The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-02-23
HONOLULU S.
GREETING TO.
COMMUNICATIONS From Mayor
,Laneti Ioaisayor Rolph On Y
Opening ctthe Big Fair
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MESSAGES FROM COAST
REPORT BIG DAY
President Opened the Fair Across
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Honolulu yesterday sent its Official
greetings to San Fyansiseo on the Oe-
casion 81 tBe opening Of the Panama.
Paeihe International Exposition. The
me; sage Of good win was sent by Mayor
John &. Lane and addressea To Mayor
James RdlpR Ok San Frfneiseo. w y. I
Here Is the messages WHICH was sent
BY THE iMareoth wireless company SO
ms tSgressh san Francisco about noon,
Just 81 the big expositfonswu opening:
ZION. Jafhos nolpha4syisrd ~ '.Es
last Mayor, exn JErzncisco:' ~
HHon6IdIH sends aloha to San
Franeis06qr May yo61 tity harvest
the fonasii oppoftnnftyl success
sid Thereby fttofdnthe Panama
Pasi9tp 1ntsrnnlI01ulE Exposition as
the gfeats3f ana the best achieve.
Inent Of ne goldens Gate Btsts,
nrs1 J0HN'Os LANE, Mayor.
Pcnnafit Raised Here a
In another ny Hoh6lnlu also OBJ.
served the aexpesi1iSa opening yester.
dave Pronptlys af nfhe1fofty o'clock
Yesterday nornlhkru HouoIalu time,
whieh was noon az San francisco, John
FtaIturn unfufled. to thee breeze the
oi5eisl renBa6t Of the panama Pacific
TnterRationall Expbsition. VT win float
IRON the main flagstaff Oh the Kapio-
lnhi building Throughout the present
cafnivaff The pehnant is surmounted
BY the Ansfiean. nag, with the Hawa-
nan standard below The peHnant was
sent 10 Mr.. Colbhrif some time ago by
Persistent Moofe 81 The Panama Pacific
Exfsaffion. ana me kept il to be used
ifi HonoInla yesterday to signalize the
-Upeaihk Of ahssexpositiSn that gives
promise OF proving 6f,snbstaAtial valne
10 9Ioholulh. u WAS the only Panama
Pasi6e pehnant to b raised here yes
BriIlisnt Opening Despite weather
Adyiees ny the Associated Press and
d Special nl6Aage to 4fnaper Maddams
Of tie Fedesal Wireless Telegraph Com.
pany, received yesterday, show that the
Bay City experienced similar weather
to Honoffln "a the formal launching Of
its festiyitiest However, hike Honolulu,
the spirit df the populAee could not be
lampehed by moisture, and within the
ffst two h6drs after the tnrtistiles were
nr45ekad more thnn $50, 900 persons had
Passed into etbe big 1915 exposition, a
stapenfons york eomplete In every de-
taiIs anil representing an expenditure Of
more than eight million dollars. This
includes 93,DD0,O00 1T which the sixty
th01safdySeparate exhibits are valued.
There are foftylonst foreign nations
taxing part In the exposition, together
i..<tT - :, n, .-i.s Ga. - a. TIto,
The exhitits are distributed along for.
ty-seven miles of aisles.
The attehdanee on the opening day
sets d new record id the history Of
world Is fAifs. 'ea' ~ bgE @s.... .-s=
secretary Zane Attendst j. y.
Ffanklin X Lane, secretary of the
interior, Nllol begaff ing political career
in California, acted an the personal
representative eofsPresident Wilson at
TIE openinf exercises. aGoSernor John
SON Of California ana Governor Boyle
Of Nevada, together with members of
both the California and Nevada legis,
atureA, also attended. MemBsrs of the
mum, ifai governments of practically
every city in the State also attended.
Secretary lane, aoR behalf of Presi.
dent Wilson, extended congratulations
to San FraPeiseo for the e0mpletion of
one OF the biggest sundertakiogs in the
History ofsfhe city, an enterprise that
took more than Ave years TO eompl te
ind was stsFted before the ashes of the
DESTROYED city had eooIed .t-. g.
Pfesidentfal Opening ~ 4. .aek
Though Pfesident Wilson was not in
attendafce, frSihF hiss ofiee in the White
House three thousand miles away he
rfessed button, Sending a witve prae-
tiealiy across the continent that set in
motion thr machinery Of the great ex,
position. This event wss described in
full by 4 wire ess message received by
MANAGER Madslams Of the Federal Wire.
LEES Telegraph yesterday. Ii follows
President Presses the Button % FL
! gfsa When a small button was pressed
~ President Woodrow Wilson at the
White House today be connected az
electric eircnit over telegraph line ID
the radio telegraphie station now being
operated BY the United States navy de
raftnient at Ttckerton, New Jersey
This automatically worked the relay
key in the Tuekerton station and in
.stantly powerful electric waves, gen
Grated by Federal Telegraph Company
radio Apparatus, started from the I'm
msnse aefials Of this plant, reaehini
s35 feet into the air, ON their Ions
Journey Of over 5000 miles across tn,
american continent, over the greai
plains OF the Middle West, the Rocky
Mountains and the Sierras, until fnalI,
tIhsy reached San Ffaneiseo. The wire
less waves were received at the fai
grounds on two long antennae wire
stretched frAn the Tower Of Jewels
approximately -four hundred feet in TIL
air From these the electric eurren
WIS conveyed by Insulated wires to tn
extremely delicate reseivIris npparatn
loeete.I 10 the gTanastand in 4 speeia
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