The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-22
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| AHEAD OF Time
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Records by Not
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finished.
|1FTY MILLIONS SPENT
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IBy United Press.l

1891 .
SAN FRANCISCO. March 2l.-The
Panama Pacific exposition will be
ompleted eight months before the
late of its scheduled opening
,ry 20, 1915. This was the promise
made here today by its directors.
San Francisco has just turned her
self loose along the two-mile water
front of the nearly completed ZEN
chanted city" She filed the entire
day and part of night with jubila-
ton, sports, naval display, races.
oratory, grand opera and bombilation
Of cannon, because she had made an
other world-recoTt.
the nearly completed towering pal
aces with their marblsd domes and
their half completed parks and gor-
geous gardens. And 1t was called
forth by the certainty that every one
of the mammoth exhibition palaces
zach one covering from five to ten
acres-and every lake and fountain
and avenue and garden and all the
minor palaces Of the exposition will
be complete and ready for occu-
pancy 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 tima. but
long before; and since no other
worlds fair has been ready till long
afterwards, this was considered rea-
son plenty for its creators to jump
up and crack their collective heels to-
gether.
One year before its opening day,
the s5O,O0O,0O0 show place was
little mora than 80 per cent finished.
The first of the gigantic buildings to
be completed was the palace Of ma
chinery--the largest wooden building
ever constructed. It's completion was
celebrated last December by the first
indoor aeroplane fight ever made.
when Lincoln Beachey flew the length
of its 1000 foot naves, under its roof
of Pompeiian red. The nsxt building
to be completed was the huge palace
OF education and social economy.
This will be followed by the compile
ton early this month of the palaces
OF agriculture, varied industries and
mines and metallurgy. These already
are rooted and domed and the Trav-
ertine marble coating of the exterior
walls is finished.
The palaces of manufacturers.
transportation. food products and lib
eral arts will be finished not later
than June L. Last to be completed
will be tina two most beautiful struc-
lures OF all--the crystal palace OF
feet in diameter-the largest dome in
the world-and the palace OF fine
arts, which, built CT enduring steel
and cement, will extend in semi-lunar
form nearly quarter of a mile along
forest bordersd wilderness lake.
Under the dome of this building and
dominating the whole display of sta;
uary, will be the first statue ever
erected to motherhood, thu contribu-
ton of the Pioneer Mothers associa-.
ton of California This building will
house the largest loan coll sctions OF
paintings, mostly modern, from
Europe and America, ever assembled
at an exposition.
1t was estimated that $4,000 exhibit
ors will be represented in these vari-
GUS exhibit palaces. 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-
ceivsd in competition for prizes.
1t is planned to make the exhibit
unique in many respects. For example,
practically all the exhibits, even in
cludfng those having to do with edu-
cation, social economy. labor, horticul-
ture and factory products, will be
displays OF living processes-working
models-a sort Of laboratory for the
fourteen millions of visitors who are
expected to come as students to this
universal university
Up to date, thirty-four nat ons have
elected to be represented officially
10y pavilions and comprehensive ex-
htbits; greater foreign representa-
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