The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-16
OUR EXPOSITION.
The Magnificent Display In the
Buildings.
Attendance Yesterday, Awards
and Notes.

'ance, which was not so great as on Satur-
day, being, according to turnstile count,
eight thousand five hundred and nine.
The people began to pour in in the after
noon, and at night the fifty or more depart
ments were thronged with visitors.
The thread departments and the ice
making machines seemed to be the center
Of attractions. These are some of the
novelties, as at our former Expositions the
processes of making ice and thread were
not shown. The thread making, spooling
it and labelling the spools, is represented by
three firms.
Considerable attention is also being paid
TO the sewing machines on the stage just in
front of the big organ. Among the improve
ments on sewing machines is one, an attach
ment to the driving wheel, which allows the
stoppage Of the machine at a moments
notice. No touching of the driving wheel
Is necessary. 1t is an automaton and
behaves bravely.
The cash receipts of the first four days of
the exposition were 81, 400 in excess of the
6rst four days of the 1875 display.
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fare from Vine street to the hall.
The piano recital in Dexter Hall at d.
H. Baldv in g. Co. s display was one of yes
terday's features.
The catalogues gotten up under the
auspices of the Commissioners are being
sale 60 to the Exposition fund. They To-
cate every exhibitor and evary department.
The receipts of the first week are shown
by President Pendleton to have exceeded
those Of the first week of the Exposition of
1876 by 81 400
The following are the awards for seed to-
bacco.
Connecticut Seed Leaf-First premium to
c. F. Mayer & Co., second premium to Hy.
Meyer q Co.
Ohio Seed Leaf-First premium to O. G.
Kimbusch e. Son, second premium to 0. G.
Kimbusch & Son.
Indiana Seed Leaf--First premium to
Jacob Young East Germantown, Ind.
Wisconsin Seed Leaf-M. johnson,
Etoughton, Wis, recommended for a pre-
mium.
The first premium in all these awards was
b silver medal; the second bronze medal
The jurors were ]. II. Silver, Louis New
burgh, Jacob Zins.
THE FLOWER SHOW.
Again as we thread the throng that
crowds the art department on our way to
the gallery where the flowers are shown,
we scent the heavy odors of the waxen
tuberoSes, mingled with the more delicate
fragrance of mignonette and heliotrope
and jessamne that crowd the tables where
the flowers are displayed in such profusion
Here on near dozen immense tables are
everything the season. and much that the
season does not afford without the aid of
art. The premiums had been awarded
when the hall was opened yesterday. one to
each of the three contestants; Criticized tax
Ing the first, the Cincinnati Floral Company
the second, and Sunderbruch the third
This award did not, however, by any means
change the fact that was apparent to all
that the finest display of flowers was made
by the Cincinnati Floral Company, both as
to the qualify of the flowers shown and the
arrangement for their exhibition to the
visitors to the hail. 1t may be proper to
remark that this display was not floral de-
signs arranged in what is technically STYLED
''pieces," but was flowers cut from the
blooming plants, arranged either in clus-
ters or single sprays of the various kinds
for exhibition on the flower tables, in such
manner as the exhibitor chose to adjust
them. Mr.. Critchell had the tables for his
display covered with damp sand, and the
clusters of bloom set in this by their stems
while some of the larger srays, like
gladioli spikes, salviia zimnier, ETC..
were placed in large vases, and were
thus extremely snowy on the tables. The
Messrs. Sunderbruch and the Cincinnati Flo.
raj Company had few vases for larger
howers, indeed their entire main collections
were shown in glasses of water placed on
the table covered neatly and cleanly with
white paper. On the centre of one of Mr.
bnnderbrnch's tables was a pyramid ar
ranged OF green woods moss, over which
trailed long garlands of ivy and the flowers
arranged in clusters over this. very pic
turesque and pretty arrangement. There
was little that was new on any of the tables,
but much-tro much-tllat was well
known; indeed had the display been
smaller in extent and more select it W would
have been far more aesthetic and satisfactory
to majority of the visitors. Sunderbruch's S
assortment and method of showing came
nearer being perfec than either of the
three exhibitors. Critchell's was least So
His flowers in enormous measures, many of
them rare and exquisitely beautiful. were
rendered vulgar and commonplace by the
dowdy arrangement for their display.
Some of his vases were fine. One we were
struck with. In the center of this was an
enormous mass of the dazzling scarlet sage
or SALIVA, around which were disposed fine