Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-09-20
A CLEAN OF
The Wonderful st. Louis EXPOSE
tion-Fay's Graphic DeScrip-
tions of Various Displays.

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ST. Louis, Mo-, Sept. lS.-Let
all avail themselves of every stray
CLEAN of sunshine that shines
across their pathway; among the
brightest offered is our Exposition.
The school children had their an
nual possession of the building last
week. Little children, the flowers
and poetry of life's wayside! And
yet 1 fear the exposition and man.
agement saw only the practical
side of this poetic expression-for
they swarmed the entrances and
a%isles, filling them with noise, and
their pockets with picture cards,
until the exhibitors were ready for
any boycott that promised "a
rest"
The furniture display is by far
the handsomest ever displayed
here. Scarritt's Furniture Com
pany is eclipsed by none. Its
rooms represent the days of Queen
Anne, every piece illustrative of
that historic reign while lady and
gentleman, III elegant costumes,
characteristic of that period, re-
main at the booth ready to show
their goods.
Of an excellence that surpasses
all former rivals is the display of
the Model Clothing Company. 1t
tells its own story, a familiar depot
scene. A passenger train is seen
running from the side of a noun
tain view to the station, where a
platform of life-sized figures are
waiting to get on. The dude and
his best girl r busy with their
farewells, a country couple, man
and wife, with grip-sack and an ex-
pectant look on their faces, a col
ored nurse carrying a baby, q de-
pot laborer, a negro at the omnibus
door, ready to hand in the passen-
gers, a hurrying boot-blaok and an
automatic ticket agent selling q
ticket to a stylish traveller, A real
railroad track adds to the reality
of the scene. I need not say it is
the most attractive spot on the up
per floor, especially as several of
the figures are moving ones.
In the basement, the Electric
Company, of P%ittsburg, has a gilt
tering mountain cataract. The wa
ter dashes w a precipice in the
denseness of a forest, passing over
a bed of burning electric lights.
The green lawns are sodded, logs
| covered with moss are strewn
around in most natural positions,
| while visitors stand over.a rustic
bridge under which the river
rushes to an immense reservoir.
The whole is lighted by three hun
dred incandescent lights of red,
white and blue.
One very pleasing feature most
attractively developed is the pretty
device of Schuerman, artificial
flower maker. A cavern where the
winds might have had their abode,
a flowing waterfall running down
the mountain side, on the summit
of which is a castle, fishermen in
boats and on the messy banks con-
tentedly "woo the fnny tribe
while Rip Van Wrinkle awakening
from his twenty years sleep, as
the legendary story goes, ices in
the distance the demons Of the Cat
skill mountains gathering up their
ten-pins.
VIM. J. Lemp's Western Brewery
occupies the elegant pagoda of last
season. In place of the figures
representing the various n~ationali.
ties so well remembered last year.
they have revolving bottles about
five feet in height, and cupids ris.
ing and falling above them. The
rising sun is in the centre, and tht
whole is brilliant in execution ane
finish.
Much Of the patronage is ye'
local, but it is prophesied that tht
largest influx of visitors ever seer
Gin this city may now be confident
lly expsctsa. FAY.