Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-14
SPIRIT
ALIVE IN SAN DIEGO.
While Other Cities Walt for Definite
Action, This Town Plans Ex-
NJ position Buildings.

San Diego, Cal, Nov. 14.--While ut
least two other cities Of the United
States are awaiting favorable actlon on
their respective proposed & worlds
fairs, the managers of tho IaEama- Cal
ifornia Exposition company OF this city
have practically arranged all prelimlh-9
airy details OF their International SNOW
to icelebratc the opening OF the Panaln't
canal and will begin actual constitute
6tion OF exposition buildings carly IN
the coming spring. The Pilnanh-Cali-
fornia exposition by this action tacttly
admits that 1t does not intend to COM
pete for federal endorsement, but VIII
act in an entirely independent manner,
p The scope and Importance ct the Pa
nama-Califcrnia Exposition could be no
more accurately reflected tim In the
employment this week Of tho eminent
landscape artist and architect, John z.
Olmsted, OF the firm of Clnsted Bros,
OF Boston, Mass, to lay out Balboa
park, the beautiful 1900 acre city plag-
ground III the heart OF the business and
residential sections. preliminary to the
erection of exposition buildings. Mr.8
Ohnstcnd IS the landscape architect who
was first employed by the city of Chi
cago to dispose of the acreage OF jack
son Park for the Worlds fair of 1882,
and his success in this work attracted
international attention. In more recent
years Mr. Olmstcad has performed SINH
lar services in connection with the
Lewis and Clarke exposition of Poyt.
land and the Alaska Yukon exposition
of Seattle, his fame as the greatest
american landscape artist and archi-
tect being more permanently estab-
5lished as q result.
Mr. Olmsted Will submit tile first In
stallmcnts Of his plans within the next
two months and architects will then
Immediately be called in to prepare the
building plans. Ground breaking ex-
erclses meanwhile will be held and long
before the spring rains arc over in the
east it is probable that at least half
dozen of the more Important exposi-
ton buildings will pc under course of
erection The mission style Of archi-
lecture will be employed Us II tribute
to the Spanish explorers anu the Fran
cscan fathers who in the Seventeenth
century, first discovered and settled
around san Diego bay. the liarbors of
the sum-" where California began"
Southern and scmi-tropical vines, flow
ers and trees will be used throughout
tho entire grounds as tne scheme OF
decoration. to the exclusion of severe
cornices and other stilted crnamcnta-
ton
+ Over two millions OF dollars have al
ready been raised and still larger sunIs
will be Forthcoming from southern Cali
ifornia to fittinEly celebrate the open
ing of the Panama canal San Diego
being the first American port of call
north of the canal on the Pacific ocean
and nearest to what will be known as
the great circle of Commerce" whanj
the world shipping once takes Zip its
now route through Uncle SAINTS big
ditch.
The exposition will last on entire yenr,
the management hoping thereby to en-
,phasize the fact that climatic condi-
tons in the San Diego portion OF the
United States permit of all-ycar-round3
plowing, planting, growing and liar-
resting by special horticultural and
agricultural exhibits where plcwing and
harvesting, planting and growing OPP.
erations will be carried on side by side.
whether during nid-wintor or. nid-sum-