The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-09-07

tiOn of the Big ShoW-NeWspaper Men
Well Cared For-Garden Sass and Hall
Exhibits Coming In-Yesterday After
noon ON the Track.
Especial to the Press.]
LEWISTON, September 6.-Cloudy skies
frowned upon the visitor to the State
Fair grounds today and a smart
shower at daybreak punched the track,
while the clayey grounds were fairly sod
den. Tan-colored shoes were at pre-
MUM and the bootblack wandered about
disconsolately. ~
The fair managers looked bit discon-
solate too in the morning, but their faces
frightened with the skies and the warm
sun of September at noon carried COM
fort in its rays. But it shed scarcely
enough heat to harden the track and it
was spongy all the afternoon.
The exhibits are in an unusual state of
backw wardness, even for the hurry and
trepidation of an opening day. The halls
in the exhibition building are Uttered
with boxes and the tables still half-bare.
but apples are coming in by the barrel
and pears by the peck, while the display
of garden sass'' is already large and the
ladies are bringing in their jars of sweets
and sours, of honey and of pickles.
Over at the Village
the hall is also in clutter and every
thing at SKIES and sevens. But by to-
morrow all the departments will be in
perfect running order, for the large and
energetic staff of officials are hard at
work and with their zeal and trained
skill will work wonders.
Meanwhile a mighty pleasant place for
a reporter to work or loaf in idly watch
ing the passing show is the new building
of that sprightly and enterprising news
paper, the Auburn Gazette, which not
only runs base ball club of its own, but
is capable of running an entire state fair
if necessary. Mr.. Mann does the honors
phone, while Mr.. Sherman Reid is chief
of the staff Of reporters.
The fakir is of course present in full
force, and his tents divide with the lunch
booths the attention of the crowd while
they are waiting for the races to begin.
The calf with a human skin, the man
with a broken neck (who perhaps some
time stood up before Sullivan) and the
girl with the alligator, all attract gaping
spectators, who stand with mouths wide
open as the saurian's own. Naturally
an object of absorbing interest is the
human corkscrew, though the hermo-
phrodite horse is not far behind. The
fellow and his girl are also out in force
and occupy seats on the whirligig, where
they can hug each other to their hearts
content. The sight is free, and in the
freshness and the greenness of their
childlike love they do not begrudge the
spectator the cynical delight he derives
from their innocent frolic.
Though the cattle pens are not yet en-
tirely full each horse-stall has its tenant.
The number of entries for the races is
260, which breaks the record, while
Among the Crowd of Horses
all good, are to be found some of the
speediest flyers in Maine. But the dis
play of cattle is already large, and Short
horns, Holsteins, Polled Angus, Here
fords, Ayreshires, Guernseys, Jerseys
and Devons from the finest stock farms
in the state, some with pedigrees as long
as those of Bourbon or Hohenzollern,
stand about gazing placidly upon the GU
rious creatures, balanced unsteadily
upon two legs, that cluster about them.
lut lOIS0 Sl1OW 10 IClIdl hcbOlOs w llhCo
and Electioneers, Pickpockets and Bel
monts, Sultans, Nutwoods and Nelson's,
Pilots, Patchens, Blackwoods and
Knoxes, are as plenty as fish in the sea.
Sidnet and the Seer, with Lou Seer, and
Seersucker and the Serf, are in the fine
new stables of Wesley Hutchins. W. D.
Haley shows Haley and May Gift, and
June Bride, the last of the get of old
Gideon, two year old black roam out of
mare by Bruno. J. w. Wheeler ex-
hibits Guess-So by Also, and Leelawn
by Alcantara out of a Happy Medium
mare. FL. B. Wardwell shows High
land, 7. G.. Burleigh, Patrick. and D. j.
McGillicuddy. Alice Wilkes, the last two
colts of rare promise.
From Fairview, Pooler's great breed
ing establishment, came All-So; Red
wood, the sire Of Grover Cleveland,
Scipio and Grace; Won Also, More-So,
Hope-So and Mahlon.
IN THE AFTERNOON.
BY two o'clock full five thousand peo-
pie were on the ground, but owing to the
were not started until half past two.
The course organized with Isaiah Pom
pilly, starter, W. A. Whittier and j. Ell.
Twombley, judges, and Col. c. H. Os-
good, timer. The first trot started was
the three minute class for purse of two
hundred, sixteen entries, six starters,
and it was complete and delightful sur
prise to the spectators. Though the
track was slow the leading horse out
footed his class by nearly thirty seconds,
making the last quarter in 365 seconds,
a 226 gait.
Tom Drew had the pole, with the 9th
ers in the following order: DR.. Frank
lin, Jr., Joseph R., Mollie S., Young Pi-
lot and Miss Vida. DR.. Franklin and
Young Pilot both pulled the now famous
pneumatic-tir bicycle sullles, while
the others stuck to the old high-wheel-
ers. The start was good one. DR..
Franklin went to the front after the first
quarter and kept there, apparently trot-
ting at,his ease and taking little heed to
the field, which indeed, with the excep-
ton of Young Pilot, kept far enough
away from his heels. He came under
the wire in the extraordinary time (for
his class of 2. S1a, and seemed good for