The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-03-25

Monday evening, leaving his daughter
Mr.. Aulbach was at the opening of the
fair remained nine days to view II
daily, and then went to San Diego tC
see the fair there, remaining three
days. He returned to San Francisco
and tarried ten days before starting
for home. covering both fairs as well
as it could be done in the time at his
disposal.
The San Diego Fair.
This, Mr.. Aulbach declares, is en-
tirely overshadoWed by the big expo
sltion at the Golden Gate, yet of suf-
ficient interest to visitors to the coas'
to make the trip. and well worth the
expense, for it gives strangers a
glimpse of the extreme south and
tropical end of California, where the
climate is nearly stationary, with no
extremes. The exposition is small, anc
the exhibits almost entirely confined
to things from southern California
Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. The
buildings are not large, but are neat,
and the grounds are attractive, the
open spaces carpeted with flowers in
bloom and small orchards of orange
and lemon trees, with the branches
freighted by ripening fruit. The fair
| is an enterprise of the people of San
Diego, a city of about 10000 popula,
ton, and is beautifully located on an
felevation overlooking the bay and
Coronado beach, the great bathing
resort of southern California, with its
! famous hotel, where rates are adver-
! tised for a married couple at $14 day.
Travel between San Froncisco and San
Diego is mostly by steamer, though
tide of visitors is coming from the
east over the southern railroads.
The Panama Fair.
This is, naturally the main attrac-
tion, not only to the people of the en-
tire Pacific coast, but to all those now
pouring in from east of the mountains,
all railroad facilities from Utah south
being taxed to convey travellers to
California.
The exposition is placed on the
northern section of the San Franciscu
peninsula, fronting for about two
miles on the bay, near the entrance OF
the Golden Gate, and running south
half mile to the city's limits in that
direction, thus making the area of thC
ground covered by the fair approxi-
mately two miles east and west, am
half a mile north and south. The east
ern end is covered by the Zone" tn,
central portion by the fair buildings
proper, and the extreme western
region by state and foreign buildings
as we'll as u. S. Marine camp, desig-
mated as the Marina.
The "Zone."
Although the main entrance to the
grounds is near the south center, there
is also an entrance from the east
which places the visitor on Zone ave- !
nue., very wide highway, with con-
cessions on either side, representing
almost every nation on earth in one
form or another but mostly from Il
characteristic and humorous stand
point There are, however, some very
costly structures on the avenue as
we'll as a rival of the Eifel tower Of
Paris exhibition fame. These in their
order are the Panama canal and 18TH
mus of Panama in miniature, the
Creation and the -brdge-like
swinging arm and tower The latter
Is $50 feet long, with a steel cage at
the further end that will hold 10 per-
sons. Admission so cents. When a
sufficient number of persons are ready
to go up into the air the vast machn
cry is set in motion and the arm
slowly rises until it gets into a per-
pendicular position. Then the riders
find a panorama Of the entire fair, the
bay, the Presidio, Fort Scott, Alcatraz
Island, SausoIito and the Golden Gate
before them, together with the north
ern part Of San Francsco-all points
mentioned being of great interest to
fair visitors. On very clear day the
University of California buildings.
Berkeley and part Of Oakland east
across the bay may be seen.
The Administration Buildings
The main buildings in the fair are
termed administration buildings. These
house practically all the exhibits, not
alone those made by the various states
of this country but also of foreign |
countries. They are huge structures;
in fact, bewilderingly large, and al
most everything grown under the sun
or made by hand in any nation is on
exhibition there each product accord
ing to its class or relation being in It's
building. everything artistcally
arranged and divided off so that 1t can |