The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-02-10
NORTHWEST VIEW FROM THE OHIO BUILDING.

comprehensive exhibits % thu Pan.
American Exposition we see record
IN graphic form 0f what mankind has
accomplished npon this hemisphere
during the iDo year, now completed.
with vision sharpened We look for.
ward with prophetic eve into the mys-
terles Of the future and get. In imagi.
nation ~ least. . glimpse of what the
next century Is 20 bring forth.
Can IL b. possible that the Twentieth
century will see an advance I'm material
and intellectual things as great rels-
lively 10 that Of other centuries as the
Nineteenth century has witnessed1 II
scarcely seems within the bounds OF
possibility. and yet VINO can say wheth-
er even more wonderful discoveries
sDd even more valuable applications OF
our present knowledge than the past
century has given us do not await Us In
the one now Just beguni The Nine
teentb century saw the revolution In
methods OF travel on land and sea
.-aused by the invention Of the steam
engine: Il saw the invention OF the tele.
graph and telephone and electric light;
u witnessed the application OF electric
power 10 urban transportation methods
and 10 the operation % the wheels OF
Industry generally: II produced great
improvements In the fields OF medicine
aud surgery and Of education: II gave
Us inventions In the way of machinery
which have completely revolutlonized
Industry and shortened the hours OF
1t -. - Ha
civilized world and particularly OF this
, hemisphere. To go on and enumerate
In detail the features OF Nineteenth
century progress would require more
space than Is at my command. But II
o viii not do 10 forget that great as this
progress has been and proud as we
have right 10 be OF II there are tre-
mendous problems OF n social and po-
iIticai character yet 20 be solved. Their
settlement during the next century will
do much 90 alleviate the misery yet ex-
fsfing In the world and render happier
the millions who will be born. live and
die during the neIt hundred years. II
should not he forgotten that many
branches OF science are yet In their In
fancy. We have only begun To under.
stand the mysterious force OF electrici-
". nnd we have not yet succeeded In
navigating the air. There are yet many
worlds TO be conquered by the daring.
the Inventive and the pioneers OF hui
nsn progress IN the forthcoming cen
fnry.
That the pulse OF mankind win be
.sIuickened by the great Exposition of
all the Americas so soon 10 be held
there In no room for doubt
No more appropriate time could be
chosen for such an Exposition upon the
American continent No more appro'
pirate place than Buffalo and the Nj
agara frontier could be selected, for
~ IL at this spot where the cataract OF
Niagara has been harnessed and sci
ence aud industry have combined tC
,oncentrate all the energies and activi
Dies Characteristic OF the time, that the
nost fitting assemblage can be mad,
Of the things which portray most ef
Inectiyely this progress.
Never rNsc In the history OF expo
sitions l. ner the New World or th,
Old has such remarkable work OF I
constructive character been done
Never before did six months show suci
q wonderful change In the appearance
ef tract OF land as has been worked
without the aid OF magic. In the So'
acres which comprise the site OF tb'
ean-American Exposition.
Now that the principal buildings arr
,prscvcaily constructed and the who'll
great enterprise has been thus far ruI
q sehsduie time Il can be seen tina