Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-10-13
MECHANICS FAIR.
EIGHTEENTH TRIENNIAL EXHIBITION OF
TIE MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE
MECH ASIc ASSOCIATION AZ NE
cHANIcs BUILDING. BOSTON,
or. s TO DEC. 3. 1892.

Not every one can visit the Worlds
Far nexz year but all can att nd the
Eighteenth Iriennial Exhibition OF the
Massachusetts Charitable Association 10
lie hall in the unsurpassed Exposition
Buildiaa on Huntington Ave, Boston,
commencing Oct. 3 ana continuing until
Dec. 8. 1892. At this exhibition pop
ularly known as the Mechanics Fair-will
be many displays that are, The following
year, to be shown at the Columbian Ex
position in Chicago. For this and other
reasons the exhibitors are bestowing more
than the usual attention to their dis
plays and in artistic arrangement, variety
and general interest the exhibi ion this
year viii excel that of any in the long Sc
ries heretofore given. The general plan
under which exhibits are arranged this
year insures greater variety, fewer dupli-
Gates and more complete showing Of
every department of human industry and
invention.
Every inch available for exhibition pur-
poses in the immense building, with its
acres of floor space, will be taken. Grand
and Exhibition Halls, all the gallery space
Except that reserved for the band con-
certs) and the easements are being filled
with products of every kind, the outcome
of mans industry, skill and ingenuity.
The fakir element has been eradicated
and this exhibition will not be bazaar,
but legitimate exhibition, freed from all
those annoyances that are inseparably
connected with the fakir class and their
persistent opportunities.
Never has there been more general de-
sire to exhibit the very best, never has the
old but ever new Mechanics Fair appealed
so directly to popular support as this
year.
The management is progressive and
while preserving the old time conserva-
tism has mingled with it a keen reallza-
tioD of the fact that .'times change and
the popular demand varies with the years
Preparatory to this exhibition many al
terations and Improvements in the build
ing have been made ana all VIII conserve
to the comfort and convenience OF the
people. These changes have nocessitated
an outlay OF $4,000 The old spruce iioor-
ing throughout the entire basement has
been replaced with a three-inch cement
concrete floor This flooring alone cost
5000. An entire new electrical plant IS
being put in-the exclusive property OF
the Association. New engines and dy-
namos necessary TO operate l50 arc lights
and over 1000 incandeseent lamps have
been added and every part OF the immense
building will be perfectly lighted, one
third more arc lights and double the in
candescent lamps formerly used being
available this year.
This year each group of exhibits is plac-
ed in the immediate charge of one mem
Der of the Official Board and as the natural
result each branch of industry has due
prominence and there is no useless null
DUPLICATION OF exhibits of substantially the
same character and grade.
The committee in charge of the Wom-
ans Department, located in the second
balcony of the Grand Hall, will make an
exhibit that includes the Domestic, Edu-
cational, Scientific and Artistic. II has
been stated that woman has not invented
any article of merit; the patented articles
here shown will effectually controyert
this assertion.
Mrs. Ellen A. Richardson, chairman OF
the committee having this department III
charge, has secured the corporation oil
leading women and will present on spe-
cial DAYS the interests of the factory girls
OF New England, working girls clubs,
womans educational and industrial UNI
ions, Womgn's suffrage, sewing ladies'
florists, charity organizations, philanthro-
pists. clerks and journalists. House
keepers day to discuss matters OF I'M
portance TO the home will be leading
feature of the fair season. Grange days
will be devoted to all the interest OF farm
ers and farmers wives and children.
Excursions from every point in New
England have been arranged at low rates
and it is confidently expected that the at.
tendance this year viii reach fully oOO,OOl
people. II behnoves all who intend to Wis
Il the "Hubn this fall to so arrange
their plans as to make il possible for then
to visit the Mechanics Fair.