The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-09-22
The State Fair.

BANGOR, Sept. 20, 1873.
Friday night in the heaviest shower of the
Season, sometimes called the line gale, the
State Fair closed.
The pleasant newspaper man who aims to
please, and don't think there is anything wrong
in deceiving the public with untrue Statements
will say that the Fair was complete success
in every department propose to look at it as
it Was.
FINANCIALLY
it was success. The receipts will reach $12,-
QUO, sum sufficient to meet the current ex-
penses and pay the deficit of last year.
could not hear there was any complaint against
the Trustees in the management of their bust
ness
THE HORSE SHOW,
which continues to be the chief attraction of
modern agricultural fairs, particularly the
trotting, was unusually good. There were not
any exhibitions of wonderful speed, Gndeed
the sharp owner of fast horse in Maine don't
desire to get his horse on record below 234 as
1t bars him from too many races) but there
We're very close and exciting trots. In the gen.
eral show of horses the observer from year to
year will notice evidences of greater care in
breeding, and the result is finer horses for the
turf and the road, if no. so valuable for the
commoner uses. The horseman is study. He
usually possesses more than ordinary natural
gifts and in many instances there is no more
painful! illustration of the unworthy purposes
to which good ability can be prostituted. His
dialect is peculiar jargon that no English
speaking person can understand. AS horses
start, one VII snake an X of U. S. currency
and say "tus on the bay" to which the fellow
who has ten dollars worth of confidence in his
favorite, mods and says, Il see you on the roap."
The real horseman never says ''horse" accord
ing to Webster, but 'huss' or ''hoss' which
they speak as though they were practicing short
aud sharp explosions in eocution. The old
stagers, the sports and turf gamblers make
money at every meeting, for with experts it is
we'll known generally which ''huss" will win;
but lots of would be sports, who take stock in
the fortunes of some horse that is local favor
lite, go home as thoroughly plncked of their
greenbacks as Plato's man was of feathers.
THE SHOW OF NEAT STOCK.
was goods but embraced only those who have
taken an interest iu it in the State and who
always attend these annual fairs. The number
OF entries was not so large as last year, but the
different varieties were kept up. The Kenne-
bee valley still furnishes the leading contr ibu-
tons of Shdrthorns. Jerseys aud Herefords, to
which this year they add the Dutch, while
Dane of Kennebunk, leads off in the Ayrshire
breed.
IF WOOL GROWING
is not one of the lost industries of Maine there
CHI han I,aa,, IL, Q ~
representing but few of the more approved
breeds. The same remark applies to SWINE
The poultry show did not amount to much, but
probably the fine birds are waiting to appear
at City Hall next January,
LABOR SAVING MACHINERY.
There was fine display of farming utensils
Fred Atwood of Wnterport, presented the
largest assortment, embracing about hundeed
implements of peace, ranging from sausage
suffer to new threshing machine that will
saw wood. All the principal moving machines
were there by sample, twenty IT thirty differ
ent kinds of washing machines and patent
churns, one of which was extylled because
there were no cog els about it and it could
be worked with treadles while the operator was
knitting wooden mits or looking over the local
paper for stray item Of news. A lot of Frye's
ploughs were there from Portland.
FARM PRODUCTS, VEGETABLES, ETC.
This department was not so full as last yenr,
and consequently there was little need to hold
one part of the exhibition in Norombega Hall,
and the balance in the tent on the park The
more useful vegetables and grains We're well
represented. The table of the Maine Agricul-
IN Go11aaa laJ
great deal of attention. Among other things
the College exhibited 125 varieties of potatoes.
There were many fine samples of wheat and
corn.
THE STATE INDUSTRIES
as repre- sented in Norombega Hall were not
creditabe to the State. Pre- sident Prince and
Secretary Watson inform US that they wrote
letters to every manufacturer in the State and
personally visited a large number and urged
them to send contributions. The response was
feeble indeed The Bates, Androscoggin and
Lewiston Companies made file display of
their goods, embracing specimens of the finest
cotton fabrics of the world in all lines. The
Vassalboro' Mill sent fine class of woolens.
Mr. kimball contributed lot of fine carriages
the cabinet makers of Bangor made credit
able display, the but ter makers andseheese fac
tories did well, but beyond these there were
few evidences that Maine is State having
scores of different kinds of manufacturing en-
terprises Every year her mechanics make the
bast axes and scythes in the world, yet not one
sample was present at the State Fair. Her
wooden factories turn out the finest shawls aud
blankets, yet it never would be known by look
in;, through Noromebga Hall; she has humid
red other equally important industries that
sought no place in what should be an indus
trial exhibition. Beyond the few displays I
have spoken of the exhibition at Noromsega
was mere curiosity shop or place to display
the goods of the enterprising merchants of
Bargor-a display of himsy nick nacks, and
trivial ernameuts-of those marvellous ten feet
square specimens of useless industry, known as
patchwork quilts, that in colors and blending
put Joseph's dandy coat into an eclipse. Why
there was one OF these cotton medieys that was
said TO contain 9943 pieces and it wasn't much
of piece of patchwork either.
In Concert Hail. where the specimens of our
cheese factories were displayed there was one
whole table covered with the products of aads
belonging 70 a Western railroad, each specimen
being placarded with tall advertising puff of
said lands. Iu the corner of the room were the
woods of the country having like ADVERTISE
ments. We had an idea before that it was A
Name exhibition, or curiosity shop at most
and were not little surprised when we found
that it was in part devoted to the sale of west
ern railroad lands.
Ii is due, however, to the Trustees to say that
they have done their best to make the show
first class in every respect. 1t is easier to crit
1eise than manage SO elaborate an affair as
State Fair. but we are glad to say that in our
opinion the managers have succeeded admir-
ably, and if they have failed to bring cut so
full an exhibition as would be creditable to the
State, it is not their fault. They have done all
that lay in their power TO bring out full ex
hi5ition of the Industries of the State, 8.
BUSINESS CHANGEs.-The following are re.
cent business changes in this State:
acknowledgements Perley, DOORS sash,
&c, sold out to Hamlin, Dickens & Co.
Fairfield.-Morse &c Vining, boots and shoes,
sold out to David Roderick
Lewiston.-A. L. & P. P. Getchell, hats.
cans &c sold ont TO Foss & Murphy