Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-09-20
Fluent Fay's First.
The Great Exposition at St
Louis Opens Its Doors for
the Eleventh Year.
Sousa's Band IL Fitting Successor ia
the Great Giim0re-NOrld's Fair
Exhibits Some OF the attrae-
liOns-The Monster Union
station Worth Seeing.


Correspondence of the Ledger.
=, ST. LOUIS, September 12.-Ex
position days-the gladdest of th.
year-are with us once again ant
! pleasant times may be expected
with certainty. Everyone seems
already imbued with the true car
nival spirit and Music Hall eacl
night is an animated futter of fans
laces and ribbons. The interior il
newly decorated in ivory and gold
with panels in handsome gilt de
signs. In the background an illum,
mated miniature picture of the Ex,
position stretches across the entire
stage, over which in gilt letters are
the words eleventh Annual Ex.
POSITION" words which convey q
proud meaning to St. Louisans.
Three figures on pedestals, repre-.
senting music, industry and art,
form pleasing frame behind the
great band "a band thoroughly
trained under master-hand which
has entered upon a season of varied
repertoire. Sousa's leading of march
music is still popular, though his
choice so far seems to be in the
lighter vein which pleases the aver
age American best.
The Jordan family of aerial ira
peze performers, who were here last
winter with Sandow, perform their
daring ieats in Music Hall between
the concerts and will be here until
September Is.
A band of colored jubilee choris-
ters sing twice day their plaintive
melodies, familiar from childhood,
or the merry plantation songs OF
the ante-bellum days.
Could the public ask for more
for 25 cents admission?
Probably the most notable dis
play in the building is the Missouri
state exhibit from the World s Fair.
Here are represented horticulture,
agriculture, mines and mining, for
estry and educational displays.
\ new feature is a number oi
pedestals, from which are arrang.
ed revolving herDariums, the leaves
of the books containing the pressed
flowers indigenous to Missouri soil,
many OF them of exquisite beauty,
from the hot house exotic to the
mountain violet, from the ferns OF
the wildwood to that democratic
STATE flower, the golden rod. This
exhibit will be of great interest to
Audrain visitors.
Those who came from foreign
shores have not all left US, for the
japanese and American flags cross
each other over a table loaded with
the rarest and loveliest of japanese
goods, remnants of their beautiful
display at the Worlds Fair, and
presided ever by the queerest little
Japs, Including a japanese woman
from that intelligent nation.
A. E. Faust is always sure OF
hearty welcome from his friends ano
certainly no one deserves their pop
ularity more. All visitors feel {
sense of home comfort in his restau-
rant. Mr.. A. E. Faust, Jr., tht
genial son of the famous caterer
presldes as usual at the desk, where
he has proved a faithful sentinel To-
many years. 1t is the only point IL
the whole Exposition where one Ii
capable of complete satisfaction ant
digestion, for Tony Faust believes ii
the saying: s'If eating has to b.
done, let it be well DONE" May
each night during the season be al
Oliver Twist night, as friends ane
patrons clamor for more.
Fashion has set its seal in favor o
the boomers. A native sense o
modesty has kept the American
woman in the background; but they
bided their time and waited. Nov
they are free to gather their skirt
and gather roses in their cheeks al
they speed along on their wheels
Many ladies now swell the ranks o
! American wheelwomen. In the ex
hibit OF the Shapleigh Hardware Go
is lady rider from California, Mis-
Enid Gazette, who every evening
and afternoon mounts her wheel
dressed in bloomers, and illustrate
to the crowd the proper way t.
mount and ride a bicycle.
The red, white, blue and greer
colors of Norway went down beneath
the waves when that queer littl
wooden craft, the Viking, was sunl
during the storm Monday night il
Chicago-an exact model OF the oil
Viking dug up on the coast OF Nor
way and commanded by Lief Eric
son, 500 years before Columbus
Ericsson, who taught men how t.
navigate the ocean, measure tim
| by the moon and stars, living in
land where the beautiful auror
borealis paints the northern sky
realizing to us all the weird, strang
Norseland stories of our youth.
lyoman's voice and a woman's ham
lstretch out in sympathy to Capt
Magnus Andersen and his brav