Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-25

that the color scheme OF this the San
Deigo Elk position is white" in a.
greement with the color of catholic
mission buildings which bore that
color and were the first erected by
Europeans I'D this territory
OF course all of the exhibit build.
ines were closed at this hour IF
night about 800 but their exteri-
or of courts and ,colonnades, facades,
plazas, ETC., were allurlng to us e.
nough for the present, and while a
little lonely yet there were some
sightseers out in these precincts
strolling about as were we and the
lights were shining with full power
brilliancy. After walking over Ghis
awhile, tt g main part of the Exposl-
| tion grounds we were soon headed to
the amusement section of the
grounds which lay off sorter like the
foot of the figure ~ from the malu
part of the fair. These amusemenls
were supposed to have been let out
to concessionaires who were careful
ly picked TO eliminate takirs and OBJ
scene shows; so we strolled along
through the whole length of the
street and saw some things really in
structive, and believe the censorship
had done very good business in keep
ing out the ragt tag bob tail class OF
creation who infest amusement parks
If allowed half chance and gull the
public galore. OF course there were
some things that we would not have
let IN had we been on the committee,
but on the whole they had done some
good trimming work no doubt.
Here we struck miniature mod, |
of the Panama Canal and went in to
see it as we had visited the Canal
zone in 1909, just before the Gatun
locks were completed and that made
it particularly interesting to us,
staged as 1T was here on California
soil, in an accurate proportionate
way that had official sanction from
Col. Cocktails, Governor-Generai of
the Panama Canal project. They
gave US sight at everything in this
model, showing ships entering the
locks, propelled through with the
electric motor-cars alongside of the
concrete gate passage wavs. Ships
anchored in the fresh water lake
formed by damming up of the Chag
res river The wireless stations
flashing messages back and forth
from the Atlantic to the Pacific en-
frances. and exchanging signals with
she steamships while in passage
through the canal. and the trains
coming whirring along on the tracks
OF the Panama railroad skirting the
canal, Just as we rode over it when
down there, and the Panamaian Cit
les of Colon and Panama and the A
merican cities OF Crstobal and An
con and the locks at the Culebra
cut, Pedro Miguel, Miraf1ores and
other places; the lighthouses out at
sea in the channel entrances to the
canal at each ocean.
Then they give us tropical hur-
ricane on the canal; we codld see
the black clouds coming in a mighty
seething rolling ball with the funnel
shape tip at bottom, rushing and
roaring with the speed of an express
train and dipping at places on land
and water with consequent devas ia
tion in its path, while the forked
| lightnlngs PLAYED criss-crosshke
back and forth through The darkness
OF the cloud In angry darts followed
by deafening roarings of thunder.
1t was a wonderfully realistic thing
arousng the emotions OF the audi
ence so that some of the women
screamed and | suppose almost wan
ted to hunt a storm cellar, as the
room had been darkened and we were
under the spell of panorama almost
as much so as if down there in fact
on the isthmus. Soon the weather
quoted of by degrees and the moon
shone out once more on a peaceful
ocean and sea ana quoted land
with the exception OF water dashing
in clay -colored streams down every
mountain hollow and gulc1 IN its
mad-rush to seek that level which