The Portland daily press., 1899-01-16
NO NEW ENGLAND FAIR
Will Be Seen at Rigby Park This
Year.

No Money In II for the Park Association
The Rigby Managers VIII Have
Three Fine Meetings.
Though the Rigby directors are psrsis.
tently denying the stories that they are
| looking for u Massachusetts, man to run
| their race track next season, IL Is not at
| all improbabls that An out Of town man
| will be engaged. providing they can con-
meet with the right party at a ficureoth
| strikes the moneyed men of the board rs
reasonable. 1t Is true. however, that
they have made no overture to anybody
about running the track.
lone thing is certain" said Portland
man connected with the board Of manag-
ers, land that is that the New England
fair Will not show at Risby this year. We
don't want it. There is no doubt In my
mind. however. that We could have 1t II
| we wanted 1t. The fact is, the Massachu-
| setts directors who were in conferences
with the Rigby management here week
ago expressed desire for Rigby to try II
again.
| lyon see that the New England Agri-
cultural society has considerable money
tied up out there at ths Ricby track.
| They spent quite d sum in erecting cattle
sheds there. and they could hold the fair
| here at less expense than most anywhere
else. If they go to Dover. as there Is
some talk Of their doing. they will have
20 build cattle sheds and other buildings.
/ ka hAA hsatI Mt
Rigpy there was an agreement that after
the New England fair folks got through
here the Rigby management would buy
the sheds at an appraisal. MIR. Burnham
win stand by that agreement. The ar
rangement was that when the time came
for sale OF the sheds the Rigby officers
should choose man, the New England
Agricultural society select one. and those
two decide on third. We don't need the
sheds, and the appraisal win have to be
made on their value after being taken
down, SO they will mot be likely to be
given very high rating"
"what about the premiums that remain
unpaidY' was asked.
We'll, everybody knows that the fair
this year was not a winner. The rain
that struck in on what we expected to be
our two best days, the Interference OF the
Watch and Ward society, and some other
things which might be enumerated cut
our receipts down, and the result was
that the premiums could mot be paid in
fun. The trotting purses all had to be
paid in full, or the association would
have shut US out, but many of the premi'
ums on fair exhibits remain unpaid.
There was u provision, printed in the
premium list, to the effect that II the re-
ceipts of the fair were not sufficient to
meet all outstanding bills. premiums
would be paid pro rata. The society will
| have to take advantage of that provision
and distribute its money ~ far as 1t will
| go. OF course 1t leaves the New England
society in hard Shedding for this year, but
he Rigby people cannot be expected to
go down into their pockets and make up
the deficiency on the fair"
VIII Rigby have fair Of Its own this
years"
"No sir. We have had all the fairs we
want, for awhile at least The probs bill
ity is that we will hold three meetings
this year-two class meetings during the
summer and ~ grand circuit affair In the
fall Large purses will be offered. and
tbs meetings will be run on as elaborate
"a scale as possible, without blowing In
any unnecessary sums. y