Show midwinter mid winter exposition notes there las has been a decided navor flavor in 0 foreign in and about san fr francisco n cisco during the past week men alen with baggy trousers and with turkish fezzes of their heads have been promenading kearny and market streets ts and mixing with the well clothed people in the theatres theartres the atres and in the mercantile palaces of the city the chicago crowd is amov moving ing west ward slid and the advance guard is al ready here each eacle incoming overland train lias has every reservation occupied the railroads are already beginning to reap the benefit of the midwinter fair project some of these strangers in town are here simply to wait and to watch for ili an opportunity to turn an honest penny pending the commencement of there winters angog engagement rement at the exposition others are concessionaires who have put in an early appe appearance arance with a view to getting first class locations in the or for the sake of pushing forward their work of general preparation the notes of preparation are to be heard on every hand but they sound the loudest out at golden gate park where the buildings are going up and where the are almost as busy as they will be after the gates are swung open on january speak it ing A of ahtes suggests 15 mention of the fact that the great high board fence around the exposition grounds is rapidly nearing completion by the time this letter is read this fence sill iv ill be completed complete and by tile alie of december or a few days later it at the outside alwill it will be possible for the Exposi exposition expositio tio n management A to begin to charge admission mission nd to the grounds what this charge for pre preliminary 1 admission will be lias bas been determined cert certainly ainaly tin no more than 25 els and possible as low as 10 or 15 acts in ully any event a considerable revenue is expected from this source be between tweet tile little lime of tile alie coro coin ont of the hie fence and tile the opening of the F exposition the daily crowds now run up ill to thousands and on saturday and sundays to tens of thousands A great many of these will not lot let a 1 dime line or a quarter stand in it tile way of their going AM upon the g grounds gi for the rapid growth of architecture seems seeing to have till an tin mi mistakable abarm to the average californian and it is safe to say that the hie 0 gate rate keepers will be kept busy from the start As n matter of fact clere is a great deal to see on the grounds of the exposition right now all tile the main mail buildings have processed to such a point that they prescia to lite public a very satis factor lides of their ap bearance that is tobe to be tile the ical arts building is to all intents and purposes 1 done I me the liyeds tures building n nicas only a few root roof trusses to be under cover the great dome of the horticultural building is iu i n place raid and file beautiful outlines of t that hat structure are well defined the administration building last to start star will be ae finished before some soine of those which were mere before it staff is being A put in ill place on oil all those these buildings building s in the matter mailer of the mechanical Alech anical arts and ami the ile horticultural il building tile the exterior decoration is almost completed and the painters Pai titers will begin to put on oil tile touches of color during the week during the coming week also the great cle electric atric tower iu ill the center of tile grand graml plaza will probably be entirely erected eru cled anti and tile f irth firth wheel will take its place among the file features of the landscape the wind mind that swept across the exposition grounds a week ago 1190 and leveled tte the partially completed cyclorama building ir in which the burning mountain is to lie be displayed cau can blow as hard us as it pleases now for the cyclorama cycler ama building has bas been erected again its root roof is or on and there is no danger of its second demolition work has been begun baaun within thi the last few days clays on halt aa a dozen bill buildings which had heretofore made no prof progress fress the alameda county build I 1 ng 0 is is rapidly growing 41 the santa barbara county count y building begins to look very much like an exposition structure tile the erection of the southern california building is to be begun at once while the northern Norl tieni california people have already made a start in the hope hop 0 of getting rapidly ahead of of their southern brethren one of tile hie most lost important steps taken buring the week has been the securing of CO 60 additional acres for the exposition grounds ground this annex I 1 consists of what is known as tile hie recreation grounds and oil it idill ft ill to lie constructed a cinder driler ind and VIA atil athletic letic field in which till all crisi sl of tests and tournant tour nann anig aili ina nnie v lie in conducted cond ducted d during tile lei fini in of lit I 1 llie lie exposition here idere also x till lie be erect ed a great assembly hall feet feel lit in size aize anil and capable if accommodating g live five thousand people at a time thuc in ili ahi this structure tr deture will he be behl llie he con coil grosses which are contemplated in connection with the exposition the lie grand musical festivals fc and any official demonstrations tin an nc cas ional shower hialit otherwise interfere with under 0 thia building will be ue the headquarters for the aclid winter guards and for the lie departments of concessions and adini a sort of exceptive bead headquarters quarters its is it were aside front from those that hint exist in n the