Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1910-07-01
SAN DIEGO'S EX-
POSITION in 1915
Former Resident Of Idaho Claims u
VIII be Held TO Celebrate Pam
anna Canal Opening.
(By james Lyonll I 80.

Inc news that Dan OiS&U has al~
ready raised million dollars for
an exposition in 1915; that another
million is about to be raised; and
that, no matter who likes 1t or who
doesn't, there is going to be show
through any veins sufficiently bless
ed with red blood, to know a pihcky
little sport when you see him. BullF
for little San Diego! But just here
a question comes up. What sort Of
a show does San Diego intend to
have? And the answer sends a
Jingle through the red ,eoFppscles
of the southwest at amy rate, tor
San Diego gives notice tapa she
means IT, that her show Is to be
"DIFFERENT.2s ANY old town can
have worlds fair. And we know
all what aworld,s fair IA before We
see it. But an exposition the like
of which was never seen anywhere
says her big Panama California Elk
position in 1916 is going to be.
Which is going some"i and this is
how It's to be "DIFF ERENT."'
Man and boy, the oldest inhabi-
tant on earth can, aexelaims What's
a decade without a worlds fair or
two? Yes. Ever since the prince
Consort opened the Crystal Palace
show. sixty-odd years ago. Princes,
Potentates and Presidents have been
asked to ..push the baton, and exs
position managemeHts have done the
including, sometimes. the pub
lie.
Up-to-date, worlds fair has been
sort Of giorifed fifth act of the
stupendous drama of mans attain
ment. But what San Diego proposes
to do is to make her fair curtain
raiser, intended to introduce the still
more magnificent drama Of the pos
sibillties confronting the southwest.
The name of this new play is "Oppor-
tunity." To display the yet scarce
ly scratched resources Of the south
west; to proclaim to the world the
limitless possibilities Of Arid Ameri4
ca; to invite from the congested cen
tres of the earth the ambitious work
er to the waiting feast of profit and
uccess in the sun-kissed open Of this
Diege means that her fair shall do.
At San Diego, Machinery Hall"
will not be the usual bewildering
display of everything that the wit of
nan has contriyed. from dynamos
nd pianos to rat-traps and patent
an-openers. 1t will concern itself
lth an inspiring instrumentation of
THAT invention welded to human
urpose can accomplish here in this
ast southwest. All that is big with
romise to the tidal-wave OF emigra-
on sure to be set loose by the open
pg of the Panama canal win be
pown at the San Diego fair. What
Ter these inexhaustible states pos
ess, in mineral wealth, agricultural
disabilities. climatic advantages, or
storical romance and scenic grand
~ Will NC SApIOlCCO at Iul5 uHiquO
nd singularly timely show.
Those magic words. irrigation
d reclamation, which have
ught the stirred imagination of
3 nation. will here be most oonyinc-
gly Interpreted to the wistfuf and
rious from far and near. arid
rips of the grounds being left to
ctus and sage-brush, with verdant
ternating strips (under the bene-
lent operation of model irrigating
Rnts at work in sight of alb pro-
lining that the whole southwest
its only intelligent development
become the yeritable Garden Of
World.
Cotton will be shown growing be-
e apples and wheat; oranges amid
wing luxuriant alfalfa; silk worms
u spin their priceless eocoons
ove kingly corn tassels; and now-
and trees in ali their varied
endor will nod together in the
rpetual summer breeze. although
bracing the whole of the wondrous
titles from the palm to the pine.
The ponderous enginery OF mining
stand side by side with the deli
e apparatus of the worker IN
'cious stones Surely. e The open
Of the great canal portends the
ghtiest movement in history OF
children ofmeA. San Diego has
upon the very way to establish
unquestionable fact that. by geo.
phical situation and natural
lraeteristics. she Is to assume the
ynies-and the responsibilities
the great seaport Of the southwest
n what setting. with what rare
San Diego celebrate her com
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