The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-29
To Hrs ExcRLLENcY &. B. DOLE, Min
lister OF Foreign Affairs, ETC.,

tn
Isier OF Foreign Affairs, ETC.,
erR-I desire to lay the following
matter before you for consideration.
a CORPORATION has been formed In this
city for the purpose OF making Ha-
waiisn exhibit at the Midwinter Fair In
San Francisco
The intention is to make as com olete
and representative an exhibit as possible
OF ali phases OF Island life and products.
For this purpose a space facing on the
grand court of about two acres in extern
has been secured. 1t IS considered one
az the hest sites on the grounds.
In order to meet the expenses OF the
enterprise a small entrance fee Will be
charged and Hawaiian products, curios,
photos, ETC., will be Sold.
I'm order to give life and attractivenest
II the exhibit it is proposed to construcs
IL upon the general principle OF the VII
lace exhibits so successful and attractive
at the Chicago Fair.
The following enumeration oil some Oh
the details Of the exhibit will illustsate
its character.
The cyclorema of K:lauea exhibited
nj Chicago. will be reproduced, with
much more elaboration than 1t was In
Chicago.
lake one hundred feet by sixty and
four fact deep has been constructed In the
Village in which native Hawaiians Will
yiye swimmirg exhibitions, and upon
Which Hawaiian canoes manned py
natives will be placed,
The Spring Valley Water Works mas
furnished the Company with free clay
anj roclx for making the lake and fur
nished also free rock and soil for making
waIks and gardens in the village and
water for the lake and fountain
therein.
A village of grass and cocoanut
leaves. to the number of about ten houses
will be constructed.
The grass houses have been forwarded.
The following additional building ma,
tariaI has also been forwarded vlz;-ooO
..coanut leaves; 200 palm leaves; 500
hamboos. There will be over twenty
sanarate and distinct buildings In the
exhibit.
For ornamental purposes there has
bean forwarded from Hilo 100 tree fern
Trunks from to ID feet long and 30 cords
OF shorter fern :: inks.
Several hundred palms and other
pIants have already been forwarded or
90 up on the next steamer.
<. A coffee and light refTeshment
stand with capacity for three hundred
neople. facing both the village and the
nnter court has been constructed
II ia proposed to make a speciality OF
Hawaiian coff and food products here:
This il a concession to Mr.. Tom May and
Allan Herbert, under the personal man
agement of the latter
A main exhibition hall 90 by 81
feat with a ten foot veranda on three
sides has been constructed IN which al
general exhibits will be placed:
2. A live fish aquarium IS being cou'
structed for the exhibition OF Hawaiian
fish. over fifty varieties have already
hsen procured and are now thriving II
captivity and contract has been made
for the catching and delivery OF man
eating shark not less than ten lee
long. NJ, ALL
s.. Under the charge OF Mrs. Aliar
there will be manufactured on the
grounds mats, fans, lei+, seed ana snei
work etc. which with other curlos Will p'
sold.
She will take a number OF native as
sistants with her for this purpose.
Q. An exhibition hall is being con
strncfed in winch Hawaiian singing
ancient and modern, chanting meles, etc
will be shown.
10. Accommodations for a band-stanC
of the shell model similar to the one II
Golden Gaze park has been constructed