The Portland daily press., 1895-09-14
BEAUTY And THE BEASTS.
Ten Dollars in Gold for the Best
Looking Girl in tIeACeunty.
A NOVEL CONTEST VARIED THE
MONOTONY AT THE FAIR


Trotters Were in Fine Fettle-A Great
Eree-For-AII-The Pulling Oxen-Close
Of a Successful Fair.
Beauty and the beast-tie beasts naA IL
all their own way at the fair at Oornhlh
this week until yesterday and some OF 1he
nroud winners of blue and red rlpnohs
are very beautiful bensts fut yesterday
was Beauty's day for it was .he" tdat the
lists were opened for the tournament OIL
tb, nretty girls to determine who OF tfeIp
is the handsomest girl in >Cunloefiaii"
county. The tournament was helo III
one of the small rooms curtalneo9 Oh lroin
the art gallery on the upper floor o. the
rxhibition hall. There at noon SAT tIIee
young women and three young women
who were living proofs of the truth tha1
besides statesman. fast horses and line
rattle. the Pine Tree State is remarkable
for the beauty of its daughters. Peerlng
through the semi-transparent drapefles
which formed the walls of the little room
was a crowd of the anxious and some OF
the remarks, even while complimentary,
ware not calculated to make the young
women particularly self possessed. 1t Is
one thing for young woman TO kno"
that her eyes are particularly pretty ones,
but when she hears man VINO is stano-
ing within foot of her chair, telling the
crowd about it, she naturally coiors
under the admiring glances cast toward
her and then somebody else takes up the
refrain and praises her complexion. The
three contestants in the beauty show
stood the scrutiny we'll, however,
while the throng outside grew larger and
pressed nearer in it's efforts to get good
view of three of the prettiest girls IN
Maine. The great ordeal came, however,
when the judges arrived. There were
three Of them, gentleman and two
ladies' The man did rot appear quite
comfortable. but the ladies did. They
seemed to enjoy it, and prolonged the
AGONY of the three anxious young women
by insisting that they should remove
their wells. The fair and blushing con-
testants complied, but they demurred
when asked to take off their very becom-
ing hats, and were judged with them on.
women that she guessed their crlmps
were all right, but still they wouldn'
take off their hats. 1he contestants sal
in a row the judges stood in row oppo
site, and the spectators stood around ant
waited. Then the judges solemnly hlee
into another little room and wa1te1.
Then they announced that the prize, ter
dollars in gold for the handsomest CIR
in Cumberland county had been awarded
TO Miss Leorora Hall of Pride's Corner
Miss Berry of West Buxton, who wa
among the contestants was dlsqua1ned
as West Buxton is over in York county.
THE RACES.
The races opened with the conclusion
of the 2 so trot, in which on the Afternoon
before Bismarck went lame after winning
two heats The people were arriving II
goodIy numbers and as the Afternoon
progressed the attendance grew until tn
grounds were crowded. The 200 rae
was won easily by Daniel, Dolly b., be
ing second in each of the two heat
trotted. The summary:
$50 GLASS, TRoTTING, PURSE 500
Concluded.
Daniel, b g. Charles M. (Jenkins)e 2 l
Dolly b, b m, Ledo (Wheelden) 3
Janette, Oh m, Wilkes CWaite) ~
Mary Matt, br m, Donald Wilkes
Nat j., br 3, Viking (Farmer) 4454.
Bismarck, BIS, Bayard Wilkes,
(Richards) Or
Emma Nelson, Oh m, Nelson
Woodbury. 70 Or
a34A.
The event of the week at the ia r i
always the free-for- AL, for it is then tina
thasbest horse- on the grounds are likei.
to appear on the track and contest for tn
big purse which Lie management hang
I'D. So yesterday at the county fair
Gorham there was free-for- all in whic
fou. we'll known Mairo horses appeared
and they made great race OF 1t toe
There was Mahlon with his record Q
efsA, the Gardiner stallion Haley, 2.1SE
Nelson's Silver Street, 1871 and tn
chestnut mare Halle, q 1917. Mahlon
about ten years old and with his recor
about five seconds better than that OF tn
next best horse, was looked upon as tn
winner. Still horse racing is no sur
thing and Mahlon did not have cine
on it until the race was won. They wer
started with Halle at the pole, the blac
Mahlon next, Silver Street third an
Haley with his flowing black name an
tail waving on the outside. They di
considerable scoring. for Starter Pompill
was determined that they should start o
even terms. 1t was good send Off whe
they did get the word, and they Wer
away like a squadron of cavalry, compan
front, except that all were on their gal
instead of going at a gallop Mahlo
broke in the first turn, and had he been
lower horse would have lost his chance {
the heat. Halle spun along in the lea
until the wire was nearly reached on tt
first round, when she broke and droppe
back to third place. That left haley i
the lead with Mahlon busily at Wor
closing up the gap. Mahlon did 1t on tt
back stretch where the two trotted ike