Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-12-23
The Great Fair in Cincinnati.
oPEEIEe DAY.

The Great Sanitary Fair Of Cincinnati
opened Monday evening at 7P'H. From
the accounts in the Cincinnati papers Il ap-
pears to have commenced most auspioiously.
For the benefit Of those interested in our
Fair, we mako some extracts from the report
of the Cincinnati Commercial, that they may
see what they have get to beat.
LADIES' BAZAAR.
The building, extsriorly, is not unlike a
huge broadhorn (e simille which is even
poetical at this tims,) that has been landed
high and dry by reeeding food, and its es-
cape rendered hopeless by decentralization
Of houses. The stove-pipes, which protrude
from the roof at regular intervals, help on
the illusior bat there the metaphor ab
ruptly terminates. A glance into Fairy
land would not be more dRSElingly beautiful
than a glimpse in the inside Of this unro-
mantle she'll, Yesterday morning, there was
a Babel Of buzzing voices and a glittering
chaos of beautiful things gaping from shat
tered boxes or lying around loose but, by
/ night, greater than Aladdin had wrought 9
wonderful change. Toys, gimeraeks, en-
brOideries, and the Thousand eheEd'oTVres of
art, taste and skill, which one better versed
a
selves would fail to enumerats, were ranged
along in graceful rows, pendant in delicate
clusters, and piled up in great gorgeous piles,
in q manner beWildering even to the soPhis-
ticated eye. There was a vivid glitter at the
right hand and at the left. The curious
was mingled with the useful, the costly with
the modest. The inexpIicable greeted the
vision at every step. WessW more "things"
last night that We didn't understand, than
We should expect to encounter In q voyage
up the Nile or drosm-trip into America.
The enthusiastic reporter proceeds to eu-
logic in high-though psrchance none too
high-tsrms, the energy of the ladies in COM
pleting the preparations for the BaEasr.-
he revels in an eloquent description of the
glOries of the scene, and the beauty of the
parterres of human roseS IN the various
booths.
He speaks as follows of the
HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT:
The ceiling and walls are almost covered
| with beautiful branches Of green, in the darh
| ground of which thousands of boquets, fash
! toned into pleasing combinations, nestle and
attract the eye. The stage is transformed
| into Just such a scene as your eye has Otter
dwelt upon on the artists canvass-a tropica
scene, the margin Of lake, q mass Of luxu'
rious growing plants, needing but a glimpse
Of water to make the scene perfect YoI
have before you a Midsummer Night
Dream" and, in the beautiful ladies, at
tendant spirits. Scattered about the room
are elegant trees, which afford the child al
the dreams of fairy land he could wish, II
their wealth Of gIistsning prizes; and they
suggest joyous snticipatiOns, those many
beautiful Christmas trees.
The Hall Of Curiositiss, Relics. Painting
and War Memorials is also we'll filed. Tht
Refreshment Room sssts three hundred anC
twenty people at a time.
A Building in the Sixth Street Marks
Space was opened to-day. Machinery
heavy goods, and produce will be on exhibit
ton there.
The Newport Band discOursed sweet musi
all tho evening.
The Fair is held in Mechanics Institute
corner of Sixth and Vine streets.
The crowd in attendance the opening nigh
was immense.