New Britain herald., 1916-09-11
BERLIN FAIR OPEN
 FOR WEEK OF FUN Free Entertainments and BuZzin9
 Midway Offered to Public FINE CARD OF RACES


 At Any Fafr-Record Breakino O l Week Is Anticipated.
 l. With the promise of a perfect week or september weather amply justified oy the clear skies, cool air and bright sunshine of today, the Berlin fair. Connecticut's real fair, got away todav With absolutely no handicap. In fact the fair actually got a tlier and was solng full tilt before the smoke of the pistol had been waited to the preezes. The beautiful weather ves- leroay offered the opportunity and thousands of people from New Britain ahu adjacent towns were so eager to get line on the offerings that the management simply had to. lift it's iulrg or no Sunday visitors" open tle gates and let 'em in free. It would Have been shame to refuse the gay croWu ot tolks who were out in their Sunday best and the officials were forced to relent and open the gates. what they saw only whetted the ap- petite for another view of the real thing and today they were back in reinforced numbers. All the aunts uncles and cousins who remained at nome yesterday were told of the won- ders of the fair How it surpassed anyth1hg ever seen in this section of NeW England before and this despite the fact that a fair was held at Char ter Oak all last week.
 The gates were formally thrown open to the waiting throngs at g O'CLOCK this morning, but owing to the generosity of the management yesterday in letting in the Sunday crowd the public had a strong notion that 1t was to get something better than it's moneys worth. The advance information told of great herds of livestock, mammoth bulls, steers that weighed ton, prize fat cattle, sheep attlred in the mystic outfit of the Ku klux Klan, angora goats swine, chickens, ducks, geese, wild fowl and whats the use, there's nothing in New England they haven't got
 Midway Bigger Than Ever. -
 Sunday was day of preparation at the fair and everybody was busv While the midway was thronged wifi, sightseers, the concessionaires were hustling to get their pine framed and shacks into position position so they wouldn't miss nickel today even if they had to pass up yesterdays crowd. This years mid way is bigger than ever and the booths are sandwiched in so close that the dodger has to keep one eye on the an-eating shark next door and the other on the man with the baseball. The wrestling girls have to battle for supremacy with the only 1ivjnor m ern1aj6 in T,Ioo,, there's the fat girl and the thin lady both artists in their line. The old cider mill and the motordrome where the death defying devils of the laws of gravity thrill one to aphyxiation as they climb the walls of the soup bowl enclosure, riding both hands, one hand and no hands.
 Wild Animal Show
 The wild animal show is a feature of the midway this year. This con- cession is located southeast of the grandstand just below the lunch tent of the East Berlin M. E. tent. Queer animals such as the South American agota, which is a combination of the kangaroo and rat and lives on roots; the South African mangabe, resemb- ling in many ways the North Ameri- can ground hog, Irish hares, the odor- less skunk, New England raccoon, American wild pigeons, now practic- ally extinct and last but not least the 1 great American diamond back ratt1er, the most poisonous snake in the west 1 ern hemisphere.
 Great Exhibit of Livestock.
 No fair in New England will have l finer exhibit of livestock than is to be seen at Berlin this week. Work ing cattle, fat cattle, dairy herds, | sheep, swine, angora goats and Shet- 1 land ponies are shown in great num- bers and variety. Last year the hoof and mouth disease kept many first class exhibitors at home but this year It IS another story. There are Here lords, Holsteins Dutch Belted Ayr shires, Guersneys, Devons and a host Of the lesser breeds. The MarstOn stock farm has splendid exhibit of fat cattle, bulls and steers. Dodge Brothers of Sutton, Mass, and the Lake View farm, o. A. Leonard of Holland, have fine herds of prize Dutch Belted cattle. The Spring Val ley Stock farm. owned by George H, Hahn, is represented by a big herd of prize-Winning Ayrshires besides hogs and sheep.
 Working Cattle.
 The Berlin fair has ever been proud of it's exhibit of working cattle and this year is represented by the finest droves in the state Late yesterday N. F. Beardsley of Roxbury drove in with forty-two head, sixteen yoke of big red Devons, a yoke of trained bulls. yearlings and two-year olds. Dayton of Watertown and B. T. Terrill of Woodbury are also present with small CT herds of Guersneys.
 A fine exhibit of ponies, Shetlands