The daily gazette., 1882-09-29
DOVER'S BIGGEST DAY.
SIGHTS AND SOUNDS AT FAIR
VIEW PARK.
AMONG THE MACHINE EXHIBITS.
A Fine Display of Fireworks at Night
Tine Kaces-sherman Morgan Gets LeSt
Again.
especial Correspondence Of The Gazette. J


DOVER, Sept. 2S.-To-day was very sue
cessful for the State Fair. About 500 peo-
pie came up on the excursion train from
below, and number on the regular train,
while about as many come from above,
which together with the persons who were
here, and those that drove In made fully
5000 people on the grounds when the races
began. The weather, though the sky was
cloudy, was not unpleasant, and the track
and grounds were In fair condition.
The exhibits also were in better order,
and those In the Agricultural Machinery
Department, which are very extensive,
could be seen to advantage for the first
time. Among the noticeable exhibits in
this department are the following:
Stevenson N Slaughter of Dover, who ex-
hibit Buckeye twine self binder, Bickford &
Huffman's grain drill, Adriause reapers,
| Buckeye model mowers, American horse
rakes, Syracuse chilled plows, Keystone "
Pennock corn shelters, Van Wickle grain
fans, riding and walking eultiyators, Gu
cumber wood pumps, Randall harrows,
| food cutters, Keystone corn planters, and
number of Agricultural staples. George W.
| Baker, of Dover, who exhibits Osbourne
card self binder, self rake reapers, combined
reapers and mowers, Osbourne mowers,
Nos. 2 and 5, Buckeye wheel cultivators,
| Pennsylvania grain drill, field rollers, Ward
1 anu picMPI AitShN
corn plaBters, Planet Junior harrows aud
cultivators, Telegraph hay cutters, Dicks
fodder cutters and crushers, Pennock corn
shelters, Van Wicklc grain fans, Penn har-
rows, etc. Or, G, Holfecker, Dover, who
exhibits Dceripg cord self binders, Eureka
mower, Champion grain drill, Whipple
riding harrow, Warrior mower, Baltimore
hay, straw and fodder cutters, Acme pulver-
izing harrow, Young America corn shelter,
| nat,bo nd mi
Roland chilled, Wiley and Minor
Martnett plows, Kalamazoo spring tooth
harrow, Randall corn cultivator, cucumber
ph Who Exhibits the Walter 4. Wood cord sell
binder and mower II. W. Doughton,
Moorestown, N. j., who exhibits Darncll's
, patent turnover and marker j, b, Evans
" Co., Smyrna, who exhibit the STANDARD
J wheel eultiyatoF and EFterly cord self binder
! j, W. Hopkius, Dover, exhibits the MeCor-
, mick cord sell binder, which was really the
handsomest machine on the grounds, and
the Mccormick iron mower Aron " Par
merly, Dover, exhibited the Empire grain
drill, and Remington's decarbQnized 'stee
pillow ; L. s. L. Vosmus, peuton, Md eX
! hibited the Triumph reaper and the Clipper
y mower j. Colby Smith, Willow Grove
! Del, exhibited the Invincible threshins
0 machine Emerson & Evtts, Denton, Md.
l
] engine aud tho deietser thresher.
THE RACES.
The most interesting part of to-day's pro
4 gram, however, was the races.
. The 2.37 was the first race started, tn
n first heat was an interesting one, ldlewild
c had the pole, but lost his lead on the turn t.
|. Lady Richmond who held it until on tn
homestretch on the first round when sh
broke, and Jim Harp came to the from
which position he held to the wire. Lad
Il Richmond second. Time, 2.41. The secon,
heat In this race was sharp and well con
tested one. Jim Harp the pole horse am
!. Lady Richmpnd and Bay Chief fighting al
g the way round. The heat was finally wo
e by Jim Harp in 2,3915. The third heat wa
the most interesting ip this race. The star
d was rather struggling, Jim Harp the pol
horse, and Kate going around the turn lik
e u double team, but on the back stretch Kat
a fell back and Lady Richmond came uf
In the second turn Jim Harp wen
= into the air, and Lady Rich
:, mond went to the front and wa
/. never again headed although Jim Har
n strained every nerve 10 regain his lo
n ground. Time, 2,3BK. kate's sulkey lo
d several spokes by collision on the seeon
At turn and on the home stretch her sulke
,e broke down throwing her driver ont an
r running around to the stables. But lit
y damage was dope to either horse or drive
er however, as she appeared in the next heat {
good as ever to all appearances. The iourt
le neat was interesting only on account Of IL
E. struggles of Jim Harp to regain lost groun,
re out in spite of his efforts the outside to
Jr and Lady Richmond won the heal in 2.3
n The fifth heat, however, was the heat of Il
race Every horse apparently did the be
i'd possible. Jim Harp Tapped lady Richmon
as the pole horse, on turn and on stretch b.
as did not get any further until on the hon
stretch, when an unfortunate break by Il
mare gave the gelding the heat and race
2.40L.