Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-09-03
IMMENSE CROWD.
Over Fifteen Thousand In Mum.
Der Were Present.
The First Pair Day Of The Eastern Stats
Paif.
Governor BurIsish and STAFF were In
Attsodapcs During the Day.

Special to the KESxEBEc JougsAL.l
BAsGos, Sept. 2.-Notwiihstaading the
rain Of yesterday, which gave the track
| srounds and streets . thorough soaking, the
marolng opered favorable, tae track was in
very good condition by noon, and Al im-
menss crowd ~ss present in the afternoon,
numbering fully fifteen thousand psopIa.
About ~ 7. NJ Governor Burlsigh and
staf came upon The grounds accompanied
by President Of the Fair, Hon. J. 7. Bass
The meTabeis Of the Governors sisif
accompanying him we're: Adjt. Gen. II.
VI. Sprague, Military Secretary, Col. L
&. Stevens. Col. Geo. A. Philbrook, Col.
| u. A. Robinson, Col, Chss. p. Allen, Col
+ ID I'ullen, Col. Geo. L. Thompson,
| Col. ii. Z. Mcdonald, and Col. Chss. A.
Ctfil. Among the ladies' accompanying
the party were Mrs. Col. Robinson, Mrs.
Col. Mcdonald, Mrs. Col. Pullen and Mrs.
j. Z. Base. After visiting some Of the
leading stables among item Mr.. Webb's,
Mr.. Po1ler's and Mr.. Hsley's, the Gov
etnor and party tnok seats in the private
balcony in front Of the grand stand and
witnessed the races Of the afternoon.
The weather sss delightful and the at
tendance very large. There seems TO have
Geen but one annoy ing feature upon the
ground, and that is the preyslt e Of such
hoard of noisy huesst.rs and fakirs Of all
Kinds sad conditions. whose uncessing clat-
ter is so boisterous as to completely drown
cut all enjoyment of the Legitimate features
Of the exhibition. An immense crowd Of
people may be expected upon the Park to-
morrow if the weather snould be fair, as it
now promises.
The Exhibit In Ciy.
The exhibits in No,ombega and City halls
are much better arranged than ever before.
The collections are meritorious, better
disposed, aud il possible, arranged in q
more artistic manner than at any fair for
some years past. City hail is a perfect
bower of fine taste and beauty in the realms
of nature and srt-for here are displayed
the contributions in fruit, flowers and fine
ars. The wall space upon the stage is hung
with oiis, water cOlors, pencil and crayo
pieces; art embroidery is attrsctively sus
pended from the front Of the gale ries,
where many crAyon portraits are also hung
in front of the stage upon the floor are
cases of art china, back of which upon the
stage f1or are exhibitions of begoniss and
other fohags plants The right wall Of the |
hail under tie gallery is banked with racks
of cut h1wers, white the opposite wal
is devoted 10 pot plants and the |
tall-growlDg, ti1 Eering plants and bulbs rs
gladiolss, dahliss, hydrsngsas. Upon the
floor are seven tables devoted to apples and !
pears and one to table decorations, bou-
Que;s, floral design, and baskets of cut
tlwers. The plumber of pieces in the fne
art department run up to two hundred sd |
fifty. The collection of fruit is by Do
mesns representative of what Maine Or
chsris can produce later in the season. but |
/. is very much more extensive and the |
fruit is more perfect than could be sup |
posed, when il is remembered that every |
spe linen shown must have been gathered |
IN August. A general survey of the ext
hibits in the departments of fruit and |
n,wers shows the following summing
Plates of apples, 672 plates of pears, 1874
plates of crab spples, 81; pmsls
of cut fJwers, 1915; forsl designs, AZ
vases Of cut flowers. SO; po! plants, l30,
The Fruit Display
The apples sre well srrsnged and 10 the
varieties q early apples is quite satisfac-
tory, Most OF the late fall and winter sorts
sre hardly recognizable, snd it is hard to
believe thst the small colorless things are
really the same apples IS we shall see later
on lsrg. and beautifully colored. In gen
eral collections The society strictly limits
xhibits to twenty varieties, although most
Ot the exhibitors have more ard some show
IS many as seventy five varieties. The
leading and slmost the only exhibitors in
collections are s c Harlow, Bangor; o
L Lsrrsbee. West Levsnt; Frank Prescott,
Newburg; Mrs A B S,rstlsnd,
Monroe; Alorzo Butler, uaion; G,
W Snow. Ne.oury; J g Ben
noch, Orono; d. T. True, Leeds
Center; A Il. Harrington, Holden; L. l..
Rollins, Garland. and Rev. B. Otis, New
burg These collections are well selected
snd arranged in good manner for intelli-
gent Examination. The table in compett-
ion for best single variety comprises l15
plates. Some of the earlier varieties are
we'll grown and worth looking at, but gen.
erslly they fail in character and are unsstis-
What else could be expected: A
few exceptions are noted; Williams fav-
orite are shown by o. L. Lsrrabee, West
Levanr, and S. G. Harlow, Bangor. The
best Winthrop Greetings are those exhibit
ed by T. iiafiov ard Inc pest benHo"eI
by D True, Leeds Centre. Mr.. Harlow
and Mr. Lsrrsbee both show well grown
Somersets. Fine specimens OF the Rolfe
are exhibited by L L Rollins, Garland.
Sixteen plstes of Red AstrschaDs besu,i-
fully set of one end Of the
table, the finest plates being those Of Rev
3 Ous, Neaberg and G w Snos. New
hurg. Fine Early Boughs are exhibited by
W II Stewart. Levsnt. Mr. Harlow shows
fine Fall Pippius and Early Harvest. d
z True exhipits the best plate of Grsvens
teins in the hail Twelve plates of
Duchess of Oldenhurg make up an sttrsc-
i've corner on this table. Mr.. True
clearly taking the lead with plate Of msg-
nifcert specimens Of this variety. The
bes, plate Of Bells Early is shown by A. II
Harrington, Holden; and of Alexanders
by Rev d Otis. The tables of apple are |
very attractive with their decorations Of
table bouquets snd cut flowers arranged
sm,ng 2 ,he dishes of fruit with fine TASTE |
SHUT UP
in the house one is apt to be