The Portland daily press., 1892-05-24
With SPEECH And music.
Fair for the Bye and Ear Infirmary
Successfully Opened.
HON. c. F. LIBBY TELLS OF THE
INSTITUTIONS GOOD WORK.

Decorations and the Attractions of the
Many Booths-The Sanford Company
Exhibition of the Wonders of Silk
MISUNDERSTANDING Exhibit of
the Westbrook Manufacturing Compa-
| ny.
The fair in aid of the Eye and Ear In
firmary opened most auspiciously at City
Hall last evening. The hall had been
very prettily decorated by Capt. George
E. Brown. Flags were gracefully draped
at the rear of the stage, and sunbursts
of color adorned the caps of the win
dows, the walls of the rear gallery and
the spaces between the windows on the
sides of the hall. The new arrangements
for lighting gave great brilliancy to the
affair, the number of incandescent
lights having been greatly increased.
The front of the stage was decorated
| with tropical plants.
The booths are named after the wards
| Of the city. Ward l booth is located on
the further side of the hall from the
main entrance, nearly in the corner. and
the other ward booths follow in regular
order, with the exception of Ward Z
which is stationed at the right of the
main entrance. The fronts of all these
booths are fitted with lace curtains grace
fully draped, and adorned with beauti-
full rugs from the Sanford plush mills,
while the decorations of the hall owed
much to these same Sanford mills rugs
which drape the front of the galleries
over the booths and bear the most care
fully worked designs in landscape, fruit,
flowers and animals. These ward booths
are presided over by these ladies:
Ward Mrs. H. Fl. Shaw, Mrs. H. F. Cous-
ems. Mrs. E. II. Sargent.
~ Ward 2.Mrs: T.. D. Sullivan. Mrs. A. 2.
WEIGH, Miss j. N. Cannon and Mrs. w. B..
MoultOn.
CIV, Writ r.; s.4 An, T I T. Sawyer, Mrs G. D.
Ward Mrs. Giles O.. Bailey. Miss Morrison,
Miss Holden, Mrs. Woodbury. Mrs. Phelan.
Ward 5--Mrs. Albion Little, Mrs. III. S.
Melcher, Miss Marguerite Libby, Miss Nellie
Ward e-Mrs. j. A. Blabon. Miss Annie
Freeman, Mrs. Lyman Nelson, Mrs. 1. E. Kim
Ward Mrs. A. A. Nickerson, Mrs. W. N.
Marshall, Mrs. H. A. Robinson, Miss Grace
Tobie, Drs. Nickerson and Marshall.
Two-thirds of the stage is arranged
as drawing room, furnished in an ele-
CANT and homelike manner, and the 9TH
er third is occupied by the ice cream
booth, a pavilion of marvellous delicacy,
its cut paper draperies deluding the spec
tator into the belief that they are formed
of the most exquisite lace. The attend
ants are all dressed in white to cores
pond. Mrs. F. E. Boothby is in charge
of the pavilion, assisted by Mrs.
W. S. Eaton and Mrs. G.. S. Young, with
Misses Bacon, Young, Carroll and Mrs.
Albert Webb as mattresses.
In front of the stage, at the further
end, is small stand, prettily ornament
ed and surmounted with case of lilies,
bearing medallions in plaster-he work
of Mrs. Katherine Prescott-of persons
well known to Portlanders, and donated
W CiiC 1dll NY ilCAs hlAOAS tlClu dl o
medallions of Kotzschmar and Paderew-
ski. Then come Mr.. George E. Browns
and Mr.. George E. Raymond's photo
graphs, and Mr.. Barrows exhibits the
caligraph and mimegraph. There are
fine crayon portraits of eminent men for
sale, the gift of the Phoenix Company.
| The lemonade booth is an attractive
building, and is in charge of the Little
| Women.
At this end of the stage, in front and
| next to the entrance of the anteroom, is
| the headquarters tent. We next APP
| proach the booth where W. E. Murdoch
makes fine display of optical goods,
and then the exhibition of Hinds's honey
and almond cream, which is really work
of art in its arrangement. On the other
side of the main entrance, opposite the
Ward booth, the rest of that side of the
hall is devoted to the groceries booth,
which has been supplied by very many
of the leading wholesale grocers of this
city. Mr.. H. o. Phillips is in charge, as
sisted by T. II. johnson, D. N. Bickford,
P. L. Perkins, I. S. Lewis, Fred W. Har-
per and NJ. M. Scott. We now come to
the rear of the hail. where
the Atkinson House Furnish
ing Company makes superb
showing. 1t would be impossible to
enumerate in this bird's-eye view of the
fair the many beautiful things displayed
by them. Not only have they their own
goods, but grand and costly donations
from their correspondents in New York,
Boston and other cities. Articles of
virtu are displayed, each valued at an
hundred dollars and over. Just beyond
the Atkinson exhibit, F. J. Clarkson,
owner of the Marshall Mills at East Will
| ton, make most valuable and interest
ing display of ginghams and white quilts,
while Prang's pictures and many other
fine things will be found here. Miss
Fannie Chadwick is in charge.
The great feature of the fair is the ex-
hibition of the making of plush rugs by
| A. Co1for1 Mills o1I re rc;rrrborco Inv