The Pensacola journal., May 31, 1914, SECTION TWO, Image 19

About The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985

Image provided by: University of Florida

                
' 'rfr'-nhM r -in i VVf''.''7-
. -
i
I
8
1
WORLD'S NATIONS JOIN AMERICA IN
MIGHTY PANAMA CANAL CELEBRATION
Thirty-four nations have accepted the invitation of the United
States to participate in the Panama-Pacific International exposition
at San Francisco in 1915. The nations are as follows: Argentine
Republic, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica,
Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Guatemala,
Haiti, Holland, Honduras, Italy, Japan, Liberia, New Zealand,
Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Persia, Peru, Portugal, Salvador, Siam,
Sweden, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Commercial interests in every portion of the globe will be repre
sented. One thousand four hundred manufacturers in Germany and
six hundred in England will make collective displays.
i By Hamilton Wright.
! Progress today on the Panama
Pacific International exposition gives
an idea of the vast exposition city
is it will appear when its gates
rwing open to the world on February
20, 1915.
In appreciation of America's stu-
Sndous accomplishment in the build
g of the Panama canal thirty-four
Df the world's nations have accepted
the invitation conveyed through the
apartment of state to participate in
We exposition. The displays of . the
nations will be notable. Argentina,
for example, has appropriated $1,
300,000 for its participation; Japan
will expend $600,000; Italy, $400,000,
and Canada $600,000.
More than 220 great international
congresses and conventions, at which
nore than 500,000 accredited dele-
0
gates will assemble, have voted to
meet in San Francisco in 1915. It is
expected that fully 500 conventions
will have decided to meet in San
Francisco by the time the great cele
bration opens. The delegates to
these assemblages will come from
every portion of the globe and lead
ers in art, science, industry and in
the teaching of ethical propaganda
will present in standardized form the
results of the world's best effort in
recent years.
Construction upon the exposition
early broke all records in exposition
building, giving assurance to the
promise made by President Charles
C Moore, more than two years ago,
that the exposition would swing open
its gates upon a fullj perfected spec
tacle. At this writing many of the
huge exhibit palaces are practically
completed and all will be finished
eight months before the opening of
the exposition.
Preparations for the adornment of
the huge exhibit palaces and the
courts have kept pace with construc
tion. The works of a number of
America's most notable sculptors and
artists are now in evidence and bear
out the high promise for their beauty
and originality made early in the
history of the exposition. The land
scaping, which will be perfected to a
far greater extent than has been
possible at any former universal ex
position, is far advanced. Hundreds
of thousands of rare shrubs and
trees, including five hundred giant
Wee ferns from Australia, have
reached San Francisco to be set upon
the grounds.
Before the site, which faces north
on San Francisco harbor just inside
the Golden Gate, extending almost
three miles east and west, there has
been created a marvelous esplanade,
the Marina (villa gardens). This is
a great broad stretch of lawn, dotted
with cypress and eucalyptus, more
than four hundred feet in width and
one mile in length. It forms the
frame of the main northern facade
of the exhibit palaces along the
shores of San Francisco harbor, the
surpassing frontage that will be first
een by visitors who reach the ex
position city by water and enter San
Francisco bay through the Golden
Gate. In the Marina, with its vast
stretch of grounds and terraces,
fountains will play and huge groups
of statuary be set at intervals. Here
during the exposition thousands will
gather by day to view the assembled
warships of the nations, the birdmen
lef the world in mimic contests with
the warcraft, the motorboat races,
yacht races and all sorts of
aquatic sports. Aviators of fifteen
nations have already signified -their
intention of entering the roun3-the-world
aeroplane race for which a
prize of $150,000 is offered to the
daring birdman who actually com-
1letes the circuit of the globe, while
esser prizes will be awarded avi
ators completing different legs of the
race.
Seventeen of the nations have at
this wig date accepted President
Wilson's invitation to participate in
a great naval review upon the formal
opening of the Panama canaL
Work on foreign pavilions and
upon the huge concession district,
"The Midway," is under way, the
outlay on construction alone is
enormous. Canada, for example, is
expending no less than $300,000 on
her superb pavilion, which will ac
commodate the most notable exhibit
ever made by the Dominion at ai- ex
hibition outside of her own borders.
The exposition is today assured as
the greatest exposition in the world's
history and the tremendous partici
pation of the nations is a wonderful
tribute to America's prestige and
popularity.
