St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-09-26
Wednesday, Sept, "a.

/ steadily all night, and continued so to
do until long after daylight. About
eight o'clock, however. the clouds be-
gan to lift. bright strip of blue sky
/ appeared in the northwest, and in a
/ short time the sun shone out, dispelling
clouds and gloom all at the same time.
I The people seemed to know by instinct
that it was about to clear off, for the
/ highways were soon filled with teams
aud the trains all came in loaded. As
the stock remained Oh the ground two
days. and as all the articles i'll the eX-
hibition building were the same as the
first day. with some additions, the
people who did not come the first day
were not disappointed in finding that Il
good part of the show had gone home.
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS.
The display of vegetables was good.
ifnot as large as at some previous fairs.
/ Prominent here was Mr.. Alfred Parker.
who exhibited Il very great variety
| from the grounds of Mr.. Horace Fair
+ banks We did not count the number
of kinds. hut the collection included
neatly every thing under this head. and
very fine specimens. There was the
usual display of the products of the
farm and garden. "ton numerous to
mention" in this place. We must how
ever speak of Il very fine display OF
/ four varieties of potatoes. by Il Cabot
man the early rose. peerless. prolific
and king of the earlies.
/ In fruits there was good exhibition,
bur mcagrc in extent. 1t has not been
good fruit year. We think the only
persons who had large variety of APP
pies present. were W. #. Gibson of
Rlcgatc. and Il. ID. Moulton of Peach
am. Mr.. Danforth had lot of pears
grown on the old place i'll Danville.
There were some fine specimens of
plum> shown. of several of the nicer
varieties. Mr. AFRO button of Mcln
does had both Concord and Delaware
grapes Wen IIptu't. We uilu'iSt'hu
he trains them t" Il ledge on Il south
crn exposure. which is said to mature
them much earlier than in the ordinary
way. Walter Ingram exhibited five
varieties of choice greenhouse grapes
from Mr.. Thaddcus Fairbanks place.
He also had very tempting pears,
peaches and nectdIines i'll his cOllec
ton. Also the Canada Victor tomato,
which we think has never been shown
here before. and which has some points
of excellence above the Trophy. which
has been the faVorite of late.
There was but small show of but
ter and cheese, only three chceses hay
ing been entered. The display in
bread, .jellies, pickles, preserves. etc,
was attractive and good.
MECHANICAL WARES, ETC.
This department was conspicuous for
what it lacked, although there were a
number of meritorious articles and i'm
plcmcnts. There was a house door of
fine workmanship, couches by Robert
Pendridgc. beautiful chamber sets from
Tisdalc's furniture rooms, and from
those of Hall & SwitSer. There were
at least five patent milk pans, Hodge
don's, Colts, Jcwett's. Empire and Bay
State. F. +. Fletcher made an attrac-
tive display of stoves, hardware and
housekeeping goods. Ii. +. & ID. Q.
Woodruff also had some of their wares
there on exhibition. II. 2. Shorey &
Co. exhibited musical Instruments for
which they are agents. The sewing
machine agent was unusually numer-
Gus.
The Lyndon Carriage Co. exhibited
elegant open and top buggy and sin
gle sleigh. The Miller Carriage Co.
put in two single and one two-seated
sleigh taken out OF their shop, just as
they were made for customers as they
said which certainly looked good
enough for anybody.
In Farming implements. there were
several mowers, tedders, revolving
harrow. horse-powers, separators, and
a tanning mill exhibited by F. Davis
of Sheffield, which appeared to he a
superior thing.
The only piece of marble work we
noticed was fine stone cut and polish
ed 10y II. X. Mack of Hardwick.
Next the agricultural implements
were the poultry cages, of which there
were about il dozen entries. We did
not see anything to Indicate a very
alarming state of the ''hen fever"
FLORAL HALL.
This place. always IL great attraction
at our Fairs. was fully up to its repu-
tation this wear. We cannot here
speal, infinitely and individually of the
great variety and multitude of articles
which went to make up this display.
/ The embroidery, the needle work. the
WAX work and the pictures. all needed
examination to be appreciated, The
hall was crowded all the time by eager
/ seekers after the beautiful and curious.
Prominent among the attractions in the
hall we've the Indian and other curios-
tiles from the cabinet of Col. Franklin
Fairbanks. Some of these were pretty
fully described in the last CaIedonian.
In addition to these. he exhibited some
of his rare and beautifully plumaged
stuffed birds, and some monster Sicily
ox-horns which he brought from Eu-