The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-11-28
EXPEDITION NOTES
Items Of Interesting Events at San
Francisco.


guards from February 20 to December |
4, 1915, and for some days before and |
after those dates, the opening and |
closing days of the Panama Pacific |
International Exposition, will consist |
of detachments of troops of the Unit
ed States army. The strength of the |
| force has not yet been determined, but |
| 1t is thought that 1t will include a |
| regiment of infantry and troop of |
cavalry. AT any rate, the guards will
| be strictly military body. The Unit
| ed States public health service will |
care for the emergency hospital SER
vice of the exposition.
Twenty thousand dollars will be Of |
| fered for the chief choral competition
and $4,000 for the male choir at the
International Eisteddfod at the PAN
ama-Pacific International Exposition
in 1915. Other large prizes will be
offered for competitions in solos, reci-
tations, musical and poetic compost
tons. half dozen male choirs will
compete from Wales. Many lands will
send picked choirs to participate in
the song festivals.
The Panama-P International
Exposition has nearly completed the
installation of it's own standard gauge
railway system for use in the expedi-
tons delivery of material and exhibits
before the exposition opens and their
removal upon the close of the EXPOSE
ton on December 4, 1915. BY means
of this railway, in connection with the
/ exposition freight ferry slip, exhibit
ors may have the cars loaded at point
of shipment and delivered in the ex-
hibit palaces at San Francisco. This
, will be the first of the great Ameri-
, can expositions to be held at sea
r port and the largest and heaviest for
a eign exhibits will be unloaded on the
o exposition grounds from ocean-going
, steamers. Many of the exhibits will
cost $250,000 to $350000 and upward
Construction upon the Panama-Pa-
4 cific International Exposition, to open
/ in San Francisco in 1915, has broken
all records in rapid exposition build
6 ing The main exhibit section is now
/ under way and millions of feet of lum-
+ Der have been raised into place. An
q army of workmen is employed at the
n grounds. According to recent state
4 ment of Director of Works Harris D.
H. Connick, the exposition is eleven
o per cent ahead of the definite schedule
: adopted more than one year ago. All
q the exposition palaces, will be COM
v pleted months before the opening OF
4 the exposition, on February 20, 1915.
! Among the interesting amusement
) concessions to be presented on the
midway" at the Panama-Pacific expo
c sition, will. be "Toyland Grown Up
| 1od III v in y,bi oh no hill ipo
will be enlarged reproductions of chill
H dren's toys. The concession will b.
II presented by Frederick Thompson, thu
II famous creator of Luna Park at Cone,
II Island. Toyland Grown Up will b,
II almost an exposition in itself, GOVERN;
II twelve acres, costing more than 81,
II 100000. 1t will require more than 4.
II 100000 feet of lumber and it's streets
II and canals if stretched in a row will
II be five miles long. The walled cit.
II will be entered by three mammoth
II gates; the first gate will be the CAT,
II of Fun; the second gate will be thu
II Gate of Fairyland, the gate of beauty
]! the third gate is the entrance to tn,
II City of the Wicked King, where is hell
II captive the doll princess; this is tn,
II Gate of Thrills. Among other features
Il Of Toyland will be Mother Hubbard,
Il Cupboard, sixty feet high; the Grea
II Shoe, as large as a six-story building
II and built, in part, in the form of ,
II side wheel steamer, since it will hav,
huge wheels by means of which tn,
II sightseer will be raised aloft. In Toy
II land, too, there will be the City o
Peter Pan, the town that never grew
up.
II The Republic, of Honduras is tn,
II first of the foreign nations to erect it
Il building at the Panama-Pacific Inter
II national Exposition at San Francisco
y Thus far Twenty-Five foreign powers
: have announced to the department o
If state their intention to participate II
N the exposition. The Honduras, pavil
Al ion is now under roof and the stucc,
At covering is nearly all in place.
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