The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-20

thousands circus, slde-ShoWsJ IrulG
stalls, candy shops, saloons, and Mu-
scum strove, by criers with "leathern
throats and lungs of brass supplied" to
attract the attention and catch the
dimes of the multitude; swings, filled
from "morn till noon, from noon to
dewy eve," with country swains and
rosy-cheeked damsels, performed rapid
and unceasing revolutions; stalwart
men, brown from the recent harvest,
smoked their pipes beside hundreds of
bright camp-fires, about which children
PLAYED and fretted and screamed, and
women fried steak, boiled coffee, and blis-
tered hands and faces; young bloods
happy in the possession Of cigars, "six
for two bits" strutted about, poisoning
the atmosphere with rank exhalations
from the same. Old friendships were
renewed and cemented, and new ones
formed and enjoyed for a brief season,
and for the entire week the surging
crowd tramped through the gates and
over the grounds and crowded aud ell
bowed and jostled through the pavilion,
and back and through again.
In the pavilion many changes from
previous arrangements were noticed,
and with but slight exception all were
changes for the better. A committee of
ladies, appointed some weeks ago to
decorate the walls, had not been idle,
and graceful and delicate trimmings
and festoons of hemlock and cedar gave
out woodsy odors and a springtime ap-
pearance to the walls.
The department formerly devoted to
the exhibition of needle-work and fancy
articles, this year was converted into an
art gallery, and under the superintend-
Ience of Mrs. J. DeVore johnson, of Ore
gon City, presented. an attractive and
tasteful aspect. The display, owing, in
part, to this careful and judicious ar
rangement, was much finer than in
former years. Our criticisms upon this
wing of the pavilion are upon the man.
agement which led to the shocking in
congruity of displaying stoves, tinware
washing machines, and Limbergel
cheese along with organs, pianos, sew
! ing machines, and works of art, and o
allowing dollar store hucksters and rub
Der paint manufacturers conspicuou!
places at either entrance.
The needle work department was un
. usually full, exhibiting specimens o
: feminine skill and patience that wer
little short of marvellous. Bed quilts
from the old nine-patch, in which W
were taught to take dainty stitche
at our mothers knee in our child
hood, to an intricate design entirel.
new to US, called by its ambition
maker the "pine cone" hung about tn
walls in gorgeous colors and great pro
fusion. Ladies' underwear, trimme
in every way which the ingenuity c
woman could, by the aid of thread, aC
u complish, competed for premium!
. Toilet mats and sofa pillows; tides an
y chair cushions; baby's bibs and mate
/ boxes; letter cases and card receiver
y foot stools, piano stools, chair pillow
- pin cushions, needle books, baby's far
~ nels, worsted cats, dogs, and parrot
watch pockets, slippers, tatting, an
= crochet samples; door mats, chambt
II mats, lamp mats; carriage robes, baby
10 robes, and morning robes; rolls of rs
iu Iek foI nd cfnhhOry,s II,
ID ted socks, gloves, and mittens, gra
u blue, striped, and mixed-all this, al
"i much more, made the walls of this viii
of the pavilion literally a glitterir
VI wonder of stitches and monument
~ the industry, energy, and patience
women workers,
- The floral department was radia
- with bloom and foliage, and fragra
~, with delicate odors. Two fountai
4, threw sparkling drops softly and with
= cool murmur over adjacent eXotics al
pendant baskets of green, and, to add
the amusement of the little folks,
ty monkey occupied a conspicuous positi
tic at one end.
In Machinery Hall the parlOr, off,
OIL and chamber sets exhibited by the o.
for gon Furniture Manufacturing Compa
ci- were truly magnificent.
he The sheds for agricultural implemel
m were well filled with everything in I'll
'ut line, from threshing machine to h
er' row.
ISL Of the stock and poultry we will l
attempt to speak, our education in I'll
line during the past twenty years h'
ah ing been sadly neglected. Compete
of judges, however, assure US that it v
B. extremely fine.
'tt, In summing up we notice that tn
ion were a number of women clerks e
the ployed about the pavilion, and these
to is said, performed their duty promp
m, and effectively. An effort was made
ese appoint committees in the various
partments who knew, or were suppo
to know, something of the artiC
ms upon which they were called to P
,er- nounce judgment, and in some
em stances this was successful. The
ing tendance was not 80 large as was ant
inc pated, owing, in part, to the lower
will aspect of the weather during the f
days of the week, but mainly to the