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has for its object the promotion of all these branches, and which 

 has done good work in the past ; and while such influence is to 

 be regretted, yet no one can honestly say these special organiza- 

 tions are not needed, and are not doing a most useful and credit- 

 able work. By every means let them all be encouraged and aided ; 

 there is work enough to be done, and in all laudable efforts for the 

 good of our various State industries and interests, the laborers 

 are always too few. 



A General Look at the Hall. The fair was held in the new 

 Town Hall at Waterville, a hall, which in its proportions, artistic 

 decorations and appointments, is as neat and appropriate as it is 

 elegant, and which is as positive a source of pride to the town as 

 its predecessor was a disgrace — and we venture it has never in its 

 brief history looked more attractively, or been decked with a 

 more royal display, than this from the hands of Flora and Pomona, 

 twin goddesses of beauty and fruitage. Entering the hall we find 

 six long tables running lengthwise, and occupying rather more 

 than one-half the area of the floor. Through the centre is a wide 

 alley, and at the upper end of the hall the visitor passes from this 

 alley under an arched way, to the stage. On each side of this 

 arch are tables filled with pot plants, the stage being devoted to 

 cut flowers. On the table at the right as one enters, under the 

 gallery, is a special collection of picked varieties of apples ; the 

 upper end of the table being devoted to grapes. The second 

 table is occupied by Androscoggin county, and the third by Ken- 

 nebec — this comprises all the tables on the right of the main isle. 

 On the left, the first half of the first table is given up to pears, 

 the remainder being occupied by Kennebec county ; the second 

 table is taken by Lincoln county, and the third devoted to collec- 

 tions from Penobscot, Somerset, Waldo and Aroostook counties, 

 and a few miscellaneous lots. Under the gallery at the right and 

 left of the entrance, are two tables devoted to garden vegetables, 

 canned fruits, &c., and also one at the left of the stage, a part of 

 which is assigned to vegetables. Around the gallery rail is an 

 attractive display of paintings and chromos, and in some show- 

 cases at the extreme right, Carleton places on exhibition some of 

 his unrivalled work in the photographic art. This comprises a 

 general outline of the hall, the beauty of which cannot be de- 

 scribed, and can only be appreciated after a close inspection of its 

 various points of attraction. The gorgeous beauty of the many- 

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