A Brilliant Success

The Y.M.C. A. Fair at the Armory.

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ALL WERE WELL PLEASED

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And Had Every Reason to be So With the Attractions.

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Tonight Will Be the Band Concert and a Crowd Should be Out.--
The Sights in Greater New York Worth Visiting.

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The first annual fair of the Young Men's Christian Association, in aid of the building fund of that organization. is now in progress at the Light Infantry armory and judging from the attendance Tuesday evening is a success.

It is a success also from the standpoint of the prettiness and attractability of the decorations and displays. The exhibits have all been arranged with much artistic taste and the effect on entering is most pleasing.

A flood of light greets one on entering the door and falls with pleasing effect on the very varied colors of the booths arranged around the outside of the large room.
In these booths many of the progressive merchants of the city have displayed with most pleasing effect their various lines of goods.
Among these are noticed Henne & Stanger, Schuh & Co. , The Ann Arbor Gas Co., The Ann Arbor Music Co., and various others.
Cousins & Hall have a very fine display of flowers from the green house. In the northwest corner of the room is to be seen a log cabin with the appearance of a squirrel skin stretched upon the door under a queer legend in some dialect unknown to the writer and within the cabin a dusky Indian ready and willing to tell one's fortune or furnish the needy with magic soap.

In the center of the room extending from the south side are three pavilions or booths very pretty in design. The first one is the Japanese booth in which are displayed all sorts of Japanese articles for sale.

The second one is called the paper booth, hung about with various colored fringes of paper and within are exposed for sale every conceivable paper made article.
The ingenuity of the ladies must have been greatly taxed to ate so many articles in paper.

But passing on to the next booth, called the fancy work booth, the visitor is confronted with as many more pieces of fancy work, none of which are like any of those seen in the preceding booths.

All three of these booths and the multitude of articles offered for sale are decidedly attractive.

To the right of these booths from the entrance, the ladies of the Congregational church have their tables on which they serve an appetizing supper and delicious ice cream.

In fact on every hand are to be found the most favorable and tempting opportunities for enticing the unwary lucre from the pocket.

In fact the accomplishment of that very thing is the principal purpose of the fair and all appearances indicate that those having the fair in charge are adepts in that line.

All visitors seem, however, in view of the worthiness of the purpose to be willing victims.

In the farther end of the armory is a platform and upon the back wall the emblematic star of the organization. The music was furnished last evening by the Athens Band under the leadership of Mr. Backhaus.

The district school tinder the direction of Prof. Springer, with some of our prominent business men as pupils, which was to have been a part of the program last evening, for some reason did not materialize.

The gallery has been metamorphosed into a most interesting museum and the passage through the same is designated a "Day in Greater New York." The sights to be seen here are certainly worth the cost.