Arizona republican., 1915-12-06
The Panama-Pacifio Exposition

The Panama Pacific Exposition which closed
midnight Saturday an existence ten
months in many respects the greatest
held. It is the that viii be the cordially
remembered br those who fortunate enough
10 have attended it and who had visited the other
great expositione reaching back to time of the
Worlds rair. In point of attendance the Fran
cisco exposition surpassed them al and it was the
only one That was financially successful.
What it might have been but for the European
he left conjecture. While there were
exhibits there from some of the warning countries,
France. belgium and Italy they a
character the progress of industries and
arts those countries within recent years. but
they Were, the most part, more or less hastily
collected exhibits interest was largely
artistic or historical and. Interesting they
they were in sense Indications Of the progress of
the countries they represented would have been
thc case if the war had not interviewed
The great countries of Germany and Great
Britain, world leaders in industry ana commerce
invention were without exhibits. Tie absence of
representation from them must nave had a dampen-
ing effect all the exhibiting countries There
had been such anticipation of such an effect
that it had been widely predicted the breaking
ont Of the war that the exposition would
to be abandoned. Pcrhe ps would aban-
doned if less progressive and energetic city
San Francisco had become the sponsor for its sue
and if the latter had already spent millions
in preparation
San francisco was determined that not only
should the exposition be but that it should
take rank with the foremost of the worlds great
shows, and deny that that determination
has been carried San Francisco especially
lends itself to the making of success of things it
undertakes. It's climate, its hospitable people
its surroundings would have made the exposition
successful with much less material ,han was
hand.
The decorative features. the buildings the
grounds and their picturesque location would have
obseured serious defects and gaps in the ex-
hibits. And there was never before such a man
agement the of such an enterprise
People who had visited Worlds Fair some
times made comparison between it and the
pansma- Pacific exposition invidious to the latter
They right in believing that there were brought
together at Chicago greater and wonders of
the world in existence than were
brought together San Francisco of the worlds
wonders Of this year. But it taken
account by those who instituted such comparison
that things which not been dreamed of
twenty-three years ago and which were seen at
Francisco had ceased to be regarded as wonders
The character of the people of this country had
been materially changed within the last tsventy4
three years. Since then people have moved about
more and have read than they did before the
beginning Of that period Many strange things too,
have been brought by moving pictures to the most
remote hamets until they have come to seem
familiar Thus the apparent touch of magic was
missing II San Francisco it will wherever the
next worlds great exposition may be held
And it will be q long before another will
be held that will be interesting and instructive
and that viii be pleasantly remembered as that
upon whose closing Saturday midnight the word
Farewell" written in letters on the sky.