Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-10-06
Exposition Exhibits.
THE WONDERFUL OPTICAL ILLU.
SION OF GALATEA WITH MANY
STARTLING CHANGES.
A Beantiful Display Representing Ken.
iiwOrth by M0onlight-A Minia-
ture HOuse Built Of Sheet Mu-
sic-Attraetive Exhibits
Everywhere.
Correspondence of the Ledger.

St5(sYgA. LOUIS, september IT,
YA9 The soft dreamy September
days are slipping away. The
7 mellow Indian summer is
near with its lovely skies and soft
south winds. Surely there is no bet,
ter time to visit our Exposition than
this.
To all in search of variety we
would recommend one attractive spot
the novel and original display of
the Bollman Bros, music dealers.
A large house with fancy cupolas is
built of over 5000 title pages of mu-
sic suspended are wires and clamped
together, giving it the appearance
of an immense glass house. 1t
shows equal evidences of taste and
great labor. The soft fiickering
lights which come from the Japanese
lanterns, suspended to the cornice
and roof, throw cheerful light over
the whole, while tropical plants
grouped around display their grace
full foliage. Elegant pianos are here
on exhibition, the firm being the
agent for the largest representation
in the city. Nightly concerts are
here given and the enterprising Bros.
have reason to congratulate them
selves on their success. To Mr..
Herman Bollman's versatile brain
and poetic taste the public are in
| debted for one of the Exposition's
most pleasing exhibits.
Nothing more interesting can be
found in the building than the beau
tiful display given this year by Mrs.
| A. H. Fuchs, dealer in millinery
| goods. Mrs. Fuchs salesrooms have
grown to enormous proportions and
have now the leadership in the fash
ionable world of our city. Here are
to be found imported bonnets and
hats from the celebrated Girot and
Louise, the worshiping oenters OF
French millinery, as well as choice
selections by Eastern buyers. The
subject of Mrs. Fuchs display at
the Exposition is "Kenilworth by
| Moonlight" Kenilworth Leicester's
ancestral home, where Mortimer,
Earl of March, once gaily reveled
| and time-honored Lancaster dwelt.
| Here was entertained England's vir-
| gin queen, the ambitious Elizabeth.
The gray and massive walls Of the
| castle are before us covered with
clinging ivy; on the side is seen the
/ artificial lake across which Leicester
built a bridge that his royal guest,
Elizabeth, might enter the castle by
a path untrod by human footsteps.
The moons soft rays (by the skill
full management of the electric cur
rent) illume each spot; the leaves of
theivy simmer in the moonlight and
high up on the battlements sit sol
itary owl. A solemn stiffness seems
to brood over the picture; the songs
of the birds seem hushed; not
even the quiver of the rustling ivy,
and the moon looks coldly down up
on the time stained walls. We can
almost imagine we can see the gate
that led to the Warwick road and
the Queens mounted body guard
richly dressed in livery with banners
streaming and waving plumes. The
scene is in the artists best vein and
iustifies all the beautiful conceptions
the poet has given it. / am an ar,
tist in sentiment, while there is in
my nature a rough current of practi'
cal life, but the beautiful exhibition
given this year by Mrs. Fuchs is ir'
resistibly attractive from an artistic
standpoint.
| Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney's
octagonal pagoda still stands in the
center nave and the ladies pause il
amazement before the rich array o
silk fabrics, elegant laces and fans
Many novelties, embracing all the
fashionable fads in young ladyhood
grace the display-all dear to th'
feminine heart.
| In the small hall known as Enter
tainment Hall is an optical illusion