The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-27
FRISCO'S FAIR.
Sixty Acres of Ground Cow
cred BY the Exposi-
tiOn.
SECOND ONLY TO CHICAGO
Description Of the Buildings
Plenty Of Side shows.-No
Midway Plaisanee.


SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 81, 1894. The great
fair in the Sunset City has been in prepara-
tion since August 24, when, to the cheering
and plaudits of $4,000 people, the ground
was first broken 1t has cost about 81, 500, :
600, and is second in extent only to
che Paris and Chicago Expositions. Sixty
acres of Golden Gate Park have been de-
voted to the exposition This space is Gov
cred by five main buildings, grouped about
q central concert valley; from the
center of which arises an electric
tower two hundred and sixty feet in height.
This tower is covered by ineandescent lamps
and surrounded by search-lghts, which
throw their beams on the fountains and
banks of flowers about its base or
light up with silyery rays the
Cascade on Strawberry Hill to-
ward the ocean, and bring into halo
of light the merry boating parties on the
lake at its base, spanned by picturesque
bridges, or show the coliseum-like observa-
tory on the summit.
THE PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS.
The principal buildings may be, described
in brief as follows
Manufacturers and Liberal Arts, 462 feet
long and 225 feet long; Manufacturers and
Liberal Arts Annex. $40 feet long and GO feet
wide Total area of building, including
annex and galleries, III, 900 square feet.
Total cost, S120,000.
Mechanic Arts building, $50 feet long and
1GO feet wide; total area of building, includ-
ing galleries, 81, ,04l square feet; total cost,
$4,000
Horticultural and Agricultural building,
900 feet long and $50 feet wide; total area of
building, including hall floors, Il, ,297 square
feet; total cost, S62, 800.
E,,i1dipu Of Eiua rtS tnial SDaep in rJ1n-
ming feet of exhibit of paintings, 1000; total
cost SS4, 600.
Administration building, 70 feet square;
total floor area Il, 400 square feet, total cost
5000
Festival Hall, 141 by 1S3 feet; total cost,
$4,000.
FINE EXHIBITS.
The five buildings around the terraced
quadrangle leading to Concert Valley are
but the nucleus of a great number of
county and concessionaires structures
selected from a great number of applicants.
Santa Barbara county has erected a
handsome building, wherein is exhibited her
amphibia, principally the sea lion; San
Mateo brings her log cabin from Chicago;
the Chinese Six Companies of San Francisco
have an Oriental building of their own,
fully one hundred and sixty feet long
and ninety feet wide. with a central court
yard to be filed with rare Chinese fora. At
one end there will be a chinese theatre, and
about the courtyard there will be
booths exemplifying the manufacture
of important Chinese productions.
The structure will be fantastically orna-
mented with carved dragons and brilliant
red, yellow and blue flags will 1utter above
tiled roofs from which a Chinese fagoda,
copied from the celebrated tower at Nankin,
will rise some twenty feet.
NO MIDWAY SHOWS.
The Fair lacks a Midway Plaisance, but
there are some two score side-shows scatter
ed through the grounds that in the aggre-
gate duplicate the attractions of that once
famous thoroughfare. There are some Turk
ish French and German restaurants, the
same old Vienna, the German tavern, the
same rolling chairs, Cairo street, Chinese
theatre, ostrich farm, captive balloon,
Hawaiian cyclorama and, in fact, duplicates
of most of the attractions that give the Mid
way Plaisance name and fame.
The Director-General of the Fair is NJ H.
DeYoung, and the honorary National COM
mission comprises, among others, Vice Presl-
dent Adlai F. Stevenson, Whitelaw Reid, w.
j. Arkell OF Frank Lestie,s Weekly,
Thomas w. Palmer, George w. Childs,
of Philadelphia; Col E. o. Mojer, of st.
Louis, General Horace Porter, of New York;
John A. Cockerill, New York Advertiser;
James W. Scott, Chicago Herald; Joseph
Mehin, Chicago Tribune; William Penn
Nixon, Chicago Inter Ocean; VIM, Preston,
Harrison, Chicago Times; Moses P. Handy,
Chief of the Department of Publicity and
Promotion of Worlds Fair, and General Il.
A. Alger of Michigan.