The morning call., 1893-12-20

cars and other vehicles could not proceed.
From the standpoint of an advertisement
OF the camp the idea was success.
President Stephany of the Vienna
Prater Company has received a telegram
from Chicago announcing that Director
Fritz Scheel, who is TO conduct the Vienna
PrateT orchestra, has closed a contract
with Franz He'll, the great solo cOruetist,
who drew such great crowds TO "Old
Vienna" at Chicago. An arrangement
has also been made with Herr Gruenaur,
the great Niennese vloloncelloist. The
Prater Company has secured as concert
mester" the celebrated vlOlinist Mar
qusrdt, who is well known in this country
as one of the four mem bers of the famous
MendelssOhn quartet and who has recently
resg ned similar position in the Thomas
orch estra In Chicago in order that he
Nigh spend the winter in California.
The State Mining Bureau is to be the re-
81 duary legatee of the mining exhibit at the
fair. aud is apt 10 be greatly benefited
thereby, as many Of the miners who are
getting together exhibits say that alter the
fair they Will donate them 10 the bureau.
Some of the ores of the mining exhibit
are already arriving at the fair grounds
1t is hoped to begin to put them in
place early next week. In the meantime
all preliminary work Is being cleared up
More money is needed at once. however, to
enable the mining exhibit committee 10
carry out all its ideas for making the dis
play attractive. A general appeal is now
being made to all people in any way in ter
ested in mining to provide the $4,000 esti-
mated as necessary 10 make the exhibit
everything 1t should be.
Arrangements have been perfected Dy
Manager Dnb0ce of the Firth wheel for
pushing WORK night and day until it Is fin
lshed. A temporary arc light plant is to
be operated and the present force of work
men will be doubled. Every effort will be
put forth to insure the completion of the
wheel so that ii can be operated on jana
ary l. The cars are all finished and ready
to be hung, and the wheel itself is in a
! well-advanced state.
The committee in charge of the enter
| tainment 10 be given under the auspices of
the Young Mems Institute on Thursday
evening at Metropolitan Hall in aid of the
Mid winter Fair fund is working satisfac-
! torily, with prospects OF making the affair
grand success. The announcement that
his Grace Archbishop Riordan will deliver
| an address IS guarantee that the house
will be crowded. James ID. Phelan and
other prominent speakers will be present
and an excellent programme has been pre-
pared. No admission fee will be charged.
and 1t is hoped that the Catholic commu-
| nifty Of San Francisco will embrace the
occasion TO ind0rse by their presence the
action OF the Young Mems Institute in
| raising the money. which will be turned
ofCl W iho tApOSltlOH luuu bUdL evening.
Grand President Frank j. Murasky will
preside and will make the transfer of the
funds.
There were delivered at the Hawaiian
village Yesterday morning thirty-five loads
OF building and decorative material con-
sisting Of cocoanut palm branches. Hawai-
ian grass TO be used in the thatching of
huts, ohia wood poles and bamboos to be
used in the construction Of minor build
lngS In the native village. This material,
with a large number of packages of rare
tropical plants. arrived on the Australia
from Honolulu on Saturday. A quantity
OF dried caro-, from which poi is made and
also lot OF kOna coffee was part of the
shipment. A number OF native workmen
under the charge OF Allen Hurburt of
Honolulu, the sub-c0ncessiona aire in charge
OF the Hawaiian restaurant and Kona
coffee-house, have also arrived and are
now at work constructing the grass
houses. Every effort is to be made to
portray old Hawaiian life. each represen-
talon being carefully perfected in the min
utest detail.
Julian Sontag, secretary of the Trans
mississippi Commercial Congress, writes
to Direct0r-General de Young that ar
rangements have been completed for the
convenlng OF that congress in San Fran
cisco on the 18th of February. MI Soptag
says 1t is expected that this session OF the
congress will be the most important ever
held and the greatest gathering of the kind
which has ever taken place OH the Pacific
Coast. Letters have already been received
from Governor III. II. Markham, Mayor l..
X. Ellert and others assuring the officers
OF the congress OF their hearty co-opera-
tion. Delegates are now being appointed
by the Mayor and commercial bodies of
San Francisco, and appointments of dele