Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-09-27
PITTST0N FAIR.
$500 People Take in Second
Days Attractions.
Prince Barton Wins Special Race in
Three Straight Heats.
John Burgess Takes 229, in Five Heals
Tom Nolan Second.

that is not what we are here for. The
idea is to tell the story just rs it IS.
ana to accord 20 each department of
the big show the amount of space that
| is due it.
TIL" PittstOn fair is one of the events
! Of early fall that the people of IIenuc-
bee ana Lincoln counties annually look
forward To, ana naturally the society
under whose auspices it is given care
fully arrange FOR the three days pro-
gram that shall please their patrons
ana create within them 4 desire ID
come again and bring their friends
with them.
That the Pittstun people have done
this was demonstrated 10y the crowd
that gathered upon the fair grounds
on this, the second day ut the cXh.b-
ition. In the first place. the weather
today. was enough to make a fellow
glad to 90 almost anywhere for the
sake Of getting out Of doors To be
sure. there was a cold fog during the
early hours Of the morning. but that
was soon dissipated. and the day that
followed was simply perfection 1t was
indeed September weather. but a trine
| warm. and while it made the men wish
| that straw hats had not been called in.
! it also caused the summer girls i'll
| fancy shirt waists to blossom out fill
| such profusion that the fellows who
perspired under their hat-rims soon
forgot their misery.
Early in the forenoon ii did not seem
| that there would be a very large at
7 b.. y
| hardly enough teams coming over the
| roads to raise 4 dust. but appearances
We're deceptive. as they sometimes are,
ana in the afternoon things looked de-
cidedIy different The crowd came
gradually, but il came, and when thu
| final roundup was made about
| o'clock. it was estimated that there
We're fully 300 people present. They
We're everywhere. The grand stand was
comfortably filed. there was a big
! crowd watching the pulling oxen over
behind the judges stand. the exhibition
building. up at the entrance, had its
quota. and over along the midway
there was a perfect swarm, and YOU
had 70 PICK your way through the
crowd in order to Keep Your feet from
being walked upon.
The above sentence would indicate
the presence of a midway. and there is
one-no we'll organized fair of today
is complete without it. 1t is the same
old crowd Of fakirs that has toured the
State this fan. and exhibited at every
fair yet held. but they End new crowds
at every stand ana gather them all
in. Of course Prof Perkins is there
with his Holstein heifer of the aux
iliary feet. and is in his usual happy
frame Of mind. The professor is quite
a violinist. and can play all kinds Of
music. from rag-time to Mendelssohn,
and To draw the crowd he has a negro
song and dance artist about the color
of a pecan nut. This individual is not
contented with the complexion that
Nature gave him. and INDUCES liberal
IN in lamp black to make himself more
III an African hue.
The mysterious Galatea has sat tile
crowd wondering; and the merry-go-
round is giving hundreds "a two-miI-
ride for a nickel" with music all the
way. just as it did at Bangor, Lewis
ton, Readfeld and Windsor The pic
while you-wait man is doing
brisk business with the rural SWANS
and their best girls, and gets up some
trar+tn,,g .nd Will Ies.a,. onae nrfta N,
make 2 very lively feature of the fair.
The different departments of the fair.
As a whole, have very fine display
If exb4hit- som. If tbau haine large,
than ever before The dfspIa,- of r,1Iit
e unusually good and shows that the
orchards of Pittston and vicinity COM
pare fayorah1v with any in The G,1t.
The cattle DEPARTMENT IL we'll filled
.vfth oxen arl sta..s brt j trffIa sbnrr
,1 cc,,. Among tbn princinar exbibi-
t1r= arc 4. II. Leonard III Pittston. v.h,
h1s 4 tne herd or thoroughbred HAM.
fords. +. d. Jewett Of Whftenald. Han
some good Grade Hcrefords: Thomas
FarroIrs herd IF Jersey mixers from
East Pittston. are . fine lot of cattle. /