The Portland daily press., 1894-01-02
By THE GOLDEN GATE.
The Summer Scene Of Beauty at the
Mid.Winter Fair.
AN ENTERPRISE PROMPTED BY
THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION.

AiAe the worlds Fair, 1t in Part Com
memorates the Doings-of Great Sailor
"A Monument in Memory of Sir Francis
brakes Visit in the Golden Hinge to
the Pacific Coast Unveiled Yesterday,
San Francisco January lin the
latter part of May, some Californians at
Chicago conceived the idea of having a
falr In San Franciso. Shortly afterwards
Golden Gate park was selected as the
location for the fair, and on August 24th,
the enterprise was inaugurated by turning
the first shovslful of dirt. immediately
after this the work of grading was COM
menced, followed In few W jsaA. by the
beginning of the work on the admins
tration, manufactures and liberal arts,
agricu itural and horticultural, fine arts
and mechanic arts buildings. These
structures are grouped around parallelo-
gram in the centre of which is an electric
tower $50 feet in aeight, several artisti-
cally ornamented fountains, statuary, a
wealth OF palms, flowers and shrubs, This
is known as the grand court Surround
Ing the court and scattered in every
direction over 100 acres are many
special buildings erected by different
states. counties and concessions. There
is a modest counterpart of the Great
Ferris wheel of the worlds fair in the
Firth wheel, 1876 feet in height. There
are Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian,
Esquimaux, Canadian and German
villages, an ostrich farm, Colorado gold
mine, Santa barbara aquarium, CON
tanning dozen sea lions, reproduction
OF Old Cairo, reproduction of the Prater
of Vienna, and 40 mining camp.
which occupies space 45O feet long and
$50 feet wide. The Mackey, Perkins
and Jones cabins are set up here just as
when the millionaire miners. deserted
represent In the camp the days of 40 by
mock duels, trials, lynchings and other
episodes of those stirring times,
1t was the intention to formally omen
the exposition today, but delay in the
arrival OF exhibits and recent rainy
weather made a postponement necessary.
Three hundred and fourteen years ago,
an English navigator, Sir Francis Drake,
made a5landing from his ship the Golden
Hinge, at what has since been known as
brakes Bayn and Francis, Fletcher,
presbyter of the Chucrh, of Enlgand, and
chaplain Of the Golden Hinge, preached
the first sermon in the English tongue
on the Pacific coast. Today, in Golden
Gate park this historical event was COM
memorated by the dedication, with i'm
pressive exercises of beautiful monu-
ment presented to the park by George
w Childs of Philadelphia. When
the exercises commenced. great crowds
surrounded the memorial. Many promi-
nent people were present. including the
mayor and other municipal officials tie
exposition officials and mem bers of the
clergy. The Mid-Winter Fair band
rendered the music and Rev. r. c. Fonte,
rector of Grace church, had chargeSof
a a ar,r he forf
q. DeYoung, of the Mid-Winter Exposi-
tion, acted as president of the day and
introduced Bishop Nichol, who, repre-
senslng the dYnor . Of the M Ct cross, made the
dent Of the park commission responded,
accepting the monument on behalf of
the commission and the state. The cere-
mony concluded with the oration of the
day by Prof. G. r. Davidson, president of
the Geographical Society Of Che Pacific,
in which he recounted tbs history and
events which the exercises cona1nemo-
rated