Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-05-20

especial Bulletin correspondence
SAN DIEGO, Cal, May 5.--The
building of the Panama California Ex-
position for 1915 in San Diego has be-
gun The first welcome to those pass
ing vessels which will inaugurato the
opening of the Panama Canal In 1915
will be given by San Diego, the most
southern of the Pacific coast ports of
the country and the Oldest of the set
Elements in the State of California.
with the welcome will be an entertain
ment unique and novel in exposition
lines. accompanied by that hospitality
which has made California and Its
people so well known over the whole
world
San Dlego's exposition plans are
being rapidly matured. While based
on the lines of an international pro-
ject they have been so arranged in
scope that they can not in any way be
considered as rivalling the worlds
fair planned for the same year in San
Francisco. Here will be an addition
nj inducement and attraction to the
world to come to California during
the exposition year, 1915.
Progress Is Keynote.
San Diego promises that its Pana-
ma-California Exposition will supply
in more detail features which have
always been dominant in the wonder
full development of this empire state
III the Pacific coast and afford an OPP
portunity for the people of all the ma
tions of the world to see at glance
Just how California has made its Won
derful progress. An opportunity will
he afforded for study and enjoyment
of those attendant features of history
and romance which have made this
golden State an object of interest.
Californians, to whom the opening
of the Panama canal means further
advancement in all which the worlds
progress in commerce and business
opportunity demands, have planned an
inaugural celebration which is fitting
to such an epoch marking achieve
ment of American pluck and sagac-
ity. San Francisco, upon whose
worlds fair the stamp of government
approval is set, has subscribed a
working fund of $l7,5O0,000 to carry
out the details of its exposition plans.
San Diego has begun the work OF in
stallng its exposition. Rallying to
the call of hospitality and enterprise
its citizens have subscribed prelTm-
l,..,, r,,nJ Of co mn nna for tho xynrl
and its $4,000 people are ready to
meet all the other demands to COM
plete the plans as outlined. The State
of California has appropriated a quar-
ter OF million for State building
and will give us much more for 1T
ting display.
Experts Head Work.
In the selection of men to carry
out the general scheme of building,
Director General ID. C. Collier has Sc
cured the services of three of the
most famous experts in their line,
Frank p. Allen, Jr., as director of
works, will have charge of all of the
construction. lie was prominent in
this department of the Lewis e. Clark
Exposition In Portland, Oregon, and
was responsible for the building of
the Alaska-Yukon Exposition in Seat
tie. Bertram G. Goodhue, recognized
as the greatest authority on Spanish
Colonial architecture. is designing all
the buildings of the mission City"
This work has been his life study and
realizing the. opportunity given him to
carry out a vast scheme along his
special studies he IL making his great
est effort The other expert is John
Clark Olmstead. of Olmstead Broth
ers, accepted leaders in landscape
architecture, who has laid out the
grounds. placed the gardens, arranged
the drives and walks and planned the
attendant features In the magnificent
natural park of 400 acres which is
the site for the exposition.
Four Big Features.
Four features will be given prom
inence at the Panama California Elk
position: Irrigation, Reclamation,
Colonization and History.
II will be the endcavor of the ex-
position to show the entire progress
of the science of irrigation, from the
rude efforts of the aborigines to the
most elaborate systems of govern
mental works. The reclamation OK
bibits will show the methods of drain
age and restoration of waste lands to
cultivation Colonization and the
method best adapted to the great
southewest will he given complete ex-