The herald., 1894-03-18
rHE FAIR,s SECOND MON rH.
1t Realizes More than sanguine Expec
taffnna

1t Roalizos More than banguine Expec-
tations.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 1.-THE sec
ond month of the California midwinter
international exposition is realizing ev-
cry expectation. The attendance has
been increasing at rate which warrants
the assertion that the attendance dur
ing the exposition will exceed the esti-
mate made by the most aanguine of Its
projectors. There is no longer any doubt
but that the enterprise will be a paying
one. The best evidence of this lies in
the fact that applications for conces-
sions continue to come in, and conces-
gionaries already on the grounds are en-
larging their buildings and developing
their entertainments to meet the pat
ronage they expect to receive. The
talk aD out q reduction OF the price OF
admission to 25 cents has ceased. The
exposition management spoke in no un-
certain tones in favor OF keeping the
price at 30 cents, and presented incon-
trovertible reasons for taking their
ground. The result is that nsople who
were waiting for the reduced rates are
40 longer hesitating to visit the fair,
and the conceSsionaries are perfecting
tlAeir plans on the 50-cent basis. In
otiier words, the preliminary canter is
over and the exposition has settled down
to the regular running.
Fete days are making q satisfactory
impression. Vermont days success was
duplicated in Michigan day, which was
celebrated on Monday, March 18th. In
this instance blue Monday became one
of the red letter days of the exposition,
and the gate receipts were very satisiac-
! tory.
The number of railroad coupons pre-
sented at the admission gates lie daily on
the increase. The railroad war ia prov
ing godsend to the exposition. Ex-
cursion parties, formed weeks ago in
different parts of the east, find their
numbers doubled before the day OF
starting comes, and the result is that
more people are going TO see California
during the period OF this great midwin-
ter exposition than have visited the
| Pacific coast in many years that have
gone by. Those who are here now are
sending back glowing accounts OF their
experiences, and the good seed sown by
those who have been here and have gone
home is bearing fruit more that hun
dred fold.
The effect of the influx OF eastern Wis
itors is beginning to be felt throughout
the entire state. Real estate agents re-
port large Investments in ranch and Or
| chafd property. The special county
exhibits are also having an excellent
effect, and there is not county exhibit
at the exposition today that has not
found it advisable to establish q local
boom bureau in connection with Its
display.
The next great fete day of the exposi-
tion is to take place on March 17th. 1t
is to be st. Patrick'a day in the morn
ing, afternoon and evening. There is
reason to believe that the crowd inside
the exposition grounds on that occasion
will eurpasH anything since the opening
day. Excursion trains are to be run all
over the state. There are to be literary
and nueical exercises on the grand
stand in the afternoon, and grand dis
play of Pains fireworks in the evening.
Special devices in pyrotechnics have
been prepared, and everything about
the exposition will have the st. Patrick's
day favor. The Irish element will be
catered to in all the concessions. In the
40 mining camp the Irish flag is to be
hoisted on the top Of the panoramic
Mount Shasta. the camp dogs are to be
Will be supposed to wear green garters.
1t ig needless TO say that the day will be
a lively one from start to finish, and
arrangements have been made so that
the electric lights may burn later than
usual.
The '49 mining camp, by the way,
! continues to advertise itself in striking
manner, though its last advertisement
was entirely unintentional ana came
near proving very disastrous. 1t is the
custom for the camp to send its old '49
stage coach around the grounds several
times o day loaded inside and out with
the employees Of the camp, including the
dancing girls and their partners in the
fandango. On Saturday evening last
the driver OF the coach was little care
less in going around turn on the hill
side near the camp entrance, and the
stage coach was overturned. There we're
nine girls inside the coach and 10 men
on top. They we're hurled to the ground
and jun bled into helpless mass. Seven
out of the party were badly hurt, and
the emergency hospital OF the exposition
had its hands more than full taking care
of the injured. Three OF the girls had
their heads cut SO badly that they had
TO DC 5blLCn9u, ana TWO Oh Cn6 men were
injured internally. Luckily, however,
none of the injuries proved serious, and
all the parties are progressing satisfsc-
torily toward recovery. Meanwhile sub
stitutes have been put on for the in
iured, and the peculiar features of the
camp are illustrated without cessation,
The fact that one or two OF the male
dancers do their part on crutches does
not detract from the show, and may be
accepted as a pardonable advertise.
ment.
One of the devices which are under
consideration for the purpose OF draw.
ing crowds to the exposition is q contest
between big grizzly and one OF Boone's
Nubian lions. The recent action of the
lion in breaking through cage partition
and killing little brown bear has su Q.
gested the contest referied to. There is
big grizzly in the 40 camp now, the
only one in captivity, and arrangements
are on foot looking toward the pitting
of these big brutes in an improvised
arena around which 100000 people can
be gathered. Such a contest has never
taken place in the history OF the world,
and the sporting element are exceed
| ingly anxious to see it come off.