The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-21


ufactures Building, and the area OF
the Fine Arts Building has been ma
terially 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 constantly deve-
Looping since its earliest inception
The original idea was to make the
Midwinter Fair a big thing, but it is
going to be a much bigger thing than
its most enthusiastic endorsers antici-
pated. In the great Manufactures
Building there will be display of
the manufactures and liberal arts of
: nearly every country in the world,
than which there has never been a
more complete display anywhere, ex.
cepting only in the forty acre build
ing on the shore of Lake Michigan
last Summer.
The Russian section alone will oc-
cupy 1900 square feet; the Italian
section will occupy 10000 more; the
Austrian section will cover a space
almost as large as these, and other
nations will be represented in proper
ton to their ability or their desire to
take advantage of the opportunity
here afforded for advertising them
selves and their products to the world.
The Japanese will be there with their
dainty handiwork and there will be a
wonderful display of Bohemian glass
ware. There will be thousands of
square feet filled with the products of
the looms OF Asia and Central Europe,
and as one walks up and down the
broad aisles of this great Industrial
Palace, it will not take much of a
stretch of the imagination to feel that
H.. -t,rl iaG m
OF an eye, and that the things thus far
only heard OF with us are now within
the reach of our hands. But this
great building is by no means to be
exclusively occupied by foreign ex-
hibits.
The proportion of American exhi-
bits already secured is very large in
deed, and some OF the most famous
displays made in the American section
at Chicago will be seen here In addi-
ton to these, there will be a 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 Access
sible. The result Is that in many re-
spects the Midwinter Exposition will
surpass that at Chicago, and, as a
manifest also in connection with some
of the foreign exhibits.
Among the new things to come from
abroad are q large number OF paint
ings which the managers of the Art
Department in Chicago would have
been delighted to secure, but which
will be seen for the first time in
America In the Exposition 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 a great many of the French paint
inps which were seen there.
1t will be in the palace OF Horticul-
ture and Agriculture, however, that
the glorious climate of California and
of the salubrious section of the Pacific
Coast will be most emphatically illus
trated. IL is intended that the central
space in this grand building shall be
occupied by great mass or nowerlng
plants and vines, with recesses Tor cut
flowers and terraces for roses oil every
variety. This display is to be kept
fresh every day, and, occupying such
a central position, the idea Is that the
moment an fastener enters Horti-
cultural lIaIl, he shall be unmistak-
ably impressed with the fact that ne
ia indeed in the land OF mowers.
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 all around
s-ts mammoth floral pyramid VIII De
niles of fruit and jars of fruit as Wen,
snch fruit as has never been seen any
where except in the California Build
ING at Chicago, where people came,
saw aud were conquered, and where
upon they determined to see for them
selves the country where such frult
can grow TO such perfection.
IT was California's display at Chi
eaQo that had much to do with the IN
auSuration of the Midwinter EXPOSE
ton, and the same idea OF develop
ment will be worked out through the
Inedium of this Exposition, for when
people see things that are new 10 them
and their origin, then the district from
which they come will surely be the
next object of public interest. This
thoupht has already taken strong
hold on the different sections OF the
Pacific Coast, and a number OF neigh
boring States are arranging TO make
an elaborate display at the -'lidwlntei
Exposition with 4 view OF paying
special attention to their particular
locality.
But aside from all these genera
features of the coming Exposition
there is an element which has peer
encouraged by the management 10
very large extent, an element OF en-
tertainment and instruction. I'M;
idea is similar to that which was cat
cred to in the famous Midway Plals
ance. at Chicago, and the best features
of which are being transported to SaI
Francisco with many new things ADD
ed, and many old ideas improved up
ON. We are TO have all the ATTRACTIONS