The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-09-09
COL. COLLIER AT
NATIONS CAPITAL
Especial to the Silver state.)

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-The ar
rival in Washington last week of the
dynamic president of the San Diego
exposition, Col. d. G. Collier, gave an
impetus in the capital to exposition
affairs. Col. Collier plunged imme-
diately into conferences with govern
ment officials who are interested in the
great San Diego 1915 exposition, but
he smilingly insisted hat he was not
prepared to be interviewed regarding
the details of those conferences.
cit is a fact he said, "that i'm
portant developments are constantly
under way, and that we shall have a
splendid representation of govern
mental activities in various lines at
the exposition. These will be things
in which the entire public is vitality
interested. For instance, do you
know just how the government de-
termines how many billions of bae-
terra there are in a cubic centimeter
of milk, or of meat, and how many
there may be without rendering eth
er injurious as food9 | might find it
somewhat difficult to explain it to
you, but at the San Diego exposition
tHlS Will Dc demonstrated SO IUdI even
a child may see and understand.
"And that gives you the keynote of
the exposition. 1t viii visualize things
for you. 1t will show you how things
are lone. People like to see things in
the doing and the making. Thereby
they get instruction. Did you ever see
a man or a maid in a show window,
doing some simple thing, and with an
audience limited in size only by the
space afforded for standing room
You get the idea9 Action, something
doing, will attract a crowd every time,
even though il be only an old dar-
key whitewashing a fence. Someone
will stop and try to tell him how to
do it BETTER
The colonel was asked what the
railroads were doing to promote the
success of the exposition.
I'm addition to making the lowest
rates that have ever been known, as
we believe they will do replied
President Collier, "they are going TO
do something in the exhibition line
on their own account. To illustrate,
the Santa Fe has just entered into an
agreement with me to expend $780, 900
on a splendid exhibit, which will give
people some idea of the great country
through which its lines run. Part of
the display will be an Indian camp or
village, and there will also be one of
the finest collections of curios ever
fshown.'
"And how is work progressing on
the San Diego exposition?'
cit is far ahead of schedule. The
buildings, many of which will be per
manent additions to the city, are go
ing up rapidly, some are already com
pleted, and the grounds are graded
and practically laid out h. our land
seape artists who have already plant
ed many trees where they are to re-
main permanently.
eve believe that we shall have the
most beautiful exposition city, if not
the largest, that has ever been Great
ed. In the first place, the cream
eolored buildings in Spanish renais-
sance, with the red tiled roofs such
as the padres put on the old missions;
the belfries, towers and arched clois-
tiers, will be most highly picturesque
and artistic. Mr.. Bertram Goodhue,
who has specialized in this style of
architecture and who has done much
large work for the government, has
supervised this work. In the second
place we shall nave the most elaborate
floral setting for the exposition that
has ever been seen on this continent;
and when | say that, you will better
understand that it is said in all SER