The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-02
SENDS WORD
OF. EXPOSITION
MlSSOUlA MAN IN SAN DIEGO
WRITES TO TELL FRIENDS OF
INTERESTING THINGS.

H. j. Riley of this city, who is now
in San Diego, Cal, writes The Mis-
sculian hat he has become much in
terested in the plans for the big ex-
position to be held in that city to
celebrate the opening of the Panama
exposition in 1915. 1t is getting to
be mighty interesting writes Mr..
Riley, and | thought perhaps some OF
my old friends back there might like
TO hear about it, therefore / am send
ing a short description of the plans
for the exposition and work which is
being done which you might Use ii
You have space to spare" Following
is the store of the exposition which
Mr.. Riley sends:
To Run Whole Year.
One Of the most unique eXpositions
ever designed is being built now at
San Diego, Cal, to celebrate the COM
pletion Of the Panama canal. 1t will
be the first great exposition to open
on New Years day and continue for
a whole wear. The San Diego celebra-
ton will be opened jan. l, and close
Dec. 81, 1915. Few localities in the
~ q - NidN "ould pei
nit such an enterprise.
at San Diego all the western states
OF the Union, and many of the eastern
section, also nearly all the countries
of Central and South America, will
have displays. These expect to reap
great benefits from the development
Of through the canal, and
they are seking to obtain wider trade
relations by exhibits at San Diego.
Unlike any other exposition ever
proposed, that at a Diego is to be
n showing processes exclusively.
The usual idea has been to display
the products Of mans agriculture or
manufacture. This idea has beer
abandoned at San Diego. There every
display will show how man is doing
things.
Nearly every exposition has beer
TILED with goods. At San Diego the
goods will be made and then removed
from sight. People today are more
interested in knowing how their
n%eighbors do things than in knowing
what they do. In every age, among
every people, the same things have
been done in different ways, and the
whole story of mans progress is told
in the advancing steps in methods he
has used in making things. Not only
will the San Diego exposition show
how things are being one now. but
low they were done long ago, and on
through the progressive steps to the
present day development of methods
Tile new exposition idea is expected to
I be just as much more interesting than
the old plan as a window full of toys
in motion is more interesting than one
filled with calico.
The grounGs for the exposition en-
close 615 acres. in a fine park of 400,
in the center of San Diego. Every
building is to be Of Emission style,
one of the prettiest types known. All
will be of white plaster concrete. An
other different idea is found in tire ar
rangement of exhibits. At san Diego
each state or nation will have all its
display in one place, in a separate
building with a tract of ground ad-
Lining for outdoor displays Usually
a states exhibit is scattered accord.
ing to classifications through a num-
Der Of big buildings, nobody gaining
any real idea of what the state has tt
offer.
TN order to insure that the eNposi-
tioI shall be finished in every detail
by the opening date, work is being
rushed with all speed. The grading OF
the grounds is finished, and the ac-
tual construction of the mammoth ex-
hihit buildings begun. 1t is planned
It,, ,,-rr
giving all of 1914 to making lawns
training vines and flowers over the
buildings, and installation of displays
Already 100, 900 trees and plants have
teen placed about the grounds, ard II
the exposition nurseries are now
$500, 900 specimens of plants from al