Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-06
PAIRFIELD'S FAIREST
Participate in the Grand Celebration Of
Her Centennial.
Exhibits of Ancient and Modern Fair
field.


the long talked of cayalcade and it was in
deed grand sight, over 20 teams ard NOR,
than l25 fine horses were in line. f. Z
Mayo, made very fine looking Marshal
! Misses Gerald, SOule, Dares, and Mrs
Goodridge on horse back acted as an escor
for the carriages, which contained some OF
our older citizens. Then came a pranc.
ing four in hand drawing a barouche
in which were seated Hon. s. A. Nye. presi.
dent Of the Board of Trade and owner of the
largest lumber mill, with F. B. Purington
w. g. Rice and James Tibbetts, his head
men in the business. The driver, Lester
Nye, received many compliments for his
skilful handling OF the reins. Following this
were fourfour horse teams with lumber sup
plies, and on one woods campwith smoke
coming from he chimney while hunter
with his game on his back was just coming
in. On the outer wall was hung cooking
utensils and pair of snow shoes. The
whole affair was perfect. Next came a car
riage With Hon. Nahum Totman and F. NJ.
Totman followed by two four horse teams
loaded with lumber representing the long
established firm of n. Totman Il Sons
ToiIoN ing TINS III llllt was tHATits Luce 5
team with implements for moving buildings.
The fire department, ancient and modern
and then in order came display of the ice
industry express team +. }. Savage with
an exhibit from the grist mill; G. A. Savage.
groceries; IL. Flsod, coal team and building
materials the Fairfield journal with its print
ing press in full operation; Wiggin 4 Nye,
Hammond, Neil Gregory, King Eaton, Chi
cago Beef Company. Allh nice teams next
we find two carriages with A. II. Dus, F..
f.. Hammond, c. L. Dunn and Ed DAILY !;
then handsome ,ix-horse team from the
firm of A. II. & c.. Duren :;
the pulp mill display and then
large and very unique display by Often, the
baker, cooking goodies for the crowd. l..
Dow, the egg king was out with his team
loaded with egg boxes. w. II. Hatch of the
Fairfield shoe store, made fine show, as did
our popular sally, the tailor" The hand
some Lawrence" was in the procession, and
A. +. Gerald had four handsome colts, in
Guiding Longway and Combat. George
Small came with his new city hack, helping
also in the brilliant array.
The Grafton by Hon. II. NJ. Heath Of Au-
gusta, was listened TO with eagerness through
out. Below is an abstract:
If some good citizen or this ancient town,
who was laid away among his fathers a hun
dred years ago, could come out of his grave
today. what would he think of the sight.
about him? The telegraph wires flashing
messages across continent would seem too
high for wire fence. The iron horse spout
ing fire and steam would remind him of the
tabled monsters of the deep and perchance
send him back to his grave in terror. If he
saw neighbor speaking at the wall and pre-
tending to talk with "a friend in Watervllle,
his first impulse would be to rouse up old
Cotton Mather and have the necromancer
tried for witchcraft. He would think you
daft if you assured him that after dark you
intended to illuminate the town with light
ming manufactured expressly for the occa-
sion. Tell him that electricity is kept on
storage for sale, and he would shake his
head in pity at your loss of common sense
Show him prosperous farmer ploughing
with a sulky plow, and he would moraize
over the lazy degeneracy from the good old
times when he used a wooden plow. The
moving machine, reaper, harvester, thresh
ing machine and the vast line of machines
that have made agriculture "a science would
be marvels. The only sewing machine he
knew was the one he married. But sewing
machines driven by lightning he would ask
you not to tax his credulty too much. The
old gentleman would amble off to his grave
satisfied that the whole world had become
crazy. If the next century is equally inven-
tive who can foresee the advance of civiliza-
ton. We are surprised at nothing If Edi-
son should announce tomorrow that he had
discovered process for raising the dead the
world would gravely say, what next and
organize a stock company to develope the
invention. | enter a protest against the liv
er complaint that characterizes the present
as below the past in morals, in thought or in
action. Each day the world grows better,
man nobler, civilization broader. History
moves in straight lines, not in rythmic peri
DDS National greatness is not always pro-
gress. Greatness purchased by war is an
investment that yields no dividends. Rather
is 1t a speculation that ends in the bankrupt
cy of hope. The nineteenth CEN
tury has been the poor mans era.
That Vanderbilt should leave two hundred
millions and Jay Gould be master of hun
dred millions are facts that furnish food for
sober reflection. But time is the great dis
tributor. Such fortunes must crumble as
surely as the ice beneath the rays of the up
climbing sun. 1t cannot be denied that there
is a wider diffusion of wealth as the years roll
on. That the rich are growing richer and
that the poor are growing poorer is the idle
vaporing of the demagogue who loves the
laboring man for the ballot he controls.
The speaker then went on to compare the
life of a century ago with that of the present
and how step by step the luxuries of the
past had become the necessities of the pres
ent. He then went on to speak of education.
saying that the maintenance of the free
school system falls upon the wealth of the
country but book education is smal Il
factor in human life. The educator Of the
age is the modern newspaper. The cunning
brain that first saw in the tree of the forest
the source of supply for pulp opened the
door to widespread knowledge. Cheap pulp
made the daily of today possible When
the division of profits seems unequal,
it should be remembered that the public
schools, the cost of police, the admin
istration of justice, the protection against
fire, the lighting by night. fall almost wholly
upon fixed and accumulated wealth. Through
taxation the producer has returned to him
some parts of his just and equitable share
The workngman of today has higher and
loftier position in the social scale. Former
ly man of wealth was termed in law gen
tleman," the mechanic goodman" Thi.
feeling of cast found expression in the Law
dhu 10 w ~ I
STYLED master and servants. In this age we
have wiped out all aping after the titles and
distinctions of aristocracy. We find our
selves saying,
when Adam delved and Eve span,
Who then was the gentleman
Labor has won the respect of the world
by first respecting itself. Upoa the
broad principle that the laborer i:
worthy of his hire, lien laws have been uni
versally upheld. The laborer who pines fol
a return to the ways of the fathers should re
member that in place of the old time insecur
ity. our legislation is bristling with jealous
safeguards TO insure his pay.
Nothing in legislation has done more Il
dignity workingmen than the gradual aboli
ton of imprisonment for debt. century
ago, debtors filled our jails, and in Jail ther'
was no poor debtors oath to release them
They were the slaves of their creditors, il
Jail at their mercy. No crime brought 81
many prisoners as the crime of being il
debt. Ii met the same treatment as th'
foulest of offenses. With advancing wealtl
We have grown more just, more charitable
We face the coming century witt
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