The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-25
THE EXPOSITION.
A Glance Through the Buildings
---Full Description of To-
days Floral Show.

Exposition, the feature being the grand
noral display. 1t is fact that up to date
our country cousins have made up the ma
iority of the attendance They are coming
in by the thousands, and that at steady
rste. Our citizens seem to hold back some-
what, but towards the close OF the big show,
itmay be said, that nearly every one in
Cincinnati has been there.
The large attendance during the past few
days may be attributed to the unbroken
fair weather that we have had since the
opening day of the Exposition.
Yesterday the:turnstiles recorded 1906
Aisitors.
Mr. ingalls,, from the Committee on
Transportation, reported that the receipts
up to yesterday were $22.7l6.
For 1875, the corresponding number of
days, $14,63O; gain, $S,0S6. ''The receipts
are more than 81, 900 ahead of any year ex-
cept the banner year of 1872, and only
t243e behind that year; and inasmuch as
the total railroad coupons OF that year were
only about $1,000, we can safely say, in
Guiding railroad coupons this year, that we
Are even ahead of that year."
At the meeting of the Commissioners
yesterday afternoon bills amounting to
NO,6S2 were allowed and ordered paid.
The Secretary reported that one turnstile
did not register rightly on Tuesday and
that the admissions ought to have been re-
ported at 14,003.
The matter of ventilating the Art De-
tartment was discussed and referred to the
Committee on Fine Arts in conjunction
With the Committee on Machinery.
To-DAY's FLOWER SHOW.
The great flower show of to-day. which in
sDme respects exceeds that of any day, as
The occasi has naturally called out the
most strenuous efforts of the competing
florists. The display is unprecedented in
extent, variety, and in the exceeding fine
nas of tie large and snowy pieces which
ars presented. Probably there has never
been gathered at any one floral show in
cincinnati 80 comprehensive an as
semblage of pieces all fine, but all,
pr nearly all, large and beautiful.
ahe premiums of course being very
considerable will make these to great ex-
tsntan object of interest to the contest
ents, but we believe we state only the exact
fscis when we say that the desire 10 exceed
esch other has had more to do with max
Ing the display what it is than the money
premiums. We present below description
VI some OF the more striking pieces in the
display made this afternoon.
The very artistic barge orgondola, which
sveT it may most properly be designated
that was exhibited by Mr.. Critchell a week
rf1ara1 u-itl, 90
change in the style Of work to make it
seem almost new piece. The reservoir on
which it seemed to float upon the minia-
ture sea was formed Of looser work and of
larger flowers, the corners being indicated
by lines of scarlet red dahlias, white and
pale dahias also entering freely into the
body of this work. At the edge where it
Joined the simulated sea was line of dark
Foliage which, rejecting in the silyery
waters brought the exquisite flower work
of the fairy gondola in o strong
es relief. This was piece of
sxguisitely fine work in all Its details. The
front of the barge, as heretofore described,
Is swan-like and the head and gracefully
curved neck were covered with the down
like plumage of pampas grass, for which the
flky texture seems peculiarly apropos.
The flower work of the sides of the boat
were worked in looser style, with greater
value given to the more exquisite single
flowers. Great creamy, half-blown roses,
tho waxy tuberose and splendid La Nal
Maison, Marshal Mel and LIE pactole buds
being thickly sown along the vessels sides.
The class of work is more after the New
York style of floral decorations than the
work hitherto shown. The rudder is formed
OF pink balsams and smilax green prettily
blended. The oar-locks were Of red gera-
Mum flowers, and the oar stems of delicate
enpatorium, the handles of pink, and
the blades Of golden red, making the
blades appear as though they were tipped
with gold. Inside tue barge is red bal
rams with the sides delicate fesh-likc
pink, and finished with a band of white
about the top. The wings are pure white
with the edges pink, like those of the
flamingo, except tnat the latter are of
deeper hue and the insides finished with
aowny white. The sail is of pink silk, and
the rigging trimmed with delicate tendrils
Of smilax. In the barge stands a fairy
figure guiding the exquisite craft by sill
yer cord. This poetic floral creation is some
Eve and half feet long and the reservoir
on which it seems to float is eight feet in
length. A mirror placed beneath the
WhfSO Vic ollNClN transparency
of the water on which it seems to float.
The anchor that seems always to typify
Hope in the popular mind is always
beautiful figure for floral design. If one
more exquisite than this of MIR. Critchell
has been wrought, it evidently has not vet
been shown. This magnificent piece was
some five feet or more in length. by four or
four and half in breadth. The main body
Of the anchor was formed of alternate lines
of white eupatorium, red balsams and
white tuberoses, the contrast of color and
The,r. form being exquisite. The green
--~-yo exquisite tender tint of the pcrvi-
ployed ifalnia. The flukes were of broad
u,ct n,t white and red in stripes The
,a ' m It the top we're Of white basams
ga OF Hie s',lid ranks If rich Bon Silene
The effect of this in a style f.
ferent from anything hitherto shown was
most charming. But the capstan was the
completion, and to some extent the crown
ing sheaf OF this really incompatible work
The lower half Of this beautiful piece of
work was formed of alternate latitudinal
stripes of pure white and delicate pinks
separated from central band of bright
scarlet by row OF creamy safrand rose
bnds. The upper half of Hermosa rose
buds and white balsams AID tube roses.
The top was finished with fern leaves and
Bmilax green. Anything more charmin nr