The chronicle=news., 1914-06-27
News Of the World from
{ San Francisco--lmportant
Happenings at the Panama
Pacific Internat'l Exposition


Thomas @. Ssalltmith, United
States commissioner for the Panama
Pacific international exposition to
the Orient andsstraits settlements.
has returned from an eight months
circle Of the globe and as the result
Of his visit the following nations
have accepted the invitation of the
president of the United States to par
tieipate and have appropriated the
sums named for the purpose: China.
$500, 900: Australia. 100000;
New Zealand. s25O.O0o; Philippine
Islands, 5000. 900; Cochin and Indo
China, 100000; Java. $25O.oOO. and
Siam, 100000.
The king of Siam will be repre-
sented at the Panama-Pacifc inter-
national exposition by his brother.
Raiani. and he will send also n sa-
cred white elephant, Siamese dane
ing girls and other features typical
of the nation. A battalion of Siam
ese troops In to attend and the Off
GERS will be carried in the kings pri-
vate yacht. .,-t.- -.
Dallas. Texas, ia the first city Off
cially to enter an aerOplane in the
aviation race of
the Panama. Pacific international ex-
position. Captain J. II. Worden.
aviator now with the Mexican fed
eral army, Is to be the pilot and
the machine is called 1.-The Dallas. F"
The city has agreed to build the ma
chine and will back his flight with
$25O,OOO He is the first aviator to
participate with his machine in ac-
tual warfare in the western hemi-
sphere.
Ground was broken on the site of
the Ohio building of the Panama-Pa-
cific International exposition on June
II. The Ohio site adjoins the site of
the Illinois building.
The Vanderbilt cup and the Grand
Prix automobile races have been
granted to the Panama-Pacific inter-
national exposition for 1915. Hollis
E. Cooley, chief of special events OF
the exposition, and w. l.. Hughson.
chairman Of the racing committee,
have returned from New York City.
where they made the necessary pre-
liminary arrangements for the races.
General Loynaz del Castillo, Gu
ban exposition commissioner. has in
formed the department Of horticul-
ture of the Panama Pacific interna-
tional exposition that Cuba will send
specimens of all its principal floral
species and that special ship will
be chartered for the purpose and
will come through the Panama ca
nal, landing its>cargo directly at the
exposition grounds.
An A. I. thriller at the Ranama-
Pacific international exposition Will
he the Horoscope" a huge inverted
pendulum. which will lift sightseers
$50 feet, in the air, seven stories
higher than the Flatiron building,
New York, and even higher than the
famed ferris wheel at the Worlds
Columbian exposition at Chicago.
Visitors will sit comfortably in great
cars on their aerial iaunts.
German art is to be represented
at the Panama-Pacifc international
exposition by the most comprehen-
sive collection of modern art that has
been sent from that nation to any
exposition. A cablegram has been
received by the chief of the fine arts
department stating that 400 paint
ings in oil. full share OF sculpture.
blacks and whites and process pic
lures will be included in the ex-
hibit ..
Old Nuremberg. of interest to the
student because of its historical as
sociation, will be found in the zone"
Mt the Panama-Pacific international
exposition at San Francisco in 1915.
This will be an exact copy of Nu-
remberg, the romantic village of
Franz Halls time. where robber bar
ons held the world at bay. Another