Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-02
To Entertain Gov. FernaId.

Mayor Frank RedingtOn has appoint
ed the following committee to make
arrangements for the entertainment of
Governor Fernald and his party when
they arrive Thursday. The committee
consists of Martin F. Bartlett, presi-
dent of the Fair Association, Mayor
Redington. Attorney General Warren
c. Philbrook, Hon. William T. Haines.
DR.. J. Frederick Hill and George II.
Vinegar. The committee will meet the
Governor and his staff at the Elmwood
hotel at 10 A. NJ and all will proceed
to the fair grounds in carriages.
Luncheon will be served to the guests
and officers of the fair at the dining
tent of the Winslow Congregational
Society at noon, and it is expected thai
about 20 will make up the party. The
Governor and staff will after dinner
pass The afternoon in watching the
races and in visiting the various eX-
hibits
Those who are interested in good
roads find an interesting exhibit in
that of the Lombard Road Leveller,
which is built by the Lombard Steam
Log Hauler Co. of Waterville. This
road leveller is exhibited by j. L. Snow
of Fairfield, who has constructed with
it between two and three miles of first
class road in his town over what was
considered a very bad locality for road
building. The machine was designed
especially for levelling and turnpiking
public highways, can be drawn readily
with one pair of horses and can b.
easily adjusted to give the road the de-
Cirn6 &c nlQi r,1ad nv fhO3o
who have used the leveller that it il
far ahead of the King split log drag
because it can be used after the roads
are hard and dry and can be used in
rocky places.
One of the most complete fruit and
vegetable exhibits offered by GranG
at any fair is that presented here this
year by Fairfield Grange, No. 40. and
includes many handsome specimens OF
different varieties of fruit and vege-
tables.
Wilson AeropIane.
A. v. Wilson of Bar Harbor exhibits
at the fair an aeroplane of his own
patent and gives a practical lecture
and demonstration concerning it to al,
who wish. This is believed to be tht
first time that an aeroplane has been
thus exhibited, as usually at fairs if
one is to be seen it is in flight and the
public is not given many points in re-
gard to it's mechanism.
Mr.. Wilson is an old aeronaut, hav-
ing been engaged in parachute work
as early as '73. The aeroplane, which
he shows is the same in which he has
made flights OF 400 feet from the ice
at Bar Harbor, and with a larger one
of the same model he made a flight Of
1900 feet last November in Boston
with the assistance of motor power
The Wilson aeroplane is purely
mechanical device, which, rises with
the spread of the blades. A 20-mi!e
breeze is necessary to work it success
fully, otherwise the operator must 1e
assisted by motor He explains it's
principle as the same as that of kite,
only instead of operating it from the
ground. the operator guides its move
ment. from the machine itself He
states that the longest period of sus-
tanned flight. which he has been able
to accomplish with the machine is one
hour and 20 minutes
The machine Is covered by. seven
patents and go claims. Its invent Or
Is a member of the Aero Club of
America and charter member of the
Aero Club of New England