The morning call., 1893-12-08
MOLTEN DEPTHS.
In a Lake of Glistening
Quicksilver.
A FRUIT JAR COLONNADE.
A Building of Uncut Pine to Be
Erected.
CAIRO DONKEYS AND CAMELS.
The Polytechnic VIII Maintain an
Ambulance and Hospital on
the Grounds.
A FRUIT JAR COLONNADE.
CAIRO DONKEYS AND CAMELS.

4 glistening lake of quicksilver will con-
stitute an interesting feature of the mining
exhibit at the Midwinter Exposition. 1t
has been assigned space at one side of the
arches of the grand facade. The New
Almaden mines will supply the quick
silver for the snimmerng body. Upon its
smooth and mirTor-llke surface visitors
will be permitted 10 throw cannon balls,
iron sledges and similarly light and fragile
objects for the pleasure of seeing them
float like bubbles around the quicksilver
shores. In various ways the application
of quicksilver to gold mining will be
shown.
In the general mining display Nevada
County Will have the most extensive space
and MendocIno the smallest. Plumas
has asked for 400 square feet in the minin g
section, and TuolumDe for a space 171a
feet square. San Diego will send two tons
of the richest ore found in the Julia n
mines, and there will be a large quantity
of rich manganese from Hollister, San
Benito County. El Dorado is collecting
ton of the most attractive ore from each
mine in the vicinity OF Nashville.
Prominent wine merchants and shippers
of the city met yesterday at the rooms of
the Vitcultural Commission TO discuss
the proposed arrangements for the wine
exhibit at the exposition. Those present
were: Henry Epstein, Charles Bundschu,
T. A. Haber. Hans Kohler. Clarence Wet
more, William Wehner, n. c. Stevens, A.
Korbel, P. c. Rossi. Albert Lachman. j.
j. JacYbi, r. Wertheimer, E. G. Prieber
and Secretary Winfield Scott OF the VIII
cultural Commission.
In the course of the discussion il was ap-
parent that the dealers desired both col
lective and individual exhibit While per-
faatlu WILLING anntrihnfQ ri ha
general display, they wished each of their
Individual exhibits to be shown, with their
respective names. The object of this is to
obtain recognition for the grades in which
they deal.
AS the wines displayed will be put in
direct competition with foreign brands
exhibited under the Lame of the firm
handling them in the market, the wine
men considered it unfair that the individ-
uality of the California exhibitors should
be lost in an unlabeled cumulative display.
William Wehner, wine-grower from
Evergreen. objected that if the dealers de-
voted themselves to making a collective
San Francisco exhibit, as they seemed dis
posed to do, each exhibitor labelling his
own goods, it would be left fur the grow
ers to make the general exhibit of Califor-
MIA wines. He was afraid that they
would be unable to do this if the assist
Rnce and support Of the San Francisco
dealers were withdrawn.
In reply it was stated that the wine mer-
chants had no intention of doing as Mr.
WehDer suggested, inasmuch as the San
Francisco Wine-dealers' Association, COM
prIsing ten firms, had agreed not only to
arrange a separate exhibit but also to con-
tribute $1,000 toward the general display.
After some further talk it was decided
to leave the matter open until Monday aft
ernOOn, when ali the winemen of the State
would be invited to be present and finally
data nina hn 70 hath n
exhibit should be general or individual.
The prospect is very good for an excel
lent viticulture exhibit. Funds have been
placed in sufficient amount to guarantee
the taking of a space adequate to all de-
mends for as extensive and as elaborate an
exhibit as the most ardent wine-growe
could wish. One firm proposes to con-
struct the largest wine cask ever seen In
California and to fill it with he product of
their vineyard. A spirit of competition is
growing among viticulturists, and the re-
suit will probably be that this feature of
culture building will be far better than it
was at one time feared it might be.
Two carloads of boilers and machinery
arrived yesterday and three more were
wired as having passed Mojave. The spur
track. which is to carry these boilers direct
b0iler-house, in the rear of the Mechanic
Arts building. will be completed to-day.
One OF the large engines which is to
form the motive power of the exposition
has already been received and others are
promised within few days. It will take
at least week to prepare the foundations
and set these engines and boilers in posi-
tloD, but no time Will be lost about 1t and
there is every reason to believe that
most OF the motive power will be available
on the day set for the opening of the ex-
position. Traffic Manager DAILY is keep
Avarv hi calf I'D
other conslgnments that are coming over
land and is making every possible arrange
ment to receive and store goods promptly.
Those who are conversaut with the his
tory OF the exposition will remem ber that
Adolph Sutro gave as a don alton to the
Mldwlnter Fair fund eighteen lots of land
situated south OF the park, between and
L streets and Thirty-sixth and Thirty
seventh avenues. These lots are to be
sold at public auction at II o'clock on
Thursday, the 14th of December, at 10
Montgomery street. Aside from the op-
portunlty thus offered for purchasers to
add TO the Midwinter Fair fund, the lots to
be sold are highly desirable property
They are located u part of the city that
is sure to be built up at no distant day,
and the proposed electric railway exten-
sion passes through the adjoining street.
The cash receipts yesterday amounted
TO S27O9, making the total to date 1884,
$50 23
The general allotment of space in the
Manufactures building has been arranged.
On the right of the main entrance will be
the AustrO- Hungarian section, with
France adjoining toward the center of the
building, and Italy just across the middle
aisle. The Irish section will be located to
the left of the entrance. Great Britain
will occupy the next large space with
Ceylon on the left. Germany has the GEN.
tral corner space opposite the area to be
occupied by France. and Russia has the
other corner space in the center OF the
building. The four central spaces are
thus given to Russia, France, Germany
and Italy. The oriental section is to be
TO the left of the Russian, and Japan will
be located TO the right of France. The
American exhibits will occupy the entire
snaca in the annex Ii il ON annax in