Imperial Valley press., 1914-08-31
GETTING READY FOR
BIG EXPOSITION


japanese carpenters arrived at the San
Diego exposition grounds this week
and started work on the Kyoscn-Kai,
the frge outdoor exhibit of Japan
and Formosa, supplementing the in
drstrial exhibit of the Orient in the
3oreigr arts building-the largest of
the foreign exhibits.
"This will be the most typical Jap
arese display ever shown in the occi-
dent" said S. Watanabe. who is direct
ing both indoor and outdoor displays.
"We will bring our best artists and
artisans and craftsmen to San Diego.
and I'll through the year they will be
active-not simply displaying Japan
csc goods, bat weaving the finest silks
50 car~ing woods and iyories Of
Japan as only the japanese can do
such work. The hemp making, prosaic
enough ordinarily, becomes extremely
interesting when it is shown in detail
the way in which the hemp is pre-
pared and gradually worked into fin
ished products"
The other side of Japanese life, in
The gardens, will dominate in Kyosen-
Kai, the dainty exhibit adjoining the
bontanical gardens. Attendants there
viii Le mainly girls from Japan and
Formosa. The other big Asian ex-
hibit is the tea plantation of SiI
Thomas Upton, a short distance up
the Alameda, where gardeners, labor
crs and attendants will be men and
girls from Ceylon, growing, preparing
and serving the first tea raised in the
United States.
Passage of the first ship through
Tie canal brought to the San Diego
exposition numerous congratulatory
telegrams from different sections of
the East and West. A prime object
Of the exposition beautiful in south
ern California is to show the import
ance TO the West in the furnishing
of low freight rates to the ports, or
which San Diego is the first and the
development of railroads to carry
goods back and forth between tide
water and the interior The formal
opening of the canal will be on Jan
uary !, the day on which San Diego
will open its all-year celebration.
Several women and children from
the Idiefonso Pueblo arrived this wee,
at San Diego and took up their quar-
ters in the painted desert" which
their raves have beer building fo~
seycr7l weeks. They have added ma
terialy to the interest of the pre-
exposition visitors, for whose enter
tainmCnt they have been weaving rugs
and making pottery and hammering
cut metal ornaments. These indus
tries will constitute one of the i'm
porta9t features Of the 1915 exposi-
tion, when the real life of the Ameri-
can red man Of many tribes will be
lived on the desert" Of the exposi-
ton grounds. A large detachment Of
the Indians will arrive after the crop
season.
The great Taos and huni Pueblos
are about completed, their adobe walls
discoored in imitation Of the ancient
structures in New Mexico and Arizona.
The row Of low adobe houses and the
reconstructed governors palace" are
ready for occupation, and the kivas,
or half-buried ceremonial chambers
nccess to which is obtained by lad
Ger leading downward from an open
ing N the thick adobe roof, are wait
ing Cor the first Of the war-dances.
While the exhibit stands on the
lsthmus, or amusement street, its ac-
ouraey is such that it may be classified
as a portion Of the ethnology exhibit.
the bulk Of which is in the great group
of permanent buildings by the west