The morning call., 1893-10-16
OF TIME.
One Exposition Building
in the Lead.
SCENES AT THE GROUNDS.
Remarkable Progress of the Past
Week in Building and Grading.
Fair Notes.

IF the executive committee had had a
fence around the fair grounds in Golden
Gate Park yesterday handsome sum
yould have been realized from gate re-
ceipts. for the reason that there is some
thing to look at now where the Midwinter
Exposition is to be held, and also because
the people are each and every one deeply
interested in the work of preparation. A
week makes such great difference at this
present stage of operations that one never
knows what will be seen week later. and
each Sunday the crowd grows in numbers
and curiosity keeps the numbers company.
The crowd of visitors yesterday might
have kept revolving turnstile busy
making figures up to something like $4,000.
and it is safe 10 say that the majority OF
these good people would have willingly
paid dime or nickel in order to admire
what the contractors are doing with the
ornamental buildings.
The mushroom city grows daily. Its
spires and turretS are ALREADY appearing
far above the tree tops or Golden Gate
Park, and old glory fioated and CLEANED
triumphantly yesterday from one OF these
emnences. The thousands who saw the
exhibition buildings a week ago and
viewed them again yesterday had good
reason to express surprise. Each immense
structure leaps up as II by magic, and
certain change has come over the land
profles, all OF which is simply astonlSh-
ing.
Nearly hundred men worked hard yes
terQay on the Mechanical Arts building.
Sashes for windows we're deposited on the
ground and instantly placed in position.
while men covered the exterior sides with
lathing. on which the staff will be laid.
Other gangs of carpenters fastened truss
beams in position under the galleries,
while still others put up beams fOr the
gallery roofs. Ten truss beams OF wood
and iron will support the main roof. Each
will weigh siXty-eight tons, so that the
roof supports alone will weigh $50 tons.
Contractor Logan says he will have all
the carpenter work finished by next Sum-
day week il rain does not stop operations.
lie laughs at the idea of having to pay
S4OO every dav the work is unfinished
after January 10. The building will be
ready for exhibits before December l.
About forty brick masonS worked against
time on the Fine Arts building. which is
now twenty feet from the ground. The
first floor has no windows, ard artists de-
clare this structure Is a mistake, as there
will be poor light and Insufficient room.
The other buildings were deserted yester-
day for want of proper lumber
The managers of the Dahomey village
now at the Columbian EXPOSITION are very
anxious 10 pass the winter in Golden Gate
Park. The DahOmeyanS are from the cities
and bush regions along the slave coast of
the Gulf Of Guinea in West Africa. They
are not used to cold winters. The nights
are already pretty chilly for them in Jack
son Park. but they do not want to go back
home until they have seen more of Amer
lea, so they want to pitch their tents dur
ing the Midwinter Exposition in San Fran
cisco, and cores SpondeOce with that end in
view is now being conducted, though final
arrangements have not been made. In the
party are twenty women and two children,
who will in all probability come to San
Francisco. These women are veritable
AmaZons, hideous with battle scars, aud
with lines Of cruelty and determination on
their faces.
Accompanying this interesting party
are several feticheTs. who. while believing
in a supreme deity, worship minor gods,
such as snakes, trees. ETC., because they
consider that the supreme being has no
time to think of men.
The Department OF Publicity and Pro
motion is usually quiet on Sundays, but
that does not prevent such charming an.
n0uncements as this proposition of Bal
thazarieD," whatever that may mean. In
international eXpOsltions this object is a
decided novelty, and because San Fran.
cisco breaks the record this singular idea
is considered worth placing on record
Press Agent TruesdelPs description is here
given verbum verbO:
''The plan Of the protector. which has
not been stated IN explicit terms, seems Il
be that the BalthaZarien shall be some
thing like an immense safe of iron and
cement in which shall be placed the records
of the exposition, the daily papers of the
period. and a number of the mos
characteristic exhibits of the pres.
Pnt time, and that the door of the
BalthaZarlen be then sealed up or other
wise fastened. presumably with a time
lock attachment, so that IL cannot be
opened for 500 years. Inside this nam.
moth safe there would also be placed in.
structi0ns Tor the perDetuation of the idea
to the effect that when The contents were
removed and examined and added to the
history of that day, 500 years hence, the
Balthazarien should then be filed with
similar records of the new period anC
locked up again for 800 more years"
In the Oriental concessions no attrac.
tions will be more worthy of notice than
the Javanese dancing girls and the Javan-
ese village.
Those who cnme to San Francisco will
have little Javanese village by them
selves, after the manner of the one now il
Onlcago, Wnere the houses are constructed
of bamboo. palms. grass and fiber. They
are exact reproductions of the houses
used daily by the people in Ceylon They
are built high up from the ground ana
each has portico in front. In the Java
nese adjunc, of the Oriental concession
Javanese coffee will be served aud such
other articles as are known in the little
island. A design for one of the house.
has already come to hand, with descrip
tfoDs of the interior. The interior is par.
ticulsrly picturesque.
1t is expected that the Austrian section
will be an aspirant for first place in the
array of exhibits. Arrangements have