The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-16
Nearly Everything
Movable at Fair
Grounds Sold.
SALES WERE LIVELY
Realized About
$1,000 - Purchasers
Much Pleased.


j Everything movable on the fair
grounds, with the exception of the
grandstands, the large exhibition hall
and the stone posts Of the inclosing
fence, which were reserved by Wor-
cester Agricultural society, was sold at
auction yesterday afternoon, The sale
realized about $1,000 for the purchasing
Syndicate.
Auctioneer H. M. Clemence conduct
ed the sale, which began at LSO o'clock.
All the buildings, stalls, sheds and
fences were sold under agreement that
the purchaser was to remove every
thing above ground before June l. Ag-
ricultural hall, which cost $4,000 to build,
went to Michael Curtin for 800. He
proposes to put the lumber into tene-
fnent house. Admiral" Lufl6in, who
for 16 years has been custodian of the
property, and for the greater part of
that period has made his home in the
hall, watched the process of selling the
roof from over his headwith considerable
agitation. The price hardly suited the
fadmiral," however, and he took active
band in helping the auetioneer|
dispose of the structure by reminding
the prospective buyers that the main
hall was possessed of a hard pine floor,
was in excellent condition, and other
pertinent remarks.
A crowd of 200 men followed Auction
Ger Clemence about the grounds. Bid
ding was lively, and the sale was con-
Quoted with remarkable dispatch in
view of the number of small buildings
~ i A.,
Of the 20-acre tract.
The judges stand, from which rang
out the bell that called together some
of the most famous horses of New En-
gland, went to j. H. Brooks for $40.
The little shed that harbored John R.
Gentry and Robert ]. the day the ia
nous pair stepped the track in 2:06A
was sold perhaps for a hen house, for
So. The Sever street ticket office
through the wicket of which havel
flowed hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, went to the city sewer depart
ment for $21. Stalls that have sheltered
the famous Baron Wilkes and his sta
bic mate, .Allandorf Electricity, Gov.
benton, Prince Lavelard, Electrion,l
Pure Wilkes, the famous sensational
two-year-old, Alcedetta, and hundreds
of other notables in the good old days
went for from 81 to SO, to be torn down
not.
The cattle sheds through which thou
sands have walked in the time when
the New England fair was a fair, and
in which have been stalled the import
ed Jerseys of c. 1. Hood, the imported
herds of T. A. Havermeyer, H. Mckay
Twombley and the noted Ayrshires of c.
J. Hayes, were knocked down for Sc a
hundred feet to be torn down and cart
al lar el,1 In l, fol7 az
been shown the pick of New England'sI
poultry and bench dogs, was purchased
BY M. ]. Kane for $50. The large ma
chinery sheds in which hundreds of RI
raj visitors to the big shows have dis
eussed mowers and reapers, plows ami
harrows, brought not the price of a
modern reaper.
The Agricultural street ticket Office
Brought Sc. Clemence shouted and .oot-
ed long and loud for a bid on the band
stand, and final offer of Sc struck a
Responsive chord, falling like music on
the ear of the tired auctioneer. Several
bids followed after the sale closed, and
the band stand episode ended ihhar
moniously. Everybody wanted the new
exhibition platform opposite the grand
stand, where once trapeze performers
ID tights shocked the conservative ele-
nent, where acrobats and juggler5 and
the grandstands between heats Of the
races. Bidding was hot and the price
rose to $40, when the structure went
to John j. Sullivan.
The fences were sold in sections and
realized from IS to Sc per hundred feet.
The smaller buildings and fences and
other easily moved property, brought
relatively higher prices than the large
buildings. In the opinion of the buy
ers, the sheds and stalls went remark
ably cheap, and purchasers WEI e
pleased. The sellers were equally de-
lighted They were obliged to sell, ald
showed a disposition to dispose of the
property at whatever price was obtain
able. The sale closed at 6 o'clock and
the crowd of purchasers and spectators
were weary delegation at the end,
having circled the grounds three times
and crossed the wide Enclosure.
While the sale was going on, force
Of men was at work blowing Cor the
extension of William street and the n
fersecting street, which will extend
from the William street extension TO
Highland street The work of tearing
down the buildings within two weeks
viii be insisted on and meanwhile the
frsr steps toward cutting up the tract
are under way.