Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-24
fspeciaI to The Rulletin.A


 Brooklyn, Conn, Sept 2S.-Clouds of dust indicated the location of the W1ndham County Agricultural so- ciety's grounds Wednesday, the first big day of the sixty fifth annual ex- hibitlon, and if. there was any hotter place on earth than the space within the fair grounds at Brooklyn, that place was hot enough to seem like home to inhabitants with horns, cloven hoofs and a tail.
 Society's Best Fair.
 The intense heat came in for more or less comment from about every person on the grounds, but it seemed in no way to initiate against every one having 6 good time and making the most of his opportunity to enjoy what is undoubtedly the best fair the society has arranged in many years. Brooklyn fair has had a long history during which it has experienced its ups and downs, but, continuing the comeback that began to be notice- able few years ago, it has establish ed in this year of 1914 a record of aliveness and virility that forecasts a long and prosperous future. With out exaggerating in the slightest the entries are more numerous this year than ever before, in many cases of higher standard of greater range and quality and wholly interesting.
 The rush of early arrivals at the grounds Wednesday accurately fore casted the heavy attendance that as- sembled by o'clock, when the grounds were a. seething mass of hu- manity. crammed as it were, into one great melting pot, not forgetting the extraordinary September stunt that Old Sol was engaged in demonstrat- ing. September Morn would have been a badly blistered young lady after an hour under the glare of heat that seemed to be beating down from some great reflector.
 A Day of Dust.
 The crowd was representative of about every square mile of territory in eastern Connecticut. It was a big crowd, a big-natured crowd, an or derly crowd. It was assembled for 8 good time and it proceeded to have It. It was a crowd that came mostly in automobiles, the hundreds of ma chimes raising a serpent-liAe trail of dust over the route of every high way leading to the grounds. And, incidentally, the blue ribbon for dust goes to September. 1914. There was dust everywhere and on everybody. Thousands of gallons of water were sprinkled upon th2 track where, ash- life, it was hoof ID before the off, cials started their work of overcom- ing it, during Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. F'og-like banks of dust rolled over the grounds from the traff1c-crowded highways in the vicinity and humanity absorbed it and abhored 1t-some cussing st But there wasn't dust enough in the whole state to spoil the fair for one that came to see 1t.
 A Clean Show.
 Brooklyn fair is as clean show this year as it always has prided itself upon being. There isn't g. crooked game or a crooked show on the grounds. There is plenty of amuse- ment of the allowable and wholesome kinds. There are fakirs of the harm less sort adding to the merriment of the whole alluring exhibition, but no grafters. President Marshall J. Brink and Secretary J. E. Stetson, two tire less and alert workers have seen to that. Up to their eyes in work, talk ing their lunches 8, bite at the time Messrs. Brink and Stetson were all smiles Wednesday over the fine suc- cess of the fair. They both pro- nounced it as promising to be one of the most satisfactory in years.
 Fine Cattle Display.
 The fair is primarily an agricuI-