Show mid wid midwinter winter exposition notes the best news of the week iu in connection with the coming exposition las has been tile the extension of at the time lime limit of excursion tickets from tile the east to thirty days this means that those who nho come to california to see the midwinter exposition will have a month in which to visit other parts of the state besides those contiguous to san francisco and that aliat the benefits to be derived by the alie entire pacific coast will be correspondingly multiplied in the ion long tp list of other attractions it is difficult to select one that is worthy of more special mention th than an the rest but perhaps the latest added features may be the most interesting the very latest and the most startling of all the suggestions that have been forth forthcoming comin in in the form of cess ional features of the fair is that which is to represent dantes isantes inferno and which has already begun C to be spoken of about town as hell on earth this concession is to be located in a very prominent part of the exposition 0 grounds and the character of the ent entrance raDee to the building containing the exhibit is one that will attract inevitable attention A great dro dragons gons head bead fifteen feet in height with hat like wings whirrs protruding from either side seems m s to crouch against the ground and grin a welcome to the passing crowds the bat like wings aings 0 and entire front in fact are gilded gilde d to look like burnished gold and when the sun is reflected from it it presents as brilliant an exterior as one can easily imagine mn ine out of alie afie center of the lower part orthis of aliis figurehead figure head so to speak projects a lon long red ton tongue tie of the dragon I 1 and oil to this th those ose who care to venture in III must step and walk between the 1 eth alb of the dr dragons lower jaw into t ti e very body of the beast the interior arrangements of these 1 1 regions s is rendered remarkably nar mar kably effective by the highly colored stalactites which bang from the wills and which seems to extend fur for miles almost awayan away in tile thedis is t tice nee this perspective is produced by means of mirrors there are mir birs on every hand band and never before lias has tl ere been a better utilization of the looking glass for illusionary I 1 urpo nr potes Ees hidden lights are made aie n of to add to the effects of the he avene and intricacies of passage are arc brought into one large grotto a stage 0 is reeled erected and half balf a dozen skeletons Imi chig v 0 grotesquely in the foreground ure to by mirrors that there number seems to be legion at miollier anol her point after traversing several tortuous avenues tile the visitor comes 4 ilou a clever construction with mir I 1 ard above and below and with lights I 1 h arranged that there really seems to be no top or bottom to the place and hence the name of the bottom bolcom ins pit only a little further away tlc alc visitor comes to the endless cuve cave produced in the same way and quite quile as interesting As the visitor to this remarkable place progresses froni from point to point he aises n acs to a higher elevation and by traversing vers higan an almost imperceptible b grade le he finally finds himself on the shore of a great lakes lake into which pours a fall of lava and it is 19 here perhaps that bo be gets the best idea of tins tills representation of the infernal It regions egions the effect is produced of course b by y colored lights playing upon the decorations 0 of the structure and by livers divers and sundry devices for the enhancing of these effects there is much that is grotesque about the dancing skeletons in tile cave referred to and there is considerable that is is uncanny in in c very every part of this arrangement ran gement but there is nothing that is disgusting or terrifying thou though 11 ll there is much to ari amuse luse when people turn lum to go out after having baying seen see all the show they find themselves by numberless passages which seen seem to lead everywhere re but which realy lend lead lohere io ro here for you start to follow one you run plump against ft a mirror and the result is that before you find the way 0 out it you are fully convinced eliat that this par particular icolar type of hell is a decidedly jolly place to be in |