The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-22
Panama Exposition Ahead
of It's Building Schedule
San Francisco Promises Have the Show All Complete by
Opening Time Next Year...Mniature Canal One
of the Features of the Fair

1UST inside the Golden Gate on the
shores Of Hsrbor View, San Fran.
cisco. the great steel and concrete
buildings Of the Panama Pacific
Exposition are rising. Out Of sprawiins
scafRoldins and ugly webs Of steel rises
here and there . shining dome or grace
full arch. Slowly the whole Ia taking on
the form conceived by the master archi-
tects to commemorate the completion
Of the canal.
This building OF an exposition. rearing
q city Of light and wonder. u an I'm
mense undertaking. and often frausht
with dlsa ppointment. But the managers
Of the San Francisco fair have shattered
all the precedents--they are ahead Of
their schedule. and now, year from the
opening on February q. 1915. can prom.
ise that II will be done on time.
Never had an exhibition 30 ideal .
setting. Looking out across tho blue
waters Of San Francisco Bay one sees
the wide expanse Of the Golden Gate
with the great Pacific beyond. the steep
hills OF Marin county rising higher and
higher. back to where old Mount Tamai-
pals rears his fog clad peak into the sky.
On the west are the cypress and euca.
lyptus groves Of the Preside military
reservation, and to the south the hills
Of the city.
On the wide expense Of the bay will
take place the nrst international event
Of tn exposition. the assembling Of bat
tleships Of the navies Of the world. and
1t is fitting that what will make 1t pos
slble for them to be there is the event
that occasioned the exposition - the
opening Of the Panama Canal.
Inese ships will gather OF Hampton
Roads and after a review by the Presi-
dent Of the United States will proceed
south and sail through the great ditch
to the waters OF the Pacific. Then up
the coast they will 60 to the Golden
Gate, where they will arrive by the time
the exposition opens, In February. 1915.
One OF the features of the exposition
will be a reproduction Of the canal 500
feet long. with locks and dams and
other things which have become ia
miliar to all in this country. even
though they never saw a canal them
selves. Moving through the miniature
canal will be small vessels on which II
one has the inclination one may ride.
From the bay the exposition will look
almost like single immense building
stretching along the waterfront but on
nearer view II will be seen that TIE
great central buildings are divided by
courts filled with seml-tropicai plan $
among which fountains rise, long la
goons and esplanades with ststuary set
about them. and overhead slender
minarets and graceful domes and flags
whipping In the breeze.
or all this now only the Palace of
Agriculture, the largest building Of all.
il completed. This structure covers
more than nine acres and II 90 lofty
that an aeroplane has been flown In
side. Within . month three more Of the
eleven main buildings will be completed.
and Charles c. Moore. president Of the
exposition, predicts that on July l. eight
months before the opening, all Of the
200 buildings will be ready To receive ex-
hihits.
The promoters Of the exposition are
satisfied with the show ing that will be