The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-18
CITY HALL.
The Exhibitors Getting Goods Into
Position Yesterday.
TIE AQUARIUM A MOST FAsCI-
MATING FEATURE TO ALL.

Splendid Display of Decorated China
Capital Exhibits in ALI Lines of Manu-
featured Goods and Fancy Goods-Talks
on Birds and Good Concert.
A merry sound Of hammer and saw re-
sounded through the great City hall yes
terday as the different exhibitors were
busy arranging their booths and tables,
and the sound was continued far into the
evening. The exhibitors are rather tardy
In coming to the front and there is still
good deal of uIoccupied space in the
hall.
The decorations of the hall are confined
This year to festoons of bunting and
lines OF little flags that radiate from the
centre chandelier forming canopy. Bat
the hall itself is so handsome in its
fresooing and It's ample proportions that
the lack Of decorations Is an advantage
rather than otherwise. At the head of
the grand staircase, close to the main en-
trance is Secretary Dennison's desk, and
those of his assistants who are all ready
to give any information In their power.
Facing the main entrance is the large
exhibit of Kendall & Whitney in horti-
cultural implements, dairy and poultry
supplies, the products of seeds in yege-
tables and flowers, and Worcester salt,
of W hich huge pyramid rises from the
centre of the exhibit This salt is a
favorite among Maine dairies, and the
finn say they sell eighty five per cent of
all the salt sold to the diaries from this
product. The firms output Is about
twelve carloads day. There is tne
display of thirty varieties of sweet peas.
When they began to deal in sweet peas
they sold only few seeds to the trade
and row the traffic has amounted to
hundreds of pounds. They also show
fine assortment of vegetable products
raised from their seed by the veteran
market gardener Andrew s. Sawyer. The
celery, Tomatoes and ououm bers especi al
ly are calculated to make the mouth
water. There is large collection of
fertilizers and inse ctioides of all kinds.
One of the latter has the euphonious
name of P. D. O., and every one knows
what that means. To show the value of
one of their fertilizers branch of an old
evidently stopped bearing when the ferti-
lizer was applied. The branch shown is
about two feet long and supports twenty
six handsome pears of the Ciapp's Favor
lite variety. 1t oamo from Alvin Jordan's
orchard. The firm also shows some pretty
jardiniers.
t. r. Foss & Son have handsome
booth fitted with brass poles and dark
crimson draperies Here they exhibit for
one curiosity a small house four feet long
and five feet high. In the basement OF
the house is furnace, the Glenwood,
combination of hot air and hot water
heating. and the pipes are shown leading
to the prettily furnisL "A parlors and
chambers, and the registers that heat the
various apartments. They also show
nine handsome Glenwood .stoves.
The feature that will draw the crowd
is the aquarium. under the charge of
Fish Com missioner Stanley and Superin-
tendent Arthur Morrill, of the Auburn
hatchery. The tanks are breast high, and
range in size from eighteen inches to five
feet. They are kept filed with pure
Sebago water that is continually chang
ing and that is brought by pipes from
the basement of the building. The first
tank is filed with little Sebago salm on
two and half months old; the next dis
plays a number of brown trout of the
same age. brought from Scotland, and
the third tank brook trout also two and
half months old. The fourth tank con
tains yearling brown trout that are quite
STABLE. and they make their way to the
sides of the tank and stare as long at