CIIAS. GODFREY LELAND, Chairman, REV. WM. 11. FURNESS,
WILLIAM V. McKEAN, FRANCIS WELLS,
PROF. lIENRY COPPfiE, R. MEADE BACHE,
GEORGE 11. BOKER, ASA I. FISII, i
CRAIG BIDDLE, CEPHAS G. CHILDS. I
No. 10.
THE FAIR MOVEMENT IN THE LOYAL
STATES.—No. 9.
THE PITTSnUKOII SANITARY PAIR,
rTUIE Fair at Pittsburgh had its origin in very
m uch the same motives which had influenced
the friends of the Commission at Chicago. No
city in the country is more eminently loyal or
devoted to the cause of the soldier than Pitts
burgh, but a constant drain upon the sources of
supplies in kind, seemed nearly to have ex
hausted them. The Sanitary Commission has
a most active agency in that city, presided
over by the well known Christian philanthro
pist., J. R. Biiunot, Esq., a gentleman whose
warm heart led him to every battle-field in the
earlier history of the war, and whose devotion
to the wounded on the Peninsula was re
warded by an imprisonment of some length in
the filthy dungeons at Richmond. The agency
of the Commission at that point has not only
taken care of the sick and wounded soldiers at
the front, but it has remembered also those
who passed through that city on their way to
the army. It supplies the funds by which
the “ Pittsburgh Subsistence Committee” per
forms the same grateful task which has been
so long and so successfully carried on by our
Refreshment Saloons here, feeding hundreds
of thousands of weary and hungry soldiers as
they march to battle. Nothing is more striking
or more beautiful in the philanthropic spirit
which this war has developed, than the gene
rous and hospitable treatment which the na-
EDITOBIAL COMMITTEE:
GENTLEMEN.
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 18
tional soldier has received as he entered Penn
sylvania, whether by her Eastern or Western
frontier.
These labors of love on so grand a scale, of
course, required for their proper execution
large means, and the friends of the Commis
sion in Pittsburgh determined, after much re
flection, to try the same experiment which
had proved so successful elsewhere. This
was done in entire ignorance on the part of its
projectors that a Great Fair was in contem
plation here, to be held about the same time
which had been proposed for their own. The
Fair was opened on the first of June, and
though, of course, sufficient time has not yet
elapsed to ascertain the result, yet, from all
the accounts we receive, it cannot be doubted
that the Pittsburgh Sanitary Fair will prove a
magnificent success. From the descriptions
which we take from the journals of that city,
the arrangements would seem to be of the
most extensive kind, and the inaugural cere
monies very imposing.
As the “ Horticultural Department” is con
fessedly one of the most beautiful features in
our own Fair, it may be a matter of interest to
know what our sister city has done in the same
direction. Here is their own description of
their Floral Hall:
The crowning feature of the Fair is Floral
Hall. Whether it is regarded as a beautiful
creation of artificial scenery, or viewed as an
assemblage or grouping together of several
pictures so as to unite in harmony and sym
metry a grand result, certain it is the accom
plished artist has produced a work of surpass-
LADIES.
[| MRS. ROBERT M. HOOPER, MISS SARAH F. CUYLER,
!! MRS. E. S. RANDOLPH, MISS ANNA M. LEA,
MRS. WILLIAM S. PHILLIPS, MISS GRACE KIERNAN.
MRS. THOMAS P. JAMES, MISS LAURA HOOPER,
MRS. PIIEBE M. CLAPP, MISS DELIMA BLAIS.
ing loveliness. When you enter this temple
the eye is charmed with the rare combinations
of rock and tangled tufts of vegetation, rustic
arbors, flowers, fountains, cascades, dropping
water, gurgling streams, evergreens, statuary,
bowers, &c. What strikes the beholder first,
as he comprehends the picture, is the singular
unity and congruity of parts observable in
the entire arrangement. The grand design of
the artist is to illustrate the progress of man
in civilization as evidenced by his architectural
and topographical surroundings.
The canopy, from which light is thrown
upon the forest of different sections of the
globe, is composed of the national emblem—
our starry banner—entwined in red, white
and blue cloth—with arches of evergreens
connecting with the other portions of the
scene and surmounting the whole. Encircling
the hall is a series of booths, of entirely dif
ferent architecture, from the rude structure
framed out of the native forest tree, to the
more advanced gothic style. On either side
are two vistas or canopied walks, so shaded as
to produce the beautiful illusion of great
extent or distance. The arches are richly fes
tooned with evergreen. At the southern end
is the “Garden of Eden,” while in the north
ern extremity of the hall is the “ flower of
Rest,” and the “Cascade.” On the central
piece there has been great care observed to
carry out the harmony of the scenic creation.
It presents six sections of the globe. The
first is a striking scene upon the Rhine; stand
ing in front, the castle is observed at the top
of the mountain slope, roads in gentle curves
passing through the grounds of the peasantry
beneath; while cottages, water-mills, sheep
grazing in the distance, jets of water and gur
gling streams, combine to form a view of great
beauty and attraction; at the base of the
mountain is a glassy lake, whose margin is
fringed with aquatic plants and flowers.