The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-12-09
THE MIDWINTER.
What Has Been Done During the
Week = Attractions En- Route to
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of foreign countries in and about San
Francisco during the past week. Men
with baggy trousers and with Turkish
fezzes on their heads have been prom
enading Kearney and Market streets,
and mixing with the swell-clothed
people in theaters and in the mercan-
tile palaces of the city.
The Chicago crowd is moving west
ward, and the advance guard is al
ready here. Each incoming overland
train has every reservation occupied.
The railroads are already beginning to
reap the benefit of the the Midwinter
Fair project.
Some of these strangers in town are
here simply to wait and to watch for
an opportunity to turn an honest
penny pending the commencement of
their winters engagement at the Ex-
position. Others are concessionaires
who have put in an early appearance
witha view to getting first class 10
cations in the Exposition, or for the
sake of pushing forward their work
of general preparation.
The notes of preparation are to be
heard on every hand, but they sound
the loudest out at Golden Gate Park,
where the buildings are going up and
where the scenes are almost as busy
as they will be after the gates are
swung open on January first. Speak
ing of gates suggests mention of the
fact that the great high board fence
around the Exposition ground is rap
idly nearing completion. By the time
this letter is read this fence will be
practically completed, and by the
first of December, or few deys later
at the outside, it will be possible for
the Exposition management to begin
to charge admission to the grounds.
What this charge for preliminary adj
mission will be has not yet been deter
mined; certainly no more that % cents
and possibly as low as 10 or 10 cents.
In any event considerable revenue
is expected from this source between
the time of the completion of the fence
and the opening of the Exposition.
The daily crowds now run up to thou
sands, and on Saturdays and Sundays
to tens of thousands. A great many
of these will not let dime or quar-
ter stand in the way of their going
upon the grounds, for the rapid growth
of architecture seems to have all I'M
mistakable charm to the average Cali
fornian, and it is safe to say that the
gate keeper will be kept busy from
the start.
As matter of fact there is great
deal to see on the grounds of the ex-
position right now. All the main
buildings have progressed to such a
point that they present to the public a
very satisfactory idea of their appear
ance- that-is-to- The mechanical
arts building is, to all intents and pur-
poses done. The manufactures build
ing needs only few roof trusses to
be under cover; the great dome of the
horticultural building is in place, and
the beautiful outlines of that struct-
ure are well defined The administra-
ton building, last to start, will be fin
ished before some of those which were
begun before it. Staff is being put in
place on all these buildings. In the
matter of the mechanical arts and the
horticultural building, the exterior
decoration is almost completed and
the painters will begin to put on the
touches of color during the week.
During the coming week also the
great electric tower in the center of
the Grand Plaza will probably be
entirely erected, and the fifth wheel
will take it's place among the features
of the landscape. The wind that swept
across the exposition grounds a week
ago, and leveled the PARTLY completed
Cyclorama building, in which the
burning mountain is to be displayed,
can blow as hard as it pleases now,
for the Cyclorama building has been
erected again. It's roof is on, and
there is no danger of it's second de-
molition.
Work has been begun within the
last few days on half dozen buildings
which had heretofore made no pro-
gress. The Alameda county building