The Portland daily press., 1869-09-10
THgl NEW ENGLAND FAIR.
Large .Adesitions TO the Number of
TisStorss
Immense Conc0urse of People AT the
Halls nnd Grounds. yrs
Visit of Gen. Mcclellan
TEsOTTsNG AT TmEapARK.

The attendance at City and Fluent's halls
yesterday was larger than it has been any day
since the opening of the Fair. There was an
immense concourse of people in the halls DUR
ing the day, and in the evening it was per-
1ect Jam. Hundreds went away unable to OBJ
tain such sight of the various tables as was
desirable. Every visitor expressed pleasure at
the display in the various rooms. The Picture
Gallery and the rooms of the Natural History
Society were crowded throughout the dav,
While all the other rooms were filed to their
| utmost capacity.
The receipts of the Fair, for tickets, for the
first two days exceeded $1,000 The receipts
yesterday, up to noon, for tickets to the halls
were upwards of $780,
No further additions have been made to the
exhibition, but we note one or two that have
previously escaped our notice.
The Darien Automatic Ventiator, on exhi-
bition in Room No 5, is one of those smple
and eminently practical devices that produce
favorable impression upon the mind at first
sight Its design is to obviate the necessity of
personal attention, and to render yentilator
capable Of adjusting itself to meet the exigen-
cies Of changing winds, excluding rain or
snow, while it at the same time offers no OBJ
| structon to the free passage outward of heated
| or impure air. Do not fail to examine the
| model, and you will see at once it is lust the
thing for barns, stables, meeting houses and for
| that matter every kind of building where
ventilation is essential
Shepherd & Co. have fine display of clocks.
They are the selling agents for Maine for the
Waterbury Clock Co., Waterbury, CT.
We omitted to mention in our report of the
horticultural display the names of 7, c. Her
sey's gardener, and Thomas Leonard, gardener
| Tor Miss Jones, who make elegant DISPLAYS of
| plants and rare flowers
| The PICTURE GALLERY.
There are three paintings in the Gallery
which have deserved more than mere pass
| ing notice. These are Nos 81, 1O3 and 50. The
first of these is De Haas great painting of the
| fleet of Admiral Farragut passing the rebel
| forts below New Orleans, and the picture hay
| ing been painted under the eye of Admiral
Farragut is historically correct. On the left is
| the flagship Hartford attacked by the rebel
| ram Manassas; on the right the Brooklyn, fol-
lowed by the Richmond, the Pensacola and
the Mississippi. The Hartford assailed by a
fire-raft, urged upon her by the ram Manas-
sas, is turned from her course and runs
aground under Fort Phillip while her crew
extiaguish the flames. The Brooklyn rains
an iron hail on the huge Louisiana-the swift
Varuna sinks, overpowered by numbers, drag
ging three antagonists with her, while the 9TH
err vessels in the rear stem the swift current
and ply their guns, till the forts are passed.
1t is grand painting and presents a terrible
picture of a naval combat.
The "White Hills in October No. 1903 by
Shattuck, is in this artists best vein In the
fore groung is a limpid pool surrounded by
hills which are covered with trees dressed in
the variegated hues of autumn, while in the
| distance rise the grand old White Hills, their
SUBMITS crowned with winters snow. 1t is
picture you need to sit down before, and study
| carefully, in order to take in all the beauties
of the painting. The whole work is eloquent
of repose and of nature and it is great pity
that one is compelled to see it under all the
disadvantages of Fair.
Ihe third is No. so, Harry Browns "Off the
Coast of Maine" which we spoke of in ves-
terday's issue.
II. ID. Williams presents n landscape sketch.
in No. 60 that exhibits points we like and
others we cannot admire. K Van Elton dis
plays "Mt. Lafayette" This artist is particu
larly noticeable for his clouds He en-
endeavors to paint them as they actually ap-
pear at sunset arrayed in their gorgeous tints
But we think it almost an impossibility to do
SO without giving the appearance of blots
on the canvas This effort is much better than
one we saw some time ago in this city. Vevay,
switzerland, by Shapleigh, is not particularly
10 our taste, although it gives one very good
1dea OK those quaint old foreign towns, with