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Show sMOispuys. "Ott-I-Liev Entertainingly Describes Some Exhibits . AT THE MIDWINTER FAIR Those of an Educational Nature and by Educational Institution Are Considered Consid-ered First and Foremost V Letter Descriptive De-scriptive of the Exhibits of Our Own Peerless B. Y. Academy is Promised. Sax Francisco, Cal. May 1. After a delay of several weeks, I shall again attempt to give you a few more points in regard to the mid winter fair. Everything Every-thing is prozreasing rapidly to a etate of comparative completion buildings, grounds, electric tower, statues and exhibitions, the latter consisting in public concerts dunni; the day, fire- 1 works and playing of electric fountains in the evening. The attendance also has been much increased. On special days, as for instance St. Patricks day, 1 some county days, children's day, as I many as 9t),0(X) people are reported to ibave been on the grouud. In the mechanical art buildi jg we I naturally look first of all for the Utah 1 exhibit, which is situated on the east I gallery, adjoining Wells, Fargo & Co.'s I exhibit. It is divided into three de- i partments, viz; the mineral, the man- facture and the agricultural, all three of which are in charge of Mrs. Margret Cain, who is always busily engaged to answer the many questions by the crowds of curious inquirers visiting this magnificent and scientifically arranged ar-ranged dieplav of Utah enterprise. Studebaker's fine display ol wagons and carriages and general articles of horse toilet, and evolutionary exhibit of brooms from 1S25, until date, gigantic gigan-tic relief map of California and a collection collec-tion of very interesting Indian relics, finish the exhibits in the gallery, while thf main body of the building down below is occupied by immense electric machines and artificial globes and pyramids py-ramids of immtuse size, illustrating the quantity of gold produced in California, Cali-fornia, .Nevada, and in several counties. The gloDe representing the gold product pro-duct of California from 1848 to 1S93, is equal in 6ize to a mass of gold valued at $128,272,935. Masses of coal and all sorts of geological specimens are Itieaped up all around you arranged according to the counties they are -rTj5T. ltefreehznent stalls, spectacle . venders and many other uttie money traps fill out the intervening spaces. There is a constant hum going on, caused by the many machines in operation, oper-ation, which also has a tendency of rising the temperature in the building to a somewhat inconvenient degree, especially in the galleries. Passing from the mechanical art building constructed in Turkish style Of architecture we pass over to the liberal lib-eral art building, representing the architecture ar-chitecture of the Spanish Moars ana commence our visiting, also with the galleries. where the educational exhibits constitute the leading feature. Tht entire west eallery is occupied by the exhibit of the University of California, or Stanford university. The astro nomical, mathematical, geological, medical and physical departments Of that grand exhibit go be yond my power of comprehending all its grandeur, but it certainly surpasses sur-passes everytning that I ever dreamt of in these matters, One has also an opportunity to study occasionally the characters of Etudeuts .ol that and similar institutions here, but cannot help to notice witn regret that their intellectual advantages do not Improve their moral status. Yale university bas a large exhibition of photographs representing their builaings, clise rooms, hbraries and apparatus. Mills college of polytechnic work very creditable credit-able also, and exhibits of the college for the blind and deaf and dumb, show the marvelous progress in the education of such unfortunates. The denominational exhibits on this gallery are St. Mary's college, a Catholic Catho-lic educational exhibit of much merit. The Unitarians have an exhibit without with-out much pretention to educational work in particular, but an earnest endeavor to present to the public tha tracts of their faith. The third is the "Latter-day Saint's Educational Exhibit." Ex-hibit." That is the sign in front of the booth, As the greater portion of the educational feature of this exhibit has j been furnished by the Ungham loung academy, it will be more interesting to your readers than the other exhibits, and I shall devote my next article exclusively ex-clusively to it, and pas oyer to the others on the gallery. Between the Unitarian and Latter-day-Saint'B exhibits in situated the educational ed-ucational exhibit of Santa Cruz county of Calfornia. This is the only genuine school exhibition in the whole fair. Every county school is re pre seDted, and work of the children fro m the lowest grades up to the highest of its branches is to be found. The schools of this county make a very creditable showing, as their work is not gotten up merely on "parade" principles. Three large photograph exhibits demonstrate dem-onstrate the vast improvements this wonderful art has been making, and conUin some fine pictures from the art bazaar of C. It. Savage of Salt Lake city. The east gallery is occupied by several offices and some smaller exhibits ex-hibits among which those of Mexico and of Guatemala take the most prominent prom-inent place, as they exhibit the peculiar pe-culiar Indian curiosities, idols and pro ducts of those countries The south eallery is occupied by the German, French and Belgians exhibitors with various works of art. But the crown of all is in the southwest corner where is a panoramic scene, illustrative of the meeting of Lieutenant Greeley and Lock wood. Ott I Lie. 1 |