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Show I THE M.LTOER FAIR. Items from our iwtilar, Corres-pondenfV Corres-pondenfV ' Nothing was lacking louako the official offic-ial opening ol tho CnlilornU Midwinter Internationa! Exposition i success in ivcryscnso of tho word. Hn the Ilrst place, tho sun caino up glorMusly, in a !ky ns clear as a bell, and aliday long It shone down on happy Sain Fransico. Happy was she in the IliniiVht that it was her iot to be cradled In (fin lap ot a land where such weather Is ribildwlnter possibility, and proud was she that she had to pi a co before the thousands ot pto-pic pto-pic who visited her fair on ithat day a program of such Incontrovcrjnblc ex cellence and ot such untmpc.ichablo attractiveness. at-tractiveness. Tho opening exercises took ( placo on ft grand stand cspermllycrecled for this occasion, with n scatingcapneity ot 7,000 The scats wero nil taken nnd lens . ot thousands of visitors gathered ou the greensward in front of tho speakers' platform. Tho total number of people who parsed through tho. tur' Miles was 72,248. Nearly ten thpusaiu! of these were in tho poccaslou which m'irchrd in triumph to the exposition grounds. Thero were moro bands In tills stunt pageant than wero ever .before seen lu San Frnnsico, Halt n dozeii ot thete musical organizations, occupyliig n place on the grand stand, Joined in (unison in the- patriotic feutures pf Unit musical program. J When the openlng.ovcrturcs Jind been played, James D. Phelan, tho president ot the day, made Ills address, Introducing Introduc-ing nt tho close, tho lit. KeV. Bishop Nlcliols, who offered up the injvocitlou. The asscmblago Mood with uncovered heads In the warm midwinter ifiin, with the green hill towering above tSicm, and not a hnrsh clomentlntlienlrblWiiciots j their bron s. Peoplo from the least took oiTthcir top coats, on this 27th of January and made of them cushions for llijelr seats. As the bishop called upon the Almighty to mnko glad the heart of Jevcryoni' present in this land of suindi line, fruit and flowers, each visitor from tjlio enow -bound dla'.rlctfl undoubted ly s.ii'l "Aincn." Tho net ot starting the mnrjfiiiiicry wns signalized by the shreak oJ.yery,whl8tlc fn the exposition crouirf "Trrn'riio and fun f nro of artillery --ff jfS-3lgut J?I.jlhnwiLUJ iiWlrtqHl.-- n grand display of llreworks, bull in tho Interim tho recreation prouml'tvai deserted, de-serted, for everybody miUe agilainl rush ns soon ns tlio opening exercises were over to visit tho main building 'of the exposition and to patronize the cVirccss-ionnl cVirccss-ionnl features. It mattered iiolti'thnt soinonf tho exhibits wero lncoiripVcto i" yet, for there was enough to kc jep all eyes and all thoughts busy duilngUwhat was left of that Bhort ntlvrnomtt and uvcrything, finished or tiiifluislial&waH noveljand unique to everybody. nk It was In tho concessions, howlovcr, that tho holiday spirit of tho crawm wns mado more prominently manifest. 1 The MOMIningcampimmcdlulcly established itself as ono of the most populor'lnlutu-tlons populor'lnlutu-tlons iu tho exposition. Seven thoumnd people paid their wny into jthls concession on opening day. Tlio llirth wheel carried nearly six thou sand ,1 tho Scenic railway was loaded down nll'lday and far into tlio nielli : Tlie WIld'Anilninl Arena, the Ostrich Farm, thrn-Inc Ian F.ncnmpmnnt, tho HawaiiaiivVilli ge, thu Vienna Prater, Heidelberg Castle, tho Aquaiiiim, the Sea Lions, the Ci lo-rado lo-rado Gold Mine, aud the scores of ot ler concessions did a big busing, nlnd oierybody seemed satisfied with.iho pjit ronrtgo they recehed, '.r . |