The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-07-17
SEEING THE EXPOSITION.
Vermont Auto Tourists Are Having an
Enjoyable Time.
Stockton. Cal. july s. 1915.

Stockton, CAL, July s, 1915.
Editor, Times: $3.50 a. M fJlarenc
and Barton have just got back from
San Francisco. The boat they arrived OF
got to the dock at 6, but they kept OF
sleeping till s. The boat does not star
back till 10, SO they thought they woulc
have their nap out. The boat started
from San Francisco at 6 last night. They
went to the fair and engaged rooms fol
our party, myself, wife and Barton
Clarence, his wife and three children
near the fairgrounds for one week OF
more, and we intend to leave our ma.
chimes here and all go by boat tonight
Expect to be there at 6 a. m. tomorrow.
Clarence is having his yearly vacation
of three weeks now with 81 day dur
ing vacation. His substitute had to
be in the Fourth of July parade, so
Clarence attended to his job himself in
the forenoon, and ] rode with him in
his car, collecting mail from boxes and
taking it to the main postoffice.
San Francisco, July 0, 1915.
We arrived here by boat this morning
ct 1920 and all went to restaurant
snd got our breakfast at cost not
greater than an equally good breakfast
would cost at the average restaurant in
Vermont.
About 5 o'clock in the morning, while
coming down by boat, we came in sight
of the Standard Oil Cos. oil tanks, filled
with oil pumped from the Bakerfield oil
regions. The tanks, should say, covered
over several hundred acres and looked
II. - - he kaa
which uses oil for fuel, stopped to refill
its tanks at least once on the trip.
After eating our breakfasts, as | said,
near the wharf, we boarded street car
and rode about three miles to the rooms
we had engaged at Grand View hotel,
close TO the fairgrounds. We did not
get around to enter the grounds till
about 10 o'clock. Tickets were purchased
at candy booth for 40 cents apiece by
buying 10 cents worth of their goods.
Then we entered the grounds at the Fill
more street entrance. There are prob
ably a dozen or more entrances to the
grounds.
The north, east and south sides OF the |
ground border on the city, the other side |
on the bay. Until to-day, they say they |
have had cold, foggy mornings and un-
windy days for visiting the
fair and the attendance has been COM
small.
Before leaving Stockton, we donned |
our Vermont winter undergarments and
we have not been uncomfortable in them,
although the sun has shone all day from
a clear sky. We first visited the "zone,'
which name takes the place of midway
at the Pan-American and other names
nj other worlds fairs. Our party kept
together perhaps an hour. Then we be-
zane separated, not 20 all meet again
until the next morning, when we crawled
but of our respective beds about 1880
!. m.
The main buildings of the fair close for
he day at 6 p. m, but the zone does not
lose until midnight. Barton was the
act 70 crawl in, at about 1880. We '
tie breakfast az a nearby lunch room
md started in on another days sight
eeing at the fair. IL would take per-
on at least two weeks 10 visit all the
attractions az the zone,
The siKe Of the fair is immense, when :
ompared with the Pan Americsn fair at =
,uffalo, which ! attended in 1900. The (
ret day, after viewing the attractions Z
4 the zone for a spell, naturally drift =
a TO the mechanics building. and the Q
ttraction that seemed 20 interest me
lost was the assembling Of the Ford 2
srs, which takes place each day from =
80 20 4;30 p. m. Ford has an Assem- 1
ling plant here in the city. and the help G
Dme from there and assemble here, then r
rive back in the cars they have Assem-. q
led that afternoon. .
Belgian Building Attracts Attention.
! spent a large part Of the first day 7
looking over Machinery hall The =
srt day ! went through most Of the .
ate buildings and some Of the build.
"a II foreign countries. Of which the =,
elgian seemed 10 attract the largest .,
owds Tn passing through most Of the \
ate buildings here the men wore their ',
ia but In the Belgian building all y
ia were removed and there was hushed n
lence In passing through Most Of the n
,intinVs rspresented scenes ~ diving n
slTisns The OREGON and Canadian q
hiding attracted great crowds Tho 81
limos, Ohio, New YORK and several u