Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-03-13
Prediction Made Panama Pacifi Expo
siion Will Be Completed Half
Year Before Opening.
RECORD BROKEN BY WORKERS
ENGAGED IN PREPARATIONS
Something About Building which Are
Nearly Completed or Are in Process
of Construction.
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san francisco, March 13.-The Pa.
nama-Pacific exposition will be com.
pleted eight months before the date
of its scheduled opening-February %,
1915. This was the promise made here
today by its directors.
San Francisco has just turned her.
self loose along the two-mile waterfront
of the nearly completed enchanted
city," She filled the entire day and
part of night with jubilation, sports,
a naval display, races, oratory, grand
opera and bombilation of cannon, be.
cause she had made another world
record.
The jubilee was celebrated among thu
nearly completed towering places with
their marbled domes and their half.
completed parks and gorgeous gardens.
And it was called forth by the Ger.
tainty that everyone of the mammoth
exhibition palaces-each one covering
from five to ten acres-and every lake
and fountain and avenue and garden
and all the minor palaces of the ex-
position will be completed and ready
for occupancy just eight months before
the opening day. The record which the
hustling Californians have broken IS
this: The Panama.Pacific exposition
will be ready, not merely on time but
long before; and since no other world 5
fair has been ready till long afterwards,
this was considered reason a-plenty for
its creators to jump up and crack their
collective heels together.
One year before its opening day, the
S5O,O00,0O0 show place was a little more
than so per cent finished. The first
of the gigantic buildings to be complet-
ed was the palace of machinery-the
largest wooden building ever construct
ed. Its completion was celebrated last
December by the first indoor aeropane
flight ever made, when Lincoln Beachey
flew the length of its 1000 foot naves
under its roof of Pompeiian red. The
next building to be completed was th1
huge palace of education and social
economy. This will be followed by the
completion early this month Of the
palaces of agriculture varied industries
and mines and metallurgy. These al
ready are rooted and domed and the
Travertine marble coating of the ex
terror walls is finished.
The palaces of manufactures, trans
pOrtation, food products and liberal art,
will be finished not later than June /
Last to be completed will be the two
most beautiful structures of all-th.
crystal palace Of horticulture, with its
glass dome, l52 feet in diameter--thC
largest dome in the world--and tn,
palace Of fine arts, which, built of en-
during steel and cement, will extend il
semi-lunar form nearly quarter of {
mile along fOrest.bordered wilderness
lake.
Under the dome of this building ant
dominating The whole display Of statu
AIRY, will be the first statue ever erected
TO motherhood, the contribution of th
Pioneer Mothers association of Cali
fornia. This building will house th
largest loan collection Of paintings
mostly modern, from Europe and Anne
rica, ever assembled at an exposition
1t was estimated today that 6O,0O
exhibitors will be represented in thes
various exhibit palaces, Three time
as much space for displays from all owe
the world has been applied for as tn
j palaces can accommodate. No es
hibit not manufactured or produce
within the past 10 years will be receive
in competition for prizes.
1t is planned to make the exhib
unique in many respects. For exampl,
practically all the exhibits even il
Guiding those having TO do with educi