The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-09-14
FREEPoRT's FAIR.
1t Is Enlivened With Some Good hacihg
of the Old Fashioned Kind.

If you want to see an old fashioned
horse trot, the good old kind on naH
mile track, where you can see the whole
of the race and hear the shouts OF the
drivers as they urge their flyers to do their
prettiest, go to Freeport. The Freepors
Park association is giving three days
fair-a fair of the old style with well
known horses from this part of Maine
competing on the track, with some Of the
stock from the pleasant farms round
about the village to show what kind of
cattle the Freeport farmers own, and with
hall stocked as full as 1t can be with
good things cooked in New England
kitchens and the samples of the needle
work, dairying and gardening of the
housewives. The fair began yesterday
and it will continue through today and
tomorrow. The out door end of the show
is held at the park about mile from the
railroad station. When the Park associa-
ton began business it started to build u
fence around its property. The fence had
been built along one side OF the park
when the first fair was held. Notw1th-
standing that there was nothing but the
VISITORS sense of honor to keep him from
coming in free on three sides OF the PARK
everybody went around to the place
where the big park gates ought to be and
paid in their quarters. In town where
the people are as honest as that what's
the use of building fence around the
other three sides of the park anyway
That's what the association asked itself
and that's the reason why, between the
heats of the races, you can look out over
the surrounding country without any
high board barrier shutting off your view
of pleasant neighborhood. The track
around which the fence has never been
built is one of the best town tracks in the
state. 1t is as level as the top of billiard
table and it gives a good footing to the
horses SO that some fast time has been
made on it. This year it is in good shape
and the fair started off yesterday with
some rare sport To see 1t there WAS a
good attendance and with the crowd
came the lady who tells fortunes, the
man who pops corn for the hungry and
the doctor who sells medicines for the
sick, A collection of canvas eating
houses also sprang into existence and men
were busy putting up various arrange
| ments for muscle testing. Between the
heats the people were amused by a trio of
young men, two of whom appeared as
"black face artists" and sung the latest
popular melodies to the accompaniment
of banjo and guitar while the third
climbed deftly to a swaying wire and
then Invested himself of all the ordinary
attire worn by man. avoiding the penalty
| provided in such cases by the precaution
he had taken to clothe himself in red
tights with gold spangles. The young
man did some clever juggling and then
arrayed himself, doing the trick SO well
that the crowd was liberal in it's ap-
plause. But after all it was the racing
which pleased the crowd. There were two
events on the card, the 2.25 and 40
classes, and in each there were some we'll
known Maine horses as the summary
shows, and they put up some Of the
gamiest sort of racing. In the 2.25 class,
Riverton, after taking the first heat,
showed up with slight halt in the
second at the conclusion of which he was
| drawn. The 2. 30 class was hot one for
all that it went in one, two, three order.
the big field making the track lively
| The summaries: @
225 Class-Purse 500.
General Mac. BIS, (Stuart-
| Libby) Sill /
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