The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-02-19
PRES. WILSON TO PRESS
BUTTON NOON SATURDAY
WHEELS TO TURN AND
FOUNTAINS TO PLAY AS
FRISCO'S MAYOR FORM
ALLY ENTERS SHOW
(By Associated Press.)

San Francisco, Cal, Feb. 19.-Ar
electric spark Of enormous potential
jumping across the continent will
open the Panama-P Pacific International
exposition at noon tomorrow, Pacific
Coast time,
In the White House at Washington
the President will press button and
the aerials of the great government
radio station at Arlington will snarl
and splutter. The vibrations will be
received an infitenimal fraction Of a
second later by commercial station
on the shores Of San Francisco Bay,
where they will be relayed by wire
to receiving instrument on the ex-
position grounds
AS soon as the signal is received
the wheels will begin to turn and the
fountains to play; the gates will
swing open and procession Of citi-
IONS with the mayor at their head,
will march onto the grounds.
AT the same time President Charles
G. Moore Of the Exposition company,
will inform President Wilson by word
Of mouth over a telephone line al
ready set up and waiting, that the
wireless flash has been received and
the exposition is open. In return
President Wilson will send his greet
ings and good wishes. Thus the two
latest modes Of long distance of dedi-
cation and acceptance as brief as It is
possible to make them, will follow
After the outbreak of the European
war there sprang up rumor that the
exposition would not open. AS mat
ter Of fact the exposition stands today
100 per cent complete, free of debt
and with forty-one foreign nations
participating, OF which twenty have
built pavilions of their own. Eng
land, Germany, Austria and Russia,
among the belliserents are not Off
cially represented, although various
of their commercial organizations |
have seen to it that they should not
be wholly left out of mind. France, !
Italy and Japan are officially repre-
sented, as are forty-one states and |
territories under the flag of the |
United States. Canada and Aus
tralasia under the British flag, both |
have buildings. Structurally speak
ing, that part of the exposition built |
out OF its own funds and wholly un-
der control of its own directors was
finished six months ago.
The grounds lie on the water front,
adjoining the United States military |
known as the Presidio,
facing San Francisco Bay with the
Golden Gate visible to the west.
The many domes, are done in
greens and dull ashes of
roses. The broad stretches of mural
pxpanse arc grained and stained to
the texture and color of Italian
Where the statuary has
not been wrought from the same ma
terial, IL has been finished soft buff,
Or burnt orange.
Thus the exposition as whole has
the soft tone of pastel, done in the
manner. Other
worlds fairs have been uniformly
white, which in the strong line of the
California climate would have been
painfully dazzling
Dominating the whole scheme is the
colossal tower of jewels, 4S5 feet
high, set in the central court of the
universe, whose Corinthian columns
re taller than those of St Peters at
Rome. Each column is surmounted
~ the figure OF star, whose head
lress is covered with Jewels and
rom the tower itself depend $4,000
,parklets in all colors which flash in
he sun and scintillate at night when
he searchlights illuminate the court.
The site and plan of the exposition
ave made II the most compact ever
,uil. 1t occupies 6S5 acres. of which
% have been devoted to horticultural