The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1912-01-23
w WITHIN a few weeks time
wv thousands of men and teams
w will be engaged in leveling

Will be engaged in leveling
of the grounds of the Pana
ma-Pactfic International exposition site
in San Francisco, and it is estimated
that within six months 10000 men will
be employed in the construction of the
material part of the great exposition at
which the United States of America
will celebrate the opening of the Pana-
ma canal. Responses to invitations TO
participate and offers of cooperation
from every part of the world are flood
ing the exposition management, and
President c. C. Moore and his thirty
directors, who represent every impor
tant interest on the coast and $1,000
100000 in invested capital, are working
night and day to keep up with the
avalanche of duties that pour in upon
them.
Responses of foreign countries sur
pass all anticipations of the exposition
management. Every civilized nation
on earth, every land within the sweep
of both shores Of the Pacific ocean
and every state in the Union will be
represented by the finest assemblage
of displays the word has ever seen.
San Francisco says President
Moore. "as hostess for the nation will
entertain the world in 1915 with the
most comprehensive exposition in his
tory, a jubilee of nations. a splendid
commemorative celebration, which
shall include not only the finest fea-
lures of all former worlds expositions
in recording the progress of the world,
but yet in magnificence, in diversity.
in its distinctive color of the west, Of
the orient and of all the countries Dor
Gering upon the Pacific ocean will
stand alone. The nations of the word
will see the finest American displays
ever shown at the Panama Pacific III
ternational exposition.
1.-The plans. of the people of the west
for the Panama Pacific international
exposition are being undertaken upon
a scale of world education and inter
est and the exposition is the subject
of enthusiastic cooperation in every
land upon the earth San Francisco
is preparing to meet the standards Of
great national celebration Every
lard 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 specifi 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 Dor
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 lii
dian durbar in magnificence 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