The Brinkley argus., 1913-05-30

shown at Americas Panama ceieDra- ton at San Francisco in 1915. Never will so many nations have paruci- hated in an international event Of the nations that take part, ana thls includes all the great powers, IL IS probable that each one will be more elaborately represented than at any exposition ever held outside of It's own boundaries. Twenty-eight TOT eign countries have already respond ed to President Taft's invitation. More than eight hundred leading exhibitors of the world have applied for exhip1t space and a number of the exhibits will range in value from $20o,0oo 10 s3O0. 900. more than two thousand ap- plications for concessions have been received. The responses snow the spirit of appreciation with which Americas sister nations regard the work at Panama.
 Display by Foreign Powers.
 The foreign powers will display all phases of their progress ct home and in their colonies. Mr. Harcourt, colon ial secretary of Great Britain, has addressed the governors of the self governing dominions, crown colonies and protectorates requesting them to consider the question of participation with the remark that the British dis play should be worthy of the British empire. Japan will expend $l,00O,00O upon its pavilion which, upon the conclusion of the exposition, will re- main as the gift of Japan to America. The pavilion and grounds, occupying five acres, will be located upon the United States Presidio military reser- vation immediately adjoining the ex- position site. Marquis de la Vega Inclan of Spain, who visited San Francisco, will arrange for wonder ful art exhibit to include the original paintings of the great Spanish mas ters and many historical trophies, tapestries, and rare pieces of sculp- ture. Holland will be represented upon a scale never equaled outside the Netherlands. France cabled San Francisco requesting twelve acres as the location of a superb exhibit pal ace to be built by France. China, newest of the world republics, is planning to show both the China of the past and that of the future. China and Japan, and indeed all far eastern lands within the sweep of the Pacific. are planning to take part in and pageants, during ten days fiesta in the fall of 1915. There will be assembled in these parades per. haps the greatest gathering of strange tribes and peoples of Oriental lands ever gathered in the Occident
 The Worlds BattIeships.
 When the exposition opens-Febru. ary 20, 1915--the nations of the world will, in actuality, officially come to San Francisco, for the battleships ot the world will be assembled off liar bor View, the exposition site, at that time. That a battleship is virtually the territory of the country it repre- sents is a fact widely recognized in the procedure of international law and so the nations of the world will as it were, gather at the western gate of America. More than two hundred foreign battleships will, it is known from unofficial advices. partic ipate in a series of spectacular maneu vers in San Francisco harbor in 1915
 Construction upon the exposition has long since begun. The service build ing. which will be the exposition head quarters, is completed. Machinery hall, the largest of the exhibit pal aces. will be the first of the great | buildings to be completed. This struc ture will be 967 feet long and 370 feet l in width; three great naves 122 feet high will run throughout it's length 1 from north to south Contracts upon all the main exhibit palaces, of which | there are fourteen. are being let al regular intervals and the highest | point of construction will be reached l next fall. All the main exhibit pal aces will be completed by June 25 1914, more than nine months before the exposition opens. All contracts are being let upon that basis The early completion of the buildings will