Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-19
PRECEDENT WILSON TO TOUGH
BUTTON AND START WHEELS
OF MACHINERY.
GREAT SHOW NOW 100
PER CENT COMPLETE
Everything in Readiness For Reception
Of Visitors - Grounds Located on
Water Front and Entire Plan Of
! Buildings Most ompact-conceived
in 1904 to Celebrate Canal Opening.


spark of enormous potential, jumping
across the continent. will open the
Panama Pacific international EXPOSE
ton at noon tomorrow. Pacific coast
time.
In the White House at Washington,
the president will press button and
the aerials Of the great government
radio station at Arlington will snarl
and splutter. The vibrations will be
received an infinitesimal fraction Of
a second later by commercial station
on the shores Of San Francisco bay,
where they will be relayed by wire to
a receiving instrument on the exposi-
ton grounds.
AS soon as the signal is received, the
wheels will begin to turn and the
fountains to play; the gates will swing
open and a procession Of citizens, with
the mayor at their head, will march
on to the grounds.
At the same time, President Charles
c. Moore, of the exposition company.
will inform President Wilson by word
of mouth, over telephone line al
ready set up and waiting, that the
wireless flash has been received and
he exposition Is open. In return
President Wilson will send his greet
,ngs and good wishes. Thus the two
latest modes Of long distance COM
munication will be employed to vivify
he fair. Ceremonies Of dedication and
acceptance as brief as it Is possible to
make them will follow.
Hundred Per Cent Complete.
After the outbreak OF the European
war there sprang up rumor that the
exposition would not open. AS q mat
ter of fact, the exposition stands to-
day 100 per cent complete, free Of debt
and with forty-one foreign nations
participating, Of which twenty have
built pavilions of their own. England.
Germany, Austria and Russia, among
the belligerents. are not officially rep
resented. altho various of their COM
mercial organizations have seen to it
that they should not be wholly left
out Of mind. France, Italy and japan
one states and territories under the
Gag Of the United States. Canada and
Australia, under the British flag, both
have buildings.
When the management says the eX-
position Is 100 per cent complete, 1t is
speaking OF its own activities. It does
not mean that every concessionaire
has driven the last nail, or that every
exhibitor has been punctual to the
minute. But the unavoidable delays
Incident upon the disarrangement Of
commerce wrought by the war and the
.ardiness Of individuals are negligi-
ble fringe on the outlying edges Of the
general plan. Structurally speaking.
chat part Of the exposition built out of
it's own funds and wholly under the
control Of Its own directors was fin
'shed six months ago.
Grounds on Water Front.
The grounds lie on the water front,
adjoining the United States military
reservation known as the Preside. fac
ing San Francisco bay and its islands
20 the east. with the Golden Gate WISH
BILE in the west. and the bold head
lands of Marin county, running back
to the blue peak OF Mount Tamalpais
on the northern horizon. Southwark
lie the crested hills Of the city. APP
proach may be had either by ferry
rom the cities trimming the bay, or by
trolley car and motor bus from the
city Of San Francisco.
Having In mind this setting, the
architects chose ground plan which,
by opening up as many vistas as pos
sible. thru q succession Of inter-com-
municating courts, should make the
largest use Of the surrounding natural
beauties and by the freest employment
Of mural color ever attempted in mod
ern architecture. should blend with
the changing tints Of the bay and glow
in the brilliant sunshine.
The many domes are done In trans
parent green's and dull ashes of roses
The broad stretches OF mural expanse
are granted and stained to the texture
and color Of italian travertine. Where
the statuary has has not been wrought
from the same material, It has been
finished a soft bun. or burnt orange.
Many Of the colonnades and panels Of
che towers have been daringly treated
with Oriental brilliancy Of prismatic
color.
Most Compact Ever Built.
The site and plan of tho exposition
have made 1t the most compact ever
built. 1t occupies 635 acres, of which
fifty have been devoted to horticul-
tural display. Liberal use OF palms,
shrubbery, vines and trees has been
made to relieve and. diversity long