The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-12-19

the old California mission architec-
ture, and with great wide gallery
50 feet broad running all around
the interior there is a building
for mechanic arts 1854 feet by 100 feet,
purely East Indian, in style, and per-
fectly adapted for the accommodation
of such exhibits as are usually found
in machinery halls; then, too, there
is a palace of horticulture and agri-
culture, almost twin to the mechanic
art building in point of size, though
entirely different in architecture. The
fourth building is the fine arts palace,
constructed of brick for safety and
durability, and finished in a pleasing
Egyptian style. The fifth building,
in this grand group, is the admins
tration building, where the offices OF
the Exposition management will be.
All these buildings have now pro-
crossed SD far that the roofs are in
place, and in a few days more the
early winter rains may come if they
will and the interiors will be protected.
The outside of the buildings is being
covered with staff, and they present
as solid an appearance as if made
of granite or marble. These five
main buildings are located around a
grand central court 900 feet in length
and 500 feet in width, in the center of
which grand electric tower go feet
high already begins to lift its head.
In this grand court there will also be
an allegorical fountain, emblematic of
the history and achievements of the
State of California, and also the grand
electric fountains which created such
a sensation in Chicago, and which are
to be transported to San Francisco at
an enormous expense.
In addition to these main buildings
and the features of the granG central
court, concessions have been let for a
great many other interesting exhibits
and displays which will cater very
largely to the entertainment as well as
the instruction of the public. The
great cyclorama of the burning noun
tain will find place in the Hawaiian
concession. Heidelberg Castle will
stand on an elevation with the Ger
man village clustering around its
base.
Very many of the Oriental features
of the Midway Plaisance have been
secured, and a reproduction of the
famous public Prater of Vienna has
been arranged for. There will be an
ostrich farm in full feather, an Ari-
IONA Indian village, a Spanish ran
cherO, an electric theatre, copy of
the Ferris wheel, 100 feet in diameter,
a grand exhibit of sealiOns from the
Santa Barbara Channel, and an in
teresting exhibit of lions of another
sort equal to the famous Hagenback
wild animal exhibit on the Midway
in Jackson Park.
Besides all these, work on all of
which is being pushed rapidly for
ward, there are also being constructed
half a dozen special buildings in
which the exhibits from different
counties of the State of California are
to be combined, and in two of these
buildings, the two great Citrus belts
of the different sections of the State,
northern and southern, will be pitted
against each other, in friendly COM
petition, so that visitors to the Fair
will have a chance to see the greatest
display Of oranges that has ever been
made.
These are but "a few of the thous-
ands of things that might be said in
explanation of the development of
this great MidWinter Exposition un-
dertaking. twill open on the first
day of January without fail, ana
everything is to be in readiness at
that time. At the present rate OF pro-
gress, this can be most positively
stated The great advantage of such
an exposition, at such a time, is no
longer question in the minds of the
people of California, and the jewellers
in neighboring States are fast awak-
ing to the opportunity offered in this
to display their own pro-
ducts at great advantage. Nevada
has already secured 1000 feet of space.
Oregon, Washington, Utah and New
Mexico are also falling in line, and
other States west of the Rocky Noun
tains will also be represented there, to
say nothing of the vast number of ex-
hibits that have arranged to take up
at San Francisco the work of adver-
Using themselves which they began
so successfully by the side of the in
land sea at Chicago.
The letters daily received by the
management and the BUSH
ness and private letters of nearly every
resident in California bear evidence to
the fact that the usual number of win
ter visitors to the Pacific Coast will be
hundredfold.
The grand Exposition which is to be
spread out before these visitors, and
before the hundreds of thousands of
residents of this part of the United
States who will throng Golden Gate
Park during the winter, will surely be
a subject of the most intense interest.