Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-09-10

uolng over to the State Fairp,
am, you know
"So'mI'
ms dialogue, with variations tates rl.
ABOUT ten thousand times day on the Main.
central trains. as old acquaintance recop-
ni~e each other en- route for Lewiston. The
state Far this year has been a colossal suc.
cess. The weather has been superb. These
glorious September days are enough TO mako
the most prosaic drop into poetry. Nature
seems 10 be in league with the managers of
this great exposition of Maine industry and
agriculture.
Busting Lewiston is in a delir;um of
pleasant excitement. Her streets are crowd
ed with thousands of people from out of ,own
her hotels and boarding houses are filled to
repletion; her merchants have been coming
money.
Ho FOR THE FAIR GROUNDS,
This way FIR the Fair grounds, Going
right up. Only want one more passenger :"
The drivers of carriages to and from the
grounds cluster around the head of Lisbon
street, and are as importunate as Niagara
hackmen. They charge l5 cents to convey
You two miles. The business is profitable.
and scores are engaged in it. There are all
kinds of vehicles from the gaily painted
taliy-ho. from the seat of which the driver
cracks his whip over four spirited horses, to
the unpainted farmers cart with Dobbin
right from the plow. The horse cars are
crowded. Everybody wishes to experience
the novelty Of a ride on the Lewiston horse
railway.
Here we are at the Fair grounds gentle
men, says the driver. We dismount. Over
the entrance swing in the morning breeze
the flags Of all nations. Above the gate is
the sign:
1--WE FEED ALL"
In the ticket Office we catch glimpse of
Major S. J. Gallagher of Augusta, who is
busy handling silver half dollars. This is
the second year that he has assisted Treas
urer OsgoOd. Right BY the entrance stands
City Marshal True of Hollowell, in uniform,
with the sweat standing out in great beads on
his brow. He is on duty there. We next
encounter DIR. w m. b. Lapham of Augusta
agricultural editor of the Maine Farmer.
The Doctor is in his element.
"Come down to the Lewiston Journal head
quarters" says the Doctor.
With commendable enterprise our name
sake has a large Office on the fair grounds.
connected with telephone with their main
Office. This is supplied with tables and pa
per, and newspaper men are welcomed with
unvarying courtesy by the hospitable attaches
During fair week the Journal issues i'm
mense extras, details half-a-dozen special re-
porters and ''covers" the '!big show" like a
metropolitan daily. At the headquarters we
meet DIR. Reynolds, agricultural editor of
the Lewiston Journal, the Messrs. Board
man of the Home Farm, and Howard Owen
of the Maine Farmer.
SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF THE FAIR.
Ten thousand people are on the grounds
every afternoon, and there will be double
that number to day to witness the free for
all race, in which the fastest steppers in
Maine will participate. 1t is an animated
spectacle. Carriages are moving IN all dlrec-
tions. Vendors of refreshments and patent
medicines are hawking their wares. Side
shows abound. One orator is enlightening
the public on the virtues of his highly educa-
ted pig. Another man is eating shoe black
ing, and giving a minstrel show between the
mouthfuls. There is host of punching,
striking and lifting machines, and youths
from the country are exercising their muscle.
The lemonade peddlers are reapng coppery
harvests. Among the attractions are the
Coburn Cadets from the State College at
Orono, who bivouac on the grounds. They
are company of sturdy looking young men,
and their parades with cleaning muskets
and public drills are well worth seeing.