The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-15

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Vation by act of congress January Is
1917. eralded before the world by
p~res1dentia1 proclamation dated Febru-
AIRY z, 1912. as a universal exposition
TO which all nations were invited te
send exhibits and visitors. The act
ual construction work on the mair
buildings will begin in July of this
year and must be finished within one
year. The fleets OF all the great ma
tons will assemble in Hampton Roads,
Vlrglnl In January or February,
1915. Their commanders will be re-
celved in Washington by President
wilson,. The president will return to
Hampton Roads with them and there
Will review the greatest international
naval display in history. After which
the fleets will proceed to San Fran
cisco via the Panama canal. and the
fair will open February 20, closing
December q.
occasion, site and climate will COM
bine to help San Francisco make good
it's boast that the coming exposition
VIII be the best ever attempted. All
other worlds fairs have commemor-
ated some historic event of the past.
The Panama-Pacific international ex-
position will be a distinctive adjunct of
the opening of the Panam canal, an
event not only historic, not only Of
national Importance, but one of great
international moment and an event of
the world. The location of the fair
grounds on the shore of San Fran
cisco bay, with a frontage of over two
miles, facing the playground of the
naVles of the world as they do their
part in the exposition program, is an
advantage which no other fair has en-
Joyed in this country. The climate will
enable the exposition to stay open
from winter to winter. with a tenn
perature averaging So degrees
throughout the entire nine and one
half months. Fully half of hat time
the weather will be ideal for the
thousands of families who will live in
tents in the hooks around the bay
while they visit the fair in an easy
going fashion.
Eleven great palaces of exhibits will
be built-fine arts, education, social
economy, liberal arts, manufactures
and varied industries, machinery,
transportation, agriculture, live stock,
horticulture, mines and metallurgy.
They will form the center of the ex-
position, and will be connected by a
series of courts, the central one to be
500 by 900 feet. Green vines and
flowers will predominant instead of
the CHASTITY, unadorned, plaster walls
so common in previous expositions.
The foreign and state exhibits will
stretch along the shore. The Midway
of the Golden GHte, which will be the
amusement street, and other attrac-
lions of a similar nature, will be on
the other side and wilt reach almost
into town.
A great feature will be tina. the fair
Will be Selective and not collective.
Quality will be the aim, not quantity.
A new departure will be a palace de-
voted to social science in which will
be shown with great completeness the
progress of the world in the uplift of
humanity.
Correlative with the exposition will
be the first session of the Congress of
Confederated Nations Of the World. 1t
is planned to have only the greatest
men of thu world in that body, and
they will discuss the vital problems
of all nations. What more appropri-
ate time than the opening of the
W~atercourse which will unite the
worlds great maritime highways?
what better place than the city whose
enterprise brings the American people
face to face with the greater problems
and opportunities of the Orient and
Latin America? over so years e
William II. Seward said: ""The Prob
lens of the future are to be solved
upon the shores of the Pacific" These
conferences may prove preliminary
steps toward universal peace and a
world confederation.
San Diego's Panama-California ex-
position was born on August IS, 1909,
when G. A. Davidson, then president
OF the city chamber of commerce., as
sembled the directors and told them
That San Diego was the proper place
to mold a worlds fair to celebrate the
opening of the Panama canal.
The a Diego exposition easily will
rank with the Pan-American, the
Lewis and Clark, nj the Yukon fairs.
enthusiasts claim that it will far sur
pass them. Certainly, it will be more
unique n will have a richer setting,
The fair will cause an outlay of fully
$4,000 900. The citizens of San Diego,
a city of less than $4,000 people, raised
the sum of $4,000. 900 to start the pro-
Ject. Nearly SIS, 200, 900 is being spent
on a magnificent sea WALL. John D..
Spreckels is building the San Diego
n Arizona railway, a distance of 220
miles, on a new and lower grade.
Nearly $4,000, 600 will he spent in Bal
boa park, the magnificent domain of
l,4O0 acres in whose lap the exposition
Will be held. over II miles Of docks
and 1000 acres of reclaimed land for
and factory sites will be
ready to astonish the visitor when
the fair opens on January 1, 1916. The
exposition will last a whole year.
The exposition will be remarkable
Tor its distinctive features. One will
be the 80 acres of Spanish gardens.