The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-11-09
COMMENCE WORK
AT SAN Diego
Especial to the Silver State.)


the Panama California International
exposition at San Diego, in 1915.
According to schedule, say advices
from San Diego, workmen began con-
struction Monday morning, Nov. 5th,
on the administration building, plans
for which, as submitted by Director
of Works f. P. Allen, were formally
accepted by the directors. Following
this action, the committee on buildings
and grounds recommended that the ex-
ecutive board order work to proceed
on the building without delay.
Like all the other buildings to be
erected for the exposition, this Will be
in the Mission Renaissance style. 1t
will be situated on the left side of
the axis of the ground plan, and at the
east end of the bridge, near the Cali
fornia state building. There it will
form strong feature of the architec-
ture composition at the entrance to
the grounds. In it will be located all
of the Offices of the exposition and Of
the division of works, which are now
located in a business building in San
Diego. The administration building
will be ready, the director of works
says, by April 1st
Exhibit in Washington.
When Col. d. c. Collier, director
general of the Panama California ex-
position, was last in Washington. he
made arrangements for the installation
of permanent exhibit advertising the
exposition, San Diego and Southern
California, to be installed in the ex-
hibit hall in the new Southern build
ing, under the auspices of the Southern
Commercial congress, an organization
which is giving San Diego valuable as
sistance in promoting the exposition.
A competent stage carpenter and
scenic artist is now engaged in build
ing the booth for San Diego. This
will be designed in the mission style,
and will form a picturesque feature in
the great exhibit hall. 1t will embody
some of the well known and distinc-
tive features of the old missions, and
the interior will show bit of South
ern California scenery such as has
made that region famous in song and
story. The booth will be supplied with
characteristic exhibit forwarded
from California and also with litera-
ture telling about the exposition; also
with Photographic views which will
give an excellent idea of the country
and of the exposition as it will appear.
All of the southern states will have
exhibits in this hall, and the visitors
who will be attracted to it annually
will number thousands.
Rare Cacti.
Indications multiply that the exhibit
of flora at the San Diego exposition in
1915 will be one of the most UNIQUE,
beautiful and interesting that has ever
been seen. Director General Collier
regards this as one of the strong fea-
lures of the exposition. Only a few
days ago there were landed in San
Diego a collection of cacti plans and
other tropical flora from South Ameri-
ca such as have never before been
seen in this country. A collector had
spent several years seeking them for
an oil king of Los Angeles, E. l..
Doheny. Some of the cacti, it is
said, grow as high as the "sky scrap
ers' of our modern cities. Exposition
officials 'at once became interested and
made inquiries how similar plants
could be secured for the exposition. 1t
is intended to secure the most com
plete collection for the botanical gar
dens surrounding the exposition that
have ever been assembled anywhere.
IIluIlpuS VI Clo ALI.
At the rate aviators are succeeding
in the completion of the conquest of
the air, there will be little left to learn
by the time of the holding of the
Panama California exposition. San
Diego then will offer to the world, if
the plans of Director General Collier
are carried out, complete exemplif-
cation of the art of aviation from its
inception. Col. Collier is himself an
enthusiast on this subject, member
of the San Diego Aero club and one of
the chief promoters of the sport. He
has a firm ally in Glenn III. Curtiss,
who has established his winter avia-
tion school at San Diego. Curtiss has
been made commissioner of aviation
for the exposition. He will not only
superintend the gathering of the most
complete collection of aeronautical ap-
paratus ever got together, but he will
make a special study of meteorological
conditions on the coast, and will do all
he can to further the success of the
| $4,000 flight from Panama to San
| Diego, scheduled to take place on the
opening of the canal.
Postmaster General Denies Rumor.
Rumor has been busy again with
the name of the postmaster general.
AS Mr.. Hitchcock is considered par
ticularly eligible bachelor, and as his
work in the department is supposed to
have commended him to the notice of
the captains of industry, it has been
rumored that he was to resign soon
from the department, and also that he
was to marry and "'settle down. The
postmaster general has thought it wise
to deny both rumors emphatically.
The President Trip.
Among politicians, the only aspect
of the president s trip across the
country and back is the one that has
to do with its effect on the voters of
the country. Did he gain votess is
what they ask.
Impartial scrutiny of the situation
seems to result in the conviction that
the president made friends every