The Washington herald., 1915-02-09
TSGRANDEUR
IS BROUGHT EAST
Lecturer Pictures San Fran
cisco's Wonders at Wood
ward & Lothrop's.
SHOWS u. S. GREATNESS
Panama-Paci6c Exposition Speaker
Says Big Show Will Open
Visitors Eyes.

/ The West was brought East yesterday
when Frederick Vining Fisher. manager
I OF the bureau of lectures of the Panama
| Pacific Exposition, gave his illustrated
| talk on Our Own America" in Wood
ward & Lothrop's auditorium. He de.
! sCTibed in glowing words the wonders of
| the Land of Sunsets and the City Of
! Dreams-California and San Francisco.
You Fasteners think that the little
original thirteen colonies up along the
| Atlantic coast make up America" said
! Mr. Fisher. There will be several thou
sand Fasteners who will have their eyes
opened this year when they go West.
| The Panama Pacific Exposition is sure
to transfer the center of population OF
the United States from the Atlantic coast
to the Pacific. San Francisco is not a
national. but an International city, and
all who go West this year will learn
| that greater than the exposition itself
are the things that city stands for
Canal Slides Delayed.
Through a delay in the shipping ar
rangements Mr.. Fishers collection of
views of the Panama Canal had not ar
+ rived yesterday afternoon. However. his
fine collection of lantern slides in colors
was shown, picturing the beauties OF
Yellowstone National Park, the Grand
Canyon of Arizona, and the other garden
spots of the West When the lecture is
repeated today and tomorrow the slides
of Panama will be shown.
Mr.. Fisher introduces his description
and portrayal of the exposition by show
ing the ways of approaching the city. In
the routes he describes Yellowstone
Park. the Grand Canyon and the
Panama-CaIifornia Exposition at San
Diego are included as stopping places.
AS Mr.. Fisher carries his audience
H,,V
these places one cannot help feeling
a growing desire to take the trip and
actually see the things of which the
lecture gives glimpses. Enthusiasm
creeps into the heart of the most
world-weary listener.
Both by motion pictures and by
weIl-colored lantern slides the beau
ties of the canyons, the lake, the
geysers, the animals, the mountains,
and the sunsets of Yellowstone Park
are shown. At the Grand Canyon an
impression of the majestic splendor of
what Mr.. Fisher calls the greatest
thing in the world and made in
America" is conveyed.
Incidentally bits of Indian life are
shown-the last of the tribes living as
they have for thousands of years, the
squaws weaving blankets and an In
dian mother washing her bare brown
baby under a modern water faucet.
California the Goal.
The goal and climax of these pic
lures is California, which Mr.. Fisher
describes as IAN empire in itself" AL
though the delights of that State have
been cried aloud many times. Mr..
Fisher succeeds in making the appeal
of it's attractions felt again. a Wash
ington audience could not be expected
to applaud San Francisco as the
worlds greatest city, but the fact that
the lecturer aroused jealousy testifies
to the power of his description.
When Mr.. Fisher set forth the mag
nificence OF the exposition as il stands
today the audience allowed itself to
express it's appreciation. There was
no doubt left at the close of the lee
ture that the City of Dreams has been
built and stands at the Golden Gate
in the Land of the Sunset.
The lecture is free and everybody
is invited to attend this afternoon and
tomorrow afternoon. No cards are
necessary.