The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-03-04
BEAUTY OF Big
FAIR is TOLD
MANY TOURISTS SEE SAN FRANCISCO
Thousands See Exhibits, One of the Most
Interesting Of Which is Hood Rivers
Big Red Apple
(By Leroy Armstrong;

| eXhiblt on the grounds. The EXaminel
has a monster printing press, running
thousands of papers a minute, all il
four colors. There is plenty of space
about it, and-the crowd is'large, inter
ested and constant in size. About the
big apple - in another building, OF
course-there are as many people al
can see the interior, the beautiful re-
production sof Hood Rivers summer
panorama. They seem impressed with
IT, ask questions, and they remember
On street cars and In restaurants down
town | heard frequent comments on
the Hood River "big apple, and none
about the four-color printing press.
Linked with their admiration for the
novel in Mr.. Raviln's exhibit are com.
ments on the beauty of the valley. The
desire to see the district, TO have prop.
erty here, to share in the fortunes OF
our people, seems deeply impressed. II
there is anything in advertising, then
our big apple is good investment.
And the gentleman who thinks there
is nothing in advertising, is rebuked by
the whole exposition. Advertising is
the rock on which that splendid struc-
ture is builded. 1t is the desire of peo-
pie to know, to see, to examine, to be
Informed; the purpose of other people
to show what they make, what they
raise, what they have for sale all
united in the exposition. II there we're
nothing in advertising there would be
no big and no little fairs. And we
should remember that the men who
put up exhibits are the shrewdest, the
most successful and the most solidly
established in their several lines. AS
! the people who inspect their wares are
the most progressive, intelligent, broad
minded and valued citizens of the ma
tiOn. But the fair is not now ready,
IL will not be ready for more than
mopth. | would advise going no earlier
than June. True, one gets moneys
worth now. But it is in the splendor
OF the great conception, the admirable
plan of grounds and the impressive
grandeur of buildings. More than that
the color scheme is a constant delight.
At Chicago the universal white, charm
ing at first, grew awfuly tiresome at
noon, and painfully headachy at night.
At San Francisco the general color is
a low tone of dull reds and yellows,
tans and bronze. And everywhere out
side the buildings the grateful relief
of green completes the picture, and
accentuates its beauty. They have
rlpening oranges in every avenue, skill
fully graded eVergreens sloping down
to massing vines. And everywhere are
flowers the most beautiful, the most
tastefulIy arranged have ever seen.
The statuary is a triumph. | think
one should give.a day to that alone. Ii
illustrates the colossal movement of
races-the facing of East by West the
charm of mythology, the lesson of hu
man nature; it impresses the quality
of grace, of energy. of achievement; it |
expresses the emotions of love, and of |
hate, and.of triumph Every court is
gallery of statuary that should leave |
its impress on the souls of men.
Related to the statuary are the fres-
Goes on wall and ceiling. the panels,
the framed and unframed pictorial SER
mons that seem too good to be lost in |
one swift summer. And yet they will |
be lost, for they are limned on plaster |
and must come down when the fair is
ended.
In the lighting system this fair dis
tances all others. That is natural, as
new inventions come swiftly. 1t is
gratifying, too. ! think no one ever saw |
a scene SO splendid as the San Fran
cisco fair at night. You don't see the |
lights themselves. You see only the |
effect of them. The fame is concealed. |
Its gentle radiance is everywhere. On |
the imposing columns of the Temple Of |
Jewels there plays succession of |
vivid reds and greens and blues and |
yellows and pure light that seems to
transform the crude material into all |
the glory of a dawn, or the ethereal
splendOr of an autumn sunset. All |
that memory cherishes of sacred |
scenes, all that imagination conjures
Of seraphic splendor is visibly ex-
pi essed in that wonderful picture. The
whole building seems separated from
earthly elements, and from the founda-
tions, banked in profusiOn of beauti-
ful4 detail, up through an architecture
that borrows from nature and from art,
up to the matchless globe, 400 feet
above the pavement, gIittering in ever
changing brilliancy of color and visible
for many miles, it stands the radiant
obedience to that first divine command
Let there be light - No one who has
seen the Tower Of Jewels at night will
ever forget it.
And it is but the center of a color
scheme that makes the darkness more
g glorious than the day. My landlord and
his wife own car, and they took me
up OH that Mob Hill where wealth once
made its home, over heights which
gave recurring near views OF the scin.
picture, and then up the wind
ing roads of the Plesidio to the west
and south, and we looked down on the
whole length and breadth of that
panorama. know of moth.
ing outside the Book of Revelations to
express a parallel.
| have said the fair is not ready.
That means there is much uncompleted
roadway, with consequent mud for
his still is the rainy season at San [
Francisco; much sound of the hammer
and the saw, many scaffolds, and an
loying interruption by heavy laden
.eams. Colorado had not set spade in
,arth for her building on the opening |
lay. France had just begun. Many .
Itate buildings, Oregon among them. ,
presented an interior confusion of un- 4
opened boxes. lumber piles and fren-
,iedly busy carpenters. The water [
'ront was wilderness of sand piles.
zig timbers, railroad tracks and lakes 4
# shallow mud. Some state buildings
we're ready. Illinois, New York and
were in best and most pre- I
Ientable condition.
OF the foreign nations, Canada de- I
Ieryes peculiar commendation. The {
var in Europe will seriously limit the ,
exhibits in the great buildings, Dut by {
everything to be expected {