Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-17


FORMS The sea cucumber, the abalor-
ed shells lying on the bottom which
diver went down for while we
watched were strangers to us and so
exceedingly interesting when we were
introduced to them by the lecturer.
In direct contrast to looking down.
ward to the depths Of the ocean was
our next stop at Santa Cruz and our
gaze upward at the big trees. Here
instead of looking down for forty or
fifty feet, we looked up 800 or 400 feet,
and we felt in the presence of these
giants of the forest-the Sequoia gig
anted-the force of the words of our
ritual which remind us that we should
constantly study the book of nature.
Learn from 1t the truths which may
remind us Of the immense greatness
of God and our own littless, his bless
ings and the obligations they impose
on us And now we come to the
exposition and by the accent on the
the you know we are at San Francis
CO. We read that this excelled all
other Worlds Fairs. and when we
think that industrial progress in the
| last half century surpassed that of
| any other century, then we see why it
is correct to make this statement. This
| was the only Worlds Fair ever held on
| a seaport, the first to be held on the
| Pacific and the first to be held in
| land of almost perennial summer. l
| find that the climate of California
seems to be a topic of general interest.
| Those who never seem to care to hear
| anything about what you have seen
| or where you have been will ask with
a good deal Of interest about the cli-
mate on the Pacific coast. 1 have
! already spoken of San Diego. 1t doesn't
| rain there in the northern part of the
| state between March and November
| and we nearly forgot that such a thing
| as rubbers and umbrellas existed OF
| there was any need for any until we
| n
| were caught in sudden shower. But
| even though it doesn't rain in Call
| fornia through the summer months.
| 1t comes so very near it. The fogs of
| the mornings are just as near rain as
! can be and yet not be called rain. II
| the moisture were condensed ever so
| little more drops of rain would be
! formed. These fogs are the reason
| for the lima beans of California. Per-
| haps you will be interested to know
that in the south western part of the
state, probably In some other parts.
| too, but l have seen the area under
| cultivation there, so I know that to be
| true, lima beans is an important pro-
duct. 1t might come under the head
! of landscape gardening, for it did more
| than any other crop 1 saw in beauti-
flying the brown and parched hillsides.
| During the dry season, there is no wa
| ter to be seen except in pipes and the
| mountain streams. or rather the places
| where IEeTe WeTC streams, mao TOSnlnS
tOrre1tS early in the year, during the
summer months are beds of rocks and
! we appreciate Mark Twains sohloguy
| How much water does add to the APP
pearance of a stream" All the country
! expect the lawns and the fields of IL
ma beans is bare and brown and To
| the eye of an fastener who is ac-
Customed to the green verdue of the
| hills, all the summer, the fields OF
lima beans are n comfort. This seems
quite 4 depression from the exposition
about which ! was writing. but I will
come back to that now. 1t is said il
you should spend one minute at each
of the exhibits 1t would take 100 days
! of 10 hours each. / was in San Fran
cisco DAYS so it is needless to say
| that l didn't do the exhibits very
thoroughly. So I'll just try to make
n few random remarks about one
! thing and another that stood out a
little more prominently in my mind
that some Of the others. The four
distinctive features of the exposition
were the coloring ~ the buildings, the
landscape gardening. the courts and
the night illuminat ton. These was the
| most gorgeous yet, at the same time
the the most delicate and harmonious
coloring imagina bile. The climate
of California has helped to make much
of the beauty of the exposition for the
| gardeners could lay out a plan which
would last throughout the entire year
and the wonderful climate would de-
| velope all the shrubbery and allow tho
palms and shrubs and trees to be
combined in a way that might not be
seen anywhere else. There is some
thing in the names used on the
! grounds that help one to feel the
beauty. Doesn't Court of Album Dance
Court of the Universe. Court of the
Four Seasons, the main courts, and
Court of Palms. Court of Flowers, the
minor courts. bring to your mind a
| suggestion of beauty that some other
names wouldn't But the illumination
that was simply, well, l wanted to say
wonderful, but I've used that adjec-
tive 50 many times I'm ashamed To
again. All the lights were reflected
there was nothing glazing. One OF
the great features was this. from the
light tower on the edge of the bay
were thrown 40 search lights or sun
tillators as they were called. They
We're Of many different cOlors and
so pivoted that they could be turned
around or back and forth and as they
were thrown on the delicately and
beautifully colored buildings, the diff
ferent colors cross and recrossed the
effect was beautiful. Near the light
lower was 4 steam generator which
threw out jets and clouds of steam in
all directions. when there many col
Ored search lights were played on this
white sparkling steam the effect was
grander than any Fourth of July fire.
works we ever saw. The Tower OF
Jewels, you surely want to hear about;
432 feet high, studded with what were
called NovO gems or imitation Jewels
There were thousands and thousands
of them, and each piece so cut that il
would reflect the sunlight on the
search light to the best advantage.
One of the cleverest exhibits and
most interesting to me was the Pana-
ma canal which was in the zone. a:
the lane of laughter was called. This
exhibit covered, and was a birds eye
view of 5000 square miles of the Is.
thmus of Panama, and a perfect
representation of the canal. 1t was
depressed so that we looked down II
feet below us at the canal and the
country surrounding. The topography
of the canal zone was exact. Cities
were seen, boats pass back and forth
trains move across country, signals
were flashed from lighthouses and
buoys, and were to be seen in the
houses of the villages and cities, as
real as can be. AS we entered, we
stepped onto a moving platform, put
duplex telephones. one to each ear
receivers and Immediately we heard
a lecture which described the scene
in front Of us. and we moved around
the model for % minutes at each point
the lecturer was taken up and stopped
so it was always describing the SPOT