The Cordova daily times., 1915-02-19
PANAMA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL
 EXPOSITION OPENS TOMORROW.

the first of the great worlds expostons celebrate a
 conemporaneous event and it is quite probable that 1t will be the last of the unversa eXposons to be held within the
 Those who have followed with interest the progress of the exposition since its inception will be still interested in learning what effect the present catacySm Ill Europe has had upon forthcoming celebration As begnng 1t may stated that the has caused of the nations to wltm
 their participation that since the outbreak o the war the number of conventions voting to meet in San Francisco has m creased greater proporonae rate than before and that the applications for exhibit have been unprecedented in helr volume
 The exposition grounds equal to the combined areas of the Worlds Columbian exposition at Chicago and the Pan American exposition at Buffalo The exhibit palaces the lofes exposition buildings erected and through the plan by which they grouped the buildings of the main exhibit occupying the central portion of the se blend together arctectray the palaces of vast oriental city The plan the ougrowth of the efforts of commission of of the most notable architects in America who worked Ill ire col laboratOn with their professional brothers abroad This mission held meetings and the final plan to group the buildings great masses reached after consultation with MT. Edward H. Bennett, the noted expert in city planning The plan adopted presents two great charms In the first place it will not be necessary to walk vast distances between the buildings and completely Jagged out after day of sightseeing and in the second place the buildings present almost ndescribe effect of magncence and spendOr The grounds lie in the city limits of San Francisco just inside the Golden Gae and face north San Francisco bay for and onethd miles, Their total lengths is almost three miles, but
 part of the eastern separated from the bay by he Fort Mason Military reservation, beneath which tunnel recently dug permitting the ''belt ne railroad constructed by the State Harbor commission, to enter the site
 On the south east and west which is six feet above high tide and rises gradually it encrced by ranges of hills presenting the effect of enfodng walls of vast semi amphtheatre From the bay the exhibit secton which occupies the center of the grounds stands in splendid ras with its impressive natural seng with the bay with the lofty hills to contend with small detached buildings would have been dwared by the contrast but these The walls Of the exhibit places high the average city block transverse hundred ten above the ground north and south through the buildings and colossal domes and minare gorge os with color rise the domes and spires oriental city to heights of hundred and sixty and twenty and two hundred and thirty feet There no doubt that nowhere m the world at the present time there coec
 ton of architectural marves to be San Francisco In Paris ondon or COnsannope you may details which wl perhaps rival those in the City of Paces by Golden Gate and wi of have behind them historic interest but nowhere can you great of architectural ves each equally beautiful and acinatng all reproducing the best features of European architecture adapting it to the environments this stupendous architectural creation
 The great main buildings however, have formidable com petors m their beauty and originality in the wonderful struc lures on the Zone which occupies the flank the grounds as well n the huge pavons of the nations west flank and nearest the Golden Gate In their architecture distinctive of the countries that they represent the foreign pavons have never been surpassed equaed The Danish pavilion for example, presents the architecture of famous Kronberg Castle familiar to devotees of Shakespeare the abode of the melancholy, irresoue Hamlet The Turkish pavilion on the oter hand III part suggests the mosque of St Sopas at Constantinope the Italian pavilion which comprised of structures suggests nothing than section of charming Italian city one really feels he is gaming glimpse of the charms of Italy portrayed in the late Marion CrawfOrds works Nothing would be of oreater fascination than the quaint oriental touch presented in the architecture of the Chinese and Japanese pavons and gardens The Chinese pavilion after the Forbidden City, while the Jan anese recalls the famous temple of Kin Ka J at Kioo which IS more than thousand years old of these structures and their surrounding gardens fashioned by n
 tive artisans brought from China and Japan case and even the materials the rare shrubs and ornaments were i'm ported at tremndous cost The Imperial government of Japan appropriated six hundred thousand dollars for it's par cpaon and the awakening republic of China appropriated seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the foreign pavlons do not require ntabure for their dn heahon The visitor will recognize the pavilion as Tn every way typical the interesting arcbec tue o that country Among the state buildings many his torc structures represented There the old Stae Ions Boston for the Massachusetts buildings there are the Trn ton Barracks for the New Jersey building and Washington old home at Mt Vernon for Virginia