Ellsworth American., 1915-05-05

position OF ten years ago. The engine
starts with an air compressor tank. On
the opening day, Feb. %, President Wilson
started the wheels at the exposition with
. wireless spark from Washington, and
the Diesel engine began operation under
the impetus of the game spark - but the
air COMPRISING starter which the current
released was filled in st. Louis and
shipped to San Francisco, in order that
something more than sentiment should
unite the American exposition Of to-day
and the exposition of ten years ago.
In sharp contract to this ultra efficient
power generator, the famous Babcock
"Centennial' engine, that in its day
marked distinct advance in the field of
power, as does the Diesel engine Of to-day,
has been purchased by the builders after
it had been in service fifty years, and is
displayed at the exposition for its his
toric worth in the history of power de-
velopment.
1t is particularly appropriate that the
exposition held in California should take
especial pains with its horticultural and
shine, fruits and flowers in consequences
has palace OF horticulture that experts
declare the superior Of any similar con-
servatory at any previous worlds exposi-
tion. A model cannery, set up in this
palace, is shown in full operation. The
last time visited this exhibit they were
canning asparagus, and visitors were
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preparation, such as cleaning and pack
ing. Just now we are enjoying the vege-
table at its best, and when l see huge
piles of it in markets, six pounds fos "two
bits" (or twenty-five cents), l wish l
might invite all my eastern friends for
luncheon.
Aside from these few Of many displays
showing distinct advances in horticulture
during the past decade, there are, OF
course, complete and comprehensive ex-
hibits and displays by the countries of
the world OF their fora and fruits.
In the Palace of Liberal Arts, color
photography is made the subject OF dis
play. After fifteen years of work and the
expenditure OF thousands OF dollars, the
Eastman laboratories have finally sue
ceeded in photographing directly in colors
and in printing color negatives from color
plates. Thus far the process is confined
to glass plates only, and not to films.
There is no department at the ex-
position, and scarcely state building or
foreign pavilion, which does not make use
OF the motion picture as feature OF in
struction. States and nations use it to
portray scenes, historical occasions and
features of industrial life. But in the
palace of education the moving picture
is utilized for the first time at any ex-
position-or at least the use Of it is made
more definite and practical : to demon
strate the principles Of education. 1t is
shown in the very important place it now
occupies in educational work.
An attempt to give even the most
skeIetonized review OF the tens OF thous-
ands of exhibits would not be possible.
There are some that naturally, by reason
OF greater floor area, greater value IN
vested, or higher interest in the article
attract more attention than others. In
the palace OF machinery, for instance, the
exhibit by the United States government
of naval and military armament is fresh
and steady attraction. Another advanced
exhibit in the palace OF liberal arts is the
manufacture of artificial limbs, these
members having been improved to the
degree where the person equipped with
them is able to use the fingers, toes and
other joints about as readily and as use
fully as though those parts we're natural.
The protectograph, for check protection,
has been carried to degree OF perfection
which makes the erasing and forging OF
checks an impossibility.
The development Of agricultural ma
chinery, the study of advanced methods
of soil culture and enrichment pro-
cesses, intensive and dry farming, and
the competitive array Of agricultural pro-
ducts, combine to give the palace OF agri-
culture steady stream of visitors.
These are but few of the, multitude of
exhibits featured at this greatest Of all