The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-06
THE EXPOSITION.
The last Week of the Grand
Show.
Receipts .... Attendance....Cincin-
natl Day, &c.

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great Exposition and it promises to be the
finest in the way of displays. &c. Every
body is excited over Cincinnati Day" and
the attendance on that day will no doubt
b the largest of any day during the Expo
dtion. The smallest days attendance has
been 1924. The largest 1854, making the
average daily attendance 14254.
The receipts of the Exposition thus far
have been over $75, 900, and are expected to
foot up round $1OO 900 by the close of the
weak.
For cincinnati Day" the following at
fractions are offered:
Arrangements have been made by the
Committee to decorate the front of the Ex-
position buildings in the daytime with
6ags and streamers, and at night with bril-
liant illuminations in handsome designs of
Sasjets, having been promised the use of
flags and streamers in abundance by the
steamboat owners, and the gas-fxtures,
&c, through the courtesy of General Hick-
enlooper, of the Gas Company.
The Exposition will open at a. M. one
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until 1880 p. M, one half hour later than
nsusl Cincinnati exhibitors are requested
10 make such additional decorations and Or
namentation of their exhibits as may be in
good taste and not calculated to hide other
exhibits.
His Honor the Mayor of the city has been
requested to be in attendance all day, as
the honored guest of the Exposition and
Official representative of the municipality.
All the Commissioners and Associate
Commissioners are requested to be on duty
In person all day.
leading industrial establishments are re-
quested to arrange to have their men at
tend the Exposition in organized bodies
A display of fireworks will be shown from
the highest pinnacle of the Music Hall, in
connection with the electric light, at J
S'clock in the evening.
The main features of the display for the
day will be, in addition to the extraordin-
sry show of industry, art and flowers Incl
drntal to every day:
l. A magnificent flower show, eclipsing
any display hitherto made, and having for
its special feature floral decorations for the
table, with tables set in highest styles of
household art, with silver, china, &c., of
The finest
=. Concert by a military band of seventy
fys pieces, with extra concerts in the vari-
ous departments of the Exposition.
q Concerts on the great organ as usual at
noon, and an extra concert from TO I
o'clock in the evening.
L. The exhibits of Cincinnati artists will
besiven due prominence, and pains will be
taken to call particular attention to their
works
TEE sENsUoUs AND THE SENSUAL IN ART.
Ii is perhaps difficult for an Art Commit
tee to know just where the line should be
drawn between the sensuous and the sensu-
a in pictures or statuary for public gal
lery, but that it should be drawn firmly
where the proper division line belongs no
Dns can doubt particularly if the collection
Is 10 be thrown open promiscuously for the
inspection of old and young of both sexes.
The answer that generally ready by those
who favor extreme latitude in the admis-
zion of pictures of debatable propriety to a
gallery open to the general pub
EcIis that ito the pure all things are
pure" ''evil be to him who evil thinks"
DC. All this isexcellent logic, no doubt,
but it does not touch the question at issue,
which is whether we should place prurlent
pictures or statuary where they may be,
nay, must be looked at by young men and
naidens. even little girls and boys when
they 60 to galleries of art as they do at
those of our Exposition. But what is an
improper or prurient picture? asks your
moralizer. Aye, there's the rub; when
does the bush become the tree? or by a
more homely simile, when does the pig be-
come the hog? We looked over our collec-
tion of pictures when the gallery
of the Exposition was first opened,
and listened to the comments
Of the visitor to hear the general drift of
Drinion, and found that there was general
Rntisfaction at the absence of works that
shocked the public modesty. at least in the
gallery of paintings There were some
mutterings at few of the engravings,
coupled with the remark frequently made
that the few that were positively ndelicate
In this gallery were not likely to be as gen.
erally inspected by the youthful visitor as
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the public acquiesced generally in the
judgment of the Committee. Sauntering
through the small gallery of engrav-
ings on Saturday, when, as there
was no school, the Exposition was
thronged with children, the writer
Of this observed group of children, in
ciuding youth of both sexes, crowding
through this hall. Two boys, of perhaps
twelve and fourteen years. stepped behind
q little group looking at the engravings
when the older one pointed at very
indelicate picture among the engravings
with laugh. The younger of the two
looked, as did some Of the other children
near, and blushed crimson. A momer.t
after he walked away with look in his
face that if the Committee could have
seen they would have removed the
ojectionable picture to the darkest
corner of the attic, to remain there
hidden during the remainder of the
exhibition. Here, said the writer, is an
answer to what is an indelicate picture, and
judged by this criterion there are several
engravings that ought to be banished.
Some are rare old gems, if you please, but
rare old gems may be shown in rare olo
cabinets to persons who ought to look, but
may not without mantling the cheeks of
innocence into shame be exposed to gaze of