Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-06-04
IElPZlG'S ANNUAL FAIR
THE WORLDS MERCHANDISE BAR
TERED FOR AND EXCHANGED.
Held I'm the Public Parks With
Amusing Features Thrown
In.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
LEIPsIG. May L. 1901.
Perhaps your readers would like to hear
about the great fair or messe which has
been held here in Leipsig annually for
many hundreds OF years, In fact. ever since
this was a little walled town.
The merchants travelling from an parts
OF Europe found here a central and safe
place to meet and exchange their goods
From probably a very small beginning the
sales now reach the snug sum of a million
and quarter OF dollars. The principal
goods are hides, furs and brushes which
are brought in enormous quantities from
all over the world, sold and redistributed
wherever they are in demand.
All the public squares. and they are many
and large. are filled with booths. in which
is sold everything under the sun, from
silks and satins TO gingerbread and ice
cream, the latter OF such startling colors.
red. green, etc, that one hardly recog
nizes It, and as for the loaves Of ginger
bread, they far excel anything in that line
j have ever seen in America, each loaf
being at least two feet wide by one and
half long and about four inches thick, and
In number almost like the sands Of the
sea. Every one has story to tell Of the
great bargains to be had I'm the ''messe."
but as far as my observation goes ! saw
nothing that seemed low In price but the
quisitely beautiful and cost about one-half
what 1t would In the United States. One
was possessed with insane desire to
buy all the merchant had.
Interspersed among the booths for the
sale of goods are merry go-rornds. elevated
railways and small shows without number.
In which the merry shoppers and traders
can rest and at the same time be enter
tanned.
Other Midway Attractions.
1o1 +I,s.
still attract a wondering and interested
crowd as in days of yore and In other lands.
Many electrical inventions, the best being
the graphophone and cinematograph, the
latter showing very good pictures nearly
all comic and all for 10 pfennigs or pa
cents our money. This seemed to be the
popular price OF admission to all the shows
The Real Show.
To an American the people themselves
who attend this lair are the most interest,"
ing OF all the entertainments. Peasants.
some in picturesque and others In most
ugly attire, stand about the streets and
squares and bargain and "haggle" over the
price of some small article with the keen
est enjoyment. and the languages and dia-
lectS one hears spoken are innumerabie.
This fair lasts three weeks, and brings. IL
is estimated 10000 people to the city, with
an immense quantity and variety of goods.
w hen II is over everything disappears so
quickly, end the city resumes its normal
appearance quite like magic One wonders
If the hustle and crowd and flying banners,
horses and all were only a dream.
D'Albert's new opera, Cain has Just
been given here for the first time Ii fol-
lows the Bible story closely. the voice Of
God being given by a chorus of male
voices. 1t is intensely dramatic ard the
music rather of the Wagner school. II
was received with great favor by the au-
dence. s. A. b.