directors, the section was enabled to furnish
a table with useful and fancy articles. A pri
mary school in the section sent one hundred
and forty-eight dollars and twenty cents, be
sides a handsome vase of wax fruit, and other
fancy articles. A lady resident of the section
having a snuff box, which she valued as a
keepsake, it having been brought from Eng
land by one of her ancestors, sent it by one
of the scholars, saying that she would give it
to the soldiers, much as she valued it, as she
had nothing else to contribute. Truly, “the
widow’s mite as was also another gift, a
kettle holder of quaint device, worked by an
old lady of seventy-five.
Much credit is due to the Controller for his
untiring exertions in behalf of the section,
teachers and scholars having found in him an
earnest co-worker in everything undertaken to
ameliorate the sufferings of our sick and
wounded.
TWENTIETH SECTION,
One table is filled with the contributions
from the teachers, pupils and friends in the
Twentieth Section, and the variety and value
of the goods displayed is very creditable to all
concerned in the work. The decorations are
in excellent taste. The figure of the Goddess
of Liberty occupies a prominent place over the
table. Fancy and useful goods, children’s
clothing of all styles, crowd the table, and, in
addition to the amount already paid into the
treasury of the Commission, the sales will se
cure a very handsome revenue.
TWENTY-FIRST SECTION.
The teachers and children connected with
the schools at Manayunk and Eoxborough are
behind no others in the value of their contribu
tions to the Fair. In addition to the usual
collection of fancy articles, there is a fine dis
play of wax fruit.
TWENTY-FIFTH SECTION.
This Section makes a brave display at its
table, of which Miss E. L. McGowan is the
presiding genius. At the commencement of
the school movement, the Section organized
for the work, and elected Mrs. Walton Presi
dent of the Association then formed, with Mrs.
Burns as Treasurer. This organized system
produced the happiest results, and in the Fair
there is no more attractive exhibition than that
made by the Twenty-fifth Section. The tables
are beautifully decorated. Mr. Jenks, of
Bridesburg, furnished flags with which to add
to the attractions. Wax fruit in great variety
is displayed. A rare article, in the form of a
mat wove of grass, by the ladies of a convent on
the Coast of Africa, is among the goods offered
at this table.
To-morrow we shall give the private schools,
of which a number are represented in this de-
partment.
The Piping Bullfinch will sing during the
day and evening at the table of the School of
Design, east end Union avenue. Fifty cents
xria Daily Pabb.
for three songs. Bring all the children to see
the most wonderful curiosity of the whole Fair.
THE SW’ORD CONTEST.
At ten o'clock last evening the number of
votes cast for the sword was 2,788, divided
as follows: Hancock, 1,172; Meade, 1,320;
Grant, 94; McClellan, 130. Scattering 08.
VOTE ON THE UNION VASE AT 4 O'CLOCK, JUNE 14.
- 205 Bishop Wood,
• 12K Shormun,
- 47 Bishop l’ottcr,
- 32 Carter, -
- 29 John Bright,
- 29 Bishop Simpson,
- 13 McClellan, -
9 Stanton,
9 Dupont,
Union League,
A. Lincoln, -
John Welsh, -
Fiirrngut,
Meade, -
Hancock,
Hollows,
Chant*, -
Grant, •
It is a strange thought, when wc reflect, as
we walk through the magnificent halls of our
great Fair, viewing its almost, interminable
vistas, gay with banners and drapery above,
among the graceful arches, and brilliant to ex
cess beneath with splendid wares, animated
with all the beauty of a city famed for beauty,
that in a few weeks all will have vanished;
the buildings have disappeared like the fabled
palaces of Atlantis, trees and grass be the
only decorations, and deer and peacocks the
substitutes for the graceful and fashionable
Fairies who now flit around. It will be the
next thing to the experience of Chider, the
immortal, who, revisiting the spot where a city
had been, found the green wood in its place.
