Putnam patriot., 1922-07-14
ELKs' FAIR MACHINE GOES
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 l, was "DanielsOn night" at the faig Friday About o'clock there was a street parade, with the Manhas- set Band heading the line and with score or more of Danielson Elks in the column, wearing colored paper hats and carrying canes.
 The weather being ideal. a big crowd gathered at the grounds, gener- ously patronizing the booths and find ing much enjoyment in dancing on the open air platform. The occasion was also known as ''mardi gras" night. and there were evidences on every hand of the bghthearted, earefree, genial mar di gras spirit Hundreds of people wore paper hats, serpentine streamers were tossed about. and at times there were storms Of confetti It was in- deed happy occasion, and everyone on the grounds seemed to make 1t point to enter into the spirit of the thing and get his or her full measure Of enjoyment out of |.
 During the early part of the eve aine Mayor Macdonald presented a mammoth wooden key to the city of Putnam to the borough of Danielson. rendering the symbolic gift to Ebert L. Darbie. one of the delegation of Elks from Danielson Mir Darbie an- propriately replied, in accepting the key.
 The success of the fair on Saturday anticipated as one of the big days of the week-was spoiled by the rain. \ small crowd of people. whose en- thusiasm was not dampened by the storm. ventured into the rain and paid a visit to the grounds. Bat the at tendance was so small that very -ttle business was done. It certainly rained long enough and hard enough Go keep the crowds away. but not sufficiently to collect the rain insurance carrisl by the Elks.
 But the weather was perfect oa Monday, and in the evening bis crowd assembled and found entertain ment and amusement, both at the booths and in the vaudeville acts pr, sented on the platform in the center of the grounds. It was a splendid crowd that gathered, and as result the booths did splendid business, and that many prizes were won was evi- denced by the large number of people seen with blankets and what not under their arms.
 Immense Crowd Gathers
 "Webster and North Grosvenordale night, together with the wonderful display of fireworks, Tuesday, served to attract to the grounds the biggest crowd that turned out all during the fair. Governors night included. h fact many said f was the biggest gath ering seen in Putnam in years, being variousIy estimated to number be tween 5000 and 5000 people.
 X large part of the immense crowd came in automobiles, arriving here from many hooks and corners of this county and bordering Rhode Island and Massachusetts towns. There were hundreds of cars, the number being estimated at from TOO to l,2O0 One guess is as good as another. But it is certain that Putnam never before saw such an array of machines. Both sides of streets around the fair grounds were pressed into service as parking places and the open lots lover the fence" at the grounds, were used for parking scores and scores of other machines.
 No Accidents Despite Heavy Traffic
 l. is noteworthy to record that de- spite the tremendous number of ma chimes assembled within SO small an area. and when moving they fairly choked the highways, there were no accidents. Not even bent mudguard was reported The work of Captain of Police Delage and those officers he