The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-12


sounds of preparation we're heard on
every hand, yet the races opened prompt
ly at the advertised hour with the usual
attendance on an opening day A number
of trotters had arrived on Saturday, but
the enterprise of Miss Matte Nicols, who
had charge of the w. q. T. U. dining
rooms, was equal to the emergency, for
upwards of thirty persons were enter
tanned at their rooms on that day. On
Wednesday the weather moderated some
what and the second day showed large
increase in the number of exhibits many
of which had been entered before, and
with them an attendance of visitors to all
appearances equal for second day to that
of any previous exhibition. On Thurs.
day the chill Northwestern yielded to the
mellow rays of the autumn sun, and as
beautiful day as could be wished wit
messed grand concourse of visitors. The
athletic sports were the feature of the
morning followed by series of we'll
contested races that kept the grand
stand filed until sundown. On Friday
still larger attendance followed, the
athletic amusements of the morning
being succeeded by excellent races in the
afternoon.
| AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.
| AS at previous exhibitions the ample
| lawn to the left of the main entrance was
this year devoted 10 the display of Agr-
| cultural Machinery. Prominent in the
| foreground were several of those inevita-
BILE but no less useful adjuncts of every
fair ground, the patent windmills for
pumping water, for the use of either man
or beast. Three of them were on exhibit
ton this year, the Adams a well-known
and most excellent machine which our
| fellow townsman and machinist Mr. Geo
| McQui;kin of the Enterprise Works rec
| omnerds to his customers and which he
will Pr up for them with neatness and
dispatch, the AermOtor exhibited by
Messrs. Pussy s. Co., of Havre de Grace,
Nd, and the Kirkwood manufactured at
the Progress Machine Works at Sum-
merfield. Maryland. Close by them, Mr.
Franklin Bird OF Bird & Sons manufac-
turers of the wrll-known Sulky Cultiva-
tors at Rising Sun in this County, exhi-
bited what he claims is the best device
ever invented for hanging common board
or farm gates-that is, The Nep Combined
Hinge and Roller for which M ssrs Hind
man and Bird, of the Rising Sun, are the
sole agents in Maryland
A step or two brings the visitor to the
very handsome display of the Walter A.
Wood Moaoing and Reapisg Machine Com.
pany's exhibit, which We understand our
townsman Mr. George MeQnilkin was
largely instrumental in bringing here,
and which machine he will handle and
sell next season. We are not paid to puff
this machine, but any one who has an
eye for machinery must be taken with it,
for as a we'll known farmer of this County
remarked to us while watching it operate,
that it was the neatest worker, as we'll as
the lightest he had yet seen. 1t is a
single canvas open end machine. 1t has
just been exhibited at the Paris EXPOSE
tion where it Was in competition with
the machlues of the world, and where it
was awarded Grand Prize. The same
company also exhibits it's latest improved
mower with tedder attachment. The
Company makes handsome display on
he do hoi hri,r
pavilion being an attractive feature of
the exhibition.
Near by Mr. L D Horst represented Geo
s Fox, of Rising Sun with fine display
of Patent Extension Ladders. Mr. Horst
shows a very neat device in the shape of
an office or Library Chair, which can be
quickly converted into step ladder.
Mr. W E Voorhees, exhibited close by, the
American Champion Road Machine made
at Kennett Square, which is highly rec
commended by those who know its
merits
A prominent EXHIBIT in this portion of
the grounds was that of Messrs c Lee
& Sons of Baltimore who exhibit the i'm
proved Whitley Binder. and the Whitley
two Horse and one Horse Mowers. The
"Whitely" Solid Steel Mowers, Reapers
and Binders are manufactured by the
William N Whitley Company. Springfield,
OHIO, successors to the Champion Har-
vesting Machinery. In other words they
are the we'll known and popular Cham
pion Machines improved and developed
until as their agents claim for them they
nearer approach perfection than any other
other machinery of their class in the
market. The Binder has an improved
gearing on the Master Wheel, has full
steel frame all around, has new positive
Knotter, and is an open end machine al
lowing the passage of grain of any length.
The same firm had on exhibition and in
motion, one of their newest Steel Broad
Tread Mowers.
Mr. George Witworth exhibited one of
those we'll known Farm Wagons the
| Champion,
| William H Hyland, of Galena, Md;
showed the Champion Farm Roller one
of the best in the market.
Coolidge, of Dover, Del. exhibited
the well-known Deering Binder, and the
Deering Mo yer of which Bryson & JEFF
fers of Elkton are the agents for Cecil
County.
P c Strickland exhibited the famous
Bickford and Huffman Wheat Drill, and
Reid's Creamery Appliances. He showed
also very superior Plated Wire for
fencing.
John F Curry, Jr.; of 934, N 4th street,
Philadelphia, exhibited the Farmers
Handy Gate of which over one hundred
thousand are now in use.
Mr.. Harvey Kimble representing the
firm of Wilson, Pugh, & Wilson Carriage
Manufacturers of Oxford, Pa showed a
number of different styles of their work.
| CIV Horn. of Wilmington, exhibited
handsome carriages of his workmanship,
and Andrew Anderson, of North East ex-
hibited the Bulett Patent Cart made by
a company of that name at Bel Air, Md
Immediately at the entrance to the
Agricultural pavilion, Mr. Thomas H
Travers the agent of Woodbridge & Co.;
had pitched his handsome little tent. Or.
chilla Guiana which he sings the praises
of, is too we'll known on the market for
us to praise.
H s. Miller & Co 202 Buchanan's Wharf
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