The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1915-09-02
CALIFORNIA AND THE FAIRS
(sY W. w. EMMERsoN).


scape gardener has been exhausted
in an effort to give the exhibits a
majestic surrounding and environ
ment. They have succeeded marvel
lously well ct both places and the
palaces in which the displays are in
stalled are the realization of an ar
lists dream. To ride out TO the crest
of Fillmore hill in San Francisco af-
ter the lights are on and look down
on the buildings of the Panama-Paci.
fic Worlds fair is like gazing upon a
naturalization of the Arabian Nights
Entertainments, or the pictures you
have seen of Babylon or of Nineyeh.
Some of them are massive in appear
ance and of gigantic proportions as
BELTS the age of tremendous industry
in which we live. Others are fairy
like in their outline and seem to be
the embodiment Of the novelist's inag.
ination. 1t is such a grouping of
structures as can be found nowhere
else on earth and must have an abid-
ing influence on the civic architecture
of the future. II the exposition
grounds at San Francisco are less at
tractive than those upon which stood
the worlds fairs at Chicago, st. Louis
or Philadelphia, as some maintain,
there can be no disparagement of
the buildings themselves, which are
beyond cavH and beyond criticism.
The Panama-Pacific exposition pal
aces are more magnificent than the
royal home OF any emperor. king or
kaiser and the display they contain
represent = wealth that none but the
purse of a Rockefeller, a Carnegie
or q Rothschild could buy.
At San Diego the exposition palaces
are smaller than at San Farncisco,
but from the standpoint of the idealist
are. perhaps. the most beautiful of
all They are Of the spanish-C Colonial
style and the grouping and arrange
ment is consistent throughout. To
secure a historical reproduction stu
dies were made by the architect Of
the most famous municipal, business
and ecclestical structures in Spain.
Peru. Mexico and other countries
having a Spanish civilization The re-
suit was gratifying In the extreme
and q more pleasing group Of struc-
tures for exposition purposes it
would be difficult to imagine. The
landscape gardenin Sannd -noFacuiture
at Balboa park I'm san Diego Is of
wonderous beauty and the foliage and
bloom Of almost tropical luxuriance.
The flowers and exotic plants alone
at San Diego exposition are worth a
trip across the continent The detail
OF the architecture is marvellously
well executed and must enlist the at
tention OF the most Indifferent visi-
tor 10 the exposition. The moulding
on pilaster, cornice and wall is every
where SO perfectly done as to lead
was carved by some master hand. No
one who goes 10 the Pacific coast
this year should fail 20 see the Pana-
ma-california exposition at San Diego.
To omit it would be like witnessing
the play of Hamlet with the character
Of melancholy Dane left out.
The expositions at San Francisco
and San Diego are immense kinder
gartens OF the worlds progress in
art. education. science and manufac-
lures and none who can afford to do
SO should miss seeing them. They
are the greatest enterprises of their
kind ever builded by man and are an
unforgettable monument to his indus
try and ingenuity.