The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-06-22
FAIR IS
SURE TO Open
FEB. 70, 1915


sition will open on time More than
one year ago this promise was made.
, Today its realization is certain.
When the great gates swing wide
February 20, 1915, the grounds
| will be in order, the vast buildings
completed. the exhibits installed,
the amusement features in operation
and every detail of the colossal en-
/ terprise perfected. This is not only
a conviction of the present; it will
!, be the pride of the future.
Five of the largest and most i'm
| portant OF the thirteen exhibit
palaces are now under construction:
Machinery Hall, the largest wooden
building in the world, and the pal
aces devoted to Education, Food
Products, Agriculture and Liberal
| Arts.
| The constructive work incident to
the planning of the Exposition may
be said to be finished. The design
of the Administration Tower, or CO.
lossal Tower Gate, the dominating
feature of the architectural scheme,
is selected and approved. Artistic
conception Tor courts, groups of
statuary, fountains, columns, arches,
and ornamental details, have been
/ evolved by the worlds masters, all
of which have commissioned and
| many modelled. The color scheme
by the famous painter Jules Guerin,
| is fully wrought out. The engineer
| ing mechanism and marvellous eff
| fects OF the illumination are already
| prepared. All the remaining ex-
hibit palaces have been designed,
and will be under construction by
time~limit contracts before the end
of July More than one hundred
and sixteen congresses and conven-
tions have been secured, The Ser
vice Building on the grounds is COM
pleted and occupied. In this and in
the large office building in the city,
the drilled and classified forces OF
/ the Executive Divisions are at
| work The whole great plan moves
forward RAPIDLY surely, orderly, to
the certain fu fillment of its benefi-
Client purpose. an Exposition I'M
rivaled in the history OF the world
The Panama-Pacific international
Exposition will open on time!
That the exposition viii be inter
national in character is also as
| sured. Official acceptances OF the
invitation of the United States to
| participate has been received from
| twenty nations From the
| Orient will come China and Japan.
From the South American continent,
/ Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay,
Argentine Republic, Chill and Bra
I'll From Europe, Holland, Portu-
gal, Sweden, Spain and Denmark,
| will send exhibits. Cuba. Costa
Rica, Canada, Dominican Republic,
| Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Ii
IBERIA Mexico. Nicaragua, Panama,
Salvador will be represented by the
order and appropriation Of their re-
spective governments.
Two great European commercial
nations have not yet sent their Off
cial acceptances owing to consid-
erations OF space. But it is con-
ifidently anticipated that every COM
mercial nation of the world whose
trades will be affected by the open
ing of the Panama Canal Will APP
preciate the opportunity afforded
and Officially exhibit its resbuces
In addition TO this private exhibitors
will come from all parts of the civ
ilized globe The largest apprppria-
tion so far made by foreign coun-
try is 100000 by Japan.
The states and territories Of the
United States have responded
promptly and generously, and there
is no doubt that every one will bf
represented, Already thirtytiyt
| have made appropriations and 4elect-
ed sites as follows:
Arizona Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho
II inois. Indiana. Iowa Kansas Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massa
khusetts. Minnesota, Missouri, Mon
tana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jer
sey, New Mexico. New York, Nortl
Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon
Pennsylvania, the Philippines
Porto Rico, Wisconsin. The larges
appropriation made by any state /
100000 by the State of New York
Appropriation by seventeen state
aggregate s2,600,000. Large dis
plays will also be made independ
emily by commercial bodies from
: many of the states and large citie.
: Applications for exhibit space ar
overwhelming. and It would be pos
sible at this date to al OF availabl
area Many of these exhibits viii
be costly, involving an expenditur
of from S250,000 to 5000, 900.
Applications for amusement con
cessions have been received from al
parts of the world. and the manage
! ment is confronted only with the i'm
: portant task OF selecting the mos
eI moral and entertaining. So ia
lmore than six thousand application
ave been received Only seventy-fv
have been granted. but these in
volve an expenditure Of ss50,o0t
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