The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1915-02-25
fesident Wilson Today Pressed An Electric Button
Formally Opening the Great Worlds Fair and
Flashed the News Over the World
IREAT WAR WILL NOT GREATLY AFFECT The PLANS
iany Miles of Exhibits In Which Nearly All Foreign Nations
Are Observation-Disclosures Are Good For the
Greatest Worlds Fair Ever Held

representation Is that OF the fifty. !
eight counties of California, all Of |
which have individual displays Of pro. |
ducts I'm the S2OOO.OOO California I.
building. the largest structure on the |
grounds apart from the group Of main
exhibit palaces.
Entering through the main gates att
scott street one Is Immediately within
the South Gardens, 800 feet in length,
800 feet in width and three laguons
nnd rich spaces Of pansicS In bloom
There are 10000 pansy plants bloom
ing now. In two months they will
glvcway to 2OO.0OO daffodils and twol
months later to Jonquils, and SO on,
until the end Of the exposition.
To the east. AMI commanding that
end Of the gardens is Festival Hall,
where the greatest pipe organ I'm the
world Is installed. Here will centre
the intellectual musical aud dramatic.
life Of the fair. Its inspiring dome.
! 1872 feet In diameter and 49, feet in
height. The Palace of Horticulture
commands the west side Of the gardens
The dome is after the mosque Of the
Sultan Ahmed I, at Coustantiuuplc.
To the immediate right Of the en-
trance gates Is the Press Building.
/ where the correspondents will have
headquarters and the san Francisco
/ Press club viii maintain open house.
To the immediate right Is the Young
Womcn's Christian Association build
/ ing
Facing the exposition gates as one
/ cutters is the Fountain Of Energy m'
| the middle lagoon. Symbolizing the
/ power and the force that made possible
the buildin. Of the Panama Canal.
Across the South Gardens are the
tower Of Jewels ana the facades Of
/ four Of the main exhibit palaces. linked
with four that face the north and san
Francisco bay into suit by conon.
nndcS To the extreme right is the pal.
acc Of varied industries, and next 70
/ 1t the palace IF manufacture. the court
Of flowers separating the two. Then
/ CONES the lofty tower Of Jewels. with
/ a. acre of ground at its base. rising
in successfully diminishing platforms
richly emhclliShed with sculpture. To
| the left Of the tower is the palace
Of liberal arts, and then the palace
of education and social welfare, the
court Of palms separating these two.
/ The approaches to the court sof palms
and flowers are marked by Italian tow.
crs. 200 feet I'm height.
by the tower gate under the tower
of Jewels Is the southern approach
Ia the court Of the universe i'm a gen.
eral way recalling the plaza of st.
Peters. The north approach to this
court is commanded by the column Of
progress, 100 feet I'm height, symbol
lizing the march of civilization.
The other large courts are in this
main group Of eight exhibit palaces :;
the court Of abundance, lavish with orr
entail suggestion, and the court of the
four seasons.
The total length Of this superb group
of exhibit palaces east and west is
2,756 feet, and north and south 1926
feet.
Fast Of the main group, and across
the avenue of progress, is the palace
Of machinery. 96S feet in length, 3Os
feet in width.
West the main group across the av
enue of administration and the fine
arts lagoon, is the palace of fine arts,
it, eleven hundred feet Of Graeco-Ro-
man cOlonnadeS curving around the
follaged shore of the lagoon. An nm
expected result Of the European warl
has been to bring her priceless mas
tcrpleces from old world galleries for
safe keeping from the possibility Of
invading armies.
These latter two, with the eight of
the walled city" group and the horti- |
cultural palace, comprise the group Of
eleven main buildings.
The third or western group Of build
ings constitutes the amusement zone, |
one hundred structures fianklnG both
sides of a 5000 feet above. or 1000
applicants for space, only one hundred
we're selected, and each concessionairel
was compelled to pass a test in order
that the newest and swiftest features
Of amusement and instruction that the
premier showmen of the world could
present would be offered. First In con.
cession space is Frederick Thompson
of Lula Park and the hippodrome, with
seventeen acres Of toyland for grown
tlps. Next comes Yumeto Kushibiki
with Japan beautiful. transplanrcd
bit Of Nippon. Kushibiki has been for
twenty-five years managing japanese
and exhibits at world
fairs. There is a 40 camp IN charge
of the only "Sam" Davis, with Mark
Twaln's original cabin from the Tuo-
lumne and a JImtown daily with. "Sam"