The Portland daily press., 1896-09-01
A MOIST OPENING.
Rain Interfered With State Fairs
First Day.
ONLY ONE HEAT OF A RACE WAS
TROTTED.

Lengthy and Attractive Programme for
To-day-Big Exhibits of Horses and
Cattle-PortIand Exhibitors in Art
Department at City Hall-yvhat Presi-
dent Jerrard Says.
Lewiston, August 3l.-Ths Maine
State fair, Both exhibition. opened today.
Early in the morning the State fair off,
cials were oheered by the clear sky and
sunshine but in two hours after isunrise
in olouded up and at noon there was a
lively shower. At 2 p. M. it was raining
hard at the grounds.
President Jerrard says that "The sho
opened up well with every indication.o of
a successful exhibition. II we've got to
have rain we rathershave it Monday than
later in the week.. We have 260 horse
trottng entries, between 700 and 800 CAT
tie entries, the entries in these and all
other departments being the largest in
the history of the society"
Maple Grove farm, Auburn exhibits
% head of horses, W. D. Haley of South
Gardiner, L. Morrison of East Liver
more, A. Libby of Gardiner. II. W.
Hutchins of Auburn and J.ssF. Barrett
of Deering are on hand with strings of
horses. J. S. Sanborn, proprietor Of
Elmwood farm, Poland, has not arrived
and is not exhibiting his French coach
horses. G. I. Hooh of Lowell, Mass., has
an interesting ex hibition of Jersey cattle
and swine under canvass. The cattle ex-
hibit is very large and sheep, swine and
poultry are we'll represented.
In the hall things are not yet in
shape but number Of the exhibits are
already, there.
At noon Monday the brown covered
walls were fast covering with pictures.
Miss Mary A. L. Burton Of Brunswick
exhibits number Of oharcoals and oils.
Miss Helen Varney, Brunswick. has
large number of water oolors. MIR, II.
L. Wilkinson's work is shown in num-
ber of excellent pen and Ink studies. One
of the largest collections of oils is that
of Mrs. Dyer of Portland. Mrs. r. S.
Hutohins of Portland contributes some
beautiful marines done in oils and Mrs.
a large collection. of water color studies
The Changers are putting the finishing
touches on the teams which are to take
part in the Tuesdays Grange parade.
The following oranges will be represent
ed:
Winthrop grange, Monmoth, Wales.
Lisbon, Durham Stevens Mills, DanviIls
Junction, East Auburn, Poland, Nor
land. Greene, Skowhsgan.
Mr.. A. II. Merrill of Danvers, Mass,
is the star ting Judge at the State fair
this year. The associate judges on Mon
day were, g. NJ. Stanwood, Portland; ".
r. Chapman, Bethel; H. l.. Williams,
Hartland.
To-day rain began falling at noon and
continued till 4. The trotting races
were postponed at 5 to Tuesday forenoon
after one heat in the three year old class
had been TT otted. Two races adver-
tised for today will be trotted off imme-
diatey after th grange parade tomorrow
afternoon. Tomorrow will be the real
opening day of the fair and the weather
predictions are cheering.
The postponed horse races and four
other races will be contested. They ara
the $50 pace, 2.26 trot and paos, q IL
tcot and pace, half milo running race.
The grange parade will be reviewed by
National Master Brigham who is in town
tonight The features at the grounds for
tomorrow includes the show at the track
of stock, single and double bitches in
fancy style and bicycle races. The en-
tries for the bicycle races include Mason
of Auburn, Wailran, Day, Leavitt of
lewiston, Pike and Stearps of Norway.
An effort will be made to break the
record of l. 10 held by j. Wettergrsen of
Maiden, Mass, made at Sanford, j uly 4.
Calais Schooner Loses Jibboom.