The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-21
CALIFORNIA; FAIR.
CALIFoRNIA MDwINTER INTERNA- !
TIoNAI. EXPOSITION = DEPARTMENT
OF PUBLICITY AND PROMOTION.


month of, its existence. Ghe grand
closing demonstration of the exposition
will take place Wednesday, July 4,
when the city and county of San Fran
cisco will unite with the exposition man
agement in the celebration of the ma
tional holiday, such as has never before
been seen on the Pacific Coast. There
will be at least 10000 people in the pro-
cession that win march through the
streets of San Francisco, and that will
wend its way out through the beautiful
Golden Gate Park into the grounds of
the wonderful exposition which has
been the scenes of SO many grand DEM
onstratiops during the past six months.
There will be a grand program of out
door exercises at the Recreation grounds.
As has been stated in this correspond
eLce, there was some doubt about the
date of the official closing of the exposl-
ton. The six months from the date of
the actual opening will not expire until
Jnly 81, but since the six months legal
duration of the exposition expires on the
first of July, it has been thought best to
let the Fourth,of July celebration be the
closing official demonstration, though
the gates will be kept up, and 25-cent
admission will probably be charged dur
ing the month of July, even though the
removal of the exhibits and the tearing
down of some of the buildings will then
be in progress. Some of the concession
aires have manifested their determine
ton to stay on the grounds as long as
there are likely to be any people at all,
and everybody will concede that there
will be something of an exposition as
long as the sideshows remain.
What is to become of the magnificent
buildings which have proven SO much
more attractive to the public than the
exposition management dared to hope is
still an open question. Director General
de Young, acting for the executive COM
mittee, has offered to the Golden Gate
Park commissioners the two buildings
known as the Fine Arts building and
the Administration building. The first
is offered to be used as a permanent mu-
scum for San Francisco. 1t is durable
freproof structure and will Withstand
the tempered elements of San Francisco
for many, many years. As work of
architectural art, it is conceded to be
more than satisfactory, and will GER
tainly make a beautiful permanent
monument of the exposition itself. 1t
is proposed that the park commissioners
shall use the Administration building as
headquarters for the commissioners,
and as place of public convenience for
visitors to the park.
An offer has also been made in this
connection for the preservation of the
Liberal Arts buildingas place for the
holding of big conventions, as place
| for the band to play in on inclement oc
caSions, and as an immense ballroom or
assembly hall for gatherings which are
frequent in cities as large as San Fran
cisco, and yet for which there has been
no place available. The offer of the Di-
rector General of the Fine Arts building
and of the Administration building pro-
/ vides that they shall be given to the
park commissioners free of expense, but
in order that the Liberal Arts building
shall be secured to the city and county,
under the direction of the park commits
sioners, it will be necessary to raise a
fund, inasmuch as the accrued profits
will not warrant the executive commit
tee in making SO munifcent gift.
The other buildings will undoubtedly
be torn down some time during July,
or start will at least be made on the
demolition. The grand court with its
staircases, its pavements, and its land
scape gardening will accrue to the park,
and all the roadways which have been
built will necessarily be undisturbed.
The Horticultural building and the Me-
chanical Arts building were not intended
for permanent structures, and will have
to be removed. So also with the hun
dreds of other smaller buildings in which
the concessionaires have made or lost
/ money, as the case may be. The cleo
trio tower will probably prove to be 8
bone of contention. Several people are
endeavoring to secure it as a permanent
concession in the park, and if the com
missioners can see their way clear to en-
ter into an arrangement the tower will
stand, though it must necessarily be
shorn of its electric lighting and its
mammoth search light.
There still remain between now and
the close of the exposition number oi
very interesting days of celebration
The present week has been particularly
prolific in this regard. 1t began with
Italian day on Sunday, with Monterey
county day on Monday, colored Ameri
can day on Tuesday, state of Maine day
on Wednesday. On Friday, June 8
horticultural day was celebrated by th,
!. planting of tree on the east side of tn,
Fine Arts building, the tree being
Mission Olive of the old San Diego stock
and the park commissioners have under
taken to preserve it as a memorial O
this day at the exposition. On Satur
, day all Sacramento county contracted
to visit the exposition in a body, and tn
same day and evening a day and nigh
t in Japan was celebrated under the aus
t pices of the Japanese concessionaire
| and the Japanese residents of San Fran
5 cisco. This celebration included feas
of lanterns in which nearly ten thousan,
( Japanese creations of light played