, and in addi-
ton special prize OF AN umbrella will
be offered on each of these three games 10
the persons making the best scores dur
ing the evening. Besides these the grand
prizes viii be awarded first 500 in gold,
second so in gold. third SO in gold
fourth SO IN gold, and fifth So in gold.
also another door prize Of $40 in gold
All the barkers who were on duty last
night will be IN condition, through the
efficient attention of throat specialists"
to be at their posts tonight, and there
viii be several additions to the force to
be.