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

ity of the gentlemen whose name it bears
was as usual the centre of large crowd.
of interested visitors. Possibly the mos
conspicuous and interesting exhibit wa.
that of the Maryland Agricultural Exper
iment Station at Agricultural College
located in Prince Georges County, il
this State, and which was in. charge OF
Mr. II ] Patterson, Chemist of the Sta
ton, assisted by Mr. VIM S Keech, senior
cadet in the State Agricultural College
The exhibits consisted of numerous spec.
linens of wheat, corn and oats intended to
show the number of varieties of each,
and their relative superiority as ascer-
tanned by actual tests at the station. The
samples exhibited were not shown as the
best of each variety, but rather to ex-
hibit the average growth of each kind.
Twenty-Five varieties of corn, thirty
varieties of wheat and thirty varle-
ties of oats were shown, the exhibit
embracing the perfect grain, as we'll as
the matured plant of each variety exhib-
iting its size in lengths and weight of
straw. A very interesting feature also
of this exhibit were the results of the
analyses of different qualities of milk, as
object lessons in the chemistry of food,
the relative quantities OF water, of fat
and other chemical constituents of differ
emit qualities of milk being shown by
actual analyses. The gentlemen in charge
of this exhibit we're intelligent and cour-
teous. Prof. Henry E. Alvord, Director
of the Station, and President Of the State
Agricultural College, being present at
the exhibition on Thursday. Of the
trades displays in this building that of
the well-known firm of Philadelphia
Clothiers,
wANAMAKER s. BROWN,
was the most attractive. This firm is
proverbial for its good judgment in the
selection of its representatives on such
occasions. Mr.. E. D. Fulmer, who had
the display in charge, showed most ex-
cellent taste and skill in the arrangement
of his exhibits. OF course he had good
material to work upon, for glance at
the goods he displayed showed their true
Wansmaker s. Brown stamp, but for all
that the arrangement showed the artistic
eye and assisting hand of the master
workman in his particular line. We have
no desire to be Ful-some, but Ful-mer,
unrelieved by the handsome background
of w & BIS artistic suits, would have
been in the nobly suit he woref an excell-
ed advertisement for any first class mer-
chant tailor. Besides he was so cour-
teously attentive to the wants and de-
mands of the constant crowd which good
natured withall- pressed about him, that
it was pleasant picture to watch the
neatness and dispatch with which he
loaded each prospective customer of this
popular house with souvenirs of w & B.
These consisted of beautiful panel pic.
lures, neat and useful leather card re-
ceivers and leather purses which the gen.
erosity of his firm supplied in thousands,
tor gratuitous distribution. OF all SINH
lar exhibits at the Elkton Fairs i'll pre-
vious year, Mr.. Fulmer has done the best
thing this year by his latest and best in
PRODUCTION to our people of this enterprls-
ing Philadelphia firm his beautiful
automatic buyler of the city troop, being
as attractive to the young folks, as his
equally artistic suits we're to the older
ones.
In our notice of these exhibits in
Mitchell Hall Mr. Joseph Guest, and his
enterprise in the line of monuments and
work ae not to be overlooked.
THE WHITE BRONZE METAL
which he displayed miniature monu-
ment of, is fast supeIseding granite and
marble for cemetery work. Composed of
pure zinc it outrivals brouze in durability
and the handsome designs in which it is
outrival in beauty the
work of the stone cutters chisel
A noticeable exhibit in the hall was
the handsome case containing beautiful
dental work exhibited by DIR c r Pullen,
Of Chesapeake City. Art rivals nature
in the line of molars and incisors, and DR.
Pullen, Judging by the samples of his
work, although living in the country is
in no sense nevertheless country dem
tst.
In musical instruments, Mr.. G. A.
Saner represented the well-known Heine-
kamp Piano., of Baltimore, the tones of
which attracted the passing visitors in
his section of the hall.
LADIES' FANCY NEEDLEwoRK.
In this Department although the exhi-
bits were not as numerous as last year
owing to the fact that not as many spe-
cial premiums were offered, yet in quality
and variety, of artistic needle work the ex-
hibition was large and varied. Among
the exhibitors in this Department whose
were particularly notice
able we're the following: Mrs. C. G.
Norris, of Wilmington. Del; Miss Mag
gle d. Hutchinson and Sue N. Hutchinson,
of Oxford, Pa; NJ. E. Barton, of Mar
shalton, DEL; Miss Ellen Wetherill, of
Elkton, Nd; Miss Eva Gilpin, of Elkton;
S. W. Moore, of Rising Sun, Maria Rick
etts. Ellen Barroll, Mrs. DR.. Bratton,
Bertha McNeal, Mrs W. j. Smith, Emma
Heatzig, Mrs. Heatzig, Flora Ash, Mrs.
Mary White, Rinie Jones, Mrs. j. S.
Writ, Minnie Hall, Maggie Ricketts,, L.
Heath, c. Thackery, Mrs. Benjamin
Annie Bryan, Mrs. Thomas
Shallcross, Mrs. R. G. Thackery, Mrs.
John Wilkinson, Mrs. C. NJ. Boulder,
Mrs. Harry Larzelere, Kate Miller, Anna
Hart, Mrs. Charles Perkins, Mrs. VIM.
T. Boulder, Mrs. H. LsDuc, Mrs. Thos.
McIntire, Mrs. L. K. Bowen, Mrs. Emma
Titus, Mrs. Addie Wilson, Cora lamar,
A. j. Hogg, Mrs. Jas. o. Shippers, BERTHE
White, Ella Harvey, Bessie Miller, Mrs.
Il. M. Cameron, Stella Collins, Mrs.
Frank E. Pennington, Mrs. Mary E. H.
lamar, Leah E. Giles, s. Y. Weth-
GRILL, Miss Maria Ricketts,, Mary McCul-
Tough, Florence Tuite, M. A. Gilpin, Mrs.
George A Blake, Lizzie Hughes, Effie
Smith, Mrs. John E Thomas, Tabitha
Jones. all of Elkton; Mrs Henry Baer, of
Delta, Pa. Mrs c c Garrett, Wilmington,
DEL; Clara E Countiss, of Wilmington,
DEL; Miss Beckey j. Slaymaker of Ian
caster, Pa; M. Clement, Smyrna, Del;
Mrs Paul T Arbuckle, Cherry Hill, Cecil
County; Miss Ella Todd, Newark, DEL;
Miss Lou Simcoe, Bay View; Mary