The morning call., 1893-11-03
TansiIl's Gift to the
Midwinter Fair.
NEW RAILROAD RATES MADE
A Chime of Bells Will Announce the
Opening of the Exposition-The
Woman's Congress.

An interesting item apart from this sum
was the amount of $3.50, proceeds of the
sale OF on of the Tansill lots at Baldwin
& Hammond'S real-estate rooms, which
will be paid into the treasury to-day.
By the terms OF the donation that lot
selling for tile highest cash price was re-
served fOr the expos ition treasury. A.
Andrews welded the hammer and the
bidding was started with an offer for $500.
After a spirited contest the property was
secured by a lazy for S675. When the re-
naming lots had been sold the lady who
purchased the Midwinter Fair lot not
having made deposit it was again offered
and was bid in by DR.. George r. Frnk at
$780, Fog fear the lady had mlsunder-
stood the terms of the sale, suppoSng she
would pay the money at the exposition
headquarters. reservation was made IN
the sale TO DR.. Frink allowing the first
purchaser until noon today TO claim the
lot
The passenger department Of the South
ern Pacific Company has issued the follow
ing rates to San Francisco for the fair:
Glass A - Half fare. or oue-way rate
for round trip, with s. 30 added, from all
stations located over 800 miles from San
Francisco.
Glass Bone and fifth fare for round
trip, with So added, from all stations 10
Gated over $50 miles (not to exceed 500
miles) from San Francisco.
Glass Cone and a third fare for round
trip, with 81 80 added, from all stations
located within 80 miles Of San Francisco.
The minimum special rate Will be 81.
Entrance ticket coupons To the fair
grounds will be sold with the railroad
special tickets as follows: For class A. )
gate coupons; for class 3. gate coupons;
for class c, 5 gate coupons. The return
pOrtion OF these special tickets will be
limited to a stay IN San Francisco as
follows: Class A. over 800 miles. 10 days:
class B, over $50 miles, z days class c, less
than 80 miles, days.
A chime of bells, offered to the eXecu-
tive committee by the Buckeye Bell
Foundry Of Cincinnati, will be erected in
a tower of one of the buildings. The
chime Will comprise ten bells, having
weight OF 10000 pounds. modelled after the
chime exhibited al the Columbian EXpOsi-
tiOn ana for which the first prize was
taken. One service of the ch me will be
TO ring out the old year and to ring in the
new at the first hour of the day upon
which the Midwnter Fair will be opened.
Although none of the tewerS of the expo
sition buildings were constructed with
view to sheltering chime of bells. the
architects in charge state that the neceS-
sary change can be readily made An ex-
perienced chimer will ring the changes on
these ten bells during the exposition.
Three additional tenants for the aqua
rum were offered Yesterday from the
southern part of the State. They vary in
length from four to SIX feet. The donor
describes them as yellOwish-graY in color,
slender and humpbacked. The giver
writes: I'VE may have to send these
sharks before the exposition opens, but
they would not cost much te feed. Tor a
shark never eats for at least two weeks
after taking railway journey. Men get
seasick when they 90 10 sea, but shark
gets seaSick when he comes ashore"
The Woman's Congress Auxiliary, which
has Just received the official recognition of
the executive committee nf the MidwIater
Exposition, and of which Mrs. George /.
Gaden is president. Is organized under the
lines of the Worlds Congress Auxiliary,
which played such an important part in
the Columbian Exposition. The specific
object of the auxiliary is to procure the
manifest thought of the world on all great
questions OF tile age in form best adapted
10 universal publication. AS a matter Of
course w0man's congress will be one Of
the congresses to be held, but IN this con-
nectiOn there are great many other SUBJ
jects that will be discussed under the
auspices OF the auxiliary.
At the Columbian Exposition there were
the following: 4 public press congress,
temperance congress, a congress on COM
merce and hnance, music congress,
congress of literature and education, a
congress on medicine and surgery. Among
the large congresses participated IN at the
Worlds Fair was an engineering congress,
one on government and law reform, one on
science and philosophy, labor congress,
Sunuay-rest congress, congress on pub
lie health and one on the subject OF agrl-
culture. Several of these subjects will also
be taken up here with more or less of the
nd n 10 a
White City
Allen Kelly, formerly a newspaper man
OF this city, writes from Santa Fe, \.
Mex, proposing TO send 100 burrOs to
Sunset City. He suggests tnat they be
maintained in corral near by and used on
the grounds of the exposition in carrying
women and children around Concert Val
ley and the contiguous points of the park.
The burroS are said to be dGcle and in
training for the purpose.
a guarantee of good faith on the part
of Edwin CawstOn, who has the Osstich
farm concession. was received at headQuar-
ters Yesterday in the form of a four-day-
old ostrich chick. Unlike those to be
shown here in January II is mounted on a
wooden block and preserved by taXider-
mist. 1t stands a foot high and the neck
is marked like young turkey.
Director General de Young has sent a
report Of the Chicago end of the Midwinter
FaiT. from Wnlcn IL appears tnat probably
the most populOus part Of the exposition
grounds will be the twenty-acre annex on
the south of the south drive, of which was
added to the original grounds, when the
first allotment proved too small. Among
the attractions in this tract will be the
Heidelberg Schloss. the building of the
northern citrus belt and also several
county structures, the ostrich farm, the
Arizona village, the electric theater, the
tamale village, the ice skating rink, the
Irish villages and other features. as yet
not definitely assign ed for space.
The Del Monte Benevolent Society will
give a masquerade ball for the benefit of
the Midwinter Fair fund on Saturday ev-
ening at Odd Fellows Hail. A military
ball will be held on the evening Of the 18th
inst, at Apollo hall, under the auspices
of the Guarda de Juarez, for similar To-
nation.
The executive committee at last nights
meeting appointed four night watchmen to
guard the exposition buildings. They will
be sworn in as special police officers this
morning to enforce their authority and 10
make any arrests that may be necessary.
AS the buildings progress the number of
wafchmen will be increased, and when the
fair opens they will continue their care
during its progress.
A telegram was received from Director
General de Young at Chicago asking if