Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-19

Ir. Gannett thinks are the color
scheme has been carried Out On I
, thoroughly comp ei4eEs.ye plan with
remarkable result end the combira
ton q indirect lighting methods and
tie intensely direct lighting effects o.
searchiignts gre 70 the San Francisco
exposition a glory all its ONT. With
the searchlignts all about there Is 2
constant flashing NJ white and COL
ored beams OF light across the heav-
ems and through the aid Of the steam
| clouds at night all manner Of beauti-
, IL! effects from waving nlsrs Of color
| ernuiating the Aurora Bore2l.s 10 per-
feet rainbowg are presented TO please
the eye Of the eastern visitor. On the
| so-called Moro Castle 80 colored
| searchlights are l9cated which are
, used in connection with fireworks 20
| dazzle the imagination q the spec-a-
/ tor gazing into the mass Of light
struck steam and wonderful bursting
bombs The tower Of jewels" upon
gorgeous night spectacle as well as
! in the sunlight. AS an exhibition the
| great San Francisco fair is nearly
completed. the returned travellers say,
except thar some OF the foreign ex-
hibition buildings are still in the
/ process Of construction and the ex-
hibits 20 be made in them are not yet
4 prepared for inspection.
| The fair grounds are laid out right
at the Golden Gate, grounds reclaimed
from abandoned marsh Looking
across wonderful Berkeley Bay one
sees the mountains rising from the
water and looking toward the city
| proper there is q gentle slope up and
up so smoothly and regularly that az
night, Mr.. Gannett says. one cannot
| tell where the lights Of the city merge
into the lights OF the heavens and
mingle with the stars. As a city, San
Fransico seems little changed, the
members Of the Gannett party say.
from the city they saw 10 years ago;
the havoc wrought by the great
earthQuak-or the great fire as they
insist who live in the city-has been
almost entirely obscured and new and
better buildings greet the eye on
every eide
Summing It all up, Mr. Gannett de-
clared: They say that the makers OF
this great fair have eliminated all
! the disagreeabIe features of former
| worlds fairs and collected all the
finest things in the worlds fair idea
| for consummation at San Francisco
/ The first two months of the fan
/ ho
| first two months Of all former Ameri-
can worlds fairs. Mr.. and Mrs. Can
nett have attended every worlds fail
since and including the Chicago fair
and they both declare that the Sar
Francisco Exposition surpasses al
others they have visited. The Cana
| dian exhibition, they say, far excels
all other national and sectional ex.
hibits. The minutest details have beer
| observed to the end that one may
know more Of Canada by visiting the
exhibit than by passing weeks in tbs
Dominion. The most notable feature
Of the exhibit is the 'cycloramic ar
rangement of agricultuf al and game
exhibits, so perfectly arranged thai
one truly cannot tell at first which
are the real fruits and animals in thu
foreground and which the painted fig
ures that animate the landscape ex
tended to the apparently distant ho-
rizon paint.
Through the Yosemite.
| From San Francisco the Gannett
party journeyed north to the Yosemite
Valley, everywhere known as tone Of
| the finest heautv spofs in the sworld