New-York tribune., 1915-02-21
All Exposition Attendance
records Broken on
Dedicatory Day.
NATION, STATES AND
uTIES REPRESENTED
s,eretary Lane Speaks for the
President - San Francisco
in Pandemonium.

psnsms.Pacidc lntcrnstional IN
,;,;on. At late hour this evening
,prnstilcs had clicked of 100000
al Emissions. The previous record was
,raa. in 1904. at the opening day of
y 81 Louis Worlds Fair. The crowd
u ms. spectacle in itself. Il filed the
n r,,d,tsnds; it packed the great courts
,s eoneourses; it poured through the
,s.s; it overAowed from the side
.,is. into the avenues, from the hills
d !. IN, bay. as far as the eye could
,,,,b. IN unending rivers Of bobblng
i,s6s
a. the Presidents personal envoy
s,,y,,arv Lane was heard with the
io.s,. attention. He stirred the audi
,,,e 10 sympathy and tears as he
,oi,,,d 70 the slender, dauntless,
,lsddirg figure standing beside two
,r,r which looked down upon the Cour,
n the Nations. where East and West
one face 70 lace.
Ths, figure was the American pio-
iea. His sufcrings and triumphs
we're the orators theme This eNposl-
lion vas his house, in which should
h taught the gospel of an advancing
anoersey strong, valiant, confident
= tsneu.ring. Without him there had
isn no exposition, 10 San Francisco
Opens at Presidents Touch.
The day broke threatening and
,ny, but by sunset there was scarce
la cloud in the sky. One shower
N during the dedicatory exercises.
President Wilson opened the expo
lson with the touch OF button in
IA White House the suns long slant
M rsys glinted in a miniature rain
10, through the squirting streams Of
II, Fountain Of Energy and at that
tine tho flags Of all nations rose on
nsnifold poles and pinnaclcs. Sig
sal bombs we're dctonated from towers.
Al seroplsuc circled about the Tower
d Jewell. scattering doves Of peace.
The door Of the Palace Of Machinery
,vung open and the exhibits within
we're seen IN motion.
The dcdicatory ceremonies were
made as simple and short as possible.
! 1he citizens. headed by Governor Hi
am W. Johnson and Mayor Rolph,
tpresenting the state and the city,
we're welcomed TO the grounds BY the
osiser and directors of the exposition
sad officers Of the federal govern
r,n; Addresses we're delivered by
President c. c. Moore Of the e2posi-
ton. DR.. Frederick ]. V. Skiff, direc-
tor in chief: Governor Johnson, Sec
risry Lane and few others. lnvoca-
Tors and benedictions were pro
''sneed by clergymen representing
d, Roman Catholic, Protestant and
\ j,wish faiths
Soon after noon the grounds were
sTsn over unreservedly to the peo-
ps
The exposition will be open to-mor-
toE and on succeeding Sundays. Mon
DAY will be held the Vanderbilt Auto
mobile Cup race, to be followed five
lays later by the Grand PriX Race.
Psndemonium at Dsybreak.
The only San Franciscan who didn't
Know II was exposition opening day
." blind, deaf and dumb.
Policemen on their beats at dawn
pounded doorsteps and trolley poles
Tor one hour.
Big guns At the Preside and Fort
Mason doomed reveille and a salute
81 tventy-one guns.
Church bells and chimes and every
telephone bell in the city began ringing
VIA m.
Whistles on every steamship and
ssrship in the bsy and every locomo-
I'VE in Oskisnd announced the arrival
@eaposition day.
Rerrymaking thousands thronged
ne the streets from the cafes and
n'sstres, which had been crowded all
synt blowing horns and strewing CON
VT over the streets.
hundreds of organizations, gsTbed in
1orols rsiment. began parsding the
lght
Prom dawn until 3 o'clock, when
%vVO citizens formed in psraoe, the
eys thorOughfares were jammed with
aolse-msking crowds.
thus San Francisco welcomed the
s'sa' Day Of DAYS in her career.
Dawn never broke over more wide
wake town. The city was up IN time
ief the simple reason il did not go TO
"ssp the night before.
me rettaurants, theatres and public
races did not close. Music and song
abi the downtown section alive all
shfough the dark hours. and each in
~nnr train and steamer dumped new
sisorstors into the midst Of the gay
me lone sunrise gun that on every
'ihef day OF the year announces dawn
s drowned out this morning. The
stutries on both sides Of the Golden
Ss,e and warships at anchor In the bay
s,oke loose with salyos of artillery,
me eh land twenty drum corps rolled
,,hieugh the streets, shrilling to all the
Nsn call 10 rise.
me skies were overcast, but the
trsst Of showers did not diminish the
Sys enthusiasm. For an hour and a
fsf after the 6rst outbreak Of noise
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