The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-01
Mrs Ida Adams GiOes Bird s-Eve View of Panama
 Exposition and the Beautiful Coantry En Route
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

the great Panama Pacific Interna-
 = tional exposition at. San Fran
 cisco Mrs. Ida Adams talks most charm ingly and entertainngly about her trip Mrs. Adams conducted a large party
 to the exposition. and is now busy ar
 ranging in cooperation with Mrs. J. E. Frazier another trip which will cover
 a most delightful period from October to
 November, during which time the U. D.
 c. convention will be in session out west,
 affording a double opportunity to those
 who wish to 50.
 Mrs Adams is an experienced traveller,
 having taken several parties to Europe
 at different times. and besides she is
 very charming and cultured. as we'll as practical woman, and with Mrs. Frazier
 who is so widely known and well liked,
 she will no doubt make of their forthcom-
 ing trip the most notable one of them
 all.
 l In speaking with Mrs. Adams about her
 western trip and the exposition, she said:
 "Sketchy, indeed, must be this attempt
 to describe our recent travels in the west. Volumes might be written, and still the story would be but half told. I will ] try to give only the most salient features
 of our short. four weeks. bird s-eye view of this fertile, romantic and beauteous section of wonderful America, so full of promise, of hope, of health and life. Just brief mention of places en
 route would be entertaining l suggest ed.
 Leaving Birmingham Mrs. Adams of md Kansas City; from there to Santa Fe ana the Grand Canyop of Arizona, which is perhaps considered the most impressive natural wonder of the world--a chasm one mile deep, hundreds of miles long. thou- sands of highly colored precipices and pinnacles. It is impossible for the mind to conceive anything so stupendous; words are inadequate to deacrlhe it's color; every shade of soft crimson yell low, green, blue and lavender-a thing of beauty, joy forever. From Los Angeles we visited the famous Mt Lowe. Toward | the mountain lies beautiful Pasadena | The Busch sunken gardens are here 1 the greatest of it's kind in the world. All ! the way out, 12 miles the city is populous | a city of rare beauty. Not far away the | Nodh valley, tHe orange lana or the | south, the treasure chest of nature l some one said From Mt Lowe may be | seen, 40 miles away, Sante Monica, Ocean | Park Venice, Redonda Beach, Long | Beach and other resorts. At Santa Cata- line Island, 23 miles from the coast, we | stop at Avalon to find those wonderful | submarine gardens. San Diego is ideal as [ to climate-never cold nor hot-'glad sum- mer all winter attractive in it's streets, | buildings, palms, vines and flowers that grow all the year round
 'The exposition was beautiful and quite up to our expectations, the build ings of Spanish colonial type, each copy of some famous structure" Mrs. Adams | continued. Here on the grounds were | camping six companies of marines to re- main throughout the year; probably also two cavalry troops; several war vessels are in the harbor. The government avia- tion camp at Coronado point the most noteworthy on the Pacific coast, was among the exposition drawing cards. The Liptop tea plantation, the first attempt | to grow tea on this continent, is count ed one of the attractions. San Francisco has great reason to be proud of herself. | From the ashes only few years ago | u906) to prosperity and grandeur would be sufficient glory, but now to be able to open her doors to the world and say, Whenever you come we are ready to re- ceive you is Indeed almost unbelievable, but the wonder uppermost is the colossal | achievement in the Panama canal, and | all that will follow after it.
 "Of the exposition many will say,
 When you have seen one of it's kind nj h VA I.,A who so will be willing to devote most of 1 their time, four or five days, to sight seeing inside the grounds.
 'The most noticeable difference in tie | San Francisco exposition and other fairs is the compact arrangement of it's buildings, without hint of being crowd ed, thus contributing to the joy and com fort of visitors May I tell you little more of it? Picture four spacious pal aces grouped in rectangle; in the center the court of the universe; to the east the 1 court of abundance illustrative of the orient to the west; the court of the four seasons, occidental in significance, in- dcating the progress of the west: then the court of palms and the court of flow CTS: one can walk through these palaces II from end to end without stepping from under cover The color scheme Is uniuue: not suggestion of white on the exterior of the exhibit palaces and courts It is dream city of color The buildings are of ivory yellow or dun. When seen from above. they show red tiles, golden domes and green minarets, avenues ar- rayed in gorgeous blossoms and greenery. II The art of night illumination far excells that of any other world fairs Il
 Just word of the Zone. the amuse- ment street, which is full of fun. We II found here Yellowstone National park in faithful reproduction, the Arizona Grand Canyon, Japan beautiful, the market place in old Nuremberg and various other interesting features. Outside of the Zone again, we must glance at the Ha- II waiian garden In the Horticultural palace. Il Here we may sit at any time and wiii1e II we listen to Hawaiian music from the Royal band from Honolulu, we are served by dainty maids with delicious iced Hawaiian pineapple, pineapple melba and Hawaiian coffee at most reasonable prices; but-well. 1t is just this: Not to see the Panama Pacific International exposf- II tion is life opportunity lost.
 "Eastbound from San Francisco to Salt III Lake City, the City of Saints. is next III