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To A. Partridge, for one pair very fine ladies' gaiters, 25 cts. 



To Mrs. Geo. B. Hubbard, Ashby, rag carpet, 25 cents. 



To Mrs. Rebecca Pratt, aged ninety years, for one pair 

 feeting, 25 cents. 



To Wm. Woodbury, for very well made wire selves, 25 cts. 



Mr. Charles Livermore brought into the fair, after the 

 awards had been made, two pair of ladies' gaiters which 

 were beautiful, and very thoroughly made, and were well 

 deserving a premium. 



Messrs. Crocker & Burbank exhibited some very fine 

 samples of envelope paper from their manufactory. A pre- 

 mium would have been awarded, had it not been magnani- 

 mously declined. 



The Committee had occasion to regret that a larger sum 

 of money was not placed at their disposal, as in many cases 

 the awards seemed very meager and disproportionate to the 

 real merits of the articles exhibited. We wish, however, 

 that the idea was more generally understood and acted upon 

 by mechanics and manufacturers, that the pecuniary award 

 at these fairs should be regarded as a secojidary matter. 

 Excellence of workmanship in every department of produc- 

 tive industry will lose nothing by such public exhibitions, 

 but, on the contrary, will be more sure of having merit ap- 

 preciated, and ultimately find an appropriate reward. 

 For the Committee, 



ALFRED HITCHCOCK, Chairman. 



FiTCHBURG, Sept. 13, 1854. 



FANCY ARTICLES. 



Committee.— J. J. Piper, in place of G. F. Bailey,— Mrs. Edwin Upton 

 Mrs. Joseph Baldwin, of Fitchhui-g,— Mrs. Benjamin Wyman, Westminster , 

 —Miss Lizzie Hill, Fitcliburff,— Mrs. J. T. Everett, Princeton,— J. J. Har- 

 den, L. Sprague, Fitchburg. 



Your Committee on Fancv Articles, of domestic manufac- 



