The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-04
NJ HERMAN wHITAKUR,

Author Of '"The Planter" "The Set.
tier" "Cross Trails," &C.
ONE crowd" exclaimed man
- at my elbow.
~ II was. Once, at a labor
meeting in Trafalgar Square,
London, I saw a small boyoswept of
his fathers shoulder and go rolling
like tumbleweed in a wind for hum
dred yards across the packed heads be-
fore ne fell through. Also. in 1910.
had watched from the balcony Of the
National Palace in Mexico city the
rurales Of President Diaz savagely
failing with carbine butts the crowds
that choked the Zocalo in a vain effort
to open passage for the procession
Of the "Centennario." Yet both Of
these notable crowds could have been
lost in the vast assemblage that
packed the Avenue Of Palms in front
Of the Tower Of Jewels on opening day.
For five hours the batteries Of turn
stiles had clicked with the persistence
Of telegraph keys in a busy railroad
ONCE, registering the broad streams
that poured in through a dozen gates
till the count passed the quarter mil
lion mark. All that time certain Of
the early birds had waited for the
electric spark which. sped by Presi-
dent Wilson's fingers, should throw
wide the doors Of the exposition; and
when It came. as though sucked in by
a powerful current. the massed hu-
manity flowed into the palaces through
a hundred entrances-in a few min
utes flooded the forty-seven miles Of
aisles throughout their length.
Within the palaces some $4,000 ex-
hibits were all ready for inspection.
From such a mass. all selected prod
ucts Of the last ten years. all inter-
esting. II is extremely difficult to pick
and choose. Eventually. from one pen
or another. each will receive its Just
due. For my part. l shall merely fol-
low the crowd and try to make an i'm
perfect record of its preferences.
Down the great central aisle Of Ma
Ghinery Hall, through groves Of en-
gines. boilers. turbines. fractions, we'll
bOrers and the rock crushing plants.
past tin can factory in full blast
which had its admirers-and a great
Hoe press that was turning out a col
Ored Sunday supplement" at 10000
to the hour the main stream mad, for
Uncle Sans army and navy exhibit.
Covering a wide range Of activities
and functions from the coast light SER
vice to the inland Alaskan patrols, this
exhibit is OF almost universal interest.
In the section devoted to the former.
one stareS at certain huge vermilion
mushrooms for some time before rec
Ognizng them for the apparently small
red buoys that mark our coasts and
harbors. Whistling and light buoys
that are made to emit boots or flashes
by wave action are dominated and
thrown into the shade by the giant
Nun" buoys which, however, have
nothing beyond their size to recon-
mend them. Near them stands COM
pick apparatus which regulates fog
signals brazen below so that a fog
bound mariner can judge his position
by timing the intervals. But the gem
Of the exhibit is a huge reflector Ian
tern. Though it Is IL feet high and
in diameter its polished glass and
crystal lifts it into the realm Of jewels
One might fancy 1t as being worn
on her bosom by a Brobdingnagian
giantess Of "Guillvers Travels" And
there are other lanterns-some cum
ming contrivances for isolated stations
that light themselves at night, go out
by day and keep 1t up for months
without any care. Add to these GER
tain models OF famous lighthouses and