The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-06-06
Midway at the Panama Pacific Exposition
Will Be the Most Striking and Original Of All
BY HAMILTON N. WRIGHT

Eanama Pacific International
exposition In le15-there will be a pro-
gram OF events Of world interest ana
importance In succession of two
months apart. Interpreted with lesser
events: Yacht and motorboat races
VI an International character for great
trophies and cash prizes: aviation
neets with the famous bird men of
the world; Olympic games, in which
the athletes Of the world will take
part; intercollegiate contests; automo-
Ollie races. in which the holders Of the
worlds records will participate in the
automobiles Of every nation; military
maneuvers, in which the crack cavalry
and infantry Of this and other nations
Will participate upon an extended
scale. The location Of the exposition
gives widest scope for the greatest In.
ternational sports program In history.
The auto races will pass into Golden
Gate park before the huge concrete
Coliseum seating $1,000 people. The
military maneuvers and Olympic games
will also be held In the Stadium. On
San Francisco bay motorboats will vic
Tor the worlds records before the Har-
Dor View site Of the exposition. Noted
yachtsmen will sail from Europe across
the Atlantic to New York and then
through the Panama canal to San
Francisco. Personal invitations will be
extended to the foreign rulers to at.
tend the exposition II possible or to be
represented by their diplomatic repre-
sentatives in the royal yachts.
The concession and amusement fea.
lures at the exposition will be among
the most striking and original ever dis
played. The midway" will be located
at the Harbor View site Of the expo.
sition. the location of the night life Of
the exposition. and every possible fea.
ture that can be conceived as appro.
pirate to an exposition will be shown
The Chinese residents Of San Fran
cisco have under way a project for a
great Chinese concession which will
be surrounded by 4 replica Of the great
wall of China, inclosing within its en-
virons q series Of Chinese communities
and embracing every possible feature
Of interest in Chinese life from the
manufacture Of silks and ivory and
woodcarving to sampans and junks
floating on miniature waterways and
portraying the life Of the river DWELL
err around Canton. The concession
will cost $1.O0O.O00. and influential
Chinese with American attorneys and
engineers will shortly leave for the
orient. From Nevada concessionaires
will establish q riprOaring mining
camp. picturing the days Of 40 and
the bonanza era Of the Comstock
lode. Bret Harte's heroes. old Wells
Fargo stage drivers. gamblers and
gambling. bad men. prospectors. shoot.
ings and holdups will lend realistic
touch to the camp
But the chief charm Of Harbor
View for most people will lie In Its
setting on San francisco bay. As the
crow dies the site extends along the
water front for about a mile. but fol-
lowing the irregular contours Of the
shore the distance 10 more than that.
Along the entire waters edge at Har-
Dor View will b built an esplanade.
or bund. along which visitors may
walk. and an existing lagoon will be
made the basis Of superb yacht har-
boz. Classic columns will rise from
the waters edge. and near BY will be
the great exposition structures, the
Palace Of Liberal Arts. the education
al building. the manufactures build
Ing and other edifices that house the
more serious phases Of the exposition.
a. distinguished from the amusement
features. Harbor View lies as an am
phItheater, with it, sides the wooded
slopes Of the Presidio and the tenant
ed hills of San Francisco. It IL near
the most populous part Of the city
and u not more than twenty minutes
walk from Mob Hill, where lived the
multimillionaires Of CALIFORNIA; early
mining days. Looking down from the
hills one can Gee all over the Harbor
View site, while from Harbor View
itself one may look out over the bay
through the Golden Gate to the Pacific
ocean. At night Harbor View will be
brilliantly illuminated with incandes'
cents. Ftnsen lights and waterfall iIlu.
minatioua. A chain Of lights will
stretch across the Golden Gate. the In
ternatiopai neet Of battieships 10 the
harbor viii bs Illuminated. a huge
commemorative structure towering
I 400 feet above the Golden Gate. will
he surmouuted by a searchllght. and
,ts outlines will be limned with mean
desceuts. In fact. the contours OF the
exposition site will be visible for miles
away. .
The west will be on exhibition to
those who view the Panama.Pacthc In
terpationai exposition in 1915 Under
the stimulus Of cheap railroad rates
and convenient trafac arrangements
thousands will have an opportunity
that they could have In no other way
To know their own country better
side excursions to the Yosemite. the
Grand Canyon Of the Colorado. the Vel
iowstone National park, the Redwoods
Of the north coast Of California. the
his trees Of the Sierras on the ap-
nroach to the Yosemite. the side trip
"a Alaska BY the inland channel. Will
- parts Of the delightful and educa'
1--we features Of Z visit to the exposi'
ton
Routing over any Of the eight trans
continental roads that terminate upon
the Pacific coast will enable the trav'
elsr to come by one route ana return