The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-09-28
GREAT INTEREST
in EXPOS|TIONS
Especial to the Silver state.)

roduS are tdhlnR very dctlVe interest
in the Panama California exposition,
to be held at San Diego, in 1915.
This interest is not confined to fair
words and mere "jollies.'' 1t is evil
denced by cash subscriptions to the ex-
position fund. The Santa Fe made a
substantial cash subscription to the
exposition when approached by Di-
rector General d. C. Collier, and the
Southern Pacific did likewise. Then
the roads will help in other ways which
are, perhaps, more important than the
gift of mere money. They are allies
whose good will the management
values highly, and they are already
preparing to handle the heavy traffic
which the exposition at San Diego, and
the Panama-Pacific exposition at San
Francisco, will induce.
Expositions Not Related.
1T may be thoupht by some that the
two Panama expositions are in some
way related; that one is in sense a
branch of the other. This is not the
case. While the management of each
is working in cooperation and friend
ship with the other, each is distinct
and separate, each has its own board
of managers and each is financed sepa-
rately. They both will celebrate the
opening of the Panama canal, but they
will do it in different ways, and there
will be friendly rivalry to see which
one will prove of the greatest interest
/ to the public. The managers of the
San Diego exposition believe that they
will produce an aggregation of at
fractions which will be absolutely
unique. The group of exposition
buildings will, of themselves, be an at
traction which it would be worth cross
ing the continent to see. They will en-
body all the best and most artistic in
the old, but still new style of architec-
ture which the old Mission fathers in
troduced when they undertook to
evangelize the new l. of California.
Known as the Spanish Renaissance,
this style will be standardized and the
exposition buildings will present the
best ideas by the leading architects in
the world who specialize in this style.
Game Birds and Animals.
One of the features of the exposition
which Director General Collier has
been working on will be a collection of
ameg birds and animals The plans
for this feature are not yet sufficiently
developed, although the feature is de
cided on, to permit of going into de-
tails regarding it, but the mere sug
gestion is sufficient to awaken keen
expectations among those who love to
tread the wilderness with rod or gun
gaining health while seeking the
quarry. The whole continent, from the
regions around Hudson's bay an6
above the Arctic Circle in Alaska, tt
the sandy shores of Terra del Fuegt
will be levied on for this unique an6
interesting collection.
Cleaning Up Capital.
When congress folds its tent an6
steals away from it's legislative haunts
the cleaners and renovators get busy
in Washington. The big buildings
where the senators and representatives
ped, painted and cleaned from top t6
bottom. The capitol itself is pu,
through similar treatment and the out
side is subjected to treatment with
lines of hose through which fire en-
gines force water to the very top OF
the DOME It always an interesting
operation to see the capitol getting its
annual bath. Then the streets are re
paired and the trees trimmed and ev
erything around Washington is got in
to the best possible shape for the re
convening of congress in December
Owing to the extra session there was
little time to do all this during the
lpresent summer, so there is unusua
hurry and hustle now.
Alterations Postponed.
Some day, when there is a sufficient
ly long interval between theend of tn,
short session and the beginning of the
long session of congress, the interior
of the chamber of the house of repre-
sentatives is to be rebuilt and the en-
tire plan modified. Even with the in
creased membership due to reappor
tionment, the substitution of benches
such as are used in the English hous,
of commons, for the individual desks
now in use. will take up less room ant
the size of the chamber can be re
duced. This will be great advantag,
in permitting speakers to be heard
more clearly. Speaker Clark, to be
sure, with his resonant voice and his
gavel, pounding on the board provided
for that treatment, has been able t.
make his voice heard; but the average
member has had hard time and tn,
cry of "louder, louder,' has worried
many a timid congressman who wal
trying to achieve undying fame by ex
planning the intricacies of the effects
of the tariff on wool, cotton, sugar, oil
some other article.
The speaker, it may be remarked
has succeeded remarkably well in pre-
serving order in the house. He should
have an easier time when the size OF
the chamber is reduced. But that ear
hardly be this summer.
A Dome of Marble.
Some day, too, there will be mar
be dome placed on the capitol instead
of the iron dome which now covers the
rotunda. The architects are practical
ly unit in saying that marble is the
only proper material of which to con
struct the dome. Iron shrinks and ex
pands in manner which is distress
ing. Leaks result, and these are patch
ed by strips of canvas painted over
Undoubtedly the dome will be replac