The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-12

bus. One will pass through the waterway
beneath a tower to the harbor. Dlreeuy
before the tower will be seen the colossdi
figure of Columbus, facing the wafer
Ornamenting the tower in recesses VIII DC
figures representing the gerat voyagers OF
the world.
Before the entrance to the grand court
of honor upon the bay will be a colossal
column whose spirals will depict man
climb toward success and at the summit
of the column will be figure represent
ing achievement. On the left and before
the Court of Four Seasons will be the
gate of Balboa, before which VIII be a
colossal statue of the explorer.
AT this early date responses from all
parts of the world have been unprece-
dentel in the history of expositions at
period so far in advance of their open
ing. Twenty-four foreign countries have
thus far accepted Americas invitation 10
take part, and It is believed that every ma
lion in the world having commercial IN
terests Of importance to be affected by
the opening of tho Panama canal Will be
represented Japan alone will expend ST.
900 00t upon its site and pavilion. Japan
was the first nation TO choose lis location
The friendship of the fiowery kingdom
for America has been often exempllheu
and on the occasion of this celebration
which means much to the nations Of the
L.
her special interest. Upon the conclusion
of the exposition the Japanese palace,
built in the historic architecture OF Mp
nom will be given to the United states.
The site OF the Japanese paVllon, hVe
acres, II located upon the Preside mill
tary reservation. The grounds VIII Do
transformed by landscape gardeners from
Japan. France has cabled requesting IL
acres of ground upon which to erect the
French pavilion. Besides Japan, China,
Holland, Portugal and Sweden nave al
ready selected their sites. Foreign gov
ernments In erecting their paviiions VIII
keen step with the work on the main ex-
hibit palaces.
States Are Taking Action
Thirty-four states have already taken
legislative action toward participation
and 20 of them have selected sites IN
the Avenue of Commonwealths along the
harbor's margin. New York has already
made a preliminary appropriation OF $780,
Op) for the New York building, and Cali
fornia will expend 81 100000 on the Cali
fornia building A number of the states
will expend from $4,000 to $50oOvo.
Applications for exhibit space have been
received from all parts of the world. More
than 800 leading exhibitors have applied
for extensive space in the great exhibit
halls and many of the exhibits range in
value from 100000 to s300.O00 The auto
mobile displays will be especially large
and representative. II is anticipated that
more than 1900 square feet of exhibit
space must be reserved for foreign auto
mobiles alone. The automobile manufac-
turers of the United States will be rep
resented upon so large a scale that IL Is
now suggested that there be constructed
another building to accommodate automo-
bileg in addition to the one already pro-
vided for--Automobile halI-which will
have a ground space Of s00x300 feet.
The number of applications for conees-
sions Is unprecedented at so advanced a
pre-exposition period. Director of Con-
cessions Burt has received more than
1000 applications for concessions many
Of which will be original and striking.
Appropriately enough among the con-
cession will be $4,000 replica OF the
Panama canal. 1t will take 20 minutes
to make the trip. Another will depict the
roaring days sof 40: the visitor in 1915
will be met at the ferry building by a
stage coach typical of the gold days.
Classification of Exhibits
The classification OF exhibits at the Pan
ama-Paciflc International exposition will
be step In advance Of that applied at
former universal expositions The doni-
nant note of the exposition is education-
al. and the achievements and activities
of the world are TO be brought together
for examination and study BY Its ex-