The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-09
DANBURYS BIG FAIR.
The Forty-Seventh Annual Ex- hibition to Be Best
 of All.

| OI All.
 Again looms big the event to. which
 thousands are looking forward-the great Danbury Fair. This year brings 1 a six-day event for the fair will be Eopen to the public on Monday, Octo-i Der 4, and will continue through the week, interest growing each day un- til the climax is reached Friday and Saturday. and what a climax it 1s- nothing like it in the eastern states.
 The forty-seventh annual exhibi-
 ton by the Danbury Agricultural so- ciety' will in reality be six-day insti-
 tute of agriculture. industry and
 sports. Long before the opening
 many hands and minds are diligently
 at work preparing for the big fair and no past event has more justified
 these efforts than this 1915 exhibition
 Premiums worthy of the keenest competition will be awarded. Every variety of garden produce and medic
 inaI herb will compete for prizes Orchards ands fields will provide ]. .showings and hot house and home
 conservatory will enter their quota of
 attractioqs-au of the highest merit
 Housewives and their daughters will vie with neighbors in culinary and handcraft entries along many lines.
 The general display under the big
 white top forms an exposition in it
 self and the splendid music by the finest bands in the state adds zest to everyone's enjoyment Machinery will
 certainty do itself proud this year
 This part of the big fair has attained ca
 a reputation all it's own and 1915 will
 see Machinery Hall and its nearby exhibits exceLi1g even past high
 marks No. fair in the country offers
 a showing in this line that can even approach the Danbury fair as semblage of machines for use in every conceivable place and nearly all wrinkles of inventive genius and stan- dard labor savers and notable inn provements are always seen here.
 {Aristocrat, tourist, pleasure seeker and worker will be manifest in the magnificent Dahbury Fair Automobile Show. The limousine of exquisite ap- pointment the luxuriant, comfortable and serviceable touring car, the efa- cient, convenient and attractive road ster, the complete town car and powerful and able traction machine will show the strides made the past year in this great enterprise. Ac- cessories of latest thought and newest application will also be found in the Auto Building which each year is the magnet that draws the biggest crowds and holds them the longest time. The Danbury Fair Automobile Show is the first show in New England where all the 1916 models come into competi- ton, one along side of the other for cornparisoff. It is a, great attraction.
 While man-nade articles hold sway the handiwork of women will not be lost to view for the Ladies Industrial and Art Gallery present unusual needle, brush, pen and pencil work
 The children also have large place in the fair and contribute manual work. culinary, art, needle and other specimens of their talents.
 Every year poultry raising increases in interest and chickens turkeys, ducks geese and pheasants contest at tlaea9airf for Attention and Awards. Live stock, always a. feature of all agricultural fair has large space and important place at the Danbury Fair. Ranking among the country,s finest is the Danbury Fair Bench Show and it always draws the elite of dogdom with their owners and admirers! The H orse Show is one of the spectacular events of the big fair. The best that goes through paces before the Judges and travels over track and road is always seen at the Danbury Fair.
 Attractions in front 1hf the grand stand are sure to present the daring. the novel, the skilled and the amusing in this part of the fair program. This year the Azfnas, troupe of Hippo drorne acrobats, do a double -Ioop-the- loop in rnid-air. An unusual animal act is provided by roller skating bearj the Hamilton Brothers present a comedy sketch in two parts entitled The Laughing Rioters The four Newsornes, springboard acrobats, l bring another Hippodrome act and Hampton's Dog Circus and the Aus 1 tralian wood choppers round out 8, list of unprecedented high class events.
 Local and out-of-town exhibitors occupy the main building with com crete examples of their trade and art istic arrangements lend charm to the | whole. Many hours are spent by the | great crowds in this section and the | displays result in many profitable business transactions.
 A lively place that forms the meet ing ground of thousands and proffers jolly entertainment is the spacious | plaza with its vendors. fortune teIfers. | refreshnent booths and shows. Speak | ing Of eshments-no one need go hungry on the fair grounds. Church. es. granges and individuals hold forth with everything one could desire | from a sandwich and a cup of. coffee to full course dinner. It is all good | and there is plenty Of it.
 Monday, a day hitherto reserved | for final preparations for the fair, i will be open to the public this year and motor cycle races will be held ! giving patrons the excitement and r thrills of this most daring sport.
 Certainly it is worth a great deal to exhibitor, attendant and all who have the privilege of participating in the big fair for they secure in an educa- tional and energtzing way much more than is represented by any monetary | interest they may have. They get a new view of the5 progress that exists and be it instruction or amusement | the seeker. never fails in his quest.
 Both area and acreage have been greatly increased at the Danbury | Fair this year, More and more each year have notored to the fair and the | management has taken cognizance of |