The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-09-14
THE COUNTY FAIR.
A Good Show Good Crowds and Good
Races at Gorliaii.

The Cumberland county fdlf WAS
opened yesterday at Gorham under the
most promising conditions. The out
look for successful week was bright
ened by the delightful weather that
marked the initial day. 1t was an ideal
autumnal day and it would have been
almost impossible to have selected
more advantageous opening for the fair.
In this particular respect the large
numbers of lovers of good displays and
excitement as well as the trustees, We're
fortunately favored. If the same admir-
able weather continues for the remain
ing three days there will be no shadow
of a doubt of the grand success of the
Cumberland County Fair. e. u
For the opening day the attendance
was very satisfactory. The fairly good
sized gathering of the morning was
swelled to a large number by the ar
rival of the noon trains. The grounds
were we'll lined with horses and vehicles
of various descriptions, while the grand
stand was about three-fourths filled with
ladies and gentlemen. The Standish
Band, Albert Elwell, leader, discoursed
pleasing music throughout the day.
Special effort in the way of exhibits
has resulted in good showing of nearly
everything of valuable and interesting
type of nature and cultivation. The
horses are as fine collection as has ever
been seen at the county fair and number
about twice as many as ever exhibited at
any previous event. Howard Usher OF
Bonny Eagle has a fine lot of poultry
that attracts good deal of attention.
1t includes among other species a large
number of hen and geese. A large yoke
of Dutch oxen belonging to James Deer
ing of Buxton, and the four yokes of fine
cattle owned by Daniel Emery of Buxton
were much admired. D. W. Clark OF
Portland has display of fine cattle, I'M
Guiding three-year-old Guernsey bull.
The hall is well filled with fancy arti4
Giles of rare design and neat work. An
assortment of vegetables is seen in the
upper hall, which is choice lot OF APP
Piles, pears, peaches, pumpkins, plums,
cherries, etc.
The Atkinson House Furnishing Com
pany has an exhibition OF household
goods. Rines Brothers are in attendance
with a collection of ladies' cloaks. Ira
F. Clark & Co., present a display OF
mems goods, and several pianos are on
trial from the Thurston piano rooms.
The attenention of the visitors is con-
- Ja,,c n 70 diSnlqU of
tables and fruit by Frank G. Harding. A
carrot that very much resembles the
shape of man is among this display,
and is Hastily dressed by the exhibitor.
Many of the farmers were much inter-
ested in a display of ploughs and moving
machines from the Portland Foundry
and Machine Works.
Other exhibitors are Milton Shaw with
fruit, Seth FL. Soule and Mary =. Lowell
with oil paintaings, G. P. Trckey and
William Wescott with choice fruits, f.
H. Emery with line of millinery and
fancy goods and display of good look
ing butter by Mr.. M. j. Freeman.
The Races.
The grand feature of the day, however,
was the trial of horse speed. There were
three contests. The first was for the
2.3S class, for purse of $3.50; the sec
ond for the 800 class, for apurse Of 800,
and the third for one-year-olds, for a
purse of $50. The first race was by far
the most exciting, although the others
were interesting.
There were ten starters in the 2.3S
class out of Is entries. j. A. Trafton's
roam stallion Fred Lothian drew the pole
and got off promptly, taking the lead
and sustaining it to the finish, with W.
Z. Cram bay mare Helen NJ. good sec
ond, and j. S. Jordan's Dolly Ell. third.
The leaders trotted in magnificent shape
and won favorable comments on all sides
Lothian took the lead in the second heat,
and came under the wire ahead, with
Dolly H. close second and Josie Camp
bell third. In the third heat Lothian
again took the lead, and it looked like
three straight heats until the last quar-
ter was reached, when Lothian, who was
leading, with Dolly Ell. and M. T. POOL
er's fine black stallion Mahlon close in
the rear, went into the air, and allowed
Dolly H. and Mahlon to have it neck and
neck almost to the finish, when Dolly a.
managed to push her nose a few inches
ahead and flew under the wire winner.
Mahlon won the fourth heat after hard
fight but was hard pushed by Dolly H.,
with I. p. Fox's Milo third. l. A. Han
sons Attorney was fourth and Fred Lo-
THAR only in fifth place. In the fifth
heat there were only four of them left.
This resulted in a victory for Mahlon.
with Dolly Fl. second, Attorney a close
third and Lothian close onto the heels of
the other three. The excitement was in
tense when preparations were being
made for the sixth heat. 1t was some
time before start was made, but event
ually the word ''go'' was given and the
same four went off in bunch. 1t was a
pretty race to the finish and all the
horses kept we'll together. When max
ing the turn on the first quarter the
Judges decided that the driver of Dolly
II. blocked the way of Mahlon by at
tempting to cross to the inside in front
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