administration buildt g T the lie securing 0 of this latest annex to the ground makes tile total aren arcu of the Esposi Exposi lihn neaily neady neres and it is sabeto safe to say that thae ill dl lie ile no lonesome places 1 in I this am bior sec tion the grounds themselves wil be quite as full as the buildings ail and the buildings will be I 1 lilt full tu to overflowing the latter fad fact iria has luci been emphasized pha sized during n tile is ek through v he careful consideration chich lias his been givan to the of tie applications s for space with willi a view to preparing fos fog allotments this has developed the llie necessity of order it ine L tile the calill completion petion of feet feel annex to 0 o the alan it fractures fac tures Bui building ldina AD which was as only conditionally coil contracted for at the time the original As contract was made it lias has also been found necessary to placa a positive tive limit upon the reception of further applications for space slid and none will now be received after december immediately after that date the allotments of space will be pushed forward as rapidly as possible so that every one may know iverc liis his or lier her exhibit is to be located at tile the earliest convenient moment one of the most moist interest interesting icia 0 features of the entire exposition will be the morning exhibit L which lias has been place 1 I in the haida of the state stale miners aliner As A s ii with ith a view of makiri making cr it tile the most complete exhibit of the willing mining resources of california that thai has never beni been seen in ili the eyes of the world california lias bag long one 0 been looked upon as the lie eldorado but there has bever i 3 el been made an collective exhibit of her resources from time to time in different expositions something las has been done in n this line but it in this instance it is planned that there shall be massed together at least two hundred tons of the ores of every kind which are to be found in california and that float there shall here be given a practical exemplar exemplification of mining methods inel hodi now in verrue vogue as well as some of those met methods cods hods which have become obsolete it will be impossible af pf of course to give a practical illustration tion of hydraulic mining min ity in ill this connection but there will be a quartz mill in full operation ore will be crushed before the eyes of the people and will tie be turned into tile the precious wetal metal while 3 oil wait as it were inere there will mill also be two great grea pyramids pyre of precious preciou 3 met metal al one of gold and the other of silver representing sent iril the total out put pitt of these productions from the mines of california the features of tile madvay plaisance which have been becu secured red for tile the midwinter exposition ire are growing in number constantly y the latest addition lathe is the international Coit costume time congress which bich is nothing t more or less that an international ul beauty show inasmuch as tile young voting ladies ad es representing tile the different diffene ut nations in ill this aggregation are dressed in costumes S character characteristic of their nation so that bea beauty illy of face ard figure awl and beauty beauly of gowns form a botn combination which is intended to lie be irresistible there art are forty ladies who take part in this exhibit and they are all on oil their way from chicary chicago go A build building iliff 0 is to lie he built for their accommodation coil and iu in it the boung oun r ladies are housed and fed fe d at times when hie tire nrc not on oil chi cI libit bilion lot the argument arg iu in connection gilb this mode of living divillo is that if the be bea beauties titles I 1 bic allowed to make them selves promiscuous in ill mid and about tile exposition and tile hie city their value as show cards will bo be dimi diminished nihed they are therefore kept themselves almost as if in a harem lia rein and ami helical their daily dail stances sconces are tile more effect effective live illey ull tt 11 lie heated on of A i binl 11 plat forin ii I 1 il 11 m I 1 i oh o ii h lie a strong 0 bonss rail to prevent the ilio lit itle from oo 00 lose bhe y S ates ales will be felir aled both logli by it a blonde anil and b by a fir 11 each to be ba dressed rossei i lit in tile lat lawlest est fashion and ami cach to lie ile typical lyrical of ill his be of MIMI americans Aino rican ile 8 so justly phoud ifil the grelk amk 0 agni opil mill wear a lube hati i A I 1 in fildi from her boulders and tra irn ii lic hill ciul tit nol loot leiding her e ped caudal i fatima will ivill sil it ailion a throne anti acil will occupy a divan her face half colice aed willi a lot lorg viii ii lell all Pol Po arila lards delre tentative senta 0 tive 1 attili I ill lilt 0 a n gown own y trim trini med mci nith i ider down the chi alii nese still all be draped lit ii heavy silken ici loins lies other nations ivill ahsu be ri r pre prevented rented by native aomen di diessel esSed lit iii costumes and altogether a this will undoubtedly prove brove one or of the llie most interesting 4 features of the llie exposition those uen are sortie some of the attractions tr which ate ai coff offered ered to patrons of tlc alc california Alid winter anit anat ional exposition the list is I 1 bring ca 11 or added to evry day it 11 included ed every field of interest mid and cf research scar cli educational rn en lur laining a aid 1 never ha lias 3 such lit an exposition been seen lit in ills i 1 art rl of the bior moreil at it least ind and in anany respects never ever lias has its equal licen couce hed led |