Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-10-10
CITY AND DISTRICT.
THE NATIONAL FAIR,
Third Annual Exhibition.

lnE NAIIONAL FAIR
Third Annual Exhibition.
OPENING scENEs-THE ExHIBITs-THE BICYCLE
RACES, ETC.
The third annual exhibition of the National
| Far association was opened to-day at the
grounds at Ivy City. The opening of the fair.
which was stripped of the Industrial procession
and other ceremonies which have attended the
event IN the past years. was very quiet and
seemed to be entirely oyeFshadowed by the at
fractions at Baltimore and the preparations for
the entertainment In this city at the end of the
| week.
THE WEEKS PROGRAM.
The program embraces six days. the fair being
announced to close with Saturday. A special
feature has been arranged for each day i'm addi-
ton to the exhibitions in the various buildings
The special attraction Of to-day was the bicycle
parade and races: tomorrow the feature will be
| tournament by AZ chivalrc knights and on the
last four days there will be steeplechases over
! course "a miles, races by gentlemen riders and
special contests between noted running horses In
addition to these features the program announces
Roman chariot race and athletic sports by
band of dOmesticated Indian warriors every day.
As stated,
THE BICYCLE RACES
formed the special attraction TODAY The seye-
raj bicycle clubs in uniform formed at their clubs
TINS morning. and rode. in procession, to the
grounds. The program arranged for the bicycle
races, which are in progress this afternoon, is as
follows: 1st. Quarter mile dasil-prize silver
medal I'd Slow race-prize. cyclOmeter. Sd.
one mile heat race-frst prize, gold medal; sec
ond prize. silver medal. 4th. Contest of fancy
rldng-prize, gold medal. 5th Club drills
prize, silver bugle or silk flag. 9th. Five mile
dash-frst prize, goldmedal; second prize silver
medal The committee in charge Of the races is
composed of H. 1. Carpenter, Ma sachusetts
Club; Clarence G. Allen Captain CAPITAL Club.
and Frank j. Rawlins, Captain Arlington Club.
The Exhibition Opened
SOME OF THE EXHIBITORS
At the fair grounds this morning. outside of
the exhibition building. where workmen were
engaged in putting exhibits in order, there was
scarcely any stir. Here and there a few strag-
glers could be seen. As the long trains heavily
Loaded with eXcurSiOnists for the Baltimore ORR
ole whizzed by, the outlook for the day seemed not
very encouraging. As usual at fairs everybody
was little late expecting his neighbor to ar
rive ahead of him and make things all right.
None OF the halls were ready for inspection. and
fortunately not many people were present to in
spect them. Hardly one-half of the spaces
taken by exhibitors were filed to-day.
HORTICULTURAL HALL
was open to-day. but was i'm state of confused
preparation The exhibits, which will form one
of the most credtable parts of the fair were be-
ing brought uponthe grounds to day. BY noon
tomorrow Mr.. w. R. Smith, who is the pre-
siding genius Of the hail. says he will have all
the exhibits arranged WELL and he thinks that
he will have cause to be proud. All of
the exhibitors heard from to-day were
Mr.. John H. Small, Mr.. Robert Halliday. jr, of
Baltimore, Mr.. John Saul. and Mr. Glorius The
hnest parts OF the exhibits at the recent horti-
cultural fair will be transferred to Horticultural
Hail. The collections of cut flowere will not be
very pretentiOus, as the lOng-continued drouth
has had a bad effect on flowers as well as
cereals The exhibits were being put i'm order
this afternoon. The hall bloomed like rose.
IL was perfect bower of flowers.
AT MACHINERY HALL
matters were assuming definite shape to-day.
Among the exhibitors are the Independent Ice
CO-lce flows, snow planes, growing bars
caulklng bars. chisel or raising bars, packing
chisel bar, striking under bar, splitting or ves-
sci bars, channel hook bar, ice hooks. elevator
feeding forks, grapples, chain scoops ice augers
with measures, snow scoop scraper, snow sleds.
tapping axes, scales DC; P. II. Heskel. jr.
CO.-Old Hickory wagons plows and seed drills.
reapels, mowers. harrOws, hay rakes, lawn
mowers and self binding reapers; NOrthrop &
Co., Leesburg, Va, for the Vermont Farm Ma
chine Co.-Cooley's patent creamer. Davis saw
ing churn and Eureka butter worker;
NJ. B. Atkinson, Atkinson washing machines:
Walter A. Wood, of HOOsic Falls New York,
binders, reapers and mowers; G. r. Mace Mont
gOmery county, Md. Payton's ten horse power
portable steam engine, steam thrasher corn
planter with fertilizer corn planter; j. r. Mar
Quis. cheese vats. curd worker and heater: F.
Whitman Sons Co., Baltimore. flaming Mill,
straw cutter, corn shelters, cultivators and corn
cob mills.
THE MAIN BUILDING.
which is generally the point of attraction pre-
sented deplOrabe appearance early this morn
ing. 1t was almost empty. By noon, however
a score or more Of exhibitors had their spaces
filled and in order. Among the exhibitors whose
exhibits were ready to-day. were Vim. NJ. Calf,
flour and feed; c. Cassard 4 Son. of
Baltimore. hams, refined lard &C.: Pro-
fessor and Madame Andrews. artificial flower
works; c. M. Bell. collection of photographs;
the EiectrO-Dynamic Company of Baltimore;
through c. Schneider. electric household mo-
tors, worked on Domestic sewing machines;
George Motifs. harness. ]. j. Georges, boots
and shoes: Lansburgh & Bro, dry goods fancy
goods and ladies' furnishings; Heckers self
raising flour and buckwheat; John r. Kelly,
meats; Franz Meister, pork packers; j. F. Nc
kenney, sewing machines; S. c. Palmer. bottled
beer. cider. soda water. &c; JIM Young carriages;
James S. TOpham, trunks. harness and saddlery,
and BrOwning's stomach bitters. The stock
pens were all well-filled to-day. change has
been made this year in the management of the
different buildings. Mr.. James S. Edwards
officiates chief marshal, but instead of having
fifteen or more volunteer assistants as in former
years, the number is limited to four,
and they are paid for their services. These four
are: Elisha Camp, main building; c. I. Wood,
Lesley Reynolds, horticultural hall
Among the handsOmest exhibits In the stock
stables are a beautiful pair of white Arabian
ponies, and pair of bays entered by Allison
Nailor, jr.
1t was doubtful this morning whether there
would be any formal opening exercises Both
Commissioner Loring and Congressman Black
burn were expected few days ago to be here
and to make speeches at the opening, but it is
thought this part of the program will be dis
pensed with. At noon SchrGder's band began
to play on the balcony of the main building. and
things commenced to look little livelier
OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDINGS,
the fakirs. shooting gallery men and others made
things look little lively. As the sports of the
day were announced not to begin till clock,
every one seemed to be waiting for them. There
were busy scenes in the Office of the secretary,
Mr.. Cox, i'm one Of the towers of the machinery
hall, and the Office of Mr.. Edwards. the chief
marshall in the main building.
GONE TO THE BALTIMORE CELEBRATIoN.-l
This morning the Capital City Guard, Capt. T.
S. Kelly, one of of our crack colored companies |
left in the 10 o'clock Baltimore & 0hO) train |
for Baltimore, to take part i'm the OriOle cele- |
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