The Portland daily press., 1868-10-08
The Maine state Fair.
SECOND Day.
AT CITY HALL.

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| AT CITY HALL.
| Another suspicious day with bright sun and
cloudless skies. At the opening of the doors
at 8 A. M. the crowd was greater if possible
than at the opening of the Fair and showed
how nearly the people have the success of this
| great undertaking at heart. .,ys. s.u.uFs
| We left off yesterday after making the Cir
cult OF the Hall. We commence this morning
with the first table occupying the centre of the
hall beginning with the one nearest the rear
gallery. Sawyer and Woodford, 119 Exchange
street, dealers in wooden-ware, exhibit some
beautiful pots for hanging plants, besides will
low baskets, and the Portland Nursery dis
plays some beautiful bouquets which we think
ought to be placed in the Horticultural room.
j. L. Shaw & Co., corner Fore and Market
streets, with their strong leather fre-hose will
give our Fire Department no excuse for poor
materials, Dunn, Of 172 Middle street., dis
plays among his elegant sets of harnesses one
set, gold mounted, that is "thing of beauty
and a joy forever" A. ColburH presents an
improved method of attaching horses to vehi-
cles which dispenses with the use of tugs braces
| traces and whippletrees, and which has al
1 ready received the first premium at the New
| Hampshire and Vermont State Fairs. We,
| would advise our readers not to fail to observe
| this valuable invention.
On the second table we find the Eureka
Cultivator," which received the gold medal of
the New York Agricultural Society and
which burrows, drops and covers corn, beans,
potatoes &C., in the time occupied by ordinary
furrowing. A splendid case of carpenters tools
from Joseph Bradford, 200 Fore street, must
not be over looked nor the Excelsior Blind
Fastener, very simple patened sontriyance,
awarded a premium by The New England Ag-
ricultural Society at New Haven in 1861
Smith and Haines are agents for this State.
s. +. Pingree, pattern and model maker, has
many excellent models on exhibition, as has
also d. Morrison, including walking-stick
which can be used as pistol or dirk, a meat
chopper, scaffolding, in fact fourteen different
patents. G. G. Jones, 17S Fore street, has ten
patented articles on exhibition and with all
these wonderful inventions, including Meyers
Magnetic Screws, one is convinced how little
human knowledge they possessed before visit
| ing this table. 1. & B. Jordan, 2S9 Congress
street, display long case filed with every
conceivable article in the shape of bits brides
for horses, riding whips, full sets of harnesses
trunks and portmanteaus. To finish the
enumeration we will simply state that tits
| one of the most extensive and attractive dis
plays in the Fair.
At the third table you may see the children
cluster, and even grown people are not proof
against the long glass case filled with exquisite
candies temptingy arranged, from the well
known mandatory OIL. j. Perkins 2S7 Con-
| gress street. G. G. Cakes, of Newport, has a
very handsome set of gold mounted harnesses,
| and Mansfield, ia Middle street. displays his
patent Excelsior trunk. Mr.. George g. Car
| yer, IA Winslow street, Boston, exhibits
| glass roller for rolling bread, cake Sc, which
embraces three things. Taking off one end of
| the roller you have biscuit or cookey cutter,
| pulling out the interior of the roller, you have
| an egg-be ater A very convenient and ingen-
ious patent The same gentleman exhibits
thmble with little blade attached to be used
in cutting thread and ripping, and combi-
| nation sitter and measurer. Ketchum's min
Ger also attracts much attention from house
wives and we would advise all the ladies to
| visit this table. N. M. Perkins & Co, Free
| street Block, have some five SIX varieties of
| handles and casters. A. H. Atwood 151 Mid
die street, glass case filled with handsomely
cut silver door plates. Emery aud Water
house, 50 and IS Middle street, have some
very fine specimens of hardware and those en-
terprising men E. & F. Fairbanks of st.
| Johnsbury VT, turn up an usual with their
prize scales OF the Universal Exposition in
| Paris for 1867. Mr. Geo. Brooks exhibits
| very valuable invention in a patent rotary cut
| ting machine, which cuts tons of stock per
day for mattresses, sofas ETC., and has been
brought all the way from Detroit, Michigan.
| At the fourth table Blake from his bakery on
Congress street displays case on case of splen-
| did looking bread and crackers, followed by,
Kent, 1O7 Fore street, so that we judge the
days of Pharaoh's lean kline will not be seen IN
Portland for many days to come. Then comes
Cobb, u Pearl street, with case of pies, cakes,
and bread, decorated with four beautiful bou-
quets. Chas. w. Lucy, 1854 Congress street
has a case of luscious rich cakes and tarts and
one magniicently frosted wedding cake, while
Brooks, 70 Bracket street, last but not least at
the table, joins to swell the general display.
As smoker it is with difficulty we tear our
selves from the collection of meerschaum pipes
exhibited by M. Fonseen, one of which, a mag
niacently carved, partially colored affair, we
leave the contemplation of with great regret.
Talk TO us no more of medicines to cure one of
smoking. J. F. Land & Co., 142 and 144 Ex-
change street, display a choice collection of
crockery and glass ware and an exquisite
white camelia with a dropping green vine in a
glass case. ~ 81 fE 81 EEEaA va
The fl It'll table is occupied by the Portland
Glass Company, with magnificent show of
glass ware of every description, and by c. E.
Jose & Co. with rare Parian statuary, vases
and lamps. Ono pair of vases in particular
excite admiration,a golden bronze with me-
dalton heads.
Lowell and Senter occupy the sixth table
with their nautical instruments, clocks in mar
BILE and bronze, unique and costly silver sets,
articles of virtu and choice jewelry, and their
Rogers groups of statuary We consider this
the most attractive and extensive exhibition
in the hall but we suppose other people would
say it is a matter of taste. .1sFs srv.T
The seventh table, for one half its length, is
taken up by Small and Shackford book binders
81 Exchange street, with books in rare and e1-
pensive bindings, and by Hall L. Davis, Ex-
change street, who presents a set of account
books for j. Polledo and Co., merchants in
Cuba, that we will venture to say cannot be
exceeded in excellence by any book bindery in
the world. Not person passed the case with
out stopping to admire this triumph of art, for
it is really work of art Gerrish & Pearson
S6 Middle street, make very attractive dis
play of silver-ware and next to them are some
beautiful stuffed birds. Lee and Stebbins. 103
Middle street, and 800 Congress street, have
revolving column of meerschaum pipes of
great beauty and value, including one superb
meerschaum valued at $125. Also a case of
very fine cigars of the most celebrated brands.
Next comes Lock of Vault for Maine Savings
Bank, a very complicated affair, and those 9TH
ers from Chas. Staples and Sons Works, 215
Commercial street. The Westbrook Britannia
20. have fine case of goods to end this table,
Inc eighth table contains magnificent case
=, snver-ware and jewelry from j. w. and H.
- NicDuffie, corner of Middle and Union
streets We gaze and gaze and almost wish