The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-07-24
SOME SPACE LEFT
ON THE "ISTHMUS'
(Special to the Silver State.)


inquiry is being made regarding con.
cesions at the San Diego exposition
and so many requests are coming in
tor space in which to make exhibits,
that it is evident already that there
will be more good attractions applying
than can get space. The Isthmus
which will be the feature correspond
ing to the famous Midway Plaisance
of the Chicago exposition, will be fill
ed with a bewildering variety of fea-
lures, some of which will differ from
any that the visitors will have seen
before. 1t will be understood, of
course, that the Isthmus will be
merely a side show; that it will en-
brace the lighter amusement features.
But it will be aglow with lights. color,
music, festivity and gaiety. Sad and
solemn people who do not wish to lose
their melancholy moods should steer
clear of the Isthmus, for there they
will encounter fun and fooling; mines.
mimics and mountebanks; playlets,p
tomimes and parodies; mystical spec
tacles and an infinite variety of in
nocent amusement which will amuse
the elders and delight the children. Not
every caterer to the fun-loving public
will be granted a concession on the
1sthmus; only those who can satisfy
the management of the exposition of
the real merit of their shows will be
allowed to stage their features where
none but the best is desired.
In view of applications which have
been made at the Washington office, it
is suggested here that applicants for
space at the exposition for any pur-
pose should apply direct to the Pana-
ma California exposition, San Diego,
where full information can be had
A month ago it was stated at the
executive Offices of the exposition that
one-third of the space on the Isthmus
had ben signed up, and that in the
main exhibit buildings space equal to
100000 square feet had been reserved
by exhibitors. Applications are com
ing in daily, from domestic and for
eign exhibitors. IT would be difficult
at this time to say what features will
be the most interesting, whether the
arts and manufacturers of Europe or
those from China. India and Japan; or
whether the archaeological and authro-
biological exhibits illustrating the rise
of man from savagery to civilization
will constitute the most absorbing
features of a show which will have
more moved characteristics than any
other similar exposition ever held.
This much is certain, that the whole
world of art, science, invention and
adventure is being drawn on with a
lavish hand to make up the greatest
educational exhibit ever seen.
Everyone knows something of what
the world is doing; how science has
ben advancing with great strides in
the solving of those mysteries which
have baffied mankind for thousands
of years; how the mastery of the air
is all but achieved; how man has
learned to navigate the depths of the
, sea; how the treasures in the earth
are being searched out; how the stars
are being counted and weighed and
even analyzed by the aid of their
spectra. Even the monuments and in
scriptions of long forgotten peoples
are being discovered and their stories
deciphered. The Tower of Babel has
been discovered and the seat of the
kings of Ninevah has been found and
the forgotten tales of their triumphs
revealed. The temples of Yucatan,
the sacrifcial altars of the Incas, the
cliff dwellers' cities in our own south
west, the innumerable reminders of
civilizations that have vanished as the
moisture from a fugitive shower is
dried up by the desert winds, all are
yielding stories more absorbingly in
teresting than fiction to the scientists
who are delving into their mysteries.
And the results of all this endeavor,
carried on at cost that would make
kings ransom look like aims to a
blind beggar, will be yours to gaze
upon with the eve of appreciation
when you visit the San Diego exposi-
tion in 1915.
AS things are reckoned in such big
enterprises, year and half is but a
short time to wait before the gates
of the exposition shall be thrown open
on a completed task; but President d.
C. Collier has stated that already is
the work of the exposition so far
along that it would be possible, were
it desirable, to open the gates to the
public one year before the official date
for the opening: In other words, the
exposition could open, provided the
exhibitors show as much industry and
energy as has been shown by the man
agement, on January l, 1914, instead
of on the official date one year later
To go into details regarding the work
already accomplished would require
much space. Sutnee it to say that
those who, visiting San Diego, inspect
the exposition site, express surprise al
the extent of the enterprise and the
advancement made in the work. They
also are astonished at the pluck anf
enterprise of the people of. San Diego
in themselves furnishing the millions
of dollars needed for the construction