Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1893-11-23
THE MIDWINTEK EXPOSITION.

The floor space in the main buildings
of the California Midwinter International
Exposition amounts to quarter OF q
million feet, and every inch of this space
will be fully taken by the time the Expo
sition opens on January l. Several
changes have already been ordered in the
original designs of the buildings; an
annex is being erected to the Manu-
features Buildings, and the area of the
Fine Arts Building has been materially
increased by the addition of about twenty
feet to its projected size. These changes
have been brought about by the fact that
the scope of the Exposition has been con-
stantly developing since its earliest III
ception.
The Russian section alone will occupy
10000 square feet; the italian section
will occupy 10000; the Austrian section
will cover space almost as large as these,
and other nations will be represented in
proportion to their ability or their desire
to take advantage OF the opportunity hele
afforded tor advertising themselves and
their products to the world. The Japanese
will be there with their dainty handiwork
and there will be wonderful display of
Bohemian glassware. There will be
thousands of square feet filled with the
products OF the looms Of Asia and Central
Europe.
The proportion of American exhibits
already secured is very large indeed, and
some of the most famous displays made
in the American section at Chicago will
be seen here. In addition to these, there
will be number of valuable exhibits
which were not seen at Chicago.
Some Of these could not be prepared in
time for admission to the great "White
City," and others are from parts OF the
country to which San Francisco is more
easily accessible. The result is that in
many respects the Midwinter Exposition
will surpass that at Chicago, and, as a
matter of fact, this superiority will be
manifest also in connection with some OF
the foreign exhibits.
Among the new things to come from
abroad are large number of paintings
which the managers OF the Art Depart
ment in Chicago would have been de-
lighted to secure, but which will be seen
for the first time in America in the Elk
position in Golden Gate Park. The Art
Department here has also secured large
number of the famous Russian paintings
which created such sensation in Chicago
and space has been allotted for great
many Of the French paintings which were
seen there.
1t will be in the palace OF Horticulture
and Agriculture, however, that the glori-
GUS climate of California and the salubli-
GUS section OF the Pacific coast will be-
most emphatically illustrated. 1t is in
tended that the central space in this
grand building shall be occupied by a
great mass Of Towering plants and vines,
with recesses for cut flowers and terraces
for roses of every variety. This display
is to be kept fresh every day, and, occupy
ing such q central position, the idea is
that the moment an easterner enters
Horticultural Hall he shall be unmistak-
ably impressed with the fact that he is
indeed in the land OF flowers. Though
the snow may lie thick on the flower
gardens in his eastern home, here he will
see everything in full bloom. In the
other spaces around this mammoth floral
pyramid will be piles of fruit and jars of
fruit as we'll, such fruit as has never been
seen anywhere except in the California
building at Chicago, where people came,
saw and were conquered, and whereupon
they determined to see for them selves the
country where such fruit can grow to such
perfection.
But aside from all these general features
OF the coming EXPO sition, there is an ele-
ment which has been encouraged by the
management to very large extent, an
element of entertainment and instruction.
This idea is similar to that which was
catered to in the famous Midway Plaisance
at Chicago, and the best features Of which
are being transported to San Francisco
with many new things added and many
old ideas improved upon. We are to
have all the attractions already referred
to in this correspondence and many new
ones, for which contracts are being signed
day by day. Among the later arrange
ments made in this line is one for a scenic
railway where the passengers on real
train OF cars, taking the natural curves of
the land or artificial grades, whirl through
a tunnel in which scenic effects are pro-
duced by electricity in decidedly
startling manner. A contract has also
been signed with Captain Morgan who
ran the captive balloon concession in
Chicago, under whose management con-