The Portland daily press., 1884-06-05
A Graphic Description of the
War Relics.
A CONTINUED ACCOUNT OF THE
ART EXHIBITION.
The Fair a Pronounced Success.

you uoCluou uOW bHey are TO Do uISpOS6u Ul'
The ladies of st. Lukes Guild have donated
a silk crazy quilt and double sham to the
young ladies' fancy table, These beautiful
articles are composed entirely of silk satin
plush, are lined with pink satin, and the
shams are berring-boned with silk. Nearly
all the squares are decorated, some with hand
painting, others with applique, and still others
with Kensington, and outline Remington.
The quilt is bound with velvet, and the shams
are bordered vita rich antique lace. The
quilt is to be voted for, and will become the
property of the most popular of the three gen.
erals-Gen. Brown, Gen. Mattocks and Gen.
Fessenden. At noon yesterday, the ladies Of
this table had sold $4S.15 worth of goods.
The miscellaneous table has novelty in the
form of the voting. A large quantity of tin
and glass ware, chair and table are to be
voted to the Old Gentlemen's Home, at ten
cents ticket This is an enterprise owing it's
existence to the genial and efficient Mrs. Hen
~ Taylor, whose name will be remembered in
connection with an entertainment given in
April in behalf of the same charity. Mrs.
Taylor's clerks yesterday were Mrs r. Sawyer,
Mrs. Hall Davis, Mrs. J. #. Hawkes., Mrs. f.
Glidden, Mr.. Irving Mcclellan and Mr..
French.
TheG.A.R. table at neon yesterday had taken
$184.54, besides their raffles on which they
have progressed admirably. one young lady
having sold 5000 worth of tickets on the
Attleboro watch.
AT the mineral water booth the "Soldier end
Sailor" guess cake was drawn by Mrs. B. F.
Kinds whose guess was pounds and ounces.
Mrs. Hines generously donated the cake to be
voted to the most popular of the executive
committee thus giving the fair double bsne-
fit. Another handsome cake takes its place on
the mineral stand.
Rines Brothers were in charge of the dry
goods department yesterday and Mrs. E.
Armsby served as their clerk.
The drug store did good business and was
attended by Mr.. A. W. Smith, Mr.. j. B. Tot
ten, Mr.. Fl. P. s. Goold, Mr. and Mrs. S. B.
Graves, Mr.. j. 81. Crockett, Miss Eva Smith
and Miss BERTHE Hall. Patrons of the grocery
department were waited upon by the affable
Mr.. G. G. Shaw. They claim TO be doing a
very good business. The clerks serving yester-
day at the boot stand were Mr.. L. M. Douglass,
Mr.. Deane, Mr.. Geo. S. Atkins. The trade
here Tuesday amounted to about $50. Judging
by the constant crowd that gathered at the can
dy booth and soda fountain the G. A. r. is
meeting with assured success.
The flower booth, under the aesthetic eve of
Mr.. Harry Brown wears its customary lovely
and is doing thriving business.
Tuesday they took $38.
The following is list of those who have
made donations to the flower booth:
Mrs. Giles O. Bailey, flowers; Mrs. Beck, cut
flowers; Joseph Dirwanger, flowers; G. A. bennett,
flowers; Miss Robe, Gorham large and fine lot OF
mowers; X: M Gould, city, flowers; Miss Mary G..
Mrs. William P. Preble, flowers; Mrs. Mary A.
Breen, Gorham flowers.
The refreshment room presents it's usual
busy and brilliant aspect and receives the
universal patronage it merits. Every day
fresh flowers appear upon its tables, which
were yesterday laden with baskets of apple
blossoms that made the whole room sweet with
their fragrance. Tho pleasant faces and eff
Gent management of the committee, as wall
as the appetizing dainties served, elicit many
admiring remarks The PRESS reporter de.
sires to acknowledge the special courtesies re-
ceived from Miss Fanny Chadwick, Mrs. B. A.
Perkins and Mrs Weston f. Milliken. The
ladies on the committee to-day will be:
First Parish-Mrs. George Cram Mrs j. O.
