The morning call., 1894-03-30
A WOEFUL FEAST.
The Eskinau Aksanita to
the Dead Baby.
KERN COUNTY HAS A DAY.
Irish Speaks to the California
Commissioners.
THE CADETS TO BE REVIEWED.
Fun for the Pupils of the Boys
High ScEooI-The Girls Turn
Will Come Next Week.
THE CADETS TO BE REVIEWED.
Through rp7,stues resteraqy......s467

A melancholy banquet with grief, misery
and wrstchedness in every degree and form
Of unhappiness, served in courses as the
principal features of the meal, brought all
the mourning IN the EsQuimaux village to
elimination last evening.
They called it the feast Of Aksanita. In
Labrador the ceremony always preeedes a
burial Aksanita means farewell and all
the seal-clad people in Sunset City grieved
with the parents Of Francesca Deer, the
little EsQuimaux baby, whose days of
misery are ended All Of the neighbors
assembled at the hut of the afflicted
parents. A feast Of deer meat. veal, bub-
ber and oil was spread. The Oldest man
in the little settlement whose name is
Zacharias, offered up a prayer to Kekuk,
the God of Water, for the Esquimaux be-
lieyes that departed soul has to descend
TO the last goal through the waters of the
ocean in order TO get in safely to Metnk,
the Labrado heaven. The festivity. which
was in the nature of frozen wake, con-
tinued until day break.
The electric Illuminated pyramid of Kern
COunty's fruit-flled glassware saone more
brightly than usual yesterday. Hundreds
of men and women gathered about the
handsome section in the gallery of the
Horticultural building. The County Com
missioners, headed by the exposition
band, marched in & body from their cham
beTs. A brief con gratulatOTy speech was
made by John +. Irish, to which w. Fl.
Holabird responded. During the day 1000
sample boxes OF Kern County raisins were
distributed 10 visitors. The painting of
the "Keru Delta was unveiled in the
county section, In the evening there was
I, n tiAr1 in Iae Afnyai lIoll
and 100 views Of California scenery were
shown.
The County COMMISSIONER Association
held meeting yesterday afternoon in the
Northern California buiidi G. An address
was made By John p. Irish upon The
Fair and Its Attainment" The speaker
gave glowing account OF the beauty and
picturesQueneSs of the exposition.
Your representatives Of the various
counties of California" he continued,
''have over S1.000.000 invested in exhibits
and in the housing thereof on these
grounds. This investment should and
could be returned one hundred fold TO
California by the increase of materialiIes,
by the greater acreage under cultivation,
and by the new people who should be
drawn here as settlers. You exhibitors
have the wherewithal to show your dis
plays, have also the power to spread about
the State the report that the fair is sue
here misses the chance Of his lifetime to
educate himself.
There Is nothing in mathematics to
estimate the harm that will be done to
California if. after this exposition is over,
the statement goes out that after all th 8
Midwinter Fair was failure. l would be
glad to do nv part in holding public meet
ings in the interior Of the Stae to rouse
the people to a sense Of their responsibility
in the matter.
II wish that we could do away with the
present seal of the State, and instead show
engraved on the seal this scene about this
grand central court as perpetual re-
minder of the grandest thing in Califor-
Mas history.
''If as spring advances an enthusias site
impression regarding the fair is dssem-
mated it will bring thousands and tens OF
thousands OF our people TO these grounds.
Here there is something that is lacking in
Chicago. There is something gentle,
soothing. resting about this fair. 1t is re-
fninE. inspiring, educating. Ii is an edi-
tion de luxe Of the COum bian Exposition,
and, being in miniature, is capable of be-
ing grasped in its entirety instead of ap-
Mailing by its Vastness. as was the great
show at Chicago.
Let us get all these ideas together.
Then let us get them before the people and
keep them there. We have an exhibition
here such as we have never had before,
and probably never will again. Tell the
people of the interior of the aggregation
of wonders we have here. Then they will
come to see them. The result will be that
while hundreds enter he gates now thou
sands Will visit Sunset City then. Instead
OF doubts, mlsgivings, grudgings, bicker-
ings and faultfnding as now, we will have
confidence, hope, enthusiasm and appreci-
alton. Then the fair will be as great a
success financially as it has been from the
standDoint of its eXhi bits "
On motion of 3. NJ. LelOng il was re-
solved TO appoint permanent committee
on publicity and promotion to furnish the
interior press with material regarding the
exposition.
Assistant Director-General Cornely has
called a meeting of the foreign comm is
sioneTs at his rooms in the Administration
building to-day. He proposes to organize
all the exhibitors, coucessioDaires and
every one directly Interested in the success
Of the expos ton into an association. Its
purpose will be to devise means to increase
the attendance at the fair. Viscount
Cornely is personally of the opinion tnat
to residents of San Francisco season
tickets might advantageously be issued.
To-day has been made a holiday in the
Boys High School that every pupil in the
institution may participate in the cele-
bratiOn at the fair grounds. The boys
will observe their day by the exer-
cses on the recreation grounds OF the
High School Cadets. On the arrival of the
pupils at the south gate they will be met
by the Midwinter Exposition band, which
will play the "High school Cadets March,"
At2 2P. NJ. on the recreation grounds the
company will march in review with field
music, and Colonel w. r. Shafter, U. S. A.
will review the line. Then will follow
setting up exercises, company drill.
platoon drill and extended order drll,
after which will come battle exercises as
follows: l. formation for attack; 2, skir-
mlshes; 3. advance of rushers; 4, advance
OF reserve; 3, rapid fire; 6. the charge.
Already AGO merchants have agreed to
close their establishments on Tuesday,
April II, the first date OF the Mardi Gras
carnival. The list embraces almost every
merchant doing business on Sansome and
Battery streets, and is tie result of TWO
days canvass.
Resident and visiting Canadians will
celebrate Monday, April 2, aud their
pretty headquarters on the south drive
will be rendezvous for every one from
over the border. The two best lacrosse
teams of British Columbia will be matched
on the recreation ground, and an exciting
contest is assured.
In response to hundreds of requests anC
in honor of the birthday of the Iron Chan
ceIlor, as Prince Bismarck is called. th,
Wanna Prater orchestra will repeat npY