66 The Humming Bird. 



that numerous guides enabling visitors to tell the wheat from 

 the chaff have been prepared under such titles as " What to 

 see at the Fair " " The best things to see and how to find 

 them," etc. 



There will be no necessity for any such guides at the 

 Midwinter Fair. Everything will be worthy the careful 

 attention of the visitor ; anything else will not be shown. 

 The best and most interesting exhibits in each department 

 will be removed from Chicago to San Francisco after the 

 close of the World's Fair. In addition to this, many interest- 

 ing displays, which are entirely original, will be made. An 

 exposition such as this, is a novelty in America where there 

 are no exhibitions between a State fair on the one hand, and 

 such a world's wonder as the Centennial or the Columbian 

 Exposition on the other. But in Europe International Ex- 

 positions, comparatively small in size but extremely select in 

 character, are of almost yearly occurrence. They have been 

 established upon the single basis of merit, and in the scores 

 which have been held, but verv few are marked as failures. 

 Each has been a profitable investment and all have possessed 

 a great influence upon the industrial life of the nation within 

 whose borders they have been held. 



There are many people in the Unitcfd States of moderate 

 circumstances who have been all their lives desirous of paying 

 a visit to the '^ Land of Fruit and Flowers." These have 

 been prevented from accomplishing their wish by the large 

 amount the railroad were, on account of the distance, forced 

 to charge. Now, however, the railroads have promised to 

 make a one fare rate for the round trip, and the passenger 

 fares may be cut still lower. This will bring the cost of a 

 trip within a sum which even those with poorly lined purses 

 may be able to afford ; and the double attraction of a winter 

 without snow or ice, and a wonderful International Exposition 

 will prove irresistible. 



THE SITE OF THE EXPOSITION. 



The site selected for the Midwinter Exposition is one to 

 which the San Franciscans point with justifiable pride — 

 Golden Gate Park, one of the largest and most beautiful 

 pleasure reservations in the world. A hundred acres of the 

 best portion is set aside as the site of the Midwinter Exposi- 

 tion. This splendid reservation is only two miles from 

 Kearney and Market Streets, the practical centre of San 



