The Portland daily press., 1876-01-25

quieO anu tuey Spent tHe gay IN a SOrG or easy
going manner. None of them attended church
and they retired to rest at an early hour in the
evening. They showed the effects of the rest
yesterday morning and at an early hour were
astir, and those who. attended the exhibition
yesterday morning saw them looking their very
best. When the show opened many of them
were tired from travelling and did not show to
good advantage. For instance one gentleman
who from New York, who exhibits game fowl
and pigeons, started from home three weeks
ago with his birds and exhibited them at Bal.
timore. From Baltimore he came directly to
this exhibition, and in consequence his birds
were tired out on their arrival here, but 6hey
like many others have now become rested and
the show never looked better than at present.
Everyone who visits this exhibition says that
there are no better birds shown than those at
City Hall; and many of these best fowl are
raised in Portland. With the exception of
four pairs of carrier pigeons exhibited by j. O.
Tburston of New York, the pigeons owned by
Portland parties are as good as can be found
anywhere. The interest in poultry raising is
rapidly increasing in this vicinity and nothing
can promote this interest more than such an
exhibition as the one now in progress at the
City Building.
The interest in the show of cats is shown by
tanning thems This is a new feature for a
poultry show, but it is one likely to grow in
favor. One gentleman in Deering noticing a
remark in the PRESS about Mr. Baiey's fine
cat, writes that Capt. Coyle has cat that
weighs fifteen pounds, though not quite two
years old. Also dog-St Bernard-weighing
one hundred and thirty pounds. They could
not 60 to the show, as the conviences were
too small, and the animals are peculiarly
modest. Next year it is to be hoped the COM
mittee in charge will secure better accommoda-
tions for the exhibition of cats and dogs, as
this department is to MANY one of the most in
teresting. The Angora cat exhibited by Mr..
Lobenstein. is one of the prettiest of the kind
in the city, and very naturally attracts much
attention.
The exhibition of Plymouth Rock fowl near
the centre of the main hall is very fine.
Mr.. A. S. Sawyer has a dozen fine
pairs on exhibition. The cock and hen
near the entrance to the hall is considered the
best pair of Plymouth Rocks to be found.
Three years ago Mr.Sawyer purchased seven of
this breed of fowl of A. H. Drake of Stoten,
Mass. This hen is one Of the seven. That
year she took the first premium on chicks; last
year she took the first on hens, and this year
the same. Her plumage is nearly perfect, and
she is thing of beauty to look upon. The
cock, which is shown with her, is also fine
bird and has taken the first premium this year
and last. Mr. Drake is the originator of the
Plymouth Rocks, but he is not certain as to
their origin, but thinks that they were produced
from cross between Grey Dorking cock and
a black Java hen. He pronounces Mr.. Saw
yer's fowl the best of the kind, and yesterday
he purchased twenty of the best ones on priv
ate terms.
Among poultry men bird is not known by
the company it keeps, but by the number of
points it scales. These points are familiar to
poultry fanciers, but to others bit of explana-
tion may not be out of place. The perfect
fowl scales 100 points, 1t is needless to say
that this bird has not been found yet, for Mr..
Sawyer's pet hen scales 80, f o. Bailey's brah-
ma rooster 81. Both OF these arevery fine birds
ard is different on different fowl. On Plym-
outh Rocks the standard is as follows: SYM
netry, II; size and weight, H. condition, 8;
head z; comb, 8; earlaps and wattles, 6; neck,
s; station, 6; breast and body, 10; wings, 6;
tail, 6; legs. 8. OF course the standard
on pigeons is entirely different than the above
1t would seem as though there were attrac-
tions enough in Reception Hall already, but
yesterday morning they received reinforce
ments. Mr.. Kimball added several fine trout
to the collection in the tank, also two small
black bass. The addition makes the tank
more attractive than ever. Mr. L. G. Daniels,
the taxdermist, added a caribou's head to his
collection of stuffed animals and birds He
has in his show casetone of the ferrets which
was employed to clear the rats from the Fall
mouth Hotel recently. The little fellow got
iels procured the body to stuff. One of the
best things in his collection is little hum
ming bird stuffed and placed in glass globe
The "yellar" dog is also very life like and shows
the quality of Mr.. Daniels work.
The game supper to be served in Rossiui
Hall this evening will be the finest affair of
the kind ever gotten up in this city. Reed has
charge of the repast and the game will come
from the collection displayed in the corridor of
the hall by S. Winslow & Co. The bill of fare
will include number of kinds of game not
generally found in our markets. For ducks
they will have pintail, mallard, black head, red
head, canvas backs and black. Also white
swan, wild geese, quail, grouse. squirrel, wild
turkeys, sc. The repast will be gotten up in
Reeds best style. The tickets are limited to
the capacity of the hall and those who wish to
participate should procure their tickets of the
committee early this morning. The supper
will be served at o'clock.
At the opening of the exhibition notice was
made in these columns of the fraud in regard
to the use of complimentary tickets. Not
outstanding the efforts of the committee to
prevent this petty cheating, it has been carried
on to quite an extent. Every day the commit
tee take up number of these tickets which
are being used by some one other than the per-
son named upon it. The scenes at the door are
often amusing and frequently there is a dis
play of bad temper. For Instance a young
man with young lady leaning confdingly on
his arm marched up to the door yesterday and
produced family ticket. The ever vigilant
and attentive door keeper glanced at the doc.
ument and babe him pass up. The young man
looked happy and walked boldly pass, bus he
forgot the maxim, There's many slip be-
tween the cup and the lip" for just as he was
about half way up the stairs he was met by a
bold committee man who desired to glance at
his ticket. The article was produced when it
became known that the name upon it was not
his OVID, but his COUSINS. OF course the young
man felt bad as he had a lady with him, and
he wasn't slow in producing half of an sal
mighty dollar" How the committee know
who to stop, is puzzle, but that they do is very
evident.
Despite the many attractions last evening
the show was 'taken i'll" by a large number.
The band played its sweetest music, while the
ladies rushed through the halls, glancing hasti.
ly at the hens in order to get a front seat in
the gallery. The association could realize a
good sum to sell the front row of seats in the
gallery. They are in great demand, as
from them the ladies look down on those pass
ing through the hall and see how their hats are
trimmed.
1t should be remembered that there are bat