The great main exhibit section is n
wonderfully impressive Eight. More
than eighty million feet of lumber
w&s used in this section. The stand-
ing army of our country could find
standing room in some of the ex
hibit palaces and with room to spare.
The great buildings blending into a
brilliant mosaic of color, take on a
new charm each time the fisitor sees
them. The structures are not only
beautiful, but they are impressive.
The sightseer who stands beneath
the huge steel dome of the Palace of
Horticulture and looks upward at the
vault above is looking as far upward
as if he stood upon a city curb and
looked up to the top of a twelve
story building. The huge dome will
AIX PROTOS
COPYRIGHT 'CD BV
INTUITIONAL
"EXPOSlTLCiJ CO.
.wvoiiiv:o
be covered with glass and when the
exposition opens colored searchlights
playing upon the glass from within
will, at night, transform the giant
globe into a vast sphere of changing
color, sparkling, iridescent and mys
tical. The yacht and motorboat races
during the exposition will interest
thousands. Both President Woodrow
Wilson and King George of England
have offered cups in the yacht races
for the prize yacht winning the
twelve-meter class.
Perhaps the most interesting of
the motorboat contests will be a
motorboat race for the cruiser type
over a distance of approximately six
thousand miles. The motorboats will
start from New York in September,
1915, proceeding south along the At
lantic seaboard, thence through the
Panama canal and from that point
north along the Pacific seaboard to
the finishing line off the Panama
Pacific International exposition yacht
harbor.
Thousands of men are now at work
upon the grounds and the exhibit
palaces have arisen almost as if by
magic. When completed the lofty
spires, domes, towers ad minarets
of the huge buildings will rise even
higher than those shown in the
photograph, ascending to heights of
160, 186, f?0, 340 and 435 feet. The
r4
fa x
.
' ? 's2 2
4
rx-!.:.
dominating architectural feature of
the exposition, the superb Tower of
Jewels, to command the south en
trance of the great Court of the Uni
verse, is under construction; the
building will rise from a base an acre
in area to u height of 435 feet,
ascending in terraces that gradually
give way to a group f figures sup
porting a globe, typifying the world.
Thousands of quivering prisms hung
upon the tower at night will reflect
and radiate shafts of light hurled
from masked batteries of search
lights placed upon the roofs of the
exhibit palaces.
The night illumination will be very
spectacular and wonderful. New
illuminating methodb and new me
chanical appliances used in illumina
tion promise at San Francisco a
method cf night illumination that
was not possible at any of the for
mer of the world's expositions. In
Schenectady, New York, a large
force of men is now engaged in the
manufacture of original illuminating
devices. Hundreds of artisans in
Austria are putting on the finishing
touches to a series of iridescent
prisms that, placed upon the exhibit
palaces, will at night cast a spell
over the exposition city. Flood light
ing, illuminating every detail of the
facades of the exposition palaces,
will be employed. There will be no
P ' A, , ,y
' A
r - '
.1-. . : .xv-v.v.-.x .v..,7 7- .-v-:-v
A few a V.
V
,,:
.jr-;-.'.s-.,.:';o.
dark shadows at night upon the ex
position grounds. The superb colon
nades and peristyles and monu
mental groups of statuary will stand
out as clearly at night as if by day.
Of speciaHnttrest to thousands of
visitors will be the great live stock
show to be held throughout the
period of the exposition. Entries are
being made from all parts ef the
world, not only for the live stock
show, but for a series of great har
ness races, for both of which events
premiums and prizes aggregating
more than ene-half million dollars
are offered.
The preparation for the display of
the world's exhibits is far advanced.
More than sixty thousand of the
world's leading exhibitors will have
their exhibits installed in the vast
exhibit halls when the exposition
opens. Many of the exhibits will be
exceptionally notable, some of the
individual exhibits representing an
investment of $250,000 to $350,000
and sometimes of an even greater
amount. Whenever practicable, the
exhibits such as -hose of machinery,
etc., will be shown in action to
illustrate the method of operation.
The care with which the exhibits
have been selected may be inferred
from a replv made bv Dr. Frederick
J. V. Skiff, of the Field Columbian
Museura, who is director-in-chief of
-- TVUN IVF DSE
ATKN
SZ.Y
s s
4: i-
, . .- 5- '' V - , s-i1
W(,
Panorama, of Cekttrad Sectii of ih "Exposition 5t-
K- - .....
