Semi-weekly herald., 1914-03-16
FRISCO EXPOSITION TO BE
READY AS PER SCHEDULE

SAN FRANCISCO, March a.
The Panama Pacific Exposition will
be completed eight months before the
date Of its scheduled opening-Feb-
ruary 30, 1915. This was the prom
Use made here today by its direct
ors.
San Francisco has just turned her
self loose along the two-mile water
front of the nearly completed ZEN
chanted city" She filled the entire
day and part of the night with jub-
latioh, sgorts, a naval display, races
oratory, grand opera and bombilation
Of cannon, because she had made an
other world record
The jubilee was celebrated amongst
the nearly completed towering palac-
es with their marble domes and their
half completed parks and gorgeous
gardens. And it was called forth by
The ceftalnty that everyone of the
mammoth exhibition palaces each
one covering from five to ten acres,
and every lake and fountain and ave.
nue. and garden and all other minor
palaces OF the exposition will be COM
plcted and ready for occupancy just
eight months before the opening day.
The record which the hustling Coli
fornians have broken is this: The
Panama Pacific exposition will be
ready, not merely on time, but long
beforei and since no other worlds
fair has been ready till long OTTER
| wards, this was considerable reason
for its creators to jump up and crack
their collective heels together.
One year before its opening day,
the s50,000,000 show place was a lit
lite more than 80 per cent finished.
The first of the gigantic buildings
to be completed was the palace of
machinery-th largest wooden build
ing ever constructed Its completion
was celebrated last December by the
first indoor aeroplane 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 the
huge palace Of Education and Social
Economy This will be followed by
! the complet early next month Of
the palaces of Agriculture, Varied
Industrics and Mines and MataIlurgy.
These already are rooted and domed
and the 'ravcrtine marble coating Of
the exterior wall is finished.
The Palaces of Manufacturers,
Transportation, Food Products and
Liberal Arts will be finished not later
than JurG /. Last to be completed
will be the two most beautiful struc-
lures Of all the crystal palace of
Horticulture, with its glass dome, 1852
feet in lameter--the largest dome In
the word-and the palace of Fine
| Arts, which, built Of enduring steel
and cement, will extend in semi-lun-
ar form nearly quarter of mile
along q forest-bordered wilderness
lake
! Under the dome of this building,
and dominating the whole display OF
statuary, will be the first statue ever
erected TO motherhood, the contribu-
tion Of TIE Pioneer Mothers associa
tion Of California. This building will
house the largest loan collection Of
paintings mostly modern, from Eur
ope and america ever assembled at
an exposition.
II was estimated that 10000 exhib-
itors will be represented in these var.
ious exhibit places, Three times as
much space for displays from all over
the world has been applied for as the
eleven palaces can accommodate. No
exhibit not manufactured or produced
within the past ten years will be re-
ceived in competition for prizes.
II was planned to make the exhibi,
unique in many ways. For example
practically all the exhibits, even in
cluding those having to do with edu-
cation. social economy. labor, horti
culture, fsctory products, will be dis
plays Of living processes--workins
models---a sort OF laboratory for ths
fourteen millions Of visitors who art
expected to come as students to thii
Universal University.
| Up to date 81 foreign nations hav,
elected to be represented official,
by pavilions and comprehensive ex
hibits: greater foreign representa-
ition than any previous exposition hal
been able to boast.
The vast interest aroused IN III