The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-16

constructed OF brick for safety and
durability, and finished i'm 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 81 far that the roofs are in
place, and in "A few days more the
early winter rains may come il they
will aud 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 800 feet in length
and 500 feet in width, in the center of
which a grand electric tower go feet
high already begins TO lift its head.
In this grand court there will also be
an categorical 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 grand 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 a 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, 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
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
of the development of
this great Midwinter Exposition I'M
1t will open on the first
day of January without fail, and
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 q time, is no
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-
nil that have arranged to take up
FRANCISCO the Work OF aQVer-
lemselves which they began
so successfully by the side of the in
and sea at Chicago.
The letters daily received by the |
Exposition management and the bust |
ness and private letters of nearly every |
resident in California bear evidence to |
he fact that the usual number of win
,er visitors to the Pacific Coast will be |
a 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 |
/ subject of the most intense interest: |