I TlfillDC CnA
"e Court- J j
the Panama-Pacific International ex
position and who is as widely known
abroad as in America. Some one
asked Dr. Skiff what was his ideal
for a great world's exposition.
"One," he replied, "that would eo
present the world's progress that if
all else in the world but the exposi
tion were destroyed, what is most
worth while could be reconstructed
from the exhibits." The exposition
stands not alone on a commercial
foundation, but is undertaken for its
great ethical and educational influ
ence. The conventions and congresses to
meet during the exposition period
wil lindeed nave a wide educational
influence. One of the most inter
esting conventions will be the Inter
national Engineering congress. The
engineers of the Pacific coast have
already raised a large sum to finance
the congress and the five great na
tional engineering bodies comprising
the congress have also guaranteed to
aid in defraying the expenses of the
meeting. An exhaustive discussion
will be given to the construction of
the Panama canal, among other sub
jects, and the proceedings of the con
gress will be published in standard
ized form. Colonel George W. Geo
thalc has been tendered and has ac
cepted the chairmanship f the con
gress .,.,..
V,
4'0 -Si
L. .
y A,- - , ,
1
'Al-rCRlCAK VlC,1I"fP' Solon -M BOR.OLUH-
Among other important assem
blages there will be the International
Council of Nurses, to meet in
Francisco during the latter part of
May next year. Five thousand
nurses from fifteen nations are ex
pected to participate in this gather
ing; delegates from more than twenty-five
nations interested in grape
culture will attend the International
Congress of Viticulture, to be held in
June, 191 j; the leading electrical ex-
f erts of the world will rnoet in the
ntemational Electrical congress in
September, while a World's Petro
leum congress, the first ever held,
will meet in the fall of next year;
thirty-four American and three
European organizations concerned
with the marketing, production and
distribution of petroleum will take
part in thi3 congress. Tha Interna
tional Potato congress will deal with
the production and distribution and
marketing of the potato. One of the
most interesting of the arricultural
conventions will be that of the Na
tional Topnotch Farmers' club, an
organization of corn growers, with
headquarters in Springfield, Illinois;
the club consists of corn growers
who have established a record in pro
ducing at least one hundred bushels
of corn to the acre; the president of
the organization is Mr. W. L. Dunson
of Alexander City, Alabama, who
earned the presidency by growing
222.7 bushels of corn on an acre of
ground. When this record is super
ceded, the grower raising the mo3t
corn on an acre will automatically
become president.
Plans are under way to assist the
delegates in gathering information
in the specialized lines in which they
are most interested. The American
Breeders' association, for example,
has been invited to send a committee
of its members to San Francisco in
advance of the convention to list
everything of greatest value at the
J
- p
I
exposition dealing with the rubject
cf cattle breeding. Pamphlets tell
ing how and where to find these ex
hibits will ba mailed to the members
before they .start for San Francisco.
Indeed, in ell conventions the ex
hibits will comprise useful auxiliaries
to the reports and addresses upon
the various subjects.
All features of the exposition rtc
progressing evenly and happily. To
day the visitor to the stent; of th
cek-bration to which America has in
vited the work as her gufto, may
gain an idea of the exposition as it
will appear whe.i the exhibits of the
world are installed in its spacious
halls and hundreds of thousands of
rare trees, p:ants and shrubs,
brought from far corners of the
glebe, have transformed the jrro'jnds
into a eorni-tropical parad.se and
when from the Golden Gate the
traveler beholds the vast exposition
city rising to frreat height3 against
tin walls of tr.e encircling amphi
theater of the h:13s of San Francisco.
Olebraticn Snap Shots.
The largest r'ower basket in the
world has just been completed for
the exposition. It i3 now b-mg put
in place on the top of the don of the
Palace of Horticulture. It is 26 feet
high, weighs more than a hundred
tons. It is beir.g drawn to it place
1S5 feet above tr.e ground in sections.
Mirta Ali Kuli Khan, Persian com
missioner general to the 2'anama
Pacific International exposition, has
sailed from New Yor?: for Persia to
collect the exhibits of that country.
The site for the Persian pavilion was
dedicated last autumn.
The Danish pavilion will be a re
production of the old castle Kron
bfcig at Ekinore, made famous by
Shakespeare as the Ecene of his trag
edy, Hamlet,