Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-03
GOVERNORS DAY
A Grand Success at the Maine
State Fair at Lewiston.
His ExceIIency, Gov. CIeaves, Reviews
Troops and Enjoys the Fair.
Estimated That About IS 900 People We're on
Grounds During Day.

Lewiston, Sept. 2.-{Special )-"Wher
hysh, gee off. wher hyshi" and the
great oxen swung this way and then
that and then straight ahead, Juggling
at the drag loaded with granite, and Il
crowd stood around. Did you ever see
| a pulling match by oxen to a finish?
Well it is quite a change from the
pulpit the counting room and the shop.
a boss trot' amt in it for a second.
| You see, the committee of the pulling
feature of the greatest show in Maine
| load up a drag with stone and then
stand back with the Invitation to
Bring on yer oxen, gentlemen" x
| lair of seven fOoterS are hooked on Il
inan picked out to drive Them though
in some cases the owner performs that
office, and the yanlling begins amid a
chorus of suggestions from the by
ISLANDERS as to the manner in which the
| oxen should he "haWed to" or coed
off" The load sways to and fro. and
the cattle spring into the yoke and
start the whole thing ahead several
inches, perhaps several feet. Some
times a pair is hitched on that will
y T.,
and repeat it with apparent ease, and
then the cattle owners will tell of the
steers that they have at home that can
do the same thing.
Then the man that once had yoke
of oxen that could output anything in
Maine had his say. Vocferations We're
vociferated back and forth and CONVEX
sation would get warm and interesting
| ri, bnt Il
sion over a line fence would be prefer
| able, such careless English was ham
died. But there it is the same at a
horse trot and at the polls.
Capt. Lawrence, the dare devil lion
trainer With the Hagenbeck show is
getting to be more dare devilish every
day, and yesterday he got a foretaste
Of what may be his end in the cage at
no distant day. After jumping the
lions about the cage over his arm AMI
over his head, Capt. Lawrence winds
up his part of the exhibition by draw
ing a revolver and dscharging it
rapidly while an attendant burns red
fire This Of course, excites the ami
mails very much as the revolver is dis
charged directly at them. When the
| seven chambers have been fired the
trainer whips them into one corner
| and stands over them for an instant
then springs quickly to the cage door
and goes. Yesterday afternoon one of
the lions got his dauder up and sprang
at the captain, shipping him on the
thigh. making q painful but not serious
wound. The captain turned instantly
| and. With few vicious blows of his
| club, drove the refractory brute back
into the far end of the cage with the
| others, where all crouched showing
| their teeth and snarling in an ugly
| manner, but none of them chased the
| captain up the second time His
wounds required the services of a sur
Geon. Some day Capt. LaWrence's wife
is going to wake up a widow.
The first balloon ascension and para
chute jump was successful and was
Witnessed by q large crowd. The pro-
fessor taking the jump at an attitude
Of 500 feet and landing in a field in
plain sight about fourth of a mile
| away. This balloon business will be a
feature every day this week.
| II would not do to give the Governor
of Maine a wetting twice the same year
| and evidently the chief of the weather
bureau recognized the fact for this is |
Governors day and a farer. brighter
one was never known. They. the dear
people began to come in early. The |
| citizens of the city with the high tariff |
street railroad We're kind enough to
| throw open their doors to their friends |
| from the country side and to close |
| their stores at noon and the thron2 |
took up its fairward way. They came
by every conceivable method the |
barge, the private and public carriage, |
the blackboard, the beach wagon. the
bicycle and on foot. 1t was Gorernor's
day all right. for there was Governor
| Cleaves and Governor ROBBIE and Gov
elnor Common and Governor Perham
and Governor Powers (See papers for
reports of Vermont election.)
State Detective True. who is looking
after the undesirable element for the
Maine Central, disappointed a half
dozen men today. He told them that
as there was a large crowd on the
grounds the association was not partic
MAR about any more coming in. and it
tould be best, perhaps for the
strangers that they return home. 1t
would not cost any more for they had
return tickets. 1t was kind
of riot act that Ira
had memorzed for the occasion.
Detective Odlin and BOlien have had
interviews with several suspicious
characters whom they believed it not
best to allow loose in the crowd lest
they should get lost.
The following report of Treasurer
Fyeleth shows falling off of receipts
for Tuesday as compared with those
of last year.
Lewiston. Maine, Sept. 2, 1896
Col S. G. Jerrard, president.
Dear sir: | herewith submit to you
NV report of the receipts of Tuesday,
September /, 1896:
To Park Tickets ............... $ob5 70
Hall Tickets .......-...'......
Grand Stand Seats, Reserved 50 90
Grand Stand Seats ....... VI 30
Eptrv Fees ........... 172 80
Life Membership Tickets so 90
canra cards ..... so 60
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