The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-21


ed as our agricultural? While individ-
ual firms have assisted and been finan-
cially benefited thereby this feature
| has not claimed the attention or I'M
pressed the stranger at our fairs as IL
might and ought.
equally true with ojhers | am not here
| to present the claims OF one, hut to urge
the opportunities offered by all. There's
not an incorporated. agricultural society
in Maine but stands ready, willing and
waiting to do all in its power to furtner
the interests of every manufacturers,
every producer. Don't let the charge
90 unchallenged that single interest
| is controlling these exhibitions SO long
as the officials earnestly strive to
balance the same and show forth the
character of work being attempted
throughout the State.
The Fairs of Maine.
are not horse shows or horse trots, save
as the representatives of other occupa-
! lions have withheld their active coopera-
tion. The horsemen alive to their oppor-
tunities, have made the most of their
advantages while others have failed,
thus giving the appearance of one sided
exhibitions. They are not so through
choice on the part of the officers, but
neglect on the part of those who should
be exhibitors. In esta blishing relations
let the responsibility fall where it right
| fully belongs. In all efforts to empha-
size the variety or extent of the produc-
l lions of the State it is those who fail TO
set forth the lesson in the clearest ana
completest manner who are the stumb-
ling blocks.
"The State Society will make special
effort the coming season to secure full
| line of exhibits and machinery covering
the new and novel as we'll as established
lines of manufacture. II successful,
what will be the effect? Every visitor
will carry home a better and broader
idea of Names diversified interests ana
the excellence of the output"
DR.. Twiche1l's- recommendations were
received with applause.
At this point President Winslow, of
the Portland Board, announced that Mr..
Torrance, agent of the Dominion line,
had invited the delegates to
| A Reception
| on board the steamer Vancouver, this
! forenoon. Mr.. Winslow requested the
| delegates to meet at the Board of Trade
rooms at 10 O'Clock this forenoon,
whence they would proceed to the
| steamer.
Speeches then followed by Mr.. AS.
Bangs of the Augusta board, President
Winslow of the Portland board, Presi-
dent G. f. Adams of Lowell. presi-
dent of the Massachusetts State Board,
and President Spring of the New Hamp-
shire State Board.
President Adams dwelt upon the
desira bility that New England business
men should stand together, as suggested
by Mr.. Booth by's paper.
President Spring said that New Hamp-
shire looked to Maine as her larger
sister, of whom she was greatly proud.
Maine men stood well everywhere. One
eminent son was now entering upon the
last ten years of a century of life, Neal
Dow, (Applause) New Hampshire
enacted a prohibitory. law soon after
Maine did, and the law still existed and
worked we'll. New Hampshire had to
| get her fish from Massachusetts,, but her
fish stories all came from Maine.
(Laughuer.)
President Winslow of the Portland
Board, here presented a resolution of
greeting and congratulations to General
Neal Dow, upon the attaining of his
ninetieth birthday.
|, Hon. Lysander Strickland seconded
this resolution in a brief speech,
eulogist1c of General Dow's character
and his work in the cause of temperance.
The resolutionN was adopted unani-
! Of g
appointed to present the resolution to
General Dow: HIS. Osgood of Portland,
George D. Babbitt of Lewiston and
Lysander Strickland of Bangor.
Mr.. Pearl of Bangor, moved that a
committee of three be appointed to CO.
operate with similar committees from
the State Boards of other New England
States, in forming New England Board
of Trade. 1t was suggested in the
motion that President Lord be chairman
of the committee. The other two mem
hers were appointed as. follows: E. B..
Winslow of Portland, and AS. Bangs of
Augusta.
Col. B. Nealley of Lewiston, invited
the Board to hold it's annual Septem Der
meeting at Lewiston, and this invitation
was referred to the executive committee
as usual.
i Mr.C. S. HIGH born of Augusta, was
called upon to speak of
Financial Affairs.
He said he believed that the financial
affairs of this state had been less dis
turbed in the last year than those Of
other states The savings banks had in
particular been managed in conservative
manner; and. having made few losses,
would be able to pay four per cent for d
long time. Speaking of a visit some
tin.e ago to New York, Mr.. Hichborn
said it was difficult to conceive OF the
strinsency that prevailed there. He
personally saw one of the milionaires OF
the nation, twice refuse small loan, of
a less number of dollars than the
borrowers fortune counted in millions.
No such stringency was known in
Maine. And the people of Maine need
have no fear of the sta bility of our
banks. Even in the panic of last season
there were very few runs on the savings
banks, and those runs were small affairs,
caused by irresponsible and incendlary
persons who frightened women and
others who had little knowledge Of bust