Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-05
THE STATE FAIR
Closes the Most Successful
Meeting of Recent Years.
Everything Has Worked to Give Good
Time to the People.
Directors Are Pleased, People Happy
and Everyone Satisfied.

Lewiston, Me-, Sept. 4.-(SpeciaD.-
This is the last day of the fair. and
not only that, but it is the last day
| of one of the most successful fairs
which has been held in the history of
the Maine Agricultural Society. 1t has
| been a success in every way, and every
body is pleased, the society, the patrons
and ALL and the 42d annual exhibition
| will long be & pleasant memory to
those who participated
| And everything conspired to make the
fair q success. In the first place the
weather has been beyond compare. Not
drop of rain has fallen since the
| gates were opened, Tuesday morning,
and though the early mornings have
been foggy. the days which followed
| have been ideal, hot, perhaps, but at
the same time tempered with breeze
| enough to prevent the heat from be-
coming oppressive But the heat is
lheeessary at Il fair anyway, for the
Traces, as well as for the benefit of the
Edispensers of the many kinds of drinks.
59E0ther features which have con-
tributed to the success Of the fair are
the exhibits, particularly the stock eX-
hibifs. Nowhere in Maine will be seen
anything to equal it, this season. The
cattle show of this week has far eX-
ceeded in number and quality anything
ever seen on the Lewiston grounds.
All the stock men who have seen them
have saidsthe same thing, and the thou
sands OfSr0t hnpc who c1lnnnCof
to know much about cows and steers,
haven't got done talking about then.
yet.
Of the horses, the same may be said
Many of the best speed horses of the
State have been here, this week, with
a lot of the promising youngsters, and
these, with the drivers and coach
horses, made an exhibition worthy of
the cause.
The poultry show was also a good
one, and in fact the only features below
par were the fruit and vegetables. and
this was rendered all the more notice
able because of the removal of the
fancy goods. household manufac tureS
are department, etc, to City hall, there
by giving to the exhibition building,
above the first floor, something of the
appearance of an empty hay barn. This
may be good policy on the part of the
society. but il it is, the public is no.
educated IN to it. 1t would be diff
cult to find anyone who would not kick
if they had to pay - cents for what
they should get for 50 cents, but that
is what they have had to do, this week,
if they saw all of the fair
Today has been day of clearing out
The program has been carried out as
scheduled. but since daybreak there has
been Il getting ready to go home"
movement noticeable everywhere Par
ticu!arly over in the corner of the
grounds where are located the cattle
sheds was this noticeable. Most of the
premiums had been awarded, and as
large proportion of the cattle were miles
away from their own barn yards, there
was n disposition on the part of the
owners to get them home as soon as
possible.
The moving of stock from the Lewis
ton fair ground is quite an undertaking.
There is Il platform at the northeast
corner of the grounds and q spur track
from the Maine Central runs inside the
fence to the platform, and here the
stock is loaded. All of, the stock will
not get away before Saturday night
if it does then. Twelve cars were load
cd, this forenoon, but it will take $50
cars to carry them all.
OF course the attendance, today, has
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