The Portland daily press., 1895-06-08
PORTLAND, MAINE SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1895

judges has lost all hope of political prefer
ment, SO many good women with young
children have concluded that he is man
of poor Judgment.
To-day, beside the pig chasing, the
crowds were amused by two exciting
bicycle races and a concert by Pam
chand's band The bicycle races were
ten mile road contests, the course being
gone over three times so that the specta-
tors got several glimpses of the flyers.
The first race was open to all wheelmen
in York county. There were five riders,
w. I'll. Littlefield of Kennebunk, who had
a three minute handicap; Fred Cobb, two
minutes; W. w Bonney of Kennebunk,
one minute and a half; J. G. Lawrence OF
Saco, one minute; A. j. Moore of Kenne-
bunk, scratch. Lawrence won the race in
33 minutes and seconds. Littlefeld,
Moore, Bonney and Cobb finished in the
order named
THEN CAME A RACE
over the same course to all Biddeford and
Saco wheelmen. Here again there were
five starters. A. E. Labonte and Joseph
Allaire, new men on the race track, were
given the full three minutes handicap;
f. B. Cobb. two minutes, and j. g.
Lawrence and Walter Came, scratch.
Came won in 33 minutes and AZ seconds;
the others finishing as follows: Allaire,
3S. 80; Lawrence, 35. 40; Labonte, 49, AZ; /;
Cobb, 80. 16.
Among the most amusing features of
this trade carnival are the unofficial
shows furnished by the men who have
lined out with local dealers to prove to
them that advertising pays. There is the
man who is eight feet in height, his legs
being about five feet long, which gives
rise to the suspicion that the legs which
11af fIIro cyau the ma hnnn
heightened with stills. Prince Vino, So
called. rode in the bicycle race on an old
fashioned velocipede and managed to
finish first at that, creating good deal
of amusement when his helper rushed
forward with sponge and pail of water to
care for him. OF course, the fakirs are
here in force with balloons, badges and
all sorts of notions
Tomorrow afternoon there will be
great trades parade which
GOV. CLEAvES WILL REVIEW,
and in which a feature will be "Our
Boys" youngsters ranging in age from
rs to SO years, striking contrast to the
baby show of yesterday The Kelley club
is to be out in force, headed by Chandler's
band whose services are rendered by
Payson Tucker, Esq. Then there are to
be large number of elaborate floats,
the fire department and other features
Biddeford merchants say that trade
weeks pay. They had one last year and
it brought great crowds of people here
who spent a good deal of money. 1t in
creased the business of one merchant $50
per cent over the average for several
weeks before and this years festival bids
fair to do as well. Some of the enthu-
siastic people here are predicting that to-
morrow Biddeford will have grown to
city of 40, 600 inhabitants. The affair is
conducted under the auspices of the board
of trade, represented by general COM
mittee Of twelve, which is divided into
subcommittee as follows:
Finance-Joseph Gooch, Charles Ham,
W. f. Youland. G.. A. Lacroix, j. B.
NORM, George E. Morrison.
Advertising-W. E. Youland, F. H.
Cousens, j. B. Tarte, George W. Donnell.
Amusements-Dr S. ]. Bassford,
Charles Ham, r. H. Cousens.
Parade-L. Fl. Kendall, Fred Yates, K.
W. Lutherland, George W. Donnell,
Charles Ham, c. A. Dumas.
Decorations-C- H. Leighton, Joseph
Mason, +. II. Cousens.