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

already referred to in this correspond
ence and many new ones, for which
contracts are being signed day by day.
Among the later arrangements made
in this line is one for a scenic railway
where the passengers on a real train
of cars, taking the natural curves of
the land or artificial grades, whirl
through a tunnel in which scenic eff
fects are produced by electricity in a
decidedly startling manner. A con-
tract has also been signed with Cap
tain Morgan, who ran the captive
balloon concession in Chicago, under
whose management continuous ball
loon ascensions will be made every
day TO the height of 1900 feet, so that
bird's-eye views of the entire EXPOSE
ton grounds can be had at ones leis-
ure. The Moorish Mirror Maze has
also been contracted for. This is an
illusion which mystified the world at
Chicago, and which is sure to prove a
great attraction here.
The Oriental concessionaireS are on
the ground with their architects and
carpenters, and are pushing ahead
with the construction of their build
ings at pace which warrants the as
sertion that they will be ready with
the rest of the Exposition by the
opening of the New Year. The Cairo
street, therefore, will be i'm full blast
on January the first. The wedding
procession will move along it on
camel back, and on the donkeys. The
dark-eyed hours will dance and wrig-
gle in the Turkish theater, and the
Cafe Chantant will ring with the
very latest lyrics in French and Ger
man, and Midway English.
During the past week very rapid
progress has been made in the con-
struction of the numerous conces-
sional buildings. The cyclorama of
the burning mountain, which is to
occupy a great deal of space in the
Hawaiian section is rapidly nearing
completion. The Castle Heidelberg
is rearing its head among the trees of
the Hottest knoll just off the South
Drive. The Chinese building, on
which, by the way, white men seem
to be doing alfthe work, is well started.
The Santa Barbara Amphibion,
where the sea lions are to snort and
the sea tigers fight in great tank of
salt water all the coming winter, is
nearly ready for it's big and noisy
occupants. The ostrich farm has
been fenced in, and the big feathered
bipeds are being drilled in putting
their best foot foremost for exhibition
purposes. The Yaqui Indians from
Arizona are preparing to go into
camp. Colonel Daniel Boone's wild
animal show is being collected from
the four quarters of the globe, and the
great Bonet Tower is rapidly growing
skyward.
Director General De Young return
ed from Chicago "a few days ago. after
having completed arrangements for
the illumination of the Grand Court
of the Exposition in a manner which
will surpass anything ever undertaken
in this line, except at Chicago. Not
satisfied with the original idea of
making use of powerful search lights,
which sweep from one part Of the ex-
position to another, and with the ella
borate illun. .latiOn of the great Elec-
trio Tower, and the outlining of all the
main buildings in electric lights, ne
has also secured the famous Electrical
Fountain about which so much has
been heard from visitors to the Column
bian Exposition.
A great many exhibits from Chicago
have already started for San Francisco,
and long lines of freight cars now COM
ing across the plains are loaded with
material which is to make the Mid
winter Fair all that its projectors have
promised for it. The mails continue
TO bear evidence of the crowds of peo-
pie that are coming from all over the
to spend the winter in Cali
fornia. Thousands who usually go to
Florida are coming this way this year.
Surely every resident of the Pacific
Coast will go at least once to the Fair,
and many of them will go scores of
times. Let them go just once, and
the Fair, from the point of attendance,
must and will be success. Add to
these the number of visitors who may
be expected from the East,
and there will be in the treasury of
the Exposition money enough as it
goes on to spend in new attractions,
and in the development of some of the
new ideas which have been enter
tanned in regard to it, and which will
result in its going down to history not
only as the most remarkable under
taking as to the time it took to get it
up, but also in regard to completeness
of detail and perfection of accomplish
ment.