Mrs. G. Chadwick, Mrs. James Marrett.
Park Street Mrs. j. II. Fletcher, Mrs. Frederick
Storer, Mrs. E. A. Noyes.
AbyFsinian Church-Mrs. Ruby Miss Butler
High Street-Mrs. P. II. Brown, Mrs. William
M. Marks.
RELIC DEPARTMENT.
Not the least interesting feature OF the
great fair is its relic department to which his
tory and antiquity and patriotism have sent
their eloquent representatives, where the art
of the present becomes the rude barbarism of
the past, where the record of today gives
place to the stern record of yesterday, where
the silence and beauty of peace are merged in
the bloodshed and horror of war, where imag-
ination and retrospection fill the gallery of the
mind with noble pictures Here are repre-
scented the prehistoric, early historic, and mod
ern historic eras in our nations history, the
first containing the relics of the mound-build-
ers and the Indians. The relics are under the
direct supervision of Major c. 81 Boyd, who
is sufficiently enthusiastic to please any stu
dent of archaeology and will, while displaying
the arrow heads, spears, broken vessels, bits
of pottery, corn grinders, axes, &c., intersperse
his descriptive matter with interesting facts
and anecdotes all bearing more or less directly
upon the subject. We saw many very beau
tiful arrow heads of jasper in the case contain
ing the relics of the mound builders, which
were all found south of latitude 40 in the ter
ritory of the mound builders These relics are
estimated to be from 1000 to 1900 years old
and embrace many cunningly wrought and
curious vessels fashioned from clay and
showing by their shape and decoration the
taste of the ancients. portion of a clay bur-
ial case fills one with curiosity as within these
crumbliDg mausoleums have been found the
dust of the dead and the skeleton enamel of
teeth. The clay from which SO many articles
were made by these extinct races seems to be
mingled with oyster shells; indeed, the frag-
ments are plainly visible in piece which we
infinitely examined.
A later day relic, found among these curl.
osities is two of the few silver Macmillan
dollars that we're ever coined. A plain silver
ring, once the property of Osceola. chief of the
Seminoles, and given by him to Sir Thomas
Boylston Adams, is on exhibition; also ring
made by Confederate soldier while in prison,
from coat button and shirt button, with no
implement except jackknife. The coat but
ton forms the body of the ring and is of black
horn into which fragments of the shirt button
are inserted as stars. 1t is very skilful piece
Of work.
The Indian Case contains an assortment of
valuable and interesting relics of which we
have only space to mention some wampum
beads, curious and pretty drinking cup fash
toned from bone, large dish which must have
been hewn from the stone of which it is fash
toned with immense labor and pains, flint
knives, rare pieces of Jasper, &C., &c. We
would advise all who visit the fair to remem-
Der this department. The second era includes
the French and Revolutionary and Indian
Wars, the father of our stately country, the
generals who fought their primitive battles
with primitive weapons, and all the great and
good men who endured the hardships and
strife and suffering that laid the corner stone
of our glorious Republic. Washington, (who
seems not to be here remembered by the hatch
ct story, which would, we always believed, be
better expressed by changing the final in
Ratchet to I'd, y has sent in his check to the
Memorial Fair for what amount we did not
ascertain and can only testify to the aesthetic
hue which age has tinted the paper. A SOL
dier's discharge from the army in 1888 also
bears our first great ruer's signature. Henry
Kpox's check, dated 1898, is also here, payable
at sight. A paymaster's valise I'll at was car
ried through the war of 1872, reminds one of
the professional drummers handbag. Gen.
La ,ayette comes down to us on one of his
badges of light pink satin, and a pink satin
bulletin containing President Jefferson
inaugural address. reminds US how dear to our
self-denying fore-fsthers must have been the
words of national wisdom to lead to such ex-
traVagance. Here is petition filed during
the King Philip war asking exemption from
taxation, because of the petitioners previous
imprisonment by the Indians, and IL old deeds
dating back to 1860. These valuable docu-