, 1873-05-12


Tho recent musical festival in Cincinnati has
invested that city with unusual interest ut tho
prosont timo. Tho festival features hayo already
been worry thoroughly presented In thcao columns.
It only remains now to speak Of q few Of tho
domestic features. and, Of thoBo, tho great Foun-
tain, tho Suspension Bridge. and lager Beor
nre tho most prominent, that engago tho attcn-
ton Of stranger In tho river platonu. Tho
suburbs and elegant residences Oh tho outlying
hills arc 80 fur elevated above tho noise aud
smoke Of tho city, and diffor from 1t IN so many
essentials, that 1t 10 like going Into now
world to ascend thoso hoights. Goetho'a
well-lnown line, "On every height thoro lies
ropose," applies to Clifton, but Clifton is not
Cincinnati. It llas not the inuumorablo fruit
stands, tho turbid river, tho classic Rline with
hatla Btores, the diminutivo and dirty horse-cara
which look like oyergrown turtles as they slowly
crawl up the hill-slopos, tho dngy buildings, tho
bad hotels, nor tho band which playa worry badly
1t tho barracks on tho othor nido OF tho rlvor.
ind which belongs to Cincinnati by virtuo Of tho
music which comos waited over nlo Ohio from
tho aacrcl soil Of kontuchy. Tho probaBco
Fountain IL noble work Of modern art, OF whlcl,
tho city may bo proud, although It's surronnd-
ings arc but commonplace ana ita finely mould
cd figures npout worry dirty water. Like tho rcBe
Of the city 1t must inevitably got dirty, however,
and this il to 10 regretted, fol, III design md
execution, 1t Ia n credit to tho Munich moulder
who has worked it out without olco having
recourse to classical forms. Tho whole story
of water in all ita forms and functions la admir-
ably told In tho graceful audpowcrfal figures aud
In tho rooyoa At tho aano time 1t ia to bo rogtoe
tod that such artistic ilguros shond DO mado tho
reservoir and distributor of such dirty wator, and
that It should hayo boon located III such dingy
aud urpropitiouB quarter Of tho city. It Ii as
much out Of place as would DO m elegant ota"
goro III a kitchen. The Suspension Bridge III D
noble achievement Of science, aud tho magnitl-
cont arc suspended by its thousands OF flla1nonts
from tho lofty nlid massive towors cofnbluoa q
perfection Of symmetry with strength posaogaoa
by no other similar structure ii. thla country
Prominent aB thoao two features nro,
however, tho third 10 tho most promf-
mont OF all. Gambrlnua Ia tho tutolar divinity
of Cinciunati, The amber caual, with its Hqnatil
surroundings, which cusa off ono section Of tho
city from tho otlor, like very dirty ribbon, la
in very truth tho Rhinc, although 1t laa no oan-
tod o)iA, no vino.clad lilis M poetic or logon-
dary asaooiationn, aud no Undno floating In it's
thick and nasty flood. The people beyond tho
Rhine devote tLelr exjBtonce to boor. They
drink 1t six daya in tho wook, and violate tho
commandment by not resting on the seventh.
Door IL the motive power, tho inspiration, the
beginning and ond Of lito the hope Of youth, tho
reward Of ngo; and tho only eaanoas Which op@
prcssoa tho minds Of tloao dwollora aoross tho
nl,no Is that they muat pay lyo conta TOR thfoo'
cont glass Of thoir sine qua non. a stroll through
this classical rogion by day by night convinces
| n stranger thpt tho pooplo do nothing but drink