The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-08-02
Composite Fleet Of Navies Of
the World to Pass Through
Panama Canal and Enter
San Francisco Harbor.
What the Great Fair viii
Be Like.

Is preparing to meet the standards of
d great national celebration. Every
land under the stars and stripes will
be represented, and the nations Of
the world are intensely interested In
the Panama canal. Americas gift to
civilization, and in the exposition at
| which America will formally celebrate
| the opening Of the canal. This uni
versal interest has assured the most
remarkable worlds exposition In point
of size, diversity and specif, interest
ever held"
| The opening of the Panama canal
will not only be the most important
commercial event In the history Of the
world, but it will mark a supreme
epoch in the lives Of the nations bor
dering upon the Pacific, and appropri-
| ately the visitor will see In the ex-
position the greatest displays of
strange tribes and peoples Of the Pa
cific ocean countries ever assembled.
Down the streets of San Francisco
in exposition days will pass such orr
entail pageants as the world has never
seen. China, Japan, the Philippines,
India and other oriental lands will
join in parades that will rival the In
dian durbar in magnifcence and sur
pass the durbar in variety by reason
| of the many nations represented.
The exposition will formally open
| with the entrance into San Francisco
harbor of composite feet Of the bat
! tleships of the world. Upon invita-
ton of the United States nearly 100
warships of foreign nations will FIRST
assemble at Hampton Roads and will
be joined by detachments of the Amer
lean navy, and the composite feet will
then be reviewed by the president and
by foreign dignitaries. This fleet, the
largest ever assembled, will proceed
through the Panama canal, arriving
In San Francisco harbor about two
weeks after the exposition opens.
The exposition will be held upon the
shores of San Francisco bay and of the
| Pacific ocean and will occupy an area
of more than 1,600 acres. The grounds
| will describe semicircle about San
Francisco, following the contours of
the shore tSDm the harbor out to and
beyond the Golden Gate The struc-
lures will be the largest and costliest
ever erected for worlds exposition.
The two principal locations Of the ex-
| position will be at Harbor View and
in Golden Gate park. Harbor View
lies as crescent on San Francisco
bay midway between the ferry build
| ing, the principal entrance to San
| Francisco, and the Golden Gate. Gold
en- Gate park fronts the Pacific ocean
one mile below the famous Cliff House.
| These two main sites and intermediate
| locations will be connected by ma
| rine boulevard that will skirt the
shores of San Francisco bay and also
| by an intermural railroad. A frackless
| trolley will run over the boulevard.
Harbor View is within twenty min
utes' walk Of the Fairmont hotel and
the most extensive apartment house
4 section of San Francisco.
At Harbor View will be located q
yacht harbor, the Midway and night
life Of the exposition and many con-
cessions that lend themselves to night
illuminations as well as great build
ings to house such heavy exhibits as
may be readily unloaded from ocean
going vessels, such as the structures
to contain the manufactures and ma
chinery exhibits, the Palace Of Liberal
Arts and other Industrial features.
Golden Gate park will be the seat OF
the permanent features Of the exposi-
ton. With an area Of more than a
thousand acres Golden Gate park, for
ested and created of sand dunes, today
presents one of the most notable
achievements in landscape gardening
In the world. The west end of Golden
Gate park, comprising $40 acres, VIII
be utilized for exposition purposes.
Around a great stadium, already built,
will be erected huge concrete coll
scum, the largest structure Of Its KIND
I'm America, capable of seating 10000
people and In architecture like that at
Rome. A chain Of lakes at different
Levels will be connected by a working
model Of the Panama canal.
Lincoln park, where the Golden Gate
rounds out into the Pacific ocean, COM
mands panorama Of the Pacific
ocean, Of San Francisco harbor and OF
the hills of the city. Its area Is Loo
acres, and its contours rise more than
300 feet above sea level. At Lincoln
park will be erected great commem-
orative statue welcoming ships to the
Golden Gate. Tentative plans for st.
Francis memorial tower call for a
structure $50 feet In height with a
base 200 feet square. The top OF the
tower win be almost 1900 feet above
the waters Of the Golden Gate.
From Lincoln park the boulevard,
turning south toward Golden Gate
park, will pass through an area of 20O
acres that have been secured by the
directors for exposition purposes. Here
win be located the foreign buildings
live stock exhibits, mining, horticul'
ture and agriculture and other dis
plays requiring extensive space.
The reward of one duty done Ii th'
power to fulall anOther.-Eliot-