The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-23
THE STATE FAIR.
Second Day of the Great Exhi-
bition.
The Fine Display in the Exhibition
Buildings.
Fast Trotting by Various Maine
Horses.
Doings of the Crowds at the
Grounds.
Especial to the PRESS. ]

| GFOun0S.
Especial to the PREss]
LEWISTON, Sept. 22.-The fine weather of
Monday has continued this morning and the
thousand people on the grounds have had
first rate chance to see the exhibit The
delayed entries have now arrived and the
programme will be carried out as announced.
In the exhibition building great change
is apparent since yesterday. The exhibits
are in their proper place and the attendants
have arrived and begun to show their wares
and sit at the rapidly moving machinery ex-
planning by their deft operations the work OF
each piece of mechanism better than any
| written description could do it. Entering
| the building at the main entrance, in the
| north wing the visitor passes through fine
| collection of road wagons and bicycles. The
| ground floor in the east wing is occupied by
the display ofIbutter and cheese. .ssThe golden
colored butter presents fine appearance
with its handsome stamping and attracts
much attention.
The New Gloucester Creamery has show
case filed with rich butter that makes the
mouth water to merely look at it. hand
some tablet composed of butter in the mid
die of the exhibit bears the words, "Organ-
lied June 5, 49, All the squares bear
handsome stamps. WI. Wilson & Co.,
George c. Shaw, Amos Millett and William
Milliken sell the greater part of the butter,
| and the squares are stamped with their
names.
| The Turner Centre Dairying Association
| show handsome case of butter containing
various forms, among them being large
| head of man, all cut from the solid cakes
| The improvements recently made in agri-
| cultural implements receives exemplifcation
| in the show of churns. There are churns of
all shapes and sizes, churns that revolve and
churns that swing back and forth on the
| principle of the pendulum. Our grand
mothers who so patiently worked the up-and-
down dasher of the old-fashioned churning
apparatus would be struck dumb with as
tonishment at this display of labor-saVing
butter makers.
In the second story among the most no
ticeable of the exhibits is that of the North
Wayne Tool Company, who show large
black frame on the surface of which is tasti-
ly arranged a collection of scythe blades,
axe heads and various other sharp-edged
implements.
The Hallowell Granite Company exhibit
large number of photographs of their work,
embracing the large monuments made by
them and large number of smaller objects.
In the west wing Commissioner Ham is
putting the final touches to his exhibition.
Among this fine collection is an assortment
of 100 kinds of beans, the exhibit of J. d.
GrnnO1aof nf
Maine minerals and also fine assortment of
tourmalineS are a credit to the collector N
ID. Perry of South Paris.
The working models of the three-masted
schooner Fleetwing and the full-rigged ship
Leon Martel, of Brewer, give fine impress
sion of the perfection reached by Names
shipbuilders in this important industry.
The Maine State prison harnesses are on
exhibition here, and the specimens are made
in the thorough and handsome manner for
which the work of the institution is noted.
The Lisbon paint mine makes a good ex-
hibit of its products and the manufacture of
Greenwoods ear protectors keeps busy sew
eral young ladies and draws a crowd of spec
tators.
Pearline soap is on exhibition, and samples
of it are given away.
Whitney Bros, of Lewiston, make fine
display of articles for angling and sporting
Rods, reels and flies of all descriptions are to
be seen in the cases, and will make the heart
of the sportsman rejoice.
W. F. Furbush & Son of Portland, exhibit
ten of the Wilcox & White organs and pianos.
The instruments are all fine ones, and their
| quality is shown by an attendant, who plays
all the popular music.
| A fine collection of domestic and foreign
grasses is placed near the exhibit of organs
| Compliments are freely expended on the
/ Goodwin metamorphosic bed attachment,
manufactured by the Goodwin Invalid Bed
Attachment Company of Portland. Presi-
dent John NJ Mitchell, of the company, is at
the grounds, and explains the working of
this combined bed, chair and lounge to spec
tators.
In the south wing, ON the third floor, the
odor of honey Is strong, and the hum of the
bees exhibited here makes pleasant music.
W. U. Morton shows fine colony of bees in
a movable house, through the glass sides of
which the little insects may be seen swarm
ing back and forth. The honey on the
shelves here looks rich and tempting j. B.
Mason, of Mechanic Falls, shows some fine
Italian bees.
The rest of this floor is occupied by the
Maine State Pathological Society, whose ex-
| hibt was not put in shape until this MORN
ing. A view taken yesterday impressed one
| most favorably with the showing of the as
| sociation, but gave no impression of the fine
| display of today: The display of apples is
particularly large and fine, many exhibitors
! having placed their fruit on the tables since
| yesterday. Through a mistake the descrip-
| ton cards of the exhibits in this department
were found to be insufficient, and it is rather
difficult to determine the owners of some of
the fruit.
In addition to the exhibits mentioned in
| the PRESS of today, S. L. Farwell of Cum
| berland Centre displays eight varieties of
| apples, and of the same fruit A. J. Osgood,
| Cumberland Centre, has nine varieties; S.
| r. Sweetser, 20varieties; G. d. Sweetser, ex-
hibit of Williams Favorite variety; d. B.
| Winslow, Cumberland Centre, Hub. None
such variety; and T. M. Merrill New CLIQUE
| ester, makes fine display of apples.
William Dyer Of Cape Elizabeth shows 3S
kinds of apples, and T NJ. Merrill has a
| plate of handsome Transcendant crab ap-
| pies.
Perez S. Burr of Freeport displays hand
some collection of roses, and the flowers ex-
hibited by Mrs. Sawyer of Wiscasset are
worthy of especial mention.
| The vegetable exhibit occupies the north
wing of this story and is valuable collec-
ton of all kinds of vegetables, including
huge squashes and pumpkins, cabbages and
fine varietiesgof other vegetables. j. Ernest
Hammond of Bauneg Beg, York county, ex-
hibits some handsome heads of the White
Plume celery, and L. FL. Blossoms exhibit
of various kinds of vegetables from his farm
in Turner Centre occupies the whole of one
side of the wing. Mammoth Squashes are
exhibited by NJ. P. Hawkins of Auburn,
whose specimen of the Mammoth Chilli vari
ETY. weighs 1o74 pounds and that of the EN-
pire State variety tips the scales at 100.
Other exhibits in the pomological display
| are Mrs G. NJ Phanauf'c of DIVISION who