4 SECRETARY S REPORT. 



real value, was perhaps the most interesting and successful part of the 

 whole exhibition. 



We confidently expect that with more time for preparation, and a 

 better knowledge on the part of all concerned, of the demands of such 

 an exhibition, and the capacity of Worcester North for supplying them, 

 our future success in this Department will be more complete and grati- 

 fying than the present. A full report of the various machines will be 

 found on succeeding pages. 



Dinner was served at 12 1-2 o'clock, in the Fusiliers' Tent, by Mr. 

 G. G. Ruggles of the Fitchburg Hotel. The president, Hon. J. H. 

 Lockey, presided, and called upon Rev. 3Ir. Horton of Leominster, to 

 invoke the Divine blessing. After an apparently hearty enjoyment of 

 the good things provided by mine host Ruggles, the company listened 

 with great pleasure to the Annual Address given by Dr. James R. 

 Nichols of Boston. This we publish in full and it will most abun- 

 dantly repay a careful reading. 



After the address there were brief remarks by Hon. Simon Brown 

 of Concord, and Geo. E. Towne, Esq., of Fitchburg. 



On Wednesday forenoon came the exhibition of Horses in all the 

 various clas.ses, and the trial of Steam Fire Engines, all of which 

 proved very interesting to those'assembled. The Steamer prizes were 

 won, first, by the Metacomet, a Jucket engine, and second, by ihe 

 Rollstone, an Amoskeag machine. 



At 1 o'clock, dinner was again very acceptably provided by Mr. 

 Ruggles, and there were more partakers than could be seated at the 

 first table. The President presided as on Tuesday. All enjoyed a 

 feast, but for various rea.sons the •' feast of reason" usually following 

 was mainly omitted. 



Music was furnished on Tuesday by the Leominster Ban'], and on 

 Wednesday by the Fitchburg. 



The events of the afternoon were horse and foot racing, and a bal- 

 loon ascension by Prof. King. The latter was made in splendid style, 

 as there was a perfectly cloudless sky and scarcely any wind, so that 

 the '• air-ship" moved slowly and almost perpendicularly upward, and 

 continued in full view for about an hour, till the time of its landing, in 

 the town of Groton. 



Altogether, the Exhibition is very generally considered one of the 

 most successful ever held by the Worcester North Agricultural Society. 



Great credit is due to Gen. J: W. Kimball, chief marshal,, and his 

 efficient Aids, to the Fitchburg Police, to Henry J. Colburn, Esq., 

 Sup't Mechanical Department, Wm. W. Clark, Esq , Sup't of Upper 

 Hall, the Sup't of Hor.ses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine, Forage, and 77iany 

 others, for unceasing and earnest efforts to render the Fair pleasant 

 and profitable to all concerned. 



The Secretary would again urge upon competitors the great necessity 

 of more care and promptness in making entries and statements, and 

 upon members of committees, of prompt attendance to their duties, or 

 if that is impossible, an early notice in u'riting that they cannot do so» 



GEO. S. HOUGHTON, Secretayy. 



