People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — THE REMINGTON FAIR. [ARTICLE]

THE REMINGTON FAIR.

A Failure In Everything But the Sjtevd Nitty and Xumber of tiambievH and Robber « Present. The Remington fair this year was a decided failure and the association will come out many dollars behind if the premiums are paid in full. The attendance was small. The occasion was taken advantage of by the gamblers, cut throats and robbers, who carried away many dollars. Gambling of all kinds was carried on in the grounds, and was licensed by the association. The Press, of that town has the following items in regard to the fair: The exhibition of agricultural products at the fair this year were conspicuous only by thenabsence, while the exhibits in the live stock departments were very slim indeed. In the floral hall the exhibits were not up to the Usual number or grade. The entries in the speed ring were greater than for several years and the racing was good. It might also-be added that more than the usual number of huxters, fakirs, etc., were on hand. * * * The Rensselaer Stock Farm Was right “in it” as usual and carried away most of the purses in the speed ring. * * Judge M iley aud Prosecuting Attorney Brown attended the fair Thursday, but kept away from the tiger’s lair. * * * Tuesday night as “Sip” Hascall was returning from the fair grounds, after having taken'a load of goods out, he was held up by a couple of toughs just this side of the grounds, in the hollow, who shoved two revolvers into his face and politely requested him to hand over his boodle. They were accommodated as quickly as possible, getting something over eight dollars for their trouble. -‘Sip” says that one l-evolver would have been sufficient to have taken the pile, and that the other man could have been doing business j with some oxxe else. They both had cloths or handkerchiefs over their faces so that they could not be recognized. They were probably some of the numerous followers of the fairs.

Owing to thev high wind the balloon ascension did not take place Thursday. * * # As usual, the “chuck-a-luclc” gangcarried away between SI,OOO and $2,000. * * * As a result of other fair associations deciding not to hold exhibitions this year, all of the fakirs, gamblers, thieves, thugs and cut-throats who usually follow up the different fairs, all came to Remington, and never before has there been such a tough crowd of these people at our fair as this year. Nothing was too rich to get a place on the grounds. * * * A hackman was held up on the grounds about 6 o’clock Wednesday morning by a couple of masked men with drawn revolvers and convinced that he had no particular use for a five dollar bill—all the money he had—except to hand it over to them. They were probably the same parties who held up “Sip” Hascall the night before.