The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04
AT the Exposition and Not July
% as Published by Some
State Newspapers.
By g. a. BoIden.l

(By G. A. BoIden.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. July B.
The coming of June has brought In
creased attendance at the exposition
oyer the preceding month, but up TO
the middle of the present month the
Z attendance Is not yet what the ONO
fa1s OF the exposition SO sangutnely
expected 1t to be. This is occasioned
largely by weather conditions here
in San Francisco and by the hard 70
times reported from this section OF
the country and from different sec
lions of the East and South, while
the war among the foreign nations
is. of course. cutting down the at
+ tendance, many. many thousands.
When this exposition was first plan
ned. and until the war was ushered
In. the foreign attendance was ex-
pcted to total several millions of
people. This idea was fully support
ed by the presence of so many for
( efRn nations at the exposition, the
foreign buildings numbering almost
equally with the representation as
made by the states of the union. The
Exposition may now be said to be
fully completed and 1t is pronounced
by many people as the greatest ex-
position of the kind ever attempted
in the history of the world. Not
withstanding that the exposition com
pany and nearly, il not all, the con-
cessionaries on the zone and through
out the grounds, have been doing a
losing business, many more attrac-
tive features are being added to the
exposition as the time passes. The
exposition officials. however, are very
arm in the belief that the remaining
six months of the exposition period
will bring thousands of visitors and
that the exposition itself Will in the
end be money maker rather than a
money loser. Those who have visited
the exposition go away with high
praises for the magnificence OF the
palaces: the interesting displays they
contained: the matchless beauty OF
the entire designing; and the unpre-
cedented achievement in the night
Illumination effects.
Here at the West Virginia build
ing preliminary arrangements are be-
ing made for the celebration of West
Virginia day, July FL. BY the way.
your correspondent notices that some
of the. West Virginia papers are pub
fishing the date for West Virginia
day as of July %. This is in error.
the date Is July 81. This date was
set by the exposition officials after
Rfnia commission. The exercises OF
the day will begin at o'clock IN
the afternoon at the West Virginia
building. Col John t. McGraw. OF
Grafton. vice president of the COM
mission, will be chairman of the day
and will deliver the chief address.
The Hon. Vernon E. johnson, speak
err OF the house OF delegates, has been
delegated by Governor Hatfield as
his personal representative on that
day and will read the governors ad-
dress to the assemblage. Other fea-
lures of the program will be the sing
ing of West Virginia songs by for
lner West Virginians, the reading OF
a poem on West Virginia by the
Honorable Clyde johnson. of Charles
ton, the poem being especially writ
ten for the occasion by Mr.. john
SON himself. An address will be de-
livered by Judge William Bailey La
mar. representing the United States
government. and Governor Hiram
johnson, of California, has also been
asked to deliver an address. Follow
ing the exercises, reception Will De
held in the West Virginia building.
and at night there will be grand
ball In honor of the West Virginia
Shrfners who will be present in large
numbers coming from their annual
convention at Seattle. The Shriners
will be here from July 18 to %.
and their visitation is being looked
eagerly forward to by residents OF
the west Virginia building and by
former West Virginians. now resi-
dent in California Every effort will
be made to create the program for
West Virginia day one of the most
interesting yet rendered on the
grounds. The West Virginia build
ing will be deliberately decorated Tor
the casion-and when West Vtr-
rinia decorates it means that other
states and foreign nations represent
ed must sit up and take notice. The
big ball at night will in all probabil-
3ty be held in one of the larger hotels
of the city. as. our building is far
TOO small to accommodate all who
VIII be invited and who will attend
The West Virginia colony resident
In the exposition grounds has been
added to by the coming of Mrs. Cyrus
W. Hall and son. Cyrus, of Charles