68 The Hiunmin^ Bird. 



Coast have their cyclones in brain and muscle. Midwinter is 

 the spring-time of this favoured land. 



In regal splendour the valleys and hills are clothed in 

 vernal beauty, and the sun smiles patronizingly upon the earth. 

 The oranges hang upon the branches in all the wealth of a 

 golden hue, and the landscape is bedecked with flowers. 

 There is a charm of bloom everywhere. The valleys teem 

 with industrial machinery, and nature invites to a feast of joy. 

 Here the tourist can enjoy the beauties of the landscape, 

 while his eyes may rest upon the white-capped mountain 

 crests, and enjoy the beauty and grandeur of a state upon 

 whose mountain peaks the eternal snow never melts, and 

 in whose valleys the perennial rose ever blooms. 



THE EXPOSITION'S INTERNATIONAL 



CHARACTER. 



Twenty-Five Nations will be Represented when the 

 Fair opens in San Francisco on New Year's Day. 



The scope of the California Midwinter International 

 Exposition is broadening daily. The work of securing 

 exhibits, which has been prosecuted here under the direction 

 of Assistant Director-General Cornely, has been progressing 

 quietly, and although it is by no means finished, the adminis- 

 tration know^s that there will be at least twenty-five nations 

 represented at the Fair when it opens in San Francisco on 

 New Year's Day. An enormous number of applications for 

 space have been made to the Commissioners representing the 

 various countries which will take part. It is feared indeed 

 that there will be too many applications. So well is this 

 understood, that even after the Commissioners have rejected 

 a number of applications as below the high standard which 

 has been made for the Midwinter Fair, it has even now been 

 found necessary to build annexes to two of the buildings. 

 Those which have been arranged for are to the Fine Arts 

 Building and Palace of Mechanical Arts. 



Besides the principal buildings, many of the foreign 

 countries will have buildings of their own. Among those 

 which it is positively known will erect their own houses are 

 Honduras, Costa Rica, Brazil, China, Japan, Ceylon and 

 Guatemala. A number of other nationalities are arranging 

 for buildings, but the plans have not been perfected. 