“A tall, spreading forest tliero 1 found,
And a woodman old in the shadows drear,
The strokes of his axe broke the silence round;
I asked how long lias the wood been here?”
Truly and verily “ how temporn vamutantur.”
Yet a little time longer, and only the Oldest
Inhabitant will recall the splendid Fair they
had in the War. Then he, too, will pass
away, and the volumes of this journal will be
the sole record and monument of our grand
carnival.
“The sole record!’’ Do good deeds then
pass away without a trace, when it is claimed
that a thing of mere earthly beauty is a joy
forever in its effects, each falling like a wave
on the other, thrilling to all time. We do not
believe it. The sweet emulation of benevo
lence, the kindly feelings, the love and charity
and genial generosity which this Fair has called
forth, may of themselves fade away, but their
impulses will be felt in new deeds of goodness,
and it may be that a century hence, the poor
and suffering and sorrowful will experience,
all unknowing, the far-reaching spiritual
beauty of our Sanitary Fair.
There are many “ side shows” in our Great
Central Fair, and as a practical philosopher
has observed: “ He has not seen the elephant
who has not had a look at the monkeys.” On
Saturday night last three gentlemen from the
rural districts, who evidently were determined
to “do the show up” while they were about
it, were observed to pause near the jumping
off place. They had seen every thing from the
north to the south pole—from Dame Birken
bine’s Deutiche Kueche to Blitz’s magic, and
yet longed for something move. Suddenly
they paused! “ I say Jim, what’s that! R
X I T—exit!” “Well boys haul out your
quarters—we may as well see the Exit too !
Gentlemen and ladies seeking for souve
nirs of the Fair, are commended by us to visit
the Perfumery Table in Union avenue, where
all manner of sweetly scentsible objects may
be obtained at a moderate price.
When Schmooze, the best artist in ara
besque and beautiful fairy-like pencil sketches
whom this country has ever seen, died in this
city, he left behind him a work in which his
own poetry was shrined in his own pictures—
the whole being his master-piece. This work,
containing seven sketches, has, under the aus
pices of the Committee on Photographs, been
exquisitely reproduced by Wrxderoth and
Taylor, (inferior in their art to no men in
America,) and published in a volume for the
benefit of the Sanitary Commission. The text
in German is given in this volume, as also an
English translation of the poems. The whole
is included in a beautiful and exceedingly
well-made portfolio, supplied by that first-class
bookbinder, Mr. Kieper, at first cost. We
cheerfully commend this as the most exquisite
work of art in book form which has ever ap
peared in our city. We cannot conclude our
notice, however, without doing justice to the
exquisite typography and general merit of the
“make-up” of this book, due to the indefati
gable exertions of F. Leypoldt, who has, in
every way, both as regarded liberal giving
and hard work, done all in his power to aid
the good cause. For sale at the Photographic
Table, price ten dollars, and cheap at that.
The following contribution is from one of
our news-boys :
Whoever has been in the Horticultural De
partment of the Great Fair, must have ob
served the bee-liives exhibited there.
A man was seen to poke a stick at the bees,
and otherwise annoy them.
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Whereupon a youth employed in the restau
rant was heard to ask the following question :
“ What is the difference between that man
and the Great Fair itself ?”
A lady standing by immediately replied :
“ The one bullies the bees, and the other he's
the bully!”
For this the Sanitary Commission agreed to
confer upon the youth the five largest baby
horses, and a kiss from any young lady upon
any committee ; and upon the lady who made
the reply, the great Rodman gun for an orna
ment.
“What maybe done by a few young la
dies,” is shown by the following:
“The Alert Club was organized at the house
of Mrs. Plknry Cohen, March 7, 1804, for the
aid of the Great Central Fair. It consisted of
nine young ladies, who met once a week.
These meetings resulted in producing fancy
work, to the value of $3OO, besides more than
$lOO in money. The goods and the money
have all been handed over to Mrs. Ephraim
Clark. Among these beautiful specimens of