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and here and there a touch of black, but the
prevailing tone, like that of the other main
buildings, is old ivory.
The building gains not a little in attractive-
ness from its position on the north side of the
Grand Court, which its principal fagade faces.
The interior, true to its models, is simple, dig-
nified and impressive in treatment. The struct-
ure is 400 feet long, and at its widest part
extends 100 feet. It is two stories in height,
with a central pavilion and smaller ones at
each side. The main pavilion is 190 feet square.
It is surmounted by a crystal dome 100 feet in
diameter and rising to a height of 96 feet above
the line of the first floor. Of the smaller pa-
vilions, that at the west presents a very pictur-
esque appearance. It is circular in form and has
broad arches and high, vaulted ceilings. While
the interior is simple, nothing has been sacri-
ficed in the way of beauty. It is in harmony
with the models from which it is drawn. The
space available in the building for exhibitors is
as follows : Total floor space on lower floor,
without arcades and roof of viticultural exhibit,
53,252 square feet; total exhibit space, 26,774
square feet; total open arcade space, 5,240
square feet; second floor, total floor space, 14,-
015 square feet; total exhibit space is 13,306
square feet, roof garden outside, 6,890 square
feet; roof viticultural exhibit on line of gallery
floor, 1,344 square feet. It is in this building
more than any other that the visitor will find an
architectural expression most distinctively Cali-
fornian.
EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE.
Below the Horticulture and Agriculture Build-
ing and that of the Manufactures and Liberal
Arts is a great structure, simple in form and
unpretentious in outline, presenting an adapta-
tion of Egyptian architecture to the uses of a
modern exposition. It seems as if it were made
to stand forever.
This is the building of Fine Arts. It is made
of brick, iron and staff, and while the artistic
has been the primary motive in its construction
utility has not been sacrificed. The beauty of
the structure is greatly heightened by its posi-
tion on the Grand Court. It is forty feet from
the line of the highway. The adjoining spaces
are terraced and thickly planted with palm
trees. The approach to the structure is of arti-
ficial stone forty feet in width. It is flanked by
the figures of two immense sphinxes, between
which are five sandstone steps thirty-five feet in
length.
The general plan of the Fine Arts Building is
rectangular, one and two stories high, with an
elaborate vestibule just in front of and directly
in the center of the building. In the vestibule
are the stairways, office and entrance loggia.
The floor of this vestibule is a mosaic, richly
wrought in Egyptian figures. The columns are
in full relief and the bas relief figures are very
richly colored. The friezes between and above
the columns are in imitation of mosaic, highly
colored, representing different scenes from mural
decorations found in the ruins of ancient Egyp-
tian temples. Surmounting these columns and
forming the finish to the vestibule are sloping
walls in imitation of the interior of a pyramid,
which is lighted from the apex. The interior
dimensions of the vestibule are sufficient to
secure the effect of impressiveness aimed at by
the architect. It is 22 feet square and has a
height of 63 feet. The interior measurements
show that it is 58 feet long and 38 feet wide.
To the base of the pyramid it is 58 leet, and to
the apex 82 feet.
ABOVE ALL, OTHERS.
Towering above all other structures of the
exposition, glistening in its wealth of gold and
ornament, delicate and airy in its dainty col-
umns and arches, with bannerettes giving color
and life, is the Administration Building of the
fair. It is Oriental in outline and detail.
Naturally it is the center around which most of
the interest of the fair circles. A wealth of
embellishment has been lavished upon it with
excellent effect. The coloring of the building is
harmonious and brilliant. The local tone, as
in the others, is ivory.
At the center of the fagade, between the pa-
vilions and facing the quadrangle, is the princi-
pal entrance to the building, deeply recessed
and vaulted. The leading feature of the build-
ing is the richly ornamented dome, which is
135 feet in height and 50 feet in diameter. It
is beautifully decorated on the inside, as it is
brilliantly illuminated every night of the ex-
position. The interior of the building, with
large rotunda and loggia, extending through
three stories of the structure, give an effect in a
very high degree impressive. The long windows
under the dome admit a flood of light.
The Administration Building contains the
offices of the exposition management, the press
headquarters, works for the foreign department
and a bank and bureau of information. The ex-
terior of the building is covered with staff and
richly modeled ornaments. The structure has
a total area of 16,800 square feet.
Like all the other main buildings of the ex-
position it is outlined in electric lights at night.
The great dome, glistening with gold and bor-
dered by gay bannerettes, flashes now and again
out of the darkness under the dazzling rays of
the great search light in the electric tower. It
compares in beauty with the Administration
Building of the White City.
A STEEL TOWER.
on either side by ten boxes. Underneath the
main hall are the service quarters of the expo-
sition. They are divided into sections, each
provided with a separate entrance. The western
section is given up to concessionnaires and col-
lectors. In every section immense fireproof
vaults are placed. At the southern end are the
quarters for the Winter Fair.
Near Festival Hall a large grand stand has
been erected. It will provide accommodations
for spectators at the various games and out-
door sports. Underneath it provision has been
made for the fire department of the fair.
OPENING OF THE FAIR—SOMETHING
FORNIA.
OF CALI-
The fair was formally opened on the 27th day
of January, and there were over eighty-five
thousand people assembled at that time. A
point which will serve to show the strong inter-
est taken in this enterprise will be seen in the
fact that San Francisco itself has very little over
three hundred thousand, and still there were
nearly a hundred thousand present at the open-
ing. The benefit accruing to San Francisco and
California from this great enterprise must be far
reaching ; it will accomplish much for it; it
will advertise California's wonderful resources
in mineral and agricultural wealth ; it will show
the fact to thousands of visitors, that as a State
she possesses wonderful resources,—agricul-
tural, horticultural and mineral. There prob-
ably has never been in the world such an
exhibition of fruits as can be seen at the Mid-
Winter Fair.
Topographically California presents one of
the most interesting studies of this country. It
is interesting to the horticulturist, the geologist,
the meteorologist, and to the student of nature
who would see her in a majestic mood; the
earth sculpture of this great Western State is
on a mighty scale, full of sharp, sudden changes
and contrasts. The result is, a land where
snow-capped peaks look down upon valleys the
fairest and most peaceful of all the world.
North and south this great State lies full
eight hundred miles. Its area is princely—
equal to New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland
and Virginia combined, around one vast valley
into which rnight be set down almost the entire
area of the New England States.
Marvelous tales of California's mineral wealth
brought in the early days a hardy class of
pioneers who developed and made California
the Queen of the Pacific Slope. One of our
great writers has justly termed California the
land of sunshine, fruit and flowers.
It is the last of the main building of the
Grand Court erected by the administration, but
there is another without which the central court
would lose much of its charm. It is the electric
tower which rises in the centre of the Grand
Court to a height of 266 feet. It is a graceful,
airy structure of steel, colored in rich bronze.
At the very top is the marvellous search light,
which is the largest in the world. By its rays
one may read fine print ten miles away. Most
of the time it is directed to the Administration
Building. The tower itself is literally covered
with thousands of electric lights formed in
strange and fantastic figures. During the fair
the tower will be the centre of a spectacle of
illumination.
The Grand Court is still further embellished
MUSIC AT THE FAIR.
by two great fountains, one allegorical in char-
acter and the other illustrating the beauties of
The music at the fair is confined to three
electricity in one of the most extraordinary unusually fine bands—the Mid-Winter Fair
forms.
Band, Prof. H. J. Stewart, director; the Iowa
The only main exposition building which is State Band, Fred Plinney, director, and the
not on the Grand Court is Festival Hall. Its Royal Vienna Orchestra, Court Director Fritz
name implies its character, for it will be used Schure. The management has also recently
for the great fetes and festivals of the exposi- arranged with D. H. Blakely to have Sousa's
tion, for concerts and balls for the great con- Band give a number of concerts. An excellent
gresses and for assemblies of whatever character program is carried out daily.
which will be held within the gates of the ex-
position. It is in the Spanish-American style
FESTIVAL DAYS.
and is one of the most picturesque buildings on
A line of special festival days have been
the grounds. It is located on what is known as
arranged
and officially approved.
the recreation ground of the exposition—a large
area where the games and outdoor festivals will
TO CLOSE JUNE 30TH.
be held. It is 141 feet long, 133 feet wide and
72 feet high.
Notwithstanding that the name Mid-Winter
The main floor and galleries will have a seat- Fair is applied to the exposition, it should be
ing capacity for six thousand people. When- borne in mind that the word only applies to the
ever it is necessary the chairs on the main floor time of the opening of the fair, as it will be
may be removed for dancing. At one end of the continued into the summer months, closing
building is a stage sixty feet wide and flanked June 30th.