The Portland daily press., 1881-11-02
G. A. R.
City Hall Filled With an Immense
Audience.
THE PORTLAND CADETS WIN THE
ELEGANT CLOCK.

/ A9I4301aANA 0hOO1As
The Grand Army fair was well patronized
| yesterday afternoon, but the visitors were
composed, flor the most part of ladies who
fingered over the booths examining the va
rious articles offered for sale and making pur-
chases of pretty things. Several new attrac-
lions were added to the fair. Messrs Loring,
Short & Harmon displayed table filed with
| beautiful groups of statuary; Irving Blake
made a splendid exhibit of cake of all kinds
which he presented to the Post; a splendid At
CHAN was hung close by the main entrance to
the hall, on the right, which Mrs. Rich has
charge of, and which will be voted to some
lucky individual; and large wooden arm
chair near by is to be voted to the most invet-
crate chair-warmer in town. DR.. Greene's
portrait has been placed at the Ward Six Ia
BILE, in Mrs. Gray's charge, and will be pre-
sented to the physician receiving the most
votes. Mr.. j. A. Leavitts window awning is
SO arranged that, while the blinds can still be
used, the awning can be raised or lowered,
used as shade curtain with outer blinds open,
and affords complete protection from sun and
wind.
A number of additional articles have been
received at the tables, some Of which should
be mentioned:
At Ward One can be found an elegant
handkerchief bag in velvet, with flowers ex-
quisitely embroidered in colors, from Mrs.
Charles Jones of Free street; some children's
very fine skirts; two beautiful card receivers;
some pretty tides; charming painting, "View
of White Head" by A. H. Purinton; hand
some perfumery bottles, and most ingenious
ly carved fower-yase, the work of little
George Galley.
Ward Two table exhibits some very choice
embroidery; neat mats; beautiful velvet
rug from Marrett & Bailey; an elegantly
worked lamp-nest from Mrs. Henry F.Perry;
beautiful cushion from Mrs. l. T. Lang; an ex-
quisitely dressed doll and towel rack from
Mrs. Jones; beautiful toilet set from Mrs.
Hawley.
On Ward Three table John E. Dow has be-
slowed superb foot rest. The opera glasses
contributed by j. A. Merrill, will be given to
the letter carrier receiving the most votes.
Here is also gentleman's beautiful dressing
case
Ward -Four exhibits very handsome toilet
set from Mrs. M. S. Gibson; pretty wcrsted
sack from Mrs. j. P. Davis; toilet slippers from
Miss Stafford; and a beautiful toilet set from
Mrs. Howard Fogg.
Ward Five table shows a pretty tidy;
handsome cake basket from Mrs. T. P. Gid
DEM fine knit skirt from Miss Sweat, and a
beautiful toilet set from Mrs. F. 81. Colby.
Ward Six table has received superb toilet
set of silver and glass from Mrs Fred Dun
ham.
Ward Seven table shows beautiful minia-
ture sleigh from Charles Moulton.
The London cream chewing candy was we'll
patronized last night, and the candy was made
before the eyes of the public by Mr.. j. A.
Brown.
In the evening the hall was crowded to re-
pletion by the multitude that surged through |
the aisles and occupied every inch of room. |
There were 1000 tickets sold at the door the |
first of the evening and this number did not |
include those who had bought tickets outside. |
Chander's Band played splendidly and the |
hall never looked more attractive.
The great feature of the evenings enter
tainment was the drill for the French clock
by the picked teams of eight men each from
the Portland Cadets and Montgomery Guards. |
Both companies looked exceedingly we'll. The |
men were of good height, well formed. and |
their uniforms fitted neatly. First the Cadets |
marched on the stage and went through the |
silent drill in the manual. Then followed the |
Guards in the same movements. The precis-
ion OF both commands was remarkable, and |
the skirmishing drill in loading and firing was |
in itself worth the price of admission to wit |
ness AS the men marched off the stage the |
friends of each company applauded heartily.
The judges rendered the following decision
We find that the two squads executed prac-
ideally the same nnmher of movements,
and that those omitted by one squad were
about balanced by those omitted by the other.
In smoothness of execution and general excel-
lence we think the Portland Cadets to have
excelled their competitors. This decision Is
unanimous VIM. L. HAsKIN.
Capt and Bvt. Maj. LIST Art'y
CLERMoNT L.. BEST, LIST Lieut. LIST Art'y.
WIN L. RossELL, LIST Lieut.. of Engineers.
The decision was announced by Capt. Geo.
Fl. Abbott chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the fair, and was received with
cheers and other demonstrations of applause. |
The Judges were all attired in the full dress
uniform of their respective branches of the SER
vice.
After the drill the. crowd listened to the mu- |
sic, chatted, patronized the booths, bought |
flowers and refreshments, and whiled away |
the time most pleasantly until 10 o'clock when |
the doors were closed for the night A beauti-
full tableau, the ''Seal of the State" was ex-
hibited, just before the closing hour. A num- |
Der of valuable gifts were secured by the Wis
itors and SO liberal was the patronage OF the |
fair the gifts gave out before the evening was
half over.
The smoking room is one Of the features OF
the institution. Here the gentlemen meet and
talk, and indulge in puff of excellent tobac-
CO, procured at the well-furnished cigar stand
in the apartment Mr.. Milliken keeps this
part of the fair running in good style.
Tonight there will be several beautiful tab
leaux exhibited, and tomorrow evening the
individual prize drill for the gold medal will
come off.
We are requested to state by the committee
that they stopped the sale of tickets last night
because a gift had been promised with every
ticket and they supposed there were enough
gifts on hand to correspond to the number OF
tickets already sold. They have made arrange
meats for u, 900 more gifts as supply for the
remainder of the fair.
Personal.
Yesterday was the birthday OF Mr.. Carl
Weber of the First National Bank, and the
Weber Club gave him surprise party in the
o,,5 rondorad aoueraI vocal selactiOna