Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-14
BRIlIING SUCCESS
CrsIls The Closing Day d tha
State Fair.
n Greatest CaIlleads Exhibit BIa
Seel b Lain
Witnessed By ths oovssnos and obs,
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Fridays weather and the eightses thousand
people Who enjoyed it by attending the State
Fair nlled to brimming the socistys cup Of
succesA. It Is estimated that over 5,000
people have attended during the week.
The receipts Of Thsrs.iay we're go. .Ass 81.
Ths total rsceipss to iass ~ eis .ss7.s3.
The balloon ascension today vas the only
failure smong al the festarss advertised.
| That Csvaioads.
A delight to the eye was the gra j cAral-
cade That st.rted at II 80 this forenoon. II
made the fns ss exhibit of prize animals in
Maine ever witnessed. Broad backed oxen,
cows suggestive of yellow cream. with lives
by their sides, and neishiag stations made =
dazzling panorama.
The granl stand was crowded as early as
= quarter before eleven and the expt Giant
audience waited three quarters of an hour
for the cavzleade to form. Not until every
hair was in its proper place could the grooms
be induced TO bring forth the royal creatures.
At li.30 the procession started First
| came corps of the State Fair police. Next
followed Chambers band Of Portland with
Elias Jackson. besrskin and baton, doing the
grand. Then barge with the prominent
officials Of the State Fair and Pathological
Society; Gov. Burleigh and Gen. Sprxgue
of Auburn, came next in = phsetou.
In the three seated canopy top carriage Of
w. W. Bolster, rode Mr.. Bolster, Ex Gov.
Robie and National Master of the Grange
Brigham, with Mrs. Robie, Mrs. W. W.
Bolster and Mrs. J. q. A. Bolster.
Attracted Special Attention.
Bert Hilton Of North Anson drove four
in-hand team Of Welsh ponies. His father
was in the carriage with him.
Little Brown jug was there. This horse
is fourteen years old. His record 10 . / 81
made at Hartford in 1881. His stall has
been one of the centres of attraction In the
horse department.
A noble looking animal is the stallion Ge-
mare from Sanborn's Elnbrook Farm at
Poland. "He is a horse worth going quite a
way to see" was remark by one Of the by
ISLANDERS.
The Lewiston won Ter Seer 10 u clean
limbed and beautiful specimen Of horse
aesb Among other fine horses were DR..
Franklin and Col. West, the sire Of the
famous three-year-oid Westland. Draft
horses followed and gentlemen's driving
horses The cattle followed in the following
order: Oxen. steers. calves, Shorthorns.
Herefords, Holsteins, Poiled Angus, Guern-
seys, Maine Herd Book Jerseys, American
Cattle Club Jerseys, Devonshre, Sussex and
Grade Shortborns.
A Young lady Yields the goad at the cattle
exhibit. 1t was Miss Grace II. Bosworth OF
Scion. She WAS dressed in jsunty yachting
suit Of navy blue and white and wore q pure
white fore-snd-sft cap.
Miss Bosworth is charming young lady
of sixteen summers. She drove at the head
of the procession a pair of ten-monh-old
steers. She drove them in the contest last
Wednesday. capturing frst prize. She is a
great lover of horses and cattle. Her father
says it i. surprising hox she can manage the
animals.
J. s. Sanborn of Elmwood Farm had a
goodly number of animals in the cavslca'le.
His cattle took six first prizes, three seconds
and three thiris.
Mr.. Bosworth. Of Solon, had his goad stick
decorated with ribbons won at Bangor and
Lewiston.
Jotham Whipple, of Solon, drove bis oxen
with ribboned stick which had four blue,
two red and two " hite ribbons,