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Show rrosstng of any wind swept marches cut down th attendance at the party to a faw hundred. The disgusted proprietor.' who had prepared for 1000 or more, con-eluded con-eluded th party aa quickly aa posalbl. turned out th light, locked th door and went Ma way. A real eetate research party In th ruin of Babylon a few monthe later found things Just aa they had been left at the end of the New Tear- celebration. Th tablea remained re-mained cluttered with dlahss, aoroe of them half filled with food. Duet covered paper aerpentlne. Confetti, Con-fetti, equally duet covered, formed a craay quilt over the tloor. and tin horn and other nolaemakera remained where they had been flung- away la th abandon of th hour. Th hltory of th Ohio building goe no further than thle. I Th . other building have al gone with th axceptlon of h Palace of Fin Arte. Th Oregon building, a tremendoue log affair, wa left until It wayd danger-oualy danger-oualy every tlm a crowd ritred It. and then It waa torn down. On monument, th Column .of Tnis-reee. Tnis-reee. remain, but It, too, la crumbling away.. SJ, EXPOSITION STRUCTURES ! I ; VANISH, ! Euildings Hae Interest-j Interest-j in g' History Since Close j ' - ' of Great Fair v Z J,.-, : - ' BAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. IT. nAllhouah th great Panamas tVclflo International xpoaltlnB of aearly a decade ego dissolved at lost Ilk Cinderella' coach and fntrr at midnight. It left a few buildings that have accumulated mar or lee Interesting history 1 ainee th big fair closed. 1 Over in Mann county, near me i ehoree of Ban Pablo bay. there U I a aldewalked and pavemented area ' rlik ornat entrances known el ; Sent Venetla. It had It origin j Inlh dream of a group of men i xotlrsnsport a number of th x-' x-' position building there and open ' un-another Coney Island. Th big Virginia building, th "model bun- galow" and other amaller structures struc-tures wr transported -A erne th ' h In hug lighter and placed In th- geographical cntr of th now p.'luure perk. A long tretch of ! r ,uh bleeding 'the park Was j lined with an ornat concrete peiuig en either aid and turned Ifo a capital awlmmlng placa The achem collapsed when half completed. Along cam a evnty-fwe-tnlle wind a year ago lat C Heist mas and . mad th col la pee evert more complete, for th great Virginia building went down before be-fore th gal, ft wa left a mls-sheeed mls-sheeed mass of twisted girder and creeily tilted ledges, and ha remained re-mained tn this undignified position slur thst tlm. Th modal eot-hai. eot-hai. which wa In th lee of th It. -eer building. ecaped unhurt. Many bather frequent th place, T- f weede have found their wsy ti. tough th ldwalk and once a lately sweep of pavement, and hev all but hidden th ornat entrances. A schema of (reap of sport-men sport-men to mov th great Ohio J. iwdlng to a sit In San Mateo county Bouth of Ban Franolaco n -o collapeed. Th building waa hi tually moved to th San Mateo hy marshes, but through th x-h x-h nation of funds ws left ther. A road wa built out to It. and h . waa turned Into a great car r- nrt and renamed "Babylon." . Last New Tear's e-re a graat n'-ty waa. prepared at Babylon d all San Francis wa lnvltd l..-attend. However, counter at-votlnne at-votlnne that did not call fop th |