People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — MIDWINTER FAIR ASSURED. [ARTICLE]

MIDWINTER FAIR ASSURED.

Voluntary Contributions of 8300,000 Place the Big Scheme on a Safe Footing:. San Francisco, July s. —Three hundred thousand dollars have been offered to the managers of the proposed midwinter fair by voluntary subscribers before a systematic canvass is begun, and there seems to be no doubt that fl,000,000 can be raised without great difficulty. The subscriptions include amounts of from 150,000 by the Southern Pacific company down to sl. The , projectors of the enterprise had determined to go ahead on a $500,000 basis, but it appears now that their plans will have to be enlarged. Headquarters have been established in this city, organization is being rapidly completed, plans are being perfected and an active campaign fox the fair has begun. Four or five years ago the late Senaator Stanford built for himself and his family an elaborate mausoleum! The site is a beautiful four acre plot just outside of San Francisco. It contains handsome shrubbery and occupies an altitude commanding a magnificent view of the bay. A driveway sixty feet wide circles around a slight elevation, on* the brow of which is the tomb. It is the most elaborate repository for the' dead ever built in this country. The beautiful mausoleum of Jay Gould at Woodlawn, and the magnificent tomb of the Vanderbilts at Huguenots* Stateh Island, arc eclipsed by this work of art.