The morning call., 1893-06-29

ly, the adding of the word international"
to the name of the exposition and length
ening the time of holding the fair from
four to SIX months. 1t reads as follows:
SAN FRANCISCO. June %. 1898.
To His Honor, the Mayor of san Francisco,
Hon. I. Il. Etlert, Chairman General CaLiJor-
MIA MidlUinter International Exposition Com
7njttee-SIR: Your committee ON deyising
plan tor the exhibit to be held in San Francisco
beg leave TO report the following plan OF organ
iZatiOn and management:
First-TBe fair shall be called the California
Midwinter International Exposition.
SecOnd-Ihe exposition shall be conducted
under the direct management and control OF an
executive committee constituted as hereinafter
provided Tor and subject TO such rules and reg
uations as may be prescribed by said executive
committee, and shall embrac. four buildings;
of which three shall be about the size of the
present Mechanics Institute building, ana one
Is 10 be built OF durable material and shall
after the exposition, be donated o Golden Gate
Park permanent museum building. SAID
buildings shall cost in the aggregate not TO ex-
coed 100000.
Thid-The exhibition to open on the 1st of
January, 1894, ana TO continue for six months.
FOurth-Ihe executive committee shall con-
sist OF nine persons, OF whom five shall be resi-
denis OF San Francisco and three shall consti-
lutte a quorum. said executive committee TO b.
appointed by the Mayor OF the city and county
otficlO member of this committee.
Elfth-Ibe executive committee shall organ
lie by electug tn following officers, viz:
A president, vice president, Il seer tary and
4 treasurer, and shall appoint such committees
as may be found necessary.
Tie president of the executive committee
shall be general manager OF the exposition.
The secretary ana treasurer need not be
members OF the executive committee.
SlXth-1he executive committee shall appoint
The following officers OF the exposition: An
mi 90 a Sh2 ha
luteudent OF grounds and buildings; superin-
Iendeut OF machinery; superintendent OF
eXhibts, concessions aud admissions: an arch-
Ject a chief engineer, a superintendent Of the
wumen's department., a Superintendent OF the
department Of commerce, Il superintendent OF
the department of manufacture, a supernten-
dent OF The department of mining, a Supern-
Jendeut OF The department OF agriculture and a
Superintendent of the department of fine arts
ana such other officers and assistants as may
De necessary. Ihe executive committee Shall
have power TO lessen or Increase the number OF
officers III this section enumerated.
Seventh-The executive committee shall
prescribe the duties of its officers, appointees
and employees, ana may allow them reasonable
compensation for their services.
The executive committee shall have full
pow-r 10 DO all that Is necessary for the con-
ducfiug OF The exposition as herein outlined
and shall be held accountable 10 the people of
the STATE fora proper use OF The funds entrusted
10 1t for the purpose of the exposition.
Eighth-There shall be boards Of commits
siouerS consisting OF three persons from each
be selected at public meeting called for this
purpose, aud the credentials of the persons so
elected shall be approved by the executive
committee.
The duties of said commissioners shall be to
raise funds and 10 organize the exhibits of their
respective counties, and said commissioners
shall be subject 10 such rules ana regulations
as The executive committee may prescribe.
Nnth-lhe National Commissioners from
California TO the Worlds Columbian Exposi-
non at Chicago shall constitute an advisory
IN n he fitya ftt
from time 10 time with reference 10 the control
and general management OF the exposition.
This report will go to the meeting of
the general committee to be held in the
Office of the Mayor this evening at s
o'clock, and if that committee adopts
it all that will remain will be for
the Mayor to appoint the executive COM
mittee, which in turn will appoint the Off
GERS and start the real work.
The committee appointed to visit the
Park Commissioners reported that all the
commissioners were present and expressed
themselves favorably in regard to granting
room for the fair in the park. The Park
Commissioners want TO know, however,
how much ground will be asked for;
where it will be asked for in the park; the
Character of the buildings to be erected,
especially of the permanent building, and
added that they would meet the citizens
more than half way.
Tonight at 80 o'clock the special COM
mittee will meet with the Mayor and at s
O'Clock the general committee will meet
Herr K. Cornely was born in Rolduck,
near AiX-la-Chapelle, i'll 1S49. He was mar
ried to the Countess de Lanoy-Cervaux.
a sister of the Prince of Rheina-W albeck.
The family of COrnely received its title of
nobility from Henry ", King of France,
in 1908.
In 1867 his active life in the army of his
country began. He entered the service as
volunteer IN a German regiment OF artll-
lery, and within year was promoted to
the grade Of engineer-lieutenant. His first
opportunity for national distinction was
in the Franco-Prussian war.
He was ordnance officer on the staff of
General Broker and was on the staff of
the commander of the Eighth Army Corps,
ana was the first officer of his regiment to
be decorated with the iron cross. In recog-
milton OF his services he was elevated by
the Emperor of Germany 10 a higher post
of duty. At the conclusion of the war he
was sent to the Military Engineering
Academy of Berlin, where he served as
engineer officer. winning distinction at his
post. His efforts in the way of organizati on
were realized in his activity as adjutant in
the formation of the Fifteenth and Twenty
third regiments of artillery.
In 1876 he was elected Mayor of the city
of Cleyes, in Rhenish Prussia.
COrnely's first experience in the man
great fair of Dusseldorf and Brussels In
conjunction with Count Max Loe and the
Baron of eengracht-MoylaDd he opened
the frstexposition of sports held in Europe
held under the patronage OF Prince Fred
erick Charles of Prussia.
Almost continuously from that time IN
iii now eXpositions and their affairs oc-
cupied the attention of Cornely. He visited
nearly every one of them held in Europe,
and in 1885 was made secretary of the Ger
man commission to the Antwerp exposi-
ton.
In 1888 Cornely started the International
Royal Exposition of Brussels, i'll which
the United States took an active part.
Cornely was director-general, and the sue
cess Of the immense concern was due
largely TO his administration. His next
active and official participation was one
high in authority in the Cologne Exposi-
ton of 1889. He also took part in the fairs
OF Paris, London and Bremen and visited
those Of Hamburg. Frankfort and others.
In December. 1891, lie left his home for
Chicago, arriving there in the following
January. He has not only acted as rep
resentative of Germany. but has organized
the Columbian History Company.
Among the hardest workers for the Cali
fornia Midwinter International EXPOSE
ton, as the Worlds Fair exhibit with its
re-enforcements is to be called, is Herr r.
Cornely, who came here to help the Cali