Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-21
NEARLY 5000 AT BROOKLYN FAIR Good Weather, Good Exhibits, Good Entries and Good Racing Two Oranges Represented-Four Crooks Given the "On Your Way" Order.
Especial to The Bulletin.)

Brooklyn. Conn, Sept. 2o.-'They're all here! They're all herel Get in with the bunch-do your stunt" So sang the midway vendors today, the first of the big days of the Brooklyn fair; and the they're all here" part of applied as we'll to the people of the surrounding section of the state as it did to the purpose to which the lea therlunged bankers were applying it. Favored with a perfect day, the fair management was early assured that there need be no worrying about the attendance, which approximated some of the best records of the past. Mo- tor cars showed the horse-drawn ve- hicleS still farther to the rear this year as competitors in the transporta- tion feature of the annual exhibition. hundreds of machines rolling over the roads toward the fair grounds, for more than three-Quarters of a century the September meeting place for thou sands of eastern Connecticut people. Many Cars on Grounds. Early arrivals among the motorists captured the choice parking places, but by early afternoon these cars, lin ing the rail inside the track. were flanEed and shut in six and eight rows deep with such @ host of cars as has never previously been seen at the grounds, and getting out and away for the trip home was not the easy 
 JItneys Did Big Business. l In addition to the great number who came in private cars, hundreds of oth- CTS were whirled swiftly to the fair in the for hire machines. From Dan | ielson alone more than 500 cars were | engaged in the passenger carrying | traffic, while other towns had numbers of cars racing back and forth. At the attractive price of a quarter a trip | tba iit0a11rS did thriving husinaSS Fair of the Old time Type. The fair is much the same this year as it has been for years in the past an honest dollar for dollar proposition | that is not big state show, nor rep resented as such. The Brooklyn fair is of the class that holds it's business on the strength of it's general excel lence in all that it purports to be and 1 because of the charm of it's atmos- 1 its reputation for cleanliness, as an exhibition, and the opportunities that it always affords to spend day hap | pily and we'll
 No New Departments.
 No new departments have been add | ed this year, but all of the old sections and subdivisions of the show have much to hold the attention and to di- | rect interest to the fact that back on
 
 day are thinking as well as work 1 ing; seeking, and succeeding by the use of scientific methods and the ap- 1 plication of many modern methods of culture, in making two blades of grass ! grow where one grew before: improv- | ing the standard of their stock and of all the products of their acres
 The Exhibits.
 Splendid vegetable products. fruit of l SOrppOlS POI0rincr and tpr1ntir1O pearance are to be seen this year in the exhibition hall. It is true that the showing in the vegetable department is not quite as varied this year as but a season of ficl1le weather is chiefly responsible for this, and what applies to the Brooklyn fair in this respect applies as well to the vege- table showings in about all of the New England fairs-Iarge and small
 Good Entries of Stock.
 The capacity of the cattle sheds is tested this season to find place for all the stock that is entered for exhibi- tion-and in this section of the fair grounds there never was a time today when scores were not inspecting with | apparent close interest the herds from the various towns in the eastern sec tion of the county.
 There is also a big list of entries in
 
 goats are shown in herds.
 In the Women's Building.
 The ladies' building was a hive ot busy people during all the day. Nee dlework that is pronounced by all tC be beautiful in every respect is dis played in surprising quantity and the hundreds of articles shown were end lessly fascinating to the women.
 Two Oranges Make Exhibits.
 
 in the exhibition building-Brooklyr and Plainffeld. Their booths show the interest that the members have taker in the fair and are a decided credit tC all who had a part in arranging them The booths show many varieties o1 needlework and many other results o1 the work and handiness of the grang- ers-men and women.
 Votes for Women.
 The suffra gists have a Votes fol Women corner in the exhibition hal and they are kept busy distributing literature and telling many of the justice of their cause.
 PIaut- Gladden. Exhibit.
 This year Adelard Morin has Alb, Curland with him in caring for tn, Plaut- Gladden., Norwich, exhibit O. Wasserman player pianos and Craw. ford pianos. Victrolas are also beine !, shown. Theirs is melody corner where the music-lovers hover all day long.
 Worcester Salt. Across the way is that jolly annua George H. Crocker the man who madt | Worcester salt famous and is still en gagged in adding to the brilliancy O. it's place in the sun. This year Mrs Crocker is assisting in telling 'en about the kind that is 99.87 per cent pure.
 Vice Squad Gets in Good Work. And at just this place in the not, : book Is a line that indicates that i is time to set down a few words abou ! one of the unexpected happenings O the day.
 Every fair-goer knows that vol , can't run such an exhibition withou the attraction" men any more thai you buy your way into a big theatr with. cigar coupons, so of course the, have them at Brooklyn. Also it i |. generally known that the Brooklyn l fair management is very nartic11la