Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1915-01-18
COMMUNICATION ON
SAN DIEGO FAIR
Large Attendance Of Opening Days
Start Merriment Which Will
Continue Through Year

With the tumult OF the opening
night and New Years day diminish
ing. the San Diego exposition has set
tied down for its all year run, with
activities scattered over the entire
space of GA acres. With the eXcep-
ton OF Nevada, whose large building
Is situated on the Alameda. the west
ern states have their buildings along
La Via de los Estados, on the lower
plateau, and from early morning I'M
I'll late at night there is open house
in all these buildings for the enter
tainmcnt of visitors from other sec
tions.
The main buildings are closed at
sunset, TO allow for the installation of
fresh exhibits. but along FL Prado, on
which they are located. and in the
various plazas there continue special
evening events in the way of con-
certs and parades until midnight when
the gates are closed. This rule did
not operate on New Years eve. II
was just at midnight that President
Wilson, in Washington. pressed the
telegraph key which officially opened
the Exposition, threw on all lights at
full voltage and set off the array of
fireworks at the lower end of the
Plaza de los Estados.
At that moment there broke loose
all the enthusiasm of the $4,000 people
who had been pouring through the
gates since sunset. Many in carnival
costume and all lightly clad for wand
ering about in the baImy climate of
New Years in southern California
The label Of noise which started then
did not end until nearly sunrise when
the crowd vanished, to come back for
the more dignified ceremonies of the
following day in which there figured
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
representing President Wilson. Sccre-
tary Lyman J. Gage. Count del Vale
de Salazar representing Alfonso XIII
of Spain, Gov. Johnson of California.
Gov. Spry of Utah, Lieut.. Gov. de Baca
of New Mexico, Rear Admiral #. p.
Howard. commanding the Pacific fleet.
John Barrett, director of the Pan
American Union. representing the Lat
in American nations and other celeb
rites.
On the following day came the mill.
! tary and naval parade in which there
were representatives OF all branches
of the army, the Fourth regiment of
/ u. S. marines which is stationed on
| the exposition grounds, the men of
the u. s. S. San Diego. Rear Admiral
Howard's flagship and a large array
of semi-military and civilian organiza-
tions. From Mexico came a military
detachment just now unconcerned
/ with the revolution in the republic
twenty miles away. From Portland.
Ore, came the Royal Rosarians with
their own band, the members Of the
society clad in white summer flannels.
From Utah and idaho came delega-
tions by special train, and the near
er states of the southwest sent their
representatives in imposing array.
On each Monday will be a special
ceremony for. one of the states of
the union. Jan. was Arkansas day;
week later came Delaware day, with
Jan. 1S set for the District Of Colum-
bia and Jan. 25 for Georgia. The pop
ulation of southern California is made
up largely of people who have come
from other states, and these local res
idents supply the nucleus for the state
day celebrations. All state societies
are fully organized for this purpose
Tho "Tsthmus" has achieved n not
able popularity. From sunset of De.
cember 81 1t has been crowded with
visitors swarming through the many
amusemcnts along its 5000 feet of
frontage. They have spent hours in |
the Painted Desert watching the |
Apache, the Hopi and Zuni and Ma |
vajo and other Indians at work in |
the varied arts and crafts. They have |
wandered about among the palms and |
banana trees and pineapple shops Of |
the Hawaiian village. listening to the !
singers and ultulele players and watch.
ing the hula dancers. They have |
strolled through the streets of ia
pan and the depths of underground |
Chinatown. and seen the other cur!osi.
ties Of what is asserted by San Diego
to be the greatest amusement street
In exposition history. The heavy at
tendance is the best index TO the jus.
tice of the boast.
Preparations for the Pacific fleet OF
the United States to welcome Presi.
dent Wilson and the Atlantic feet
when the chief executive and the great
international armada come through
the Panama canal in March. are going
rapidly forward The west coast fleet,
made up of the flagship San Diego,
under Rear Admiral Thomas b. How.
ard, the cruisers Colorado and South
Dakota, nine torpedoboat destroyers,
and four submarines, will mobilize nj