Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-02-01
MIDWINTER FAIR.
The Time for the Ceremonial
Opening Decided Upon.
EVERYTHING WILL BE READY.
Short Addresses to be Made by Gov
ernOr Markham, Mayor Ellert
and NJ. H. de Young.

CALIFORNIA MIDwISTER 1NTERNA-
TIoNAL EXPosITIoN.-DEPARThENT
OF PUBLICITY AND PROMOTION. }
Weekly Circular Letter-No. 10.l
1t has been definitely decided that the
official ceremonial opening of the Cali
foInia Midwinter International EIposi-
ton shall take place on Saturday, Jan.
81. This decision has been reached after
a careful consideration of all the cir
cumstances and there is full assurance
on the part of those who are in charge
of the preparations that everything will
be in readiness at that time. The great
fire at the Columbian Exposition on the
night of jan 8 did not damage the ex-
hibits intended for transfer to San Fran
cisco, except that few Of the cases in
which they were packed were pretty
well drenched with water. Luckily,
however, the contents of the cases were
not injured, and, as matter of fact,
such very small proportion of the Mid
winter display remained unshipped at
the time of the fire that the delay will
not be aggravated on its account. Be-
fore this letter is read the last carload OF
exhibits will have left Chicago for San
Francisco, and before that time also, the
scores of other carloads which are now
on the way to San Francisco will have
been unloaded in the Sunset City and
placed in position in the different build
mgs in which they have been assigned a
location.
These buildings are beginning to at
tract from visitors the praise they justly
merit. Their rapid growth was but one
subject of wonder in the progress of this
great enterprise. The arrangement of
the vast number of exhibits with which
their interiors are to be embellished is,
of course, another wonderful operation,
but meanwhile the development of the
Ideas of the architects and the develop
ment at the same time of the general
scheme of color which is being worked
out in all the buildings comprises still
another field for wonder and admiration.
Charles Graham, the well known artist,
Is director of color at this Midwinter
Exposition, and he is working out in
this connection one of the prettiest pic
lures that the world has ever seen, with
a group of architectural palaces set in a
frame of evergreen foliage and against
the background of dark hills and sunny
California sky. "Pretty as picture" is
the first comment that comes from the
lips of visitors. Wonderful to behold"
will be the inevitable sequel to the orig
inal utterance.
The confessional features, having
made haste to get ready for Midwinter
hay-making, will all be ready by the
9th, unless there may be a single excep-
ton in the case of the great electric
tower, work on which can scarcely be
completed inside of three or four weeks.
The machinery plant which, of course,
includes the electric lighting arrange
ments, will be all in readiness by the
day set and will be utilized on general
scale for the first time on that occasion.
The only previous occasion when the
street decorations of San Francisco ap-
preached the grandeur which will be at
tanned on Jan. q was when President
Harrison paid a visit to the Pacific
Coast, but the arrangements already
made are emphatically in evidence of an
intention on the part of the citizens of
San Francisco to outdo every effort they
have made in this line 1t is part of the
plan of the Exposition management that
there shall be grand street parade
through the principal thoroughfares of
the city, and there is already no little
controversy over the line of march. II
the wishes of the citizens were to be &C.
ceded to, the procession would have to
move through every street and the Ex-
position grounds would never be reached.
A happy compromise will undoubtedly
be effected, however, and public and pri-
vate buildings on the route of the pro-
cession will be blaze of bunting and a
sea of color.
Governor Markham will declare the
day legal holiday. Mayor Ellert will
issue proclamation closing all munich
pal offices, us far as possible, and calling
upon the business men of the city to
close their stores. The National Guard
will turn out in full force, and every
civic and fraternal society in the city
will participate in the parade. There
will be more bands of music than have
ever been seen in a San Francisco street
parade, and if there is not a bigger turn
out of citizens, in the city and at the
Exposition grounds us well, than has
ever been called forth by any demonstra.
ton on the Pacific Coast, the expecta-
hons of thousands of those who have
Judged the temper of the community
will be grievously disappointed.
The official opening ceremonies will
take place on the grand stand which is
now being erected for that purpose, and
for utilization afterward in connection
with athletic sports on the Recreation
Grounds, This stand will accommodate
1000 people and the populace can be ac.
commodated on the greensward in front
OF 1t to the number of 100, 900.
There will be short addresses by Gov.
ernor Markham, Mayor Ellert and Di.
rector General de Young. Mrs. de
Young will press the button that shall
set the machinery in motion. The ora.
tion of the day will be delivered by Gen.
eral w. Il. l.. Barnes, the orator par
excellence of the Pacific Coost, and the
exercises will conclude with a rendition
OF America, played by the united
bands Of the Exposition, in which the
voices of the entire assemblage will Join,
and to which there will be great gun
accompaniment from the throsts of A
battery of artillery stationed upon the
Exposition grounds. These are the gen.
eral plans for the official ona,;rs, -,