The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-07-05
l795.lS95.
The Centennial Of the City
OF Many Spindles.
LEWISTON DID HERSELF
PROUD YESTERDAY.
The Crowds That We're There and
the Things They Saw.
HOW INDEPENDENCE DAY WAS
OBSERVED IN MAINE.
HOW INDEPENDENCE DAY WAS
OBSERVED IN MAINE.
Yacht Races and Horse Trots on the Pro
grammes-The Pastime Club at Sebago
Ice water-The Only Hunch Back
Pony.
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.l

Lewiston, July 4.-Bunting, red, white
and blue, waved here all day long over
great crowds of wandering and wonder
ing people. They had come from all di-
rections and began coming several days
ago When the train which connects at
Brunswick with the Pullmans arrived
here in the early morning hours every
car was crowded. In the throng were
bands and fire companies, all of whom
had come to help in the great centennial
celebration, and then there were the peo-
pie from all the towns of the Kennebec
valley who had come merely as onlook-
ers. In the early forenoon, the long ex-
cursion trains began to arrive. Fifteen
cars came from the Knox & Lincoln di-
vision and long special train brought
the people from over Portland way. When
all these people began to wander around
town, they made Lewiston look about
as animated as Gotham. The City OF
Spindles was in gala attire. The bunt-
ing which waved over Lisbon street near
ly hid the fronts of the buildings to
which it was attached, and on the other
business streets there was a liberal use
of the red, white and blue streamers.
Many private houses also wore the
national colors. Triumphal arches had
arisen at intervals. At the junction oi
Lincoln and Chestnut streets was al
arch which had been erected through
the efforts of the French residents o1
the vicinity. 1t reached an altitude o1
AZ fpat ahOv6 the naUamnnt MINGLED
with the American flags was the French
tri-color, and suspended on the northern
front was a portrait of Lafayette, the
work of Aleck LeBrunn, French citi
zen of Lewiston, who is deaf and dumb.
The arch was itself a handsome piece Of
work, but when it was still further
adorned by 100 children, all dressed il
white, representing the years since 1895
no wonder the wondering crowds were
loud in their expressions of approval
THE MORNING SPORTS.
While waiting for breakfast, the early
arrivals heard the big guns fred and the
bells rung, and after breakfast they haG
a chance to see some Independence Day
sports of the time of the fathers. But
the youth of the present time are evident
ly better versed in foot ball than the old
time sports. for several of them tried in
vain to climb the creased pole, on the
top of which was fastened a five-dollal
gold piece. The coin was still there
when the last athlete had Skinned
short distance up the pole and slid
down again. The other athletic sports
were more in keeping with modern
IDEAS and resulted as follows:
Throwing 16-pound hammer--L A. Lib
by, Lewiston, 1st, 81 feet; VIM Golf,
Lewiston, I'd.
S0-yard dash-WW. Bolster, Auburn,
1st; Wm Hayes, Lewiston, I'd.
Hop, step and jump-W W. Bolster, Au-
burn, lst, 80 #. 2 in. ; P. f. Mullaney,
Lewiston, I'd.
Running broad jump-W. ": Bolton,
Auburn, 1st. IS #. in. 2. f. Mullaney,
Lewiston, I'd.
Standing broad jump-W. M. Golf, Lew
iston, 1st, 9 ft. 5 1-2 in; P. F. Mullaney,
Lewiston, I'd.
Potato race-Wm. Hayes, Lewiston, 1st !;
w. W. Bolster, Auburn, I'd.
Three standing high jumps-P. +. Null
laney, Lewiston, 1st, 27 IT. in.; W. w.
Bolster, Auburn, I'd.
THE GREAT PARADE.
: Then came the fun of the day to the