Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-06-11
MIDWAY SECTION
TO Be WONDER
OF CENTURY
Space for Concessions.
Costing Millions Has
y Been Allotted.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 9.-The
concessions district at the Panama
Pacific international Exposition,
corresponding to the wonderful
Midway" in Chicago, will be one
of the most marvellous and attrac-
tive sections of the exposition. Many
of the amusements will be present
ed for the first time and will be no
table not only for their great size
and artistic excellence but also be-
cause they are selected with a view
to their educational value. The
art of presenting cycloramas and
dioramas upon an elaborate scale
has advanced rapidly in the past
few years and the exposition will
present the worlds progress in this
respect.
The number of applications for
concessions is said by Mr.. Frank
Burt, the Director of Concessions,
to be totally unprecedented in the
history of Expositions. So far more
than six thousand applications for
concessions have been received and
seventy FIVE applications, involving
an expenditure of S6,S0OO0O, have
been accepted. The remainder are
rapidly undergoing the scrutiny of
experts. Applications from all por-
tons of America and Europe are
increasing. Ideas for striking feat
ures or novelties are welcomed.
More than seven thousand peo-
pie, it is estimated, will be employ
ed in the concessions district and
between ten and twelve million dol
lars will be spent in installation in
the concessions division when the
exposition is under way
Director Burt has received hun
dreds of suggestions for naming
the main streets of the Concession
section. Chicago had the Midway"
ST. Louis The Pike" Portland
THE Trail, and Seattle the PAY
Streak"
The Concessions and Admissions
Committee is seriously considering
adopting a name that will be signi-
hcant OF the completion of the
Panama Canal, which is to be cele-
brated in this city in 1915. Among
the names suggested are "The
Locks THE Canal" THE Zone"
and "The Isthmus,' and the Ditch
1t has been suggested that the
gates of the concessions district be
replicas of the great locks at Ga
tun, and the entrance be made
through "Spillways" and during Ex-
position hours the locks will open
like huge gates to admit spectators.
The whole concessions district
will be three thousand feet in
length and will run through the
center. of the concessions district,
sixty-hve acres in area.
Half way along the length of the
thoroughfare will lie the superb
plaza of Wonders" an area of
25O-3O0 feet. Surrounding the plaza
will be buildings of impressive Ro-
man architecture, in which will be
housed many amusement novelties.
Here also will be located a great
band stand, the sub-offices of the
Division of Concessions, and a FIRE
station where methods of preserving
life will be illustrated.
In the decorative scheme around
the plaza will be 10000 lights,
rendering it the glory sport of the
night life of the Exposition. In
the center of the plaza will be the
highest flag pole in the world,
giant flag staff donated by the City
of Astoria, 246 feet high and over
five feet in diameter at its base.
The Concessions section" said
Director Burt, will be one of the
most brilliant and attractive sec
tons of the Exposition. The con
cessions will be notable not only
for their great size and splendor
and artistic excellence of their pre-
sentation, but also for the fact that
they are being selected with view
to their educational value"
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