Show MIDWINTER FAIR the attendance at the midwinter exposition continues to average average between and per day and everybody is correspondingly en courage din the belief that this fair will realize the most sanguine expectation in regard to its is financial sue cess in III proportion to the amount ot of money invested the attendance 1 thus fai has greatly surpassed that accorded the columbian ExpOsit exposition iori during duri dg the first month of its exist ance and at the same ratio of increase which was noticeable ble at chic ago there will be an attendance at the midwinter exposition before its close which will surpass the fondest dreams of its most enthusiastic boomers the number of eastern visitors to the exposition increasing day by day and it is with a sigi of great relief that they come out of the snow and blizzards of the east and tile the middle west over the mountains into the mi dainter dw inter splendor of the pacific coast I 1 tt t has been what is called a hard winter in california but that means only that it has rained a little more then usual and that the warm midwinter days have not been so continuous as is generally the rule but even this weather has been so welcome to people who are used to being 0 snowbound in february that they call it paradise in comparison and they really revel in their experience one enthusiastic traveler came into the office of the department of publicity and promotion the other day and told the following story 1 I could hardly get to the railway station in my town for the drifts the street cars were not running and the horses of a hack back on wheels could scarcely plunge along n fast enough for me to make my train once on board the train I 1 read in a daily paper tor this was jan 28 that the california midwinter exposition had been formally opened on the preceding day with thousands of people seated onla ona grand stand in the open air with heads uncovered under a broiling sun and with the green foliage of a beautiful park forming a background to the scene at different places along the railway where we stopped for a few moments I 1 noticed bulletins of amid midwinter exposition weather and the thought struck me that this was about the most kine piece of advertising ver that could be done in connection with Cali fornias exposition when one stands in an atmosphere in the neighborhood of zero and reads that the thermometer registers 75 degrees in sau san francisco one wishes to be there I 1 and as for myself I 1 was glad to feel that I 1 was on my way at chicago I 1 was delayed several hours waiting for it to become possible for trains to start on westward and we dragged along across the plains but when we began to descend the slopes of th the e sierras we left the snows behind us and found the green fields at our feet for we were indeed in the land of sunshine fruit and flowers and I 1 intend to stay here just as long 0 as I 1 feel I 1 can afford to this has been the experience of many westbound travelers during the present midwinter season and every effort is being made an on tile the part of the exposition manage management to impress the eastern visitors with the fact that aside from the climatic advantages it Is good for them to be here during the past week there has been a succession of interesting things at the f fair air first came the unveiling of the harriet hosmer statue of isabella in which a host of ladies well known in in social and literary circles on tile the pacific coast took an interesting part and in which the palace lof of art was dedicated the formal opening of the vienna prater introduced to san francisco the imperial vienna orchestra one of the finest musical I 1 organizations of the world A series of days which are to be celebrated under under the auspices ces ot of tue the different fraternal organizations was inaugurated on feb 12 by the independent order of good Temp lars on this occasion festival hall was first brought into service and a large audience assembled there to witness the exercises of the annual convention and anniversary of the organization of that body A pleasing feature of the day was the parade through the grounds of the orphans and whose enjoyment of the features to which they were made welcome was accepted as the forerunner of many simi similarly larky joyful ful occasions in the near future there is to be a general orphans day before long when every child from the charitable institutions in san francis francisco 0 o and vicinity will be given the ra run of the exposition there is also to be it a public school ebil childrens drens day Y for which the people i of san francisco are now ma making king great preparations and such a day the schoolchildren school children of san francisco have never seen before this school childrens days has been b een set bior for feb and coming at an it does between the national holiday and saturday it is a school liili holiday dv of itself but it will be made in this connection an exposition holiday in which every person connected connect ted with the management or with tile exposition in any way will vie with every other amusement maker to add to tile the childrens pleasure the Trans mississippi ci ingress has been in session in san fra aciego during the present week aej anu on wednesday evening its delag atis were made the guests of the E there was a grand display y affire of fireworks and a general nation of the buildings even the electric tower was illuminated th ough this great structure is not quite complete and there were band conce arts arta ILI at the fireworks and on the grav grac id A central court us AS well the arr arrange aaget dents for birthday inel ude mora fireworks more illuminat ions the opening of the electric ir and the inauguration of the elect ri 0 prismatic 3 I 1 1 